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| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6597 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 89 of 136 17 February 2012 at 10:21pm | IP Logged | ||
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You can also encourage your kids to learn languages:) And in multilingual families talking to your kids may count as practice.
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| Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4909 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German | Message 90 of 136 18 February 2012 at 12:00am | IP Logged | ||
I rediscovered that this evening. I first spent 15 minutes listening to and repeating after a Max et Mathilde story with my 8 year old daughter. Then inspiration struck, and we played Uno together with my 10 year old son. The rule was that you had to say the number and colour in French when you put a card down. Then I began to look up things to say for the named cards. For draw 2 or 4, I came up with "prenez deux/quatre". For a skip card you have to say "passez". I'm not sure what to say for reverse. As I improve, and they get used to it, I'll start to come up with full sentences to be said while playing. Any suggestions? Anyway, we played for a half hour, and I gave myself 15 minutes of study time for that. (I'm still pretty weak with French, and colours and numbers still take a lot of thought). 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| zenmonkey Bilingual Tetraglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6552 days ago 803 posts - 1119 votes 1 sounds Speaks: EnglishC2*, Spanish*, French, German Studies: Italian, Modern Hebrew | Message 91 of 136 18 February 2012 at 10:07am | IP Logged | ||
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Last night at dinner we discussed cases in Arabic (the girls are curious and are learning a little with me) and since my nine year old had a friend over from her school who is also multilingual, we talked a little about Russian and Georgian which she knew a little. Switching across French/German/Spanish was certainly a large part of the evening and breakfast.
I only counted a small part the active German talk because I was asking language questions to the girls. They speak it better than I do. The Uno game idea is great! "Retour" would be a good word for reverse. Edited by zenmonkey on 18 February 2012 at 10:09am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6470 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 92 of 136 18 February 2012 at 11:10am | IP Logged | ||
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I love playing "Taboo" to practise languages, because it forces me come up with
alternative phrasings for when I can't say a word, mimicking situations where I forget or don't know a word. Though for the languages I don't speak well, just explaining words without any forbidden words is already enough of a challenge. My boyfriend recently released a multilingual iPhone game (to be played with one iPhone and several people) whose mechanics are similar to Taboo: WordRace. He kept foreign language learners in mind, so if you play with the General wordpack, most of the words will be really frequent ones, which you'd definitely know in your target language, and there are few culture- specific items. We're looking to translate the game into many languages. Is anyone here interested in contributing words or translating them? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6470 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 93 of 136 18 February 2012 at 11:18pm | IP Logged | ||
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I just added #Multilingual as a tag. #Linguistics maps to the same tag. I also tried to
improve the look of the tags graph. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| zenmonkey Bilingual Tetraglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6552 days ago 803 posts - 1119 votes 1 sounds Speaks: EnglishC2*, Spanish*, French, German Studies: Italian, Modern Hebrew | Message 94 of 136 18 February 2012 at 11:40pm | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks!!
And the WordRace game looks great, I'll likely download it. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6597 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 95 of 136 19 February 2012 at 2:14am | IP Logged | ||
Now off to use the tag, heee:D 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| WingSuet Triglot Senior Member Sweden Joined 5351 days ago 169 posts - 211 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, German Studies: Cantonese | Message 96 of 136 20 February 2012 at 2:24pm | IP Logged | ||
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I have a question. I'm studying both Cantonese and Mandarin now. Which language should I
tag if I study Chinese characters? I only know the Cantonese pronunciation of them since I've just started with Mandarin and don't have the Mandarin pronunciation on my flashcards (and with over 1000 cards it would take a long time to edit all of them). So I should definitely count it as studying Cantonese, but can I also count it as Mandarin (which actually is tagged as "Chinese")? I am in fact learning to read Chinese. And by the way, why can't I tag #Mandarin ? Edited by WingSuet on 20 February 2012 at 2:25pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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