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| jdmoncada Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5037 days ago 470 posts - 741 votes  Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Finnish Studies: Russian, Japanese | Message 17 of 131 17 December 2011 at 4:52pm | IP Logged | ||
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I've been doing some rethinking on this. I would love to join the group studying Finnish, but I am already at intermediate level. I'm not great, but I'm definitely beyond a beginner. I think that goes against the spirit of the 6WC.
I still want to do French (top of my hit list), and I've downloaded all the content from FrenchPod101 and I have a Berlitz Essential French book as a start. The other language I want to try for a six week period is Russian. I am only a beginner at best, so this would be great for me to dust off what I used to know and improve some. I may do German and Japanese for the others. I'm confused about my level of German. I only studied it for the same length of time as I studied Russian, but my ability with it comes up as Intermediate with some assessment tools. I only ever took one semester (16 weeks) of a beginner's course, and I had 6 weeks in German-speaking Europe before the course followed by 3 months in Germany afterwards (nice sandwich effect there). But that's all I really did. Is that small amount of time really enough to reach an Intermediate level? Edit: Unlike German, I never was in an immersion situation with my Russian. So what I mean is the same was the time of beginner initial study and no further study since. Edited by jdmoncada on 17 December 2011 at 4:54pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6600 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 18 of 131 17 December 2011 at 6:19pm | IP Logged | ||
as for German, it's considerably easier for a native speaker of English and you had quite a lot of immersion. after that you've probably learned a lot from things that you didn't consider studying - fun stuff, you know:) with this timeframe, reaching the intermediate level is about as common as not reaching it, i think. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| jdmoncada Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5037 days ago 470 posts - 741 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Finnish Studies: Russian, Japanese | Message 19 of 131 17 December 2011 at 6:25pm | IP Logged | ||
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Ah, thank you, Serpent. I think you and I could be good language partners as you have almost everything I have studied! (Not Japanese or the French that's on my hit list) That's very rare, even in this group of people with a variety of languages.
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| lmo Tetraglot Newbie United Kingdom Joined 4770 days ago 5 posts - 5 votes Speaks: Sinhalese*, English, Italian, French | Message 20 of 131 17 December 2011 at 10:31pm | IP Logged | ||
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It will take a long time with French 101 Why don't you try Michel Thomas to start with and then start with Pimsleur.
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| jdmoncada Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5037 days ago 470 posts - 741 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Finnish Studies: Russian, Japanese | Message 21 of 131 18 December 2011 at 5:07am | IP Logged | ||
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I did really well with Pimsleur for Japanese. I'm a fan of the product. I also like Mango database, which will give me speaking practice but I won't have to pay out of pocket for. (My library has a subscription for its patrons, so use stats are highly valued.)
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| ReneeMona Diglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 5338 days ago 864 posts - 1274 votes Speaks: Dutch*, EnglishC2 Studies: French | Message 22 of 131 30 December 2011 at 5:19pm | IP Logged | ||
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For the February one, I’ll probably study Old English, since that’s the one I was supposed to be studying in November before life intervened.
The other three are basically up for grabs. I’ve been thinking a lot about Norwegian but Arabic, Hebrew, Esperanto, Greek and Indonesian are all possible as well. Or I might do Spanish again, since I haven’t retained much of the little I learned last year. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| mikonai Diglot Senior Member United States weirdnamewriting.bloRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4932 days ago 178 posts - 281 votes Speaks: English*, Italian Studies: Swahili, German | Message 23 of 131 30 December 2011 at 5:37pm | IP Logged | ||
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These always look like such great challenges to do! It's too bad I'm either in school
for all of these or they're going to interfere with when I want to to do a month-long writing challenge. Could someone be kind enough to refresh me on the rules for these? The goal is just to make as much progress in a language as possible, right? I'm not sure if I've ever seen the official rules/goals. I could try February, but then that goes into March and midterms, probably a bad idea for a Spring Semester with 19 credit hours. May might be promising, although there's two weeks of school (counting finals I think...), and then the first two weeks of June I'll be working on that writing challenge. In August I'm moving out and going to another university, so that's probably not a good idea. November... the last time I tried something crazy in November I think it nearly killed me, and I'll be busy with finals by the time the challenge ends in December. But why not shoot for a little extra stress in life? I might be in for February or May (probably Italian, in that case). I doubt I'll be able to play in all of these challenges, but I'll definitely be rooting on the sidelines! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6600 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 24 of 131 30 December 2011 at 8:38pm | IP Logged | ||
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well, have a look at this thread. and this is where this started ages ago :)
basically yes, you just try to make as much progress as possible. there has to be one language you focus on, a non-fluent one. if you use the twitter bot, that's the one you register with. as for my own plans, i've decided on Indonesian for February. My Indonesian friend is coming here in summer and I'd love to be able to use it at least some of the time with her. still planning Polish for May, the language of the country that wins Euro 2012 in August and idk what in November. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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