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Accelerated Challenge (Feb) - Finnish
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cathrynm
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Message 25 of 64

23 January 2012 at 10:19am | IP Logged

This is pretty interesting. It's going to be exciting to see so many people studying Finnish. I think I'm just going to keep working on Finnish myself, but I know how good some of you guys are. I need to keep studying just so you don't pass me up. Heh.

I suggest at the end of 30 days, just write something in Finnish, anything you please, but no books, no dictionaries, no computers, maybe give a time limit of about an evening. Post to lang-8 and see what kind of corrections come in.

Edited by cathrynm on 23 January 2012 at 10:37am
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01 February 2012 at 7:39am | IP Logged

cathrynm wrote:

This is pretty interesting. It's going to be exciting to see so many
people studying Finnish. I think I'm just going to keep working on Finnish myself, but
I know how good some of you guys are. I need to keep studying just so you don't pass me
up. Heh.

I suggest at the end of 30 days, just write something in Finnish, anything you please,
but no books, no dictionaries, no computers, maybe give a time limit of about an evening.
Post to lang-8 and see what kind of corrections come in.

Hi Cathrynm, I'm in the Finnish challenge and I hope we can count on your input too! By
the way, what is the lang8? :|
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01 February 2012 at 8:24am | IP Logged

JNetto wrote:

cathrynm wrote:

This is pretty interesting. It's going to be
exciting to see so many
people studying Finnish. I think I'm just going to keep working on Finnish myself,
but
I know how good some of you guys are. I need to keep studying just so you don't pass
me
up. Heh.

I suggest at the end of 30 days, just write something in Finnish, anything you please,
but no books, no dictionaries, no computers, maybe give a time limit of about an
evening.
Post to lang-8 and see what kind of corrections come in.

Hi Cathrynm, I'm in the Finnish challenge and I hope we can count on your input too! By
the way, what is the lang8? :|

Lang-8 is a site where you write blogs in your target language and you get natives to
correct them and vice-versa.
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Message 28 of 64

01 February 2012 at 8:39am | IP Logged

Lang-8

Hmm, I thought everyone on this website knew about lang-8. I have gotten Finnish corrected there. This would allow any passing Finnish person to correct as they have time, without pushing anyone into a huge time commitment.

Really, I think if you guys manage to learn the vocabulary, you'll be fine. You may make mistakes with output, but, you know, I think that's the extent of it.
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Message 29 of 64

27 February 2012 at 11:24am | IP Logged

Due to clashes with real life, we have decided that 35 hours is more realistic at this
point, so that we can still do a comparison. After the exam, participants are free to
continue up to 45 hours and beyond.
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Message 30 of 64

27 February 2012 at 1:36pm | IP Logged

Could we get a summary of the following:

Who is "in", using what method, hours put in?
Their thoughts on the method?
Where they think they stand?

I think it would be great to get this type of feedback, type of self-evaluation, *prior* to testing!

Edited by zenmonkey on 27 February 2012 at 1:38pm
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27 February 2012 at 3:16pm | IP Logged

Sprachprofi wrote:

I didn't know about this until just now, and I'm already nearing the 45-hour mark -- certainly well beyond 35 hours, in any case. Would it be easier to simply not have me be tested with everyone else since my circumstances are already so different from the rest?
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27 February 2012 at 3:34pm | IP Logged

ellasevia wrote:

Sprachprofi wrote:

Due to clashes with real life, we have decided
that 35 hours is more realistic at this
point, so that we can still do a comparison. After the exam, participants are free to
continue up to 45 hours and beyond.

I didn't know about this until just now, and I'm already nearing the 45-hour mark --
certainly well beyond 35 hours, in any case. Would it be easier to simply not have me be
tested with everyone else since my circumstances are already so different from the rest?

Your situation was already different from the get-go. It's up to you to determine whether
you feel like you have something to gain from the testing.

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