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LanguageSponge Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5758 days ago 1197 posts - 1487 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Welsh, Russian, Japanese, Slovenian, Greek, Italian
| Message 1 of 97 08 December 2011 at 10:13pm | IP Logged |
Friends, Romans, countrymen! Here is the place where anyone interested in a combined
French and German team can sign up. You don't have to be at any
particular level - you could be a complete beginner in both - the only requirement for
now is that you must be studying at least French and German for TAC 2012 and be
committed not only to updating your log reasonably regularly when time allows, but also
to checking in on your fellow team mates' logs once in a while.
As the following people have expressed interest in a French and German team in the TAC
2012 Official Thread, I have added their names and the languages they will be focusing
on for the TAC to the team's list.
If anyone feels like taking the reins from me at any point, just go ahead and take
them. If not, I shall carry on adding or removing people from the list of team members
as appropriate. This thread could become the central place for the team to post about
personal milestones in their languages as well as the place to handle any other
administrative stuff I haven't thought of yet.
Okay, so as of 8th December 2011, the team stands thus:
LanguageSponge - French, German and Latin.
Spanky - French, German
Bjorn - French, German
Cavesa - French, German, Spanish
oziohume - French, German
Adrean - French, German
Jinx - French, German, Catalan.
ReQuest - French, German, English.
Crush - French, German
acriter - French, German
Acut - French, German
Nsan - French, German
I am very much looking forward to working with you all this coming year - if anyone has
any suggestions then go ahead and post them here :] Also if you have any ideas for a
more inventive team name or a motto, go ahead and suggest away! Good luck to you all!
Let the contest begin!
Jack
Edited by Fasulye on 13 January 2012 at 9:04pm
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| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5001 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian
| Message 2 of 97 09 December 2011 at 1:01am | IP Logged |
Wonderful, it's pleasure to be in team with you all.
About the name. How are those created? "€ team" would probably bring us badluck. :-D
So what else do these countries and languages have in common?
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| LanguageSponge Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5758 days ago 1197 posts - 1487 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Welsh, Russian, Japanese, Slovenian, Greek, Italian
| Message 3 of 97 09 December 2011 at 8:12am | IP Logged |
Cavesa wrote:
Wonderful, it's pleasure to be in team with you all.
About the name. How are those created? "€ team" would probably bring us badluck. :-D
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I suppose it doesn't really matter how we come up with a name. In TAC 2011, the French
and German team (of which both Jinx and I were a part) made the "name" by combining two
special characters used in the languages in question - ÇÜ. One way of naming the team
seems to be stuck in my head:
When English words are used in German, we call it "Denglisch" - and when English words
are used in French it's called "Franglais". My suggestion, which may or may not be any
good, would be to combine Français and Deutsch to create a word along these lines -
Freutsch? I've actually just looked it up on German Wikipedia, and apparently, the word
"Frutsch" has existed since 1980 at the very latest. I quite like this idea, but what
do others think?
Jack
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| Bjorn Diglot Senior Member Norway Joined 4860 days ago 244 posts - 286 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English Studies: German, French
| Message 4 of 97 09 December 2011 at 4:25pm | IP Logged |
Freutsch
I like it.
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| Spanky Senior Member Canada Joined 5948 days ago 1021 posts - 1714 votes Studies: French
| Message 5 of 97 10 December 2011 at 5:23pm | IP Logged |
Hi all,
I am looking forward to being part of this team. Thanks for organizing the thread Jack. I really like "Freutsch" for a team name, but I am completely fine with whatever the rest of you all may decide for a name.
I anticipate being really tied up over the next couple of weeks, but hope to have a bit of time over the Christmas holidays to get myself organized and ready to begin applying myself energetically to both languages at the beginning of January.
Regards,
Spanky
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| LanguageSponge Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5758 days ago 1197 posts - 1487 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Welsh, Russian, Japanese, Slovenian, Greek, Italian
| Message 6 of 97 10 December 2011 at 5:34pm | IP Logged |
Spanky wrote:
Hi all,
I am looking forward to being part of this team. Thanks for organizing the thread
Jack. I really like "Freutsch" for a team name, but I am completely fine with whatever
the rest of you all may decide for a name.
I anticipate being really tied up over the next couple of weeks, but hope to have a bit
of time over the Christmas holidays to get myself organized and ready to begin applying
myself energetically to both languages at the beginning of January.
Regards,
Spanky |
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Hi Spanky,
We will all inevitably be busy with non-language related things over the next couple of
weeks and no doubt during the year as well. My period of relative inactivity, that I
know of, will begin in mid-January and end in mid-March. I am enrolled on a CELTA
course during that time and while I will be trying to get as much language studying
done as I can, my main concern will be passing my CELTA course so I can get out of
England soon afterwards. Once I'm qualified, I will be aiming to go to a German-
speaking country to teach English there. Fun times :) Any more thoughts on a motto, or
any more name suggestions? Anything I've completely forgotten to mention?
Jack
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| Kerrie Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Kerrie2 Joined 5387 days ago 1232 posts - 1740 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish
| Message 7 of 97 10 December 2011 at 7:59pm | IP Logged |
I won't be joining this team, but I'll be keeping an eye on all of you. =)
I am studying French, and will likely actively start German in 2012 as well, so I look forward to watching everyone's progress!
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| LanguageSponge Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5758 days ago 1197 posts - 1487 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Welsh, Russian, Japanese, Slovenian, Greek, Italian
| Message 8 of 97 10 December 2011 at 9:47pm | IP Logged |
Kerrie wrote:
I won't be joining this team, but I'll be keeping an eye on all of you.
=)
I am studying French, and will likely actively start German in 2012 as well, so I look
forward to watching everyone's progress! |
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It's great to know that we'll have someone following our progress, Kerrie, thank you. If
you need any reassurance or help with French or German at any point despite not
officially being part of the team, feel free to post any questions you've got here if you
want. Bonne chance avec tes langues dans l'année à venir.
Jack
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