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TAC 2014 - Rare Languages Team Thread | ||
Tags: Nahuatl | Armenian | Team Thread | Sanskrit | Georgian | Indonesian | Rare Languages | Hebrew | Arabic | Total Annihilation Challenge (TAC) | ||
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| Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5167 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes  Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian | Message 121 of 223 31 March 2014 at 9:01pm | IP Logged |
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Thank you, just posted there.
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| Luso Hexaglot Senior Member Portugal Joined 6062 days ago 819 posts - 1812 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, French, EnglishC2, GermanB1, Italian, Spanish Studies: Sanskrit, Arabic (classical) | Message 122 of 223 02 April 2014 at 9:13pm | IP Logged |
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FIRST QUARTER REPORT
1. Purpose and scope of this summary When I volunteered to lead this team, I thought of making use of some of my experience in reporting. I understand some forum members already include summaries of their activity in their logs, but I'd like to add a bit of forecasting in this instance. 2. Team structure Up to now, we have 10 members from 7 countries, learning 7 languages (representing 5 families). We work with 6 scripts. How cool is that? Level-wise, there are quite a few As, along with a few Bs. All in all, a nice diverse sample. 3. Team progress and cohesion It's quite difficult to offer mutual support under these conditions. The knowledge is not transferable, even between languages of the same family. This has implications on the activities, as it makes no sense to insist on grammar drills, or whatever. I think it's far more interesting to bring up universal concepts, such as proverbs. That went well, I think. Speaking of cohesion, there's a subject I feel I must bring up: looking at members' logs, I notice there's a few that haven't been updated for quite a while. I really don't want to exclude anyone, but please let us know whether you want to continue or not. Or maybe we can help with something? 4. Second quarter forecast As the year progresses, it's usual for our updates to become less frequent. Spring comes, then summer. School years end, we go on vacation. That's just natural. If you look at challenge participation, you'll notice that it's slowly declining. If we turn it into some kind of chore unrelated to actual language learning, by summer we risk having no one doing it on a regular basis (except for Expugnator, of course - you inspire us, my friend). I think that translating a song is a bit taxing on people beginning an exotic language. However, if you feel like doing it, I won't object. However, I'd like to offer an alternative: why don't we choose one unusual feature of our target language and explain it here? It doesn't require a lot of actual knowledge (or time, for that matter) and it will be both fun and informative. Please let me know what you think. If you agree, we can keep it for a few months. 5. Feedback This is an "edit" section, designed to incorporate further suggestions. Renaissancemedi suggested presenting our languages. When I was in the U.S., we set up "cultural presentations", and I think we can do the same here, to everyone's benefit. Great idea! Edited by Luso on 02 April 2014 at 9:57pm 4 persons have voted this message useful | |
| renaissancemedi Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Greece Joined 4359 days ago 941 posts - 1309 votes Speaks: Greek*, Ancient Greek*, EnglishC2 Studies: French, Russian, Turkish, Modern Hebrew | Message 123 of 223 02 April 2014 at 9:21pm | IP Logged |
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I absolutely agree.
As for participation, I think that even few members can make a team, and keep it going. Perhaps some of the most rare members will come back to us at some point. For example, I am total beginner in Hebrew, but as soon as I make some progress you'll hear a lot more from me. As for the challenges they kept me going through a month I wanted to give up everything, so for me this is a very important team! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| renaissancemedi Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Greece Joined 4359 days ago 941 posts - 1309 votes Speaks: Greek*, Ancient Greek*, EnglishC2 Studies: French, Russian, Turkish, Modern Hebrew | Message 124 of 223 02 April 2014 at 9:31pm | IP Logged |
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How about a long term kind of challenge, where we combine a presentation of our respective languages, include all the cultural, linguistic, and other things that attracted us to them, and write some words or phrases while we are at it?
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| Lakeseayesno Tetraglot Senior Member Mexico thepolyglotist.com Joined 4335 days ago 280 posts - 488 votes Speaks: English, Spanish*, Japanese, Italian Studies: Esperanto, French | Message 125 of 223 02 April 2014 at 9:46pm | IP Logged |
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Great report, Luso.
In my case, I'm not updating frequently because it's not been a month yet since I started, so there's not much to report. I want to update only when the content is worth reporting, because it also helps me to recapitulate (for example, my last log post on discovering how the Nahuatl numerary system works actually really helped cement the numbers in my head); at a more personal level, this is also a measure against burnout. Renaissancemedi beat me to the punch regarding the presence of the team. Even as a latecomer, I really appreciate being in a team, not because of the potential benefitting of knowledge through another member's work, but rather because I can learn from the work ethics of the team's members and appreciate it. I'd love to investigate more on my language's unique features, so I dig the proposed challenge. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| renaissancemedi Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Greece Joined 4359 days ago 941 posts - 1309 votes Speaks: Greek*, Ancient Greek*, EnglishC2 Studies: French, Russian, Turkish, Modern Hebrew | Message 126 of 223 02 April 2014 at 10:02pm | IP Logged |
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I'm happy you like the idea Luso :)
Any suggestions from your cultural presentations' experience? 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5167 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian | Message 127 of 223 02 April 2014 at 10:31pm | IP Logged |
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I agree with the challenge on presenting a unique feature. Funny how, after 2 years
studying Georgian, the grammar features themselves don't seem so 'unique' or 'exotic'. I'll really have to thing out of the box for doing that ;) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| renaissancemedi Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Greece Joined 4359 days ago 941 posts - 1309 votes Speaks: Greek*, Ancient Greek*, EnglishC2 Studies: French, Russian, Turkish, Modern Hebrew | Message 128 of 223 02 April 2014 at 10:36pm | IP Logged |
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I have a feeling I may find something exotic in hebrew grammar ;)
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