Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6594 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 673 of 902 28 December 2012 at 12:52am | IP Logged |
It's allowed to be on a few teams, but there's no team for Swahili and also almost no members learning it:/
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Vos Diglot Senior Member Australia Joined 5563 days ago 766 posts - 1020 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Dutch, Polish
| Message 674 of 902 28 December 2012 at 2:34am | IP Logged |
fabriciocarraro wrote:
I'm starting to feel that the French and Dutch teams won't take off...=/ |
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I was hoping that there would be a little more interest in Dutch and that we could get a few more people together to form a solid team this year, but it looks as though this simply isn't a good year for people learning Dutch as one of their main foreign languages. Which is why I'm thinking that perhaps going solo this year may be the better option. I suppose we can wait until mid Jan though to see if we get any more people who are interested?
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Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7153 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish
| Message 675 of 902 28 December 2012 at 3:08am | IP Logged |
JohannaNYC wrote:
[...] We're also looking for Hebrew and Persian godparents for our team. So if anyone is interested, your help will be greatly appreciated. |
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Vos wrote:
fabriciocarraro wrote:
I'm starting to feel that the French and Dutch teams won't take off...=/ |
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I was hoping that there would be a little more interest in Dutch and that we could get a few more people together to form a solid team this year, but it looks as though this simply isn't a good year for people learning Dutch as one of their main foreign languages. Which is why I'm thinking that perhaps going solo this year may be the better option. I suppose we can wait until mid Jan though to see if we get any more people who are interested? |
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If you're really hard up, but as tedious as it may be, scan the members' list and send PMs to people who may be suitable as guardian angels or team members as desired. The worst that they can do is to decline. This is how the Turkish team got started considering how few people there are these days who check in frequently but also study Turkish. To make the search more efficient, get in touch with people who are studying the target language (for team members) or have at least advanced fluency in that language (for godparents) AND whose last time logged in was no more than a month ago. Considering how forums run (huge percentage of lurkers who don't feel strongly enough to post or participate), a friendly nudge via PM from a seasoned veteran to the right people about joining a TAC team can help the latter get off the sidelines and start becoming "productive" posters :-)
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JohannaNYC Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4449 days ago 251 posts - 361 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English*, Italian Studies: Croatian, Serbian, Arabic (Egyptian)
| Message 676 of 902 28 December 2012 at 4:24am | IP Logged |
Brun, Przemek joined Team Alef with Arabic, here's the link to his blog:
http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?T ID=34740&PN=1&TPN=1
Edited by JohannaNYC on 28 December 2012 at 4:26am
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vermillon Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4675 days ago 602 posts - 1042 votes Speaks: French*, EnglishC2, Mandarin Studies: Japanese, German
| Message 677 of 902 28 December 2012 at 9:44am | IP Logged |
@Brun Ugle: can I be added to the Celtic team with Breton, and removed from the Schnitzel team? It was supposed to be a "Germanic team", but it seems it has become a "German"-only team, so I'm not interested anymore. (and if that can help the teams merge, I'd be glad to help!)
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renaissancemedi Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Greece Joined 4355 days ago 941 posts - 1309 votes Speaks: Greek*, Ancient Greek*, EnglishC2 Studies: French, Russian, Turkish, Modern Hebrew
| Message 678 of 902 28 December 2012 at 11:12am | IP Logged |
I am not sure if this is tha way, but I'll give it a try.
My native language is Greek, I am starting German from the very beginning and I want to work on my french. There may be room for my (horrid) russian as well, but I am not sure.
Is there a team I could join? I saw team sparta, but I am not exactly learning greek (although I am always working on it, and studying its older forms).
How does this work, am I even on the right place?
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primosanchez Diglot Newbie United States Joined 6303 days ago 32 posts - 32 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish
| Message 679 of 902 28 December 2012 at 12:50pm | IP Logged |
As it looks like Romance Team 3 isn't going to develop into anything, you can go ahead
and remove me.
Thanks
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Vos Diglot Senior Member Australia Joined 5563 days ago 766 posts - 1020 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Dutch, Polish
| Message 680 of 902 28 December 2012 at 4:02pm | IP Logged |
Chung wrote:
If you're really hard up, but as tedious as it may be, scan the members' list and send PMs to people who may be suitable as guardian angels or team members as desired. The worst that they can do is to decline. This is how the Turkish team got started considering how few people there are these days who check in frequently but also study Turkish. To make the search more efficient, get in touch with people who are studying the target language (for team members) or have at least advanced fluency in that language (for godparents) AND whose last time logged in was no more than a month ago. Considering how forums run (huge percentage of lurkers who don't feel strongly enough to post or participate), a friendly nudge via PM from a seasoned veteran to the right people about joining a TAC team can help the latter get off the sidelines and start becoming "productive" posters :-) |
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Thanks for the great ideas Chung!
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