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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 33 of 220 17 April 2011 at 8:07pm | IP Logged | ||
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I am close to finishing the bot. The score will be based on minutes. Any minutes, i. e.
it doesn't matter if you're studying a textbook, using Anki, reading intensively or the like. However, I ask that you award yourself less minutes according to your own discretion if you haven't been focusing 100%, e. g. for listening to Spanish in the background or if you find yourself reading too much English when using a parallel text. Compared to the Tadoku bot, this bot allows more freedom in expression. For example, you can tweet "@6WCBot I studied the #Spanish textbook "Eso sì" for 1 hour and 25 minutes today and learned the future tense." Any free wording is fine, as long as it contains the language (#es, #spa, #Spanish or #Español) and the time spent as minutes and/or hours. This also works: "@6WCBot 85min #es #book" If you use extra tags like #book, the statistics page will be able to tell you how much of your time was spent on what activity. This is non-standardized and for your own information only. There will be two rankings: one for hours spent on your target language and one for all hours that you spend learning languages. So if you have to do some maintenance, you can still make it count. The number of maintenance languages is not limited. In exchange, everyone can only designate ONE language as main target. The bot can obviously only rank those people who post their updates on Twitter. If you haven't used Twitter before, it's easy, just go to http://www.twitter.com, make an account (registration is free and quick) and enter whatever you did. You don't need special software. Still, if you prefer not to use Twitter, that's fine, and you can still look at the statistics of what the others are doing. Edited by Sprachprofi on 17 April 2011 at 8:08pm 5 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Skeeter3 Newbie United States Joined 5020 days ago 2 posts - 2 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 34 of 220 18 April 2011 at 3:09am | IP Logged | ||
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Sign me up! I have been thinking about trying to learn Spanish the last few weeks and
this challenge is the perfect kick-start I need. I am an, almost, complete beginner I think, having only taken two semesters of Spanish about 7 years ago, and haven't touched it since. Looking forward to starting! Is there and official start date? EDIT: I have Twitter. I'll try to remember to send updates to the bot. Edited by Skeeter3 on 18 April 2011 at 1:58pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Lucky Charms Diglot Senior Member Japan lapacifica.net Joined 6947 days ago 752 posts - 1711 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: German, Spanish | Message 35 of 220 18 April 2011 at 3:57am | IP Logged | ||
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Alright, I'd like to confirm that I'll be participating with Spanish!
I like to use Anki a lot for my language study. I suppose time spent reviewing Spanish cards should count toward the challenge, but how about the time spent creating the cards? In making a typical card, I would be typing up a Spanish sentence I found in a book (or searching for one to copy-and-paste from Google), copying a definition from a monolingual dictionary, searching the net for an appropriate image, and editing images and audio. This is some parts language-related and some parts busywork. Would anyone object if I awarded myself minutes for this? Or would 1/2 or 2/3 minutes or something like that be more appropriate? EDIT: By the way, my name on twitter is bri_tyan. I'm looking forward to the challenge! Edited by Lucky Charms on 18 April 2011 at 3:59am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| getreallanguage Diglot Senior Member Argentina youtube.com/getreall Joined 5469 days ago 240 posts - 371 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: Italian, Dutch | Message 36 of 220 18 April 2011 at 4:20am | IP Logged | ||
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When exactly does the challenge start? I'm considering joining the ranks in what would be my first six week challenge... doing Croatian or maybe Dutch. I'm an absolute beginner in both. I would also be doing maintenance on my Italian, of course.
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| iZach Newbie United States Joined 5084 days ago 13 posts - 15 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, French | Message 37 of 220 18 April 2011 at 7:52am | IP Logged | ||
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I'd like to participate with Japanese. The only Japanese I know is 5 words, 5 Hiragana,
and 1 Kanji. Lol:) If I participate though, I have no clue what my learning method will be. I have a few Japanese books and Assimil Japanese. I tried Assimil out though and I just couldn't get the hang of it. I was supposed to start studying Japanese like 5 months ago, but gave up after like 2 weeks as my learning methods sucked and I was making almost no progress. I would like to start up again though, somehow.:) Mhh I could get Human Japanese and use that. Idk though. Edited by iZach on 18 April 2011 at 7:58am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ReneeMona Diglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 5333 days ago 864 posts - 1274 votes Speaks: Dutch*, EnglishC2 Studies: French | Message 38 of 220 18 April 2011 at 7:55am | IP Logged | ||
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After some deliberation and gentle encouragement, I've decided to add my name to the list, even though the timing doesn't really suit with my schedule. I may drop out if I notice Spanish is negatively affecting my French but I promised myself during the JDC that the next time there was a 6WC, I'd be able to participate so I can't pass this up.
I will be using le nouvel espagnol sans peine and I have Berlitz Spanish as well but I'm not sure if I'll be using it. I don't have a twitter account and I swore to myself I never would but this sounds like a good opportunity to end my twitter-boycott. Edited by ReneeMona on 18 April 2011 at 8:04am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Magdalene Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5034 days ago 119 posts - 220 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Mandarin, German, Modern Hebrew, French | Message 39 of 220 18 April 2011 at 8:42am | IP Logged | ||
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I'm in! It'll be Polish for me...and no Twitter (I need another social networking account like I need a hole in the head, ha). But I'll keep track of my
hours and report as needed. Here's looking forward to May! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| liddytime Pentaglot Senior Member United States mainlymagyar.wordpre Joined 6227 days ago 693 posts - 1328 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Galician Studies: Hungarian, Vietnamese, Modern Hebrew, Norwegian, Persian, Arabic (Written) | Message 40 of 220 18 April 2011 at 12:51pm | IP Logged | ||
I'm in the same boat... I already speak Spanish. But I would love to try HINDI!! Yes, that's right , I'm changing my language right before the start date. There are just so many more opportunities to practice Hindi in Eugene! With Hindi, I'm pretty much starting from ground level and I'm really curious how much I can learn in 6 weeks! My plan is to learn the alphabet, do one unit of Assimil Le Hindi Sans Peine a day, plus TY Beginner's Hindi/ TY Hindi ( a unit every few days). We shall see... I my goal is to get through all 3 books in 6 weeks and see where I am at. I hope to be able to roughly follow a Bollywood dialogue and raise the eyebrows of the staff at my favorite Indian restaurant in town. Edited by liddytime on 26 April 2011 at 6:28pm 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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