hrhenry Octoglot Senior Member United States languagehopper.blogs Joined 5128 days ago 1871 posts - 3642 votes 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.
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maydayayday Pentaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5217 days ago 564 posts - 839 votes 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. |
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It's a new gift. Fill your boots my friend!
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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 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 Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5032 days ago 470 posts - 741 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Finnish Studies: Russian, Japanese
| 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 Newbie Australia Joined 4600 days ago 14 posts - 15 votes Speaks: English* 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 Senior Member United States Joined 5922 days ago 1335 posts - 1632 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Finnish 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. Senior Member United States Joined 5727 days ago 568 posts - 886 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Esperanto
| 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 Senior Member Canada Joined 5954 days ago 1021 posts - 1714 votes Studies: French
| 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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