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hrhenry
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United States
languagehopper.blogs
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Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, ItalianC2, Norwegian, Catalan, Galician, Turkish, Portuguese
Studies: Polish, Indonesian, Ojibwe

 
 Message 9 of 32
27 April 2012 at 7:52pm | IP Logged 
A couple years ago, there was a blog from someone that decided to try to study a different language every week. It's located here. He had planned out a minimal lesson plan and minimal grammar and vocabulary sets to learn, but I don't think he actually followed them for every language - I mean, how could you? Especially with some of the languages on his list.

Anyway, he lasted for 43 languages before either giving up or losing interest.

I thought the idea was an interesting one, but I would have preferred to read a bit more about what and how exactly he had learned, but the blog itself was interesting enough.

R.
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maydayayday
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Speaks: English*, German, Italian, SpanishB2, FrenchB2
Studies: Arabic (Egyptian), Russian, Swedish, Turkish, Polish, Persian, Vietnamese
Studies: Urdu

 
 Message 10 of 32
27 April 2012 at 7:52pm | IP Logged 
geoffw wrote:
Too late. I already used mine back in December to relearn some basic Russian.


It's a new gift. Fill your boots my friend!
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Solfrid Cristin
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Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian
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 Message 11 of 32
27 April 2012 at 7:55pm | IP Logged 
Update; So far today:

- Chinese Pimsleur Lesson 1 - 3 times - can still not say anything else but "ni hao" which I knew already (1. 5 hours). I cannot see how I am ever going to be able to speak any Mandarin at all.
- Univerb: Read the grammar (which is of all of 8 pages and so bad it is not even funny) (25 min)
- "The first 100 Chinese characters": Tuttle: Repeated the first four characters from which is so easy it actually is fun - and this time I read the different meanings as well. I really like that the words for months consist of the characters for moon and the number of the month (4 + moon= April - 5 + moon = May) and the days consists of two signs which mean day plus the corresponding number. Cool! (20 minutes)

- Lee Cooper: Chinese language for beginners - the first 10 pages. Not as much as it sounds, as there are big drawings and just a few characters, but it made learning them fun. Does anyone know if there are more books like that? (30 minutes).
- 30 minutes Mandarin Talkmore

So a fairly active day - hope I can match it the next couple of days!

Edited by Solfrid Cristin on 27 April 2012 at 11:31pm

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jdmoncada
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 Message 12 of 32
27 April 2012 at 9:34pm | IP Logged 
I may try the 3.5 day abridged version before I start my Russian 6WC on May 1st. I just have to find resources!
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Moniker
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Studies: Esperanto, FrenchB1

 
 Message 13 of 32
27 April 2012 at 9:54pm | IP Logged 
I'd cash mine in for Catalan. I probably won't get to use it for months yet, though. Not until I'm comfortable
enough in French to take a break from full-time study.

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mick33
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Studies: Thai, Polish, Afrikaans, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Swedish

 
 Message 14 of 32
28 April 2012 at 8:37am | IP Logged 
Great idea! I've already been dabbling with Hindi for a few days so I'll just continue with that until 1 May. Maybe I can learn to write using the Devanagari script by then.
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Michael K.
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 Message 15 of 32
28 April 2012 at 4:47pm | IP Logged 
I'll do it the week of May 13th.

I think I'll try Swedish, because I haven't tried studying it much yet, I have a TYS, and I know some free resources for Swedish.
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Spanky
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 Message 16 of 32
28 April 2012 at 6:39pm | IP Logged 
My Wanderlust Voucher arrived in the mail today!   I am planning on cashing it in May
1st through 7th inclusive.   

Language: Toki Pona, a conlang involving only 14 phonemes and 123 words (and as
the creator is a Canadian, I expect half of those words may relate to hockey).


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