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| Luso Hexaglot Senior Member Portugal Joined 6059 days ago 819 posts - 1812 votes  Speaks: Portuguese*, French, EnglishC2, GermanB1, Italian, Spanish Studies: Sanskrit, Arabic (classical) | Message 1 of 223 24 December 2013 at 12:53am | IP Logged |
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Welcome to the TAC 2014 Rare Languages Team Thread.
About TAC TAC stands for Total Annihilation Challenge and started in 2007. This is the original thread. To keep things simple, there are just two main rules: 1. To have a language learning log and update it regularly 2. To follow your teammates' logs and give support About the Rare Languages Team By definition, everyone that studies a language that's not contemplated in other threads can join this team. I ask each one of you to make a post in this thread, indicating the languages you'll be participating with (present and target level also, or your best estimation) and a link to your log. I will add the member name, language(s) and log link to the roster. Please note that, due to the characteristics of this team, there's little more linking the members than the desire to study an uncommon language. That's very cool, but a bit hard to manage. As a consequence, as a group leader I must be strict at the beginning. This means that: - anyone joining the group and not indicating a log link will not be added to the roster - anyone not updating the log for more than 60 days will be eliminated from the roster - anyone not visiting the forum at all for more than 45 days will be eliminated from the roster If this seems drastic, I'd like to remember all of you that TAC stands for Total Annihilation Challenge, and not for "I'll dabble in languages for two months then try something else and will come back in January 2015 to see if I've won the blue ribbon challenge". Please remember that your teammates will be checking your logs regularly to see whether you've posted something new. It's rather disconcerting to check a teammate's log in September and realise he/she hasn't posted anything since February. I won't let that happen. As team leader, I pledge to keep the first two posts updated with everything pertaining to the team's activity: members, logs, godparents, links, resources, etc. Please feel free to send me a PM if you feel there's something I missed. I'll start by presenting myself: this is my third TAC and I'll be participating in this team with Arabic (B1 => B2) and Sanskrit (A0=> A2). I will not be participating in activities that involve external tools or pieces of software, but will try my best to have them reflected in the second post, if that's the members' wish. N.B.: I'll remove some of the rules above as the year progresses and they become redundant. That's all. This team is in business. Join in, support your teammates and have fun learning rare languages. Edited by Luso on 22 January 2014 at 8:40pm 5 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Luso Hexaglot Senior Member Portugal Joined 6059 days ago 819 posts - 1812 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, French, EnglishC2, GermanB1, Italian, Spanish Studies: Sanskrit, Arabic (classical) | Message 2 of 223 24 December 2013 at 12:54am | IP Logged |
Team Member List (link to the log by clicking on the name)
 Expugnator - Georgian (B1- => B1+) - Year end summary
 Lakeseayesno - Nahuatl (A0 => A2) - Year end summary
 Luso - Arabic (B1 => B2), Sanskrit (A0 => A2) - Year end summary
 Sprachprofi - Indonesian (A2 => B2) - Year end summary
 Zireael - Arabic (A1- => A1+) - Year end summary
List by language  Arabic - Luso, Zireael
 Georgian- Expugnator
 Indonesian - Sprachprofi
Nahuatl - Lakeseayesno
 Sanskrit - Luso
Observers  Stelle
Resources, links, tools Arabic Free Arabic E-books Egyptian Arabic Dialect Course The Arabic Student Basic Egyptian Videos Egyptian Arabic on YouTube ArabicPod101 FSI Arabic: Free courses in MSA, Saudi and Levantine with audio. Also comparative textbooks between Eastern/Western and Levantine/Egyptian. Benny's steps to become fluent in Arabic in 3 Months The University of Texas at Austin - Arabic The University of Texas at Austin - Aswaat Arabiyya Georgian Geo*words IPTV.GE - TV portal artarea.tv digplanet - Georgian grammar The Georgian language learn101.org - Georgian E LEARNING GEO Civil press Colis Dakalebi YouTube channel Onion alphabet Hebrew The University of Texas at Austin - Hebrew The University of Texas at Austin - Yours Truly בינינו Hindi Hindi comics Indonesian Khabar Southeast Asia hugemanga.com http://www.indokarlmay.com/v6/?page_id=233 - Karl May books as PDF in Indonesian Nahuatl Diccionario AULEX Nahuatl-Espanol http://whp.uoregon.edu/dictionaries/nahuatl/ Freelang Nahuatl Dictionary Mexica Ohui (course in Spanish) Nahuatl Moderno Resumido (by Mizton) (.doc, course in Spanish) Unilang Course (by Mizton) (course in English, w/audio!) In nahuatiltin inahua (Nahuatl's laws) (.pdf, course in Spanish, ridiculously good grammatical and cultural guide) Nahuatl Audiovisual (course in Spanish, contains miscellaneous videos and lessons) Nahuatl dictionary for iOS Generic http://gloss.dliflc.edu/ - G.L.O.S.S. audiovisual materials http://www.bliubliu.com - read graded texts and improve your vocabulary http://tedxtalks.ted.com/browse/talks-by-languageTEDx talks in various languages, some with subtitles http://www.childrenslibrary.org/ - children's books in many languages including very rare ones (use Advanced Search by language) Edited by Luso on 03 January 2015 at 6:49pm 5 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Luso Hexaglot Senior Member Portugal Joined 6059 days ago 819 posts - 1812 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, French, EnglishC2, GermanB1, Italian, Spanish Studies: Sanskrit, Arabic (classical) | Message 3 of 223 24 December 2013 at 2:03am | IP Logged |
