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dearwanderlust
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 Message 17 of 136
22 January 2012 at 1:00am | IP Logged 
Really excited about this! I fell off the last channel due to lack of planning but this
time I'm VERY ready.
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Pharamp
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 Message 18 of 136
22 January 2012 at 11:35am | IP Logged 
Sprachprofi wrote:
You can't have German as your target language then, because target language work has to
stay comparable at some level - it's a lot harder to spend time on a beginner language
than on a language you know well, because there are so many fun language activities
that become available as you progress. As an extreme work-around, you could declare a
totally different target language that you have no intention of studying, say Nahuatl,
log zero hours for that, and log German as a non-target language (counting towards your
total, as it should). This way you won't have an unfair advantage in the leaderboard.
... Or how'bout studying Esperanto? Knowing Italian, French and German, that won't take
much time ;-)


Understood, you're totally right. I'm considering starting Icelandic again, but you positively tempted me with Esperanto! I will sign up later, after reflecting on it :)
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songlines
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 Message 19 of 136
22 January 2012 at 6:16pm | IP Logged 
Sprachprofi wrote:

Quote:
Hi :) Just one question: could we participate with a language we can speak
better than a B1 level? I chose German two times in the last challenges and definitely
I'm not a beginner any more. But I don't have time for anything else :(

You can't have German as your target language then, because target language work has to
stay comparable at some level - it's a lot harder to spend time on a beginner language
than on a language you know well, because there are so many fun language activities
that become available as you progress. As an extreme work-around, you could declare a
totally different target language that you have no intention of studying, say Nahuatl,
log zero hours for that, and log German as a non-target language (counting towards your
total, as it should). This way you won't have an unfair advantage in the leaderboard.


On that principle, I'll be signing up for Mandarin as my "official" target, but anticipate working more on my
French.

Thanks for the info., Sprachprofi.
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blackdahlia
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 Message 20 of 136
23 January 2012 at 3:49am | IP Logged 
I will be joining doing French. I am probably high beginner.
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sabotai
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 Message 21 of 136
23 January 2012 at 9:06am | IP Logged 
I'll also be tackling French for this challenge. I'm a "false" beginner having spent a few months on it a year or two ago, but it's pretty much withered away to almost nothing at this point since I've given it no time since. Looking forward to getting back into it. On the side, I'll be doing some maintenance on German and Japanese.
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Lucky Charms
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 Message 22 of 136
23 January 2012 at 9:44am | IP Logged 
I've registered with Esperanto. You can follow me at @bri_thought. I'm going to start with
lernu.net for the grammar and an iPhone app called Intense-EO (apparently created by
Sprachprofi and her boyfriend!) for vocab, and I hope to progress to wikipedia articles
and live chats toward the end of the challenge. My goal is B1 after 6 weeks.
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Sprachprofi
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 Message 23 of 136
23 January 2012 at 10:23am | IP Logged 
If there are at least 3 people who want to do it, I could prepare a roughly CEFR-based
Esperanto exam for the end of this 6 week challenge, to compare results. This would
include reading, writing, listening and speaking, same as we're having for the
Accelerated Finnish challenge.
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troglodyte
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 Message 24 of 136
26 January 2012 at 2:48am | IP Logged 
I'll be doing German. I'm a false beginner, having studied for a few months since the
end of 2010, but with two giant breaks in the middle, unfortunately I'm nowhere near
lower intermediate.

I'll be in Munchen in May, hopefully to watch the UEFA Champions League final, and I
really want to speak some German when I get there.

My methods? Assimil, Assimil, Assimil, FSI & Michael Thomas. Yes, I'll be doing three
different Assimil books at the same time: The older "German Without Toil" (English
based), the more recent "O novo alemão sem custo" (Portuguese based) and the latest
"Assimil L'Allemand" (French based).

I will do a lesson of each a day, inspired by Luca's method, listening and shadowing in
the morning, and translating from L1/2/3 -> L4 in writing in the evening. (I won't be
translating from German to L1 in writing, though).

After Assimil, I'll try to do a tape from FSI German BASIC a day, and some MT and Anki
whenever possible.

Edit: Just corrected a spelling mistake.


Edited by troglodyte on 26 January 2012 at 2:51am


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