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| dreaminjosh Diglot Newbie United States Joined 6525 days ago 32 posts - 32 votes Speaks: French, English* | Message 105 of 195 11 April 2007 at 8:08am | IP Logged |
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This is my second day of hindi- I'm already pretty good at pronouncing words (being able to decipher the script, although the conjuct-characters are kind of giving me a rough time).
The similarities between Hindi and european languages is a lot greater than I thought. It is "indo-european" after all, I guess. Edited by dreaminjosh on 11 April 2007 at 8:08am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Zorndyke Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6956 days ago 374 posts - 382 votes  Speaks: German*, English Studies: Czech | Message 106 of 195 11 April 2007 at 8:35am | IP Logged |
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Unfortunately, I can't participate this time since I'm quite under stress because of my Abitur, but I hope there will be more 6-week-challenges, so that I will be able to join you some other time.
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| *Aquarius* Triglot Newbie Poland Joined 6600 days ago 39 posts - 40 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, German Studies: Spanish, French | Message 107 of 195 11 April 2007 at 9:24am | IP Logged |
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I can't participate either :(.
However, I am really impressed with Sprachprofi's idea and greatly admire all the participants :) - and of course I keep my fingers crossed for you! I wonder how your skills in a chosen language will look like after these 6 weeks. Good luck! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| OneEye Diglot Senior Member Japan Joined 6848 days ago 518 posts - 784 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin Studies: Japanese, Taiwanese, German, French | Message 108 of 195 11 April 2007 at 10:03am | IP Logged |
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I'm very tempted, but I can't just now. It would have to be French for me, but I'm not planning on studying French until I've finished Mandarin and then gone back to finish Spanish. And I may be doing Japanese after Spanish, and French won't be until after that. Considering that French is years down the road, it would be useless right now.
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| SamD Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 6657 days ago 823 posts - 987 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French Studies: Portuguese, Norwegian | Message 109 of 195 11 April 2007 at 10:19am | IP Logged |
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It sounds great, but I've got five more weeks of spring semester to go. Maybe this summer, I'll be able to do more with my languages. I am trying to teach myself Portuguese and Norwegian with mixed results. I am also tempted to take another try at Russian after brief study as an undergraduate.
Does it count if you studied a language long ago for only a few weeks? 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Clintaroo Diglot Senior Member Australia Joined 6869 days ago 189 posts - 201 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: Tagalog, Indonesian | Message 110 of 195 11 April 2007 at 10:28am | IP Logged |
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Okay, after meeting up with a few Koreans in order to watch some football earlier tonight I've decided on Korean over Indonesian. Also because I may make a side trip to Korea while in Japan next year and some knowledge of Korean would be great. I can read a bit of hangul but certainly struggling to read it quickly, so I guess hangul is one of my first tasks. Will also have a look at some online resources posted around here. I haven't quite worked out my methodology yet.
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| 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 111 of 195 11 April 2007 at 11:00am | IP Logged |
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In order of sign-up:
Sprachprofi: Swahili Patuco: Swahili Julie: Swedish, Portuguese, Dutch, other Frisco: Turkish Jeff_lindqvist: Esperanto Raincrowlee: Esperanto Talairan: Swahili, Portuguese leosmith: Esperanto, French, Russian Farley: Turkish lady_skywalker: Persian Journeyer? (might participate) reineke: Japanese + Spanish 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: Esperanto, Portuguese, ANYTHING Clintaroo: Korean Pintbomb: Esperanto Knarvil: Welsh sergiu: Turkish shyopstv: Swedish Declan1991: Icelandic LorenzoGuapo: Dutch? Vargas: Dutch Volte: Persian dreaminjosh: Hindi MissMyChris: Swahili, German, Swedish, Danish, Dutch, Icelandic karinatereza: Swedish Kegel: Spanish Sorted by language: Dutch: Vargas Esperanto: Reincrowlee, Andy Liu, Pintbomb, Jeff_lindqvist, Ari Haitian Creole: Lastminute Hindi: dreaminjosh Icelandic: Declan1991 Japanese: Asiafever, reineke Korean: Clintaroo Latin: Evanstar Persian: lady_skywalker, Volte Spanish: reineke (not documenting), Kegel Swahili: Sprachprofi, patuco Swedish: Burntgorilla, shyopstv, karinatereza Turkish: Farley, sergiu, Frisco Welsh: Knarvil Undecided as to the language: Julie: Swedish, Portuguese, Dutch, other 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 LorenzoGuapo: Dutch? MissMyChris: Swahili, German, Swedish, Danish, Dutch, Icelandic Haven't confirmed they are in or with what language: Journeyer Malcolm If you would like to share your progress and experiences with others, please start a language learning log in the appropriate forum. Put 6WC or something in the subject line, that way, people interested in hearing about our 6 Week Challenge experiences can easily identify the threads. It also keeps this thread free for meta stuff like discussing the idea, signing up, confirming what languages you're doing, getting an overview of who is currently decided to learn what language, etc. I started my Swahili thread earlier today, since I now have all the materials ready. I will still wait till Saturday to start the actual learning. For learning Hangul, please see my lessons at http://www.learnlangs.com/RWP/Korean. I now found a Korean speaker who is ready to make recordings of the sounds, so sound files should be appearing shortly. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7154 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 112 of 195 11 April 2007 at 12:11pm | IP Logged |
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Hmmm... Sounds like fun. I may need something like this just to break the monotony of focusing on Hungarian.
I'm leaning towards Mongolian as I got Colloquial Mongolian years ago, but have never got around to using it. I'll know by Saturday whether I'll go for it. I also have other languages in mind. In all cases, for whichever language that I will choose, I prefer to use materials that I already have, instead of buying new stuff. However, if I do need to buy new stuff, I plan to keep it cheap and stick to buying the appropriate beginners' course from the Teach Yourself, Colloquial or Hippocrene series. For now, my alternates to Mongolian are: - Finnish (I would use Teach Yourself Finnish instead, as I do have the complete Conversational Finnish course by FSI but think that it'd be unsuitable for 21 hrs. of study over 6 weeks) - Russian (In the interest of consistency I would also use a course from the series by Teach Yourself or Colloquial even though I have some unopened Russian materials (ex. Oxford's "Take off in Russian", Penguin's "Russian Course", Schaum's Outlines' "Russian Grammar" etc.) - Turkish (would buy Colloquial or Teach Yourself Turkish, FSI Turkish would again be unsuitbale for the same reasons as FSI Finnish) 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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