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Challenges
January: introduce yourself in your target language ==> Expugnator, Hekje, MithradatesG, Sprachprofi, Luso, Zireael, prz_ February: describe your hobby ==> Expugnator, Zireael, Hekje, Luso, Sprachprofi, renaissancemedi (Penelope) March: share three sayings and proverbs from (and in) your target language ==> Expugnator, Luso, renaissancemedi (Penelope), Sprachprofi, Hekje April: present a feature of your target language or make a cultural presentation ==> Expugnator - feature, renaissancemedi (Penelope) - feature, Luso - feature (Arabic and Sanskrit), renaissancemedi (Penelope) - cultural presentation, Hekje - feature, Lakeseayesno - feature, Zireael - feature May: present another feature of your target language or make a cultural presentation ==> Luso - cultural presentation (Arabic), Expugnator - cultural presentation, Penelope - feature, Lakeseayesno - feature, Luso - appetizer (Sanskrit), Zireael - feature, Sprachprofi - feature June: translate a song or make a cultural presentation ==> Luso - Sanskrit, Lakeseayesno, Expugnator, Sprachprofi July: pick a news item in your target language and make its summary (or make a cultural presentation) ==> Expugnator, Sprachprofi August: vacation time! September: make a presentation on your target language and post it online (or make a cultural presentation) ==> Luso - cultural presentation (Sanskrit), Sprachprofi - "How to learn languages" in Indonesian, Sprachprofi - "Distinguishing languages and dialects" in Mandarin, Lakeseayesno - "Tlein nicpactia in nahuatlahtolli" Edited by Luso on 31 December 2014 at 2:05am 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5164 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian | Message 4 of 223 24 December 2013 at 1:37pm | IP Logged |
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Please sign me in with Georgian.
This is my log Expug's All at On(c)e Current level - B1- . Desired level: B1+ with basic reading fluency. Edited by Expugnator on 24 December 2013 at 1:38pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Hekje Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 4701 days ago 842 posts - 1330 votes Speaks: English*, Dutch Studies: French, Indonesian | Message 5 of 223 24 December 2013 at 5:44pm | IP Logged |
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I'd like to sign up with Indonesian.
Log Currently I'm at A0. I'm aiming for B2. Although my current level is kind of wimpy, I haven't just started with the language - I've been dabbling in it on and off since June. Hopefully this TAC will be a good opportunity to take it from dabbling to solidity. Edited by Hekje on 24 December 2013 at 5:44pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Zireael Triglot Senior Member Poland Joined 4649 days ago 518 posts - 636 votes Speaks: Polish*, EnglishB2, Spanish Studies: German, Sign Language, Tok Pisin, Arabic (Yemeni), Old English | Message 6 of 223 25 December 2013 at 11:58am | IP Logged |
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Signing up with Arabic.
The log Current level A0/A1 (being able to say a few things), goal - being able to converse with natives about everyday topics = solid A1 Edited by Zireael on 25 December 2013 at 11:58am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Luso Hexaglot Senior Member Portugal Joined 6059 days ago 819 posts - 1812 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, French, EnglishC2, GermanB1, Italian, Spanish Studies: Sanskrit, Arabic (classical) | Message 7 of 223 27 December 2013 at 2:41pm | IP Logged |
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I guess we could start choosing our team name, as other teams have been doing. For me, we could keep Team Rare, as it's short and already identifies us, but in case you don't agree, here are some (probably poor) suggestions:
- Team Pangaea: the idea of (re)uniting all the continents, etc. - Team Diamond: diamonds are, by definition, rare, transparent (as we want our languages to be one day), simple, and created under pressure. I really don't know. What do you say? 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5164 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian | Message 8 of 223 27 December 2013 at 2:50pm | IP Logged |
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I like Team Rare or anything similar. Any other names would have to be too universal and
therefore too pretentious. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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