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| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6595 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes  4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 81 of 195 10 April 2007 at 10:42am | IP Logged | ||
I'm still not sure which language I'm taking, I almost decided to try Yiddish, but I'm not satisfied with the resourses I've found :( sure it's better than what's available for Karelian, but still.. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6468 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 82 of 195 10 April 2007 at 10:55am | IP Logged | ||
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Sprachprofi: Swahili
Patuco: Swedish, Swahili Julie: Swedish, Portuguese, Dutch, other Frisco: Turkish, Romanian, German Jeff_lindgvist: Esperanto Raincrowlee: Esperanto Talairan: Swahili, Portuguese Leosmith? (might participate) Farley: Turkish lady_skywalker: Persian Journeyer? (might participate) reineke: Japanese + Spanish leosmith: Esperanto, French, Russian Malcolm? luke: German, Esperanto, French? Lastminute: Haitian Creole burntgorilla: Swedish Andy Liu: Esperanto aru-aru: Swedish, Dutch Serpent: Yiddish, Esperanto, Icelandic, Greek, Indonesian, Turkish, Old Church Slavonic, Lithuanian, Welsh MeshGearFox: Icelandic, Welsh Asiafever: Japanese Evanstar: Latin Ari? (might participate) Clintaroo: Indonesian, Korean Pintbomb: Esperanto Knarvil: Celtic language, other sergiu: Turkish shyopstv: Swedish Declan1991: Icelandic LorenzoGuapo: Dutch? iieee: (might participate with Persian) Vargas: Dutch, German Sorted by language: Esperanto: Reincrowlee, Andy Liu, Pintbomb, Jeff_lindqvist Haitian Creole: Lastminute Icelandic: Declan1991 Japanese: Asiafever, reineke Latin: Evanstar Persian: lady_skywalker Spanish: reineke (not documenting) Swahili: Sprachprofi Swedish: Burntgorilla, shyopstv Turkish: Farley, sergiu Undecided as to the language: Patuco: Swedish, Swahili Julie: Swedish, Portuguese, Dutch, other Frisco: Turkish, Romanian, German Talairan: Swahili, Portuguese leosmith: Esperanto, French, Russian luke: German, Esperanto, French? aru-aru: Swedish, Dutch Serpent: Yiddish, Esperanto, Icelandic, Greek, Indonesian, Turkish, Old Church Slavonic, Lithuanian, Welsh MeshGearFox: Icelandic, Welsh Clintaroo: Indonesian, Korean Knarvil: Celtic language, other LorenzoGuapo: Dutch? Vargas: Dutch, German Haven't confirmed they are in or with what language: Leosmith Journeyer Malcolm Ari iieee: Persian? Ari is right in his interpretation of my original idea, though he's not right about my gender ;-) . I would like to see results like - "If I follow this procedure and this course, I can probably learn language X pretty well in 6 weeks at 30min a day" - "In order to get very good fluency in this little time before my next vacation, I should take course Y and supplement it with Z" - "2 people learned a lot of vocabulary through method X, maybe it will work out great for me, too" - "All learners of language A reported that it was much easier than they had thought." - "One person said that he should have definitely devoted more time to feature Z of language B before learning a lot of conversation" Because of different learning types and interference from previously-learned languages, these statements should all have a cautionary "probably" inserted - what works for one person or two needn't work for everybody. But it's a starting point. In order to get sound scientifically-relevant results we'd need a lot more people learning the same languages under strict conditions. Maybe after these 6 weeks others will follow and and do their own 6-week experiment, adding to the results. However, for now and for motivational purposes, I'd like everybody who can to start at the same time: Saturday 14th of April. If you would like to start earlier, invest more or less time studying or otherwise deviate from the idea, that's still okay, but please note what you changed, so that others don't believe e. g. that they can become fluent in language C in just 21 hours when you were doing 24/7 immersion for 6 weeks. Edited by Sprachprofi on 10 April 2007 at 12:00pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Vargas Newbie United States language-learning-ad Joined 6678 days ago 13 posts - 13 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, French, Esperanto, Dutch | Message 83 of 195 10 April 2007 at 11:32am | IP Logged | ||
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Count me in. For the most part, I'll be sticking to that initial challenge - 30 minutes per day for 6 weeks, a language I have not studied before that should be easy for me.
Choosing the language is the tricky part. Like so many others here, I have dabbled in lots of languages, at the least just to get the 'feel' of them. So I've crossed off a few that way. There are also a few Romance languages on my target list that I want to avoid so I don't interfere with the Spanish and French I'm already studying. So that narrows it down to Dutch or German. I know German grammar is a little tougher, but I have more materials to choose from in my library. I love this 6 Week Challege idea. It's a great way to take our language skills and put them to the test. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Declan1991 Tetraglot Senior Member Ireland Joined 6437 days ago 233 posts - 359 votes Speaks: English*, German, Irish, French | Message 84 of 195 10 April 2007 at 11:43am | IP Logged | ||
I will probably do a little less than three and a half hours a week, maybe closer to three or even two and a half. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6907 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 85 of 195 10 April 2007 at 11:45am | IP Logged | ||
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Sprachprofi, you can now write "Esperanto" next to my name (which by the way is spelled Lindqvist - with a q, not a g - :) ). I started yesterday, and have also done my 30 minutes today, but can either take a break for a week or just quit when my time is up.
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| Volte Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 6437 days ago 4474 posts - 6726 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto, German, Italian Studies: French, Finnish, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 86 of 195 10 April 2007 at 12:09pm | IP Logged | ||
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Count me in for Persian.
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| leosmith Senior Member United States Joined 6548 days ago 2365 posts - 3804 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Tagalog | Message 87 of 195 10 April 2007 at 12:16pm | IP Logged | ||
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Dada Sprachprofi, will there be testing? (btw - you have me down twice)
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| Ari Heptaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 6580 days ago 2314 posts - 5695 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese Studies: Czech, Latin, German | Message 88 of 195 10 April 2007 at 12:56pm | IP Logged | ||
*Blushes* My sincere and humble apologies. I blame the anonymity of the Internet (and the fact that I know less than nothing of German, just in case your username is feminine). With such a useful and interesting idea, and such a huge number of participants already signed up, I can resist no longer. I will study whatever language best serves the experiment. If you want as many as possible on a single language, I guess that's Esperanto. If you want a few focused groups, it's Japanese or Swedish. But I'm already studying Mandarin and as such know a bit of Kanji, and Swedish is my mother tongue, so that's out of the question. As for methods, I'm not decided. I'm considering a classical approach, something like: 1: Study lots of vocab aided by SuperMemo. 2: Dive deep into grammatical issues by first reading through a grammar book, then trying to decipher texts, with the help of the book. 3: Practice listening comprehension. 4: Do chorusing and/or shadowing to get pronounciation right. Is there a free frequency dictionary availible for Esperanto (seeing as there's not a huge body of literature, it might be unlikely)? And honestly, do place me in whatever language you want. I love a challenge :) If a Portugese group starts to form and needs some backing, I'm in. And I've never been one to "flirt with languages", so I'm a newbie in anything I'm not currently speaking or studying (French and Mandarin). 1 person has voted this message useful |
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