Bjorn Diglot Senior Member Norway Joined 4870 days ago 244 posts - 286 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English Studies: German, French
| Message 41 of 129 25 July 2012 at 11:47am | IP Logged |
I'm interested to join the Assimil experiment.
If I go for the immediate level it will be Assimil Using French.
For a new language I have on my bookshelf: Bulgarien, Greek, Italien, Spanish.
Maybe I buy Assimil Russian.
Most probably I will go for Italien if I pick a new language.
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Fenn Groupie United Kingdom Joined 4893 days ago 51 posts - 119 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian
| Message 42 of 129 25 July 2012 at 12:29pm | IP Logged |
Id like to join.
Maybe get a list of names and the language they want to learn so we can cover as many of
the Assimil? (Not saying that you must pick a language that isnt already chosen, just if
you are divided over picking certain languages then knowing someone is or isnt doing
doing already the language may affect your decision.)
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psij22 Newbie United States Joined 4790 days ago 2 posts - 2 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish
| Message 43 of 129 25 July 2012 at 5:25pm | IP Logged |
I love the idea. If it's going to be used like some have suggested for the "Assimil experiment," it would
probably be a good idea to standardize how people do the lessons since people tend to use Assimil in very
different ways. It wouldn't have to be exact guidelines, but I know I have read about some people doing the
active phase right away or doing multiple lessons each day.
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kanewai Triglot Senior Member United States justpaste.it/kanewai Joined 4891 days ago 1386 posts - 3054 votes Speaks: English*, French, Marshallese Studies: Italian, Spanish
| Message 44 of 129 25 July 2012 at 8:55pm | IP Logged |
Fenn - I'll make an official roll call about a month out; right now I think people are
still exploring their options. SO far people have mentioned Dutch Catalan Hebrew
Hungarian Russian Romanian Hieroglyphs Indonesian Latin Norwegian Polish Swahili Greek
Japanese Slovak Ukrainian Turkish Tamil Finnish Swedish Italian Mandarin Bulgarian ....
I think we'll have a good variety whatever people settle on!
psij22 - I agree, we should at least follow the general Assimil guidelines (LR method,
do a passive and an active wave). I assume this is the same format for all languages.
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Flarioca Heptaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5884 days ago 635 posts - 816 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Esperanto, French, EnglishC2, Spanish, German, Italian Studies: Catalan, Mandarin
| Message 45 of 129 07 August 2012 at 1:21am | IP Logged |
I'll try "El Catalán sin Esfuerzo" in 105 days to see how far a Portuguese speaker with some Spanish and French knowlegde can go.
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linkman226 Bilingual Triglot Newbie United States Joined 5331 days ago 26 posts - 39 votes Speaks: English*, Kannada*, Spanish Studies: Mandarin, French
| Message 46 of 129 07 August 2012 at 2:29am | IP Logged |
Any chance of delaying this to the Spring?
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Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6599 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 47 of 129 07 August 2012 at 9:24am | IP Logged |
Too many people are impatient :P There's a better chance of having a second challenge in spring...
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tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4709 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish
| Message 48 of 129 07 August 2012 at 9:48am | IP Logged |
Well, I can do Breton instead of Hebrew also.
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