tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4705 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish
| Message 337 of 672 01 March 2012 at 7:18pm | IP Logged |
Ok, makes sense!
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Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7154 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish
| Message 338 of 672 04 March 2012 at 2:51am | IP Logged |
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I recently stumbled upon a big collection of resources (videos, transcripts, learning plans) from Five Colleges (Amherst College, Hampshire College, Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst) that was just too good to keep in relative anonymity in my log or the "Links and Resources" sub-forum. I think that the links could be handy for any of you want some practice with L-R or to see and hear the language as used in basic situations (certainly more focused than looking on YouTube)
For your purposes, here are the links to the material in Russian. The links to "CultureTalk" in various Central Asian countries contains a varying number of interviews in Russian. The interviews about Kyrgyzstan are dominated by Russian-speakers, while other countries have a roughly even distribution of Russian and the associated ancestral language (e.g. Kazakhstan) or only a few interviews in Russian (or English) and many in the ancestral language (e.g. Azerbaijan).
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Woodsei Bilingual Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Woodsei Joined 4795 days ago 614 posts - 782 votes Speaks: English*, Arabic (Egyptian)* Studies: Russian, Japanese, Hungarian
| Message 339 of 672 04 March 2012 at 3:53pm | IP Logged |
Chung, thank you for the fabulous resource links! Hopefully will put it to good use.
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aloysius Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6238 days ago 226 posts - 291 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, German Studies: French, Greek, Italian, Russian
| Message 340 of 672 07 March 2012 at 10:00pm | IP Logged |
Results week 5
I'm in a hurry to watch Homeland (with Danish subs), so you'll have to do your own
commenting ...
//aloysius
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Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5332 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian
| Message 341 of 672 09 March 2012 at 12:58pm | IP Logged |
Thanks again, aloysius for you great charts!
- Woodsei keeps up her amazing run, and is by now unbeatable (unless someone decides to study languages in stead of sleeping for the next week :-) Fantastic, Woodsei!
- drsarvo has worked dilligently, and is this week the second of team Sputnik and the first of those who are doing Russian for the 6WC. (well done drsavo!)
- 8 of us are so dedicated that we find ourselves among the 5 best of our group in one category or another
- we still have team Sputnik members as number 1 and 2 in the competition
- we have 3 of the 5 best
- we have 5 of the 20 best
- we have 7 among the 40 best
In short, we continue being the absolutely most amazing, ass-kicking, hard studying team on the HTLAL forum, and are going into the last week with the aim to kill all previous records and annihilate all bad study habits and all competition!
Edited by Solfrid Cristin on 09 March 2012 at 4:54pm
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Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5554 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona
| Message 342 of 672 09 March 2012 at 4:01pm | IP Logged |
Well done everyone - incredible effort! And with just 4-5 days left now...let's really whip ourselves into a frenzy over this last furlong and finish in style. :)
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drsarvo Diglot Senior Member Mexico Joined 4710 days ago 143 posts - 149 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: Russian
| Message 343 of 672 11 March 2012 at 7:21pm | IP Logged |
Open question:
How can you possibly tell how many words of the foreign language you are studying, you already know?
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mrwarper Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Spain forum_posts.asp?TID=Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5224 days ago 1493 posts - 2500 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishC2 Studies: German, Russian, Japanese
| Message 344 of 672 11 March 2012 at 7:34pm | IP Logged |
drsarvo wrote:
Open question:
How can you possibly tell how many words of the foreign language you are studying, you already know? |
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Take graded readers targeted at audiences with X, Y, Z words in their vocabulary, count how many words you miss and see if the results are consistent.
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