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| Youngbin Diglot Newbie Korea, South youngbinlee.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5231 days ago 24 posts - 30 votes Speaks: Korean*, EnglishC2 Studies: Japanese, Spanish, Mandarin | Message 73 of 202 21 July 2011 at 4:42am | IP Logged |
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It seems unclear if I could sign up here. :) I'd love to participate in a Spanish group.
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| Iwwersetzerin Bilingual Heptaglot Senior Member Luxembourg Joined 5669 days ago 259 posts - 513 votes  Speaks: French*, Luxembourgish*, GermanC2, EnglishC2, SpanishC2, DutchC1, ItalianC1 Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin | Message 74 of 202 21 July 2011 at 10:51am | IP Logged |
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Count me in for Dutch! I already have a low intermediate level (mostly passive) and I want to bring my Dutch up to a solid B2 by the end of the year, so this is just the motivation I need right now.
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| LazyLinguist Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5603 days ago 105 posts - 125 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 75 of 202 21 July 2011 at 7:45pm | IP Logged |
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It would be nice if we could recieve some clarification from Sprachprofi about all the
bits and pieces and when to start with the twitter bot for us guys who are new to 6WC. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6470 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 76 of 202 22 July 2011 at 10:21pm | IP Logged |
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Sorry, I was in Ukraine at the International Youth Congress of Esperanto until
yesterday. I've updated the Twitter bot now and registration is possible. Instructions on how to register and how to post updates are at http://6wc.learnlangs.com/howto . A sample registration tweet: @6WCBot I want to #register to study #German intensively in August. #HTLAL user; working #full- time. Working #full-time means that you're employed or otherwise busy with non-language stuff for 40 hours a week, so there are few hours left for language study. This was often misunderstood in the previous challenge. The challenge starts on August 1st and runs until September 12th, both at midnight your time (the bot has a grace period to accommodate participants coming from different time zones). That means that on the last day of July, stay up until it's August 1st where you live, and then start studying your target language like crazy! I noticed that this forum's glossary still defines the 6 Week Challenge as 30 minutes a day; that hasn't been true for years. The 6 Week Challenge is about studying your target language as much as you possibly can, and finding innovative ways of squeezing in extra study time. You can only have one target language. Most participants will be studying German or French, but there should be a sizable group for Russian as well. I personally will be studying Arabic. You can study any language you want. It's just nicer to study a language as a group because you can help each other more. You are not supposed to abandon your other languages entirely in favour of this new one - the bot does give you points for maintaining your other languages, though not as many as for studying your avowed target language. I had to move the previous challenge's stats to another page. They are now accessible at http://6wc.learnlangs.com/stats/earlier in order not to be confused with the ongoing challenge's stats. Any questions? 7 persons have voted this message useful | |
| ellasevia Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2011 Senior Member Germany Joined 6142 days ago 2150 posts - 3229 votes Speaks: English*, German, Croatian, Greek, French, Spanish, Russian, Swedish, Portuguese, Turkish, Italian Studies: Catalan, Persian, Mandarin, Japanese, Romanian, Ukrainian | Message 77 of 202 22 July 2011 at 10:43pm | IP Logged |
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Sprachprofi, I just tried sending you a PM about the setup for the challenge but it looks like your inbox is full. Could you try deleting a few messages if it's not too much trouble? Thanks.
EDIT: Okay, it went through. Thanks! Oh, and in case I haven't already mentioned it in this thread, I'm going to be participating for Russian. Edited by ellasevia on 22 July 2011 at 10:54pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Luna Moonsilver Diglot Groupie Germany lunaslanglog.wordpreRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5078 days ago 77 posts - 99 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Russian, Mandarin, Korean | Message 78 of 202 22 July 2011 at 10:51pm | IP Logged |
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I have a question: I'm going to be in China for most of August so my access to Twitter
will be limited/cut off entirely. Would it be okay for me to log my hours (say, in a log on the forum) and send them to the bot when I got back? Also, whilst I'm there I'm going to classes for Mandarin; would I be able to include those in the hours studied? I only ask because this challenge seems to be about squeezing in study time, whereas I'm specifically going to do this course... so I'm not sure. :) Sorry if anything's vague/should be obvious to me, I just really want to take part again! :D 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6470 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 79 of 202 22 July 2011 at 11:04pm | IP Logged |
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Thanks for letting me know, ellasevia, I deleted some messages. It's strange, it said I
was able to receive 12 more messages before I even deleted any. Bad algorithm I guess. Luna, you can post a big update upon your return, yes. And yes, you can count those classroom hours. Think about how effective they are compared to what you'd do in self- study. If class is too boring and you're dozing half the time, only award yourself 50% of the time in your tweet. Ditto for less intensive language time, such as watching movies, listening to podcasts while doing something else, playing games and so on. Be honest about how much focussed time this boils down to. The challenge is honour-based. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| seldnar Senior Member United States Joined 7132 days ago 189 posts - 287 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Mandarin, French, Greek | Message 80 of 202 23 July 2011 at 4:37am | IP Logged |
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I'd like to sign up for German.
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