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| hribecek Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5349 days ago 1243 posts - 1458 votes  Speaks: English*, Czech, Spanish Studies: Italian, Polish, Slovak, Hungarian, Toki Pona, Russian | Message 129 of 902 06 December 2012 at 12:16pm | IP Logged | ||
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Languages - Hungarian, Czech
Team or Individual - Team I'd like to stay in Chung's team for Hungarian, hopefully with a smaller range of languages than 2012. I don't want to be in a general Slavic team, but if there is a Czech team then I'd be up for that too, even as 'godfather' if no native Czechs come forward. I don't expect there to be a Czech team though. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Brun Ugle Diglot Senior Member Norway brunugle.wordpress.c Joined 6620 days ago 1292 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English*, NorwegianC1 Studies: Japanese, Esperanto, Spanish, Finnish | Message 130 of 902 06 December 2012 at 1:59pm | IP Logged | ||
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Jaseur:
ようこそ。 I've added you to the Japanese team. druckfehler: I've given your Persian a question mark. Emme: I've added you to the Russian team. hribeck: You are on Chung's team, whatever that is. I have it down as Uralic-Altaic, but is it perhaps supposed to be Uralic-Altaic/Slavic? Also, there is no Czech team, but there is a Slavic/Romance team.... Let me know what you want to do. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5334 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 131 of 902 06 December 2012 at 2:03pm | IP Logged | ||
Most welcome - also as our Italian Godmother :-) Several of us are also studying that. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Brun Ugle Diglot Senior Member Norway brunugle.wordpress.c Joined 6620 days ago 1292 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English*, NorwegianC1 Studies: Japanese, Esperanto, Spanish, Finnish | Message 132 of 902 06 December 2012 at 2:19pm | IP Logged | ||
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RUSSIAN TEAM:
I have a question for you. You are currently up to 13 members and it is only day 2 of sign-ups. I'm trying to decide when to stop adding members to your team. I think last year your team started the year with 20 members. I was thinking this year of starting a new Russian team when your team hits 15 members. That way if no more than 5 new people show up, I can move them over to the original team and you will still not have more than 20 members. If more than 5 people show up for the new team, I will leave them all on the new team and both teams should then be of reasonable size. Of course, after a month or two when most of the members have disappeared, you might want to combine the two teams. I hope that made sense, but I kind of doubt it. ROMANCE TEAM: You might soon have a similar problem. You currently have between 12 and 14 members depending on whether a couple of tentative members decide to stay. I've thought about dividing the team into two if it gets too big, but so many of you are studying more than one Romance language and not everyone has the same combination. So it's a little hard to decide where to divide. It's not necessary to make a decision yet. I will wait until the team reaches 20 members before I try chopping it in half. There is also the option of going over to the Romance/Slavic team if any of you are studying Slavic languages in addition. That team is still quite small. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| garyb Triglot Senior Member ScotlandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5207 days ago 1468 posts - 2413 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, French Studies: Spanish | Message 133 of 902 06 December 2012 at 2:32pm | IP Logged | ||
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Personally I don't see any point in splitting teams. If this year is anything to go by, enough people will drop out or disappear quickly enough and things will even out, and with the exception of the Russian team, being part of a team didn't really constitute anything more than having the team name in log titles. So I don't see any particular reason why a team needs to be kept small or why we should divide people into one of two teams with the same purpose. Edited by garyb on 06 December 2012 at 2:33pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5334 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 134 of 902 06 December 2012 at 2:35pm | IP Logged | ||
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@ Brun Ugle: I do not know about the other members of the Russian team, but it made perfect sense to me.
Last year we started making stopping noises around 13-14 members, but they kept coming just one more, and one more until finally we said absolutely stop at 20. Any other members of the Russian team have any views on this? This means that we have only two places left on the first Russian team, so if anyone is considering to join us, you may want to say so quickly :-) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| druckfehler Triglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4868 days ago 1181 posts - 1912 votes Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Korean Studies: Persian | Message 135 of 902 06 December 2012 at 2:43pm | IP Logged | ||
I totally disagree. This year I do not want to be part of a team that more or less exists in name only and therefore to me it makes sense for the teams to decide who and how many people they want on their team. For example, if someone vaguely says they'll be part of TAC but have no interest in reading and commenting on their teammates' logs or updating their own logs regularly, they simply shouldn't join a team (well, I don't care if they do, as long as it's not a team that I'm part of). Dropouts (or rather people who just vanish without so much as a word) are always discouraging, at least when there is no solid core in the team. And in my opinion a lax team culture might even make people drop out who would have stayed on if only the team had been more active. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| mrwarper Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Spain forum_posts.asp?TID=Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5226 days ago 1493 posts - 2500 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishC2 Studies: German, Russian, Japanese | Message 136 of 902 06 December 2012 at 2:50pm | IP Logged | ||
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It makes sense to me. Split at 20, then let people fall out and merge teams if they want to. It's still almost a month to start!
Edit: I've never been much of a 'team' guy, but I must admit (and thus confirm) that it *can* make a difference. I've been in all the team types that have been mentioned (good, ones that didn't matter much, even bad ones) but I always was the same person. Sorry, but there's no magic trick: a team works, goes so-so or doesn't because of *all of the people* who are in and how they interact. You simply can't predict that beyond the fairly obvious, like getting in dragging your feet. Edited by mrwarper on 06 December 2012 at 3:03pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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