Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6596 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish
| Message 1 of 131 12 December 2011 at 7:24pm | IP Logged |
Is anyone else crazy/sensible enough to be planning what to do for the 6 week challenges already? They will take place in February, May, August and November.
As a huge football fan I'm looking forward to Euro 2012 in June so I'll do Polish in May for some pre-tournament joy and then the language of the country that wins it in August (runner-up if it's France because I. don't. wanna. learn. French :P and I'm thinking of doing Old English or Old Church Slavonic if Russia or England wins...not that it's likely haha)
I'm undecided between Danish, Belarusian and Indonesian for February and what I do for November depends on what'll happen before that.
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Isabliss_27 Diglot Groupie Brazil Joined 4744 days ago 68 posts - 74 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, English Studies: German, Russian, Latin, French
| Message 2 of 131 12 December 2011 at 8:50pm | IP Logged |
I'm in! I plan to do Swedish or Norwegian in February, I'll decide later which one.
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Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5008 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian
| Message 3 of 131 12 December 2011 at 9:36pm | IP Logged |
My last 6wc ended too early again, because of school. I just didn't have much mood and energy for the languages then.
I already kind of promised Sprachprofi that Esperanto would be my next choice :-)
After that, it should be Spanish and probably Swedish. Not sure yet.
Perhaps at some point, there could finally be a Swedish or Skandinavian team.
p.s. and to the original question: yes I am that crazy. Even though I didn't finish any of the last two 6wc :-(
Edited by Cavesa on 12 December 2011 at 9:37pm
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Cainntear Pentaglot Senior Member Scotland linguafrankly.blogsp Joined 6010 days ago 4399 posts - 7687 votes Speaks: Lowland Scots, English*, French, Spanish, Scottish Gaelic Studies: Catalan, Italian, German, Irish, Welsh
| Message 4 of 131 12 December 2011 at 9:46pm | IP Logged |
My university schedule rules out February and May. If I want to do a 6-week blitz of a language, it'll have to start next week, to coincide with my Christmas holidays. I might be going to rural mid-Wales for a bit in January, in which case I'll have to take my rudimentary Welsh skills and get to a conversational standard.
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FireViN Diglot Senior Member Brazil missaoitaliano.wordpRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5228 days ago 196 posts - 292 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, EnglishC2 Studies: Italian
| Message 5 of 131 12 December 2011 at 10:26pm | IP Logged |
Next 6WC I'm going to study... Esperanto. I was planning on doing Mandarin and Spanish too, so I might pick a random language at the August challenge..
Sooo, February - Esperanto, I guess. May - Mandarin? August - I have no idea. Norwegian, maybe? Or Welsh. I'd love to try Welsh. And november.. Spanish, since I'm possibly going to Peru for christmas.
Obviously things could change since I'll be starting college and it might be a little hard.
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hribecek Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5348 days ago 1243 posts - 1458 votes Speaks: English*, Czech, Spanish Studies: Italian, Polish, Slovak, Hungarian, Toki Pona, Russian
| Message 6 of 131 12 December 2011 at 11:00pm | IP Logged |
I probably/definitely won't stick to it but it's fun to speculate so my targets right now are -
February - Hungarian/Northern Saami
May - Polish/Croatian
August - Polish/Ukrainian
November - Finnish
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jdmoncada Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5033 days ago 470 posts - 741 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Finnish Studies: Russian, Japanese
| Message 7 of 131 13 December 2011 at 7:42am | IP Logged |
Right now I am tentatively planning French for February. That would be a completely new one for me.
For the other challenges, I am not sure.
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Mani Diglot Senior Member Germany imsprachendickicht.b Joined 4904 days ago 258 posts - 323 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Swedish, Portuguese, Latin, Welsh, Luxembourgish
| Message 8 of 131 13 December 2011 at 8:33am | IP Logged |
Serpent wrote:
Is anyone else crazy/sensible enough to be planning what to do for the 6 week challenges already? They will take place in February, May, August and November. |
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Definitely. Having finally found a new flat 2 days after the 6WC started and moving in 1,5 weeks ago my first 6WC wasn't as effective as I hoped it would be, but I've tasted blood and like to take part in other challenges. So my plans for the 6WC in 2012 are:
February - Kurdish (again)
May - Russian
August - Russian (again)
November - Portuguese
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