Lucky Charms Diglot Senior Member Japan lapacifica.net Joined 6950 days ago 752 posts - 1711 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: German, Spanish
| Message 145 of 220 05 May 2011 at 5:51am | IP Logged |
Mae and Sprachprofi, thanks for your input!
You've confirmed my intuition, and now we can all confidently use the descriptions in
your posts as a reference to make sure we're following the same standard.
Edited by Lucky Charms on 05 May 2011 at 5:53am
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Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5382 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian
| Message 146 of 220 05 May 2011 at 5:02pm | IP Logged |
Are you finding that your study habits have changed? Have you learned anything from the experience so far?
After about a week, I've come to three conclusions:
1) I don't really study that much after all and yet, (I think) I still manage to learn rather swiftly,
2) I don't think the challenge is making me study any more that I normally would, since I already study as often as is healthily possible, out of pleasure,
3) I think most of my learning time is spent in ways that cannot be logged, such as self-talk or ruminating.
(Read more here from my log)
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Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5557 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona
| Message 147 of 220 05 May 2011 at 5:24pm | IP Logged |
Late to the party too, but I hope to make up for it with some word-inebriated Cossack dancing later. ;) I've registered myself for Russian on Twitter to start tomorrow, and wish everyone over the remaining 5 weeks ни пуха ни пера (good luck, lit. neither fluff nor feathers)!
Edited by Teango on 05 May 2011 at 5:50pm
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Icaria909 Senior Member United States Joined 5592 days ago 201 posts - 346 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish
| Message 148 of 220 07 May 2011 at 1:51am | IP Logged |
My tweets don't seem to be going to the Bot. I don't use twitter much, so tell if what
I'm tweeting is wrong. If I want to say that I've studied French for two hours I would
say: 6WCBot I've studied @french for 120 minutes. Thanks for helping guys!
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vanillabean Groupie Canada Joined 5009 days ago 53 posts - 63 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish
| Message 149 of 220 07 May 2011 at 1:56am | IP Logged |
Someone else will probably respond as well, but I think it would be @6wcbot I've studied #French for 120 minutes.
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Icaria909 Senior Member United States Joined 5592 days ago 201 posts - 346 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish
| Message 150 of 220 07 May 2011 at 2:08am | IP Logged |
I just tried that and it worked. Thanks for the help, I kind of freaked out when it said
I had only studied for one hour this week.
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2_Journey Newbie United States Joined 5025 days ago 32 posts - 33 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, Spanish
| Message 151 of 220 08 May 2011 at 1:04am | IP Logged |
I finally started! Did 1/2 hour of Assimil and 1/2 hour of grammar study. Am going to spend the next week or so trying to figure out what works for me for studying Spanish.
Spanish is the first language I've studied that didn't require me to learn the characters/letters first, so this is a brand new experience for me. (Previous languages: Japanese and Ancient Greek.)
I'm really enjoying that I can pick something up and read it immediately. I may not be able to understand it, but at least I can read it. That's a big difference from Day 1 of my other languages.
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exscribere Diglot Senior Member IndiaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5280 days ago 104 posts - 126 votes Speaks: English*, Danish Studies: Mandarin, French, Korean, Hindi
| Message 152 of 220 09 May 2011 at 4:56am | IP Logged |
I really need to remember to check in to HTLAL more frequently! I'm in India and even though I'm surrounded by Hindi, I live on an English-speaking campus, making studying difficult at the best of times. I'll be registering later today, albeit a week behind, to get myself kicked back in gear to grind my Hindi hours!
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