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Luai_lashire
Diglot
Senior Member
United States
luai-lashire.deviant
Joined 5826 days ago
384 posts - 560 votes 
Speaks: English*, Esperanto
Studies: Japanese, French
| Message 273 of 361 29 December 2011 at 3:21pm | IP Logged |
Sprachprofi wrote:
Luai_lashire wrote:
You can count me in on the Japanese team again this year. :) I'll also
be doing
Esperanto, French, and German
again in 2012. |
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You should join team Ne Nur in addition - we are all either native/advanced speakers of these languages or
studying them in 2012. Or are you afraid of 5 hours of Swahili? ;-) |
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I'm considering it! I'd love to learn a little swahili (I actually know a speaker!), but I'm just not sure how serious I'm
going to be able to be about languages this year and I don't want to end up spending time on swahili instead of
something I've already promised myself I'd do, like German. School took a lot out of me last semester and I only
even kept doing Japanese because I have a class! So I'll be playing it by ear. I assume I can join later if I think I have
time?
1 person has voted this message useful
| Flarioca
Heptaglot
Senior Member
Brazil
Joined 5880 days ago
635 posts - 816 votes
Speaks: Portuguese*, Esperanto, French, EnglishC2, Spanish, German, Italian
Studies: Catalan, Mandarin
| Message 274 of 361 29 December 2011 at 4:02pm | IP Logged |
It's not clear whether German learners would really like to join a German Team.
On the other hand, if reading books in French might qualify as "French study", I could request membership in the Freutsch Team. Though my French is much far from perfect, I'm not considering to study it now besides reading books.
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| clumsy
Octoglot
Senior Member
Poland
lang-8.com/6715Registered users can see my Skype Name
Joined 5176 days ago
1116 posts - 1367 votes
Speaks: Polish*, English, Japanese, Korean, French, Mandarin, Italian, Vietnamese
Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swedish
Studies: Danish, Dari, Kirundi
| Message 275 of 361 29 December 2011 at 4:56pm | IP Logged |
senor_smile wrote:
clumsy wrote:
a3 wrote:
clumsy wrote:
I don't want to join
any team - I am too
lazy.
but my plan for this year is: to complete the world map - learn all the official
languages up to beginner's level.
with an important note that one language is enough, if the country has more than one
official language.
Including Kosovo, but excluding Abkhazia.
because my country does not recognize Abkhazia.
it has nothing to do with my political views, it's just that that would make me learn
Abkhaz, which is the sole official language of the republic, and it's said to be very
very hard.
No problem with Kosovo - I have to learn Albanian any way.
Mutually intelligible ones are counted as one - like Azerbaijani and Turkish.
Persian, Dari, Tajik are also counted as one.
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How would you learn more than 100 languages and maintain them all? |
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Well, I have a lot of language resources, so...
I have not any detailed plans, but I hope to do one by one, and cross countries out of
the list/map.
I don't think the number is so big.
Most of Africa speak English , French and Arabic.
Moreover I want to learn only the beginner level - A1 |
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This sounds like a very fun goal. I myself want to at some point do this, maybe after
mastering a few more myself.
What materials do you plan to use? Do you have any detailed plans of how to execute
this? |
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| clumsy
Octoglot
Senior Member
Poland
lang-8.com/6715Registered users can see my Skype Name
Joined 5176 days ago
1116 posts - 1367 votes
Speaks: Polish*, English, Japanese, Korean, French, Mandarin, Italian, Vietnamese
Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swedish
Studies: Danish, Dari, Kirundi
| Message 276 of 361 29 December 2011 at 6:47pm | IP Logged |
ellasevia wrote:
clumsy wrote:
a3 wrote:
clumsy wrote:
I don't want to join any
team - I am too lazy.
but my plan for this year is: to complete the world map - learn all the official
languages up to beginner's level.
with an important note that one language is enough, if the country has more than one
official language.
Including Kosovo, but excluding Abkhazia.
because my country does not recognize Abkhazia.
it has nothing to do with my political views, it's just that that would make me learn
Abkhaz, which is the sole official language of the republic, and it's said to be very
very hard.
No problem with Kosovo - I have to learn Albanian any way.
Mutually intelligible ones are counted as one - like Azerbaijani and Turkish.
Persian, Dari, Tajik are also counted as one.
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How would you learn more than 100 languages and maintain them all? |
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I don't think the number is so big.
Most of Africa speak English , French and Arabic.
Moreover I want to learn only the beginner level - A1 |
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I was curious as to just how many languages this goal would require, and which
languages those would be, so I made a list. It turns out that "only" 47 languages would
be needed:
Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Bengali, Bulgarian*, Burmese,
Catalan, Czech*, Danish, Dutch, Dzongkha, English, Estonian, French, Georgian, German,
Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian*, Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Lao*,
Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian*, Malay*, Mandarin, Mongolian, Nepali, Persian, Polish,
Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhala**, Slovak*, Slovenian, Spanish,
Swedish, Tamil**, Thai*, Turkish, Turkmen, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese
* Bulgarian/Macedonian, Czech/Slovak, Indonesian/Malay, and Lao/Thai are all considered
mutually intelligible, so only one of each pair would be required. Swedish would be
required for the Swedish/Norwegian pair because Swedish is official in Finland but
Norwegian is not.
