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| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6473 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 113 of 202 01 August 2011 at 2:18pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
I double-checked, the bot didn't receive any tweet involving "#googlenews". This means that you're probably protecting your tweets. Either un-protect them so that anyone can read, or follow and bot and wait for it to follow you back.
Did you notice the detailed personal statistics, like http://6wc.learnlangs.com/stats/us er/sofiapofia? If you diligently tag your tweets, you can get a lot of information about your study habits. If I have some free time this month, I'll even extend the bot so that you can see study time per day, average session length and the like. I sabotaged myself by offering to teach an intensive German class 4 hours a day this week. That's why I wasn't able to do anything so far; I only just came home. Edited by Sprachprofi on 01 August 2011 at 2:22pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4912 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German | Message 114 of 202 01 August 2011 at 5:05pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
The Hindi Urdu Flagship has a lot of Hindi audio online for free. And best of all, it is made by Rupert Snell, the author of Teach Yourself Hindi. The most useful to you will be the "Glossaries Alive", which are 12-15 minute podcasts about the vocabulary for the chapters of TY Hindi. The video version is great because it has the Hindi in Devanagari while they say it, so I use it on my smartphone. So far they have covered chapters 1-12: http://hindiurduflagship.org/resources/learning-teaching/glo ssaries-alive/ When you get a bit more advanced, or for more of a challenge, try the Spoken Thesaurus, which contains discussion of words on specific topics such as Friendship, Love and Hate, Health, Wisdom, and so on. There are three on Health because they specifically intended to help healthcare workers and doctors. The vocabulary is not necessarily difficult, but the discussion in Hindi is. The address is: http://hindiurduflagship.org/resources/learning-teaching/spo ken-thesaurus/ Finally, BBC Hindi (bbc.com/hindi) has a daily newscast: http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/check/hindi/meta/tx/hindi _latest?size=au&bgc=000000&lang=hi&nbwm=1&bbwm=1 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4912 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German | Message 115 of 202 01 August 2011 at 5:21pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
Am I wrong in thinking you can only use the bot for one language? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Élan Senior Member United States Joined 5447 days ago 165 posts - 211 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Persian | Message 116 of 202 01 August 2011 at 5:33pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
I believe the bot will track all your hours but keep two separate score sheets. You can see here that there is one column for the time you have spent on your target language and another for your total time spent on languages. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Rikyu-san Diglot Senior Member Denmark Joined 5531 days ago 213 posts - 413 votes Speaks: Danish*, English Studies: German, French | Message 117 of 202 01 August 2011 at 5:41pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I haven't signed up for the bot yet. I don't know at this time if I will. It seems registration is not so easy and I would rather spend my time on German.
Which brings me to the question I would like to ask: How do those of us who don't use the bot update our progress? Do we use this thread, create a separate 6-week-challenge-in-August thread, or simply panic (even though we know that language hikers shouldn't panic, just bring our towel). All the best - and good luck to everybody. I will start my German ordeal in a couple of hours. Here is a joke in the meantime: why was Lucky Luke not a good language learner? Answer: He was too much faster than his shadowing... 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4912 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German | Message 118 of 202 01 August 2011 at 6:03pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
It isn't that hard to sign up for the bot. If you don't have a twitter account, set that up first. Then tweet this (changing the bits as appropriate): @6WCBot I want to #register to study #French intensively in August. #HTLAL user; working #part-time Then check the rankings website: http://6wc.learnlangs.com/ You should be listed there right away. I was also worried it would take a long time, but it was actually really easy. Edited by Jeffers on 01 August 2011 at 6:08pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6473 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 119 of 202 01 August 2011 at 6:14pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
You only declare one language, because there can only be one main target language for this challenge, to discourage people from spreading themselves too thin. Let's say Italian is your declared target. You can still tell the bot about your progress in #German, #Chinese, whatever, and the bot will keep track of these languages, too, they just add to the "total score" column. Time you spend on your declared target language will count towards "target score" and "total score", so it's more worthwhile.
You can do whatever you like. You can use an existing language log or create one just for this, or forget about logging entirely; up to you. The high score at http://6wc.learnlangs.com is only for Twitter users. Edited by Sprachprofi on 01 August 2011 at 6:16pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| booze007 Groupie GermanyRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5095 days ago 41 posts - 45 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German | Message 120 of 202 01 August 2011 at 9:16pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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can i create a spread for the German learners ?mainly for discussion and sharing of resources ? 1 person has voted this message useful |
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