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| garyb Triglot Senior Member ScotlandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5208 days ago 1468 posts - 2413 votes  Speaks: English*, Italian, French Studies: Spanish | Message 9 of 112 10 December 2012 at 12:44pm | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks for creating the thread!
I'm Gary, a 25 year old Scottish guy. I'm a Web developer, heavy metal guitarist, and keen language learner... I'm working on French and Italian. My French is advanced but not exactly fluent - between B2 and C1 - so this year I'll be trying to improve it further, particularly active skills and pronunciation. I'm conversational in Italian but I still have a lot to learn; I think I'm quite a solid B1 at the moment and I'm aiming for B2, or in other words, trying to expand my knowledge and to speak more fluidly and correctly. I also want to start learning Spanish, but not until I reach a satisfactory level in French and Italian, which may or may not be in 2013. I think my Italian goal is realistic but I'm not sure about French - C1 in a foreign language is still uncharted territory for me and so far it's proven to be much more work than I had anticipated! This will be my third TAC. I haven't started a log yet but my TAC 2012 log is online. I like the idea of a Skype group (my username is gaz514, feel free to add me) but I have a fairly busy life so committing to a regular meeting time will be difficult. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| fireballtrouble Triglot Senior Member Turkey Joined 4525 days ago 129 posts - 203 votes Speaks: Turkish*, French, English Studies: German | Message 10 of 112 10 December 2012 at 12:55pm | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks for the thread,
My name is Utku, I'm 21, studying medicine. I'm a native speaker of Turkish, advanced in English and something around a B2 level in French. In this team, I'll be focusing on improving my French until a solid C1 (at least, I hope so :) ). Currently, I'm participating in Assimil challenge with 'German' and I'll continue. As my native language has no relations (grammar, vocab, pronunciation..) with any of the languages I learn, I think it'll be quite challenging. Good luck for all of us! skype: fireball_trouble Edited by fireballtrouble on 10 December 2012 at 1:02pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Travis.H Triglot Groupie United States Joined 4457 days ago 59 posts - 91 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese, Sign Language Studies: French | Message 11 of 112 10 December 2012 at 1:04pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hi Everyone,
My name is Travis. I'm 26 and I live in Japan, working as a graphic designer. I'm a native English speaker but speak Japanese and ASL (American Sign Language) at an advanced level. I also speak Korean at a basic conversational level and Spanish is somewhere down there too. I've never done the TAC challenge before, but I'm very excited to be participating on a team. The language I'll be focusing on this year will be French. I've only been studying for about 30 days or so and I've been working through Assimil's New French with Ease. I've also been listening to some French music and watching Sienfield in French a little. I don't have a language log yet, but I plan on starting one in the next week or so. Best of luck everyone! 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Quique Diglot Senior Member Spain cronopios.net/Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4683 days ago 183 posts - 313 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: French, German | Message 12 of 112 10 December 2012 at 4:45pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hi TAC-mates,
my name is Quique, and I'm a 40 y.o. computer guy from Spain. I speak Spanish natively, English, some French and Danish, and very basic German. I studied French at school and high school, but that was 22 years ago, so it's rather rusty. A couple of weeks ago I decided to study it again. I'd like to be back at B1 around Easter, and then keep going to reach B2 at the end of the year. This is my first TAC. Here is my language log. Skype: cronopiosnet 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| deadscreen Diglot Newbie United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4374 days ago 25 posts - 32 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French | Message 13 of 112 10 December 2012 at 6:21pm | IP Logged | ||
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Ok guys, I've added those of you who gave me your Skype names to my Skype contacts.
Also, where are all the other girls at? I did not foresee being the only girl. Maybe they will show up soon. I would like to focus on building a strong team this year, so that we can all help each other out whenever we falter in our dedication. I think using Skype as a conversation tool is a really good idea, but we don't have to make it a super regular meeting. Once a week or every other week for some, more often for others, whatever ends up working out. It looks like our team represents a wide range of time zones, so I can definitely see where a regular meeting time would be hard to figure out. Something else I might be posting here in our team log are discussions about the linguistics and history of Romance languages. I'm pretty interested in linguistics, and I will be trying to learn about the linguistic history of both French and Spanish this year aside from simply learning the languages. Contributions for other languages are welcome, so maybe we will all learn some history this year. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| liammcg Senior Member Ireland Joined 4605 days ago 269 posts - 397 votes Speaks: English* | Message 14 of 112 10 December 2012 at 10:40pm | IP Logged | ||
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Just an update, my log can be found here: http://how-to-learn-any-
language.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=34101 I'll try and find my skype address, its been AGES since I used it!
I'd love to see this as an element to the log also, I find knowing the history of a language helps motivate me to learn it. Edited by liammcg on 10 December 2012 at 10:42pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Spanky Senior Member Canada Joined 5957 days ago 1021 posts - 1714 votes Studies: French | Message 15 of 112 10 December 2012 at 11:12pm | IP Logged | ||
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I am excited to be part of this coming year’s TAC team for Romance languages.
I will be focussing only on French during this TAC period, though at some point in the future I have an interest in learning beginner’s level Italian, Spanish and Portuguese. Despite a poor history of stick-to-it-iveness on my part, I hope to be a regular contributor to the French part of this team environment. I already have an ongoing log related specifically to French language study - "18 Months of French" - which I will continue using during TAC 2013. Edited by Spanky on 11 December 2012 at 1:42am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Kerrie Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Kerrie2 Joined 5396 days ago 1232 posts - 1740 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 16 of 112 10 December 2012 at 11:13pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hi, everyone. My name is Kerrie, and I'm a thirty-something year old English teacher. I live in the Midwest, not far from Chicago. I'm studying Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Croatian, and will probably add Russian to that list next year. It's also possible I'll add Korean, Turkish and/or German at some point. I'm glad to see lots of enthusiasm. Our team didn't have a lot of interaction last year (although I enjoyed reading a number of logs). I will start a new log for TAC 2013, but here is my 2012 log. I'