** Either Sinhala or Tamil for Sri Lanka. |
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Hmm, it's a little big list ,but I hope i can cope with it!
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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 277 of 361 29 December 2011 at 7:33pm | IP Logged |
Luai_lashire wrote:
Sprachprofi wrote:
Luai_lashire wrote:
You can count me in on the Japanese team
again this year. :) I'll also
be doing
Esperanto, French, and German
again in 2012. |
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You should join team Ne Nur in addition - we are all either native/advanced speakers of these languages or
studying them in 2012. Or are you afraid of 5 hours of Swahili? ;-) |
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I'm considering it! I'd love to learn a little swahili (I actually know a speaker!), but I'm just not sure how serious
I'm
going to be able to be about languages this year and I don't want to end up spending time on swahili instead of
something I've already promised myself I'd do, like German. School took a lot out of me last semester and I only
even kept doing Japanese because I have a class! So I'll be playing it by ear. I assume I can join later if I think I
have
time? |
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Yes, joining late is messy but doable.
As for learning official languages for every country: when I had a similar idea around 2000, the list of languages I
came up with was only around 20 (based on an almanac from 1994). Is this a sign of more countries adopting
local languages instead of French/English, or just a sign of having different sources/methods?
1 person has voted this message useful
| NickJS
Senior Member
United Kingdom
flickr.com/photos/sg
Joined 4957 days ago
264 posts - 334 votes
Speaks: English*
Studies: Russian, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese
| Message 278 of 361 29 December 2011 at 8:08pm | IP Logged |
clumsy wrote:
ellasevia wrote:
clumsy wrote:
a3 wrote:
clumsy wrote:
I don't
want to join any
team - I am too lazy.
but my plan for this year is: to complete the world map - learn all the official
languages up to beginner's level.
with an important note that one language is enough, if the country has more than one
official language.
Including Kosovo, but excluding Abkhazia.
because my country does not recognize Abkhazia.
it has nothing to do with my political views, it's just that that would make me learn
Abkhaz, which is the sole official language of the republic, and it's said to be very
very hard.
No problem with Kosovo - I have to learn Albanian any way.
Mutually intelligible ones are counted as one - like Azerbaijani and Turkish.
Persian, Dari, Tajik are also counted as one.
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How would you learn more than 100 languages and maintain them all? |
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I don't think the number is so big.
Most of Africa speak English , French and Arabic.
Moreover I want to learn only the beginner level - A1 |
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I was curious as to just how many languages this goal would require, and which
languages those would be, so I made a list. It turns out that "only" 47 languages would
be needed:
Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Bengali, Bulgarian*, Burmese,
Catalan, Czech*, Danish, Dutch, Dzongkha, English, Estonian, French, Georgian, German,
Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian*, Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Lao*,
Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian*, Malay*, Mandarin, Mongolian, Nepali, Persian, Polish,
Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhala**, Slovak*, Slovenian, Spanish,
Swedish, Tamil**, Thai*, Turkish, Turkmen, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese
* Bulgarian/Macedonian, Czech/Slovak, Indonesian/Malay, and Lao/Thai are all considered
mutually intelligible, so only one of each pair would be required. Swedish would be
required for the Swedish/Norwegian pair because Swedish is official in Finland but
Norwegian is not.
** Either Sinhala or Tamil for Sri Lanka. |
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Hmm, it's a little big list ,but I hope i can cope with it! |
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This is definitely a very interesting goal, I'll be watching that language log for
sure!
1 person has voted this message useful
| Tournesol
Diglot
Senior Member
Ireland
Joined 5359 days ago
119 posts - 132 votes
Speaks: English*, FrenchC1
Studies: German
| Message 279 of 361 29 December 2011 at 8:21pm | IP Logged |
Flarioca wrote:
It's not clear whether German learners would really like to join a German Team.
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I'd be interested in joining a German language team if we have enough interest. My level is somewhere between 0 and A1.
1 person has voted this message useful
| sofiapofia
Pentaglot
Groupie
United Kingdom
Joined 4939 days ago
88 posts - 103 votes
Speaks: Swedish, Hindi, Portuguese, English*, Marathi
Studies: German, Danish, Sanskrit, Icelandic
| Message 280 of 361 29 December 2011 at 9:10pm | IP Logged |
I'm studying German, Swedish, Icelandic and Portuguese. I've never taken part in a TAC
before but I plan to make my own log soon and hopefully find a team to join!
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