Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5009 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian
| Message 129 of 202 02 August 2011 at 3:44pm | IP Logged |
So, after all, I joined. My first week will be spent mostly on a not target langauage-Latin and I need to study other things as well but even than, I believe I can progress quite a lot with German. And most importantly-I am excited about the challenge.
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JNetto Groupie United States verbumpopuli.blogspoRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4982 days ago 43 posts - 60 votes Speaks: EnglishC1
| Message 130 of 202 04 August 2011 at 10:50am | IP Logged |
Hey guys, how is it going? After a very turbulent couple months and a late arrival I'm finally here!
I'm not sure about what to do, I have 3 languages in mind that I really want to sign up for: Thai, Persian,
and Pashto.
Problems: Thai: I was in the last challenge with Thai, but I don't want to dropped it;
Persian: I took two years at college, but I think I should know way more;
Pashto: My knowledge of it is slim to none;
So, which language should I pick for the challenge? Or which should I not? Should I sign up for all of
them? Equally or different percentages (60%, 25%, 15%).
Spracheprofi your opinion is a must!
Thanks a lot everybody and good luck on the challenge!!
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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 131 of 202 04 August 2011 at 4:27pm | IP Logged |
Keep in mind that you're only choosing a main focus language - you can still work on
other languages as much as you want.
That's why I think you shouldn't do Thai again; you did it last time and you can still
do some work on Thai no matter which language you choose as your main target.
Is your Persian still at beginner level? If not, Pashto is the obvious choice. The 6
Week Challenge is about starting a new language (or one that you're still a beginner
at) and trying to bring it past the beginner stage. So I can't really decide between
Persian and Pashto for you. In my opinion, it would be awesome if you gave Esperanto a
try - 6 weeks should be all you need, seeing how you attacked Thai. What I mean is that
learning Esperanto is a limited-time project, unlike Japanese or Chinese (or Pashto and
Persian?) which you'd have to keep learning for basically your entire life.
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jdmoncada Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5034 days ago 470 posts - 741 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Finnish Studies: Russian, Japanese
| Message 132 of 202 04 August 2011 at 4:36pm | IP Logged |
JNetto, from your post, it seems that Pashto would be a great thing to do in the 6 weeks. Give yourself a nice kick off to success! :)
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Élan Senior Member United States Joined 5444 days ago 165 posts - 211 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Persian
| Message 133 of 202 04 August 2011 at 5:19pm | IP Logged |
I agree that it would be nice to use the challenge to kickstart your Pashto if you're serious about it. On the other hand, 6 weeks might be the perfect amount of time to push your college-learned Persian to a new level. I'm doing Persian for the 6WC, so that's another +1 for Persian. :P
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Kisfroccs Bilingual Pentaglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 5409 days ago 388 posts - 549 votes Speaks: French*, German*, EnglishC1, Swiss-German, Hungarian Studies: Italian, Serbo-Croatian
| Message 134 of 202 04 August 2011 at 7:54pm | IP Logged |
Hi !
It is possible to change my status from "part-time" to "full time" ? I have an unexpected huge load of work this summer - and have just been made aware of that.
Thanks,
Zosianka (twitter name)
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ReneeMona Diglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 5335 days ago 864 posts - 1274 votes Speaks: Dutch*, EnglishC2 Studies: French
| Message 135 of 202 05 August 2011 at 7:47am | IP Logged |
Kisfroccs wrote:
It is possible to change my status from "part-time" to "full time" ? I
have an unexpected huge load of work this summer - and have just been made aware of that.
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I´ve been wondering the same thing. I found out a couple of days ago that because of a
shortage of colleagues, I will be working up to five days a week for the whole of August,
which is pretty much a full-time job.
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JNetto Groupie United States verbumpopuli.blogspoRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4982 days ago 43 posts - 60 votes Speaks: EnglishC1
| Message 136 of 202 05 August 2011 at 8:57am | IP Logged |
Élan wrote:
I agree that it would be nice to use the challenge to kickstart your Pashto if you're serious
about it. On the other hand, 6 weeks might be the perfect amount of time to push your college-learned
Persian to a new level. I'm doing Persian for the 6WC, so that's another +1 for Persian. :P |
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Yeah, I really should do Pashto as target... After all there will be a lot of elements from both Arabic and
Persian in it anyways!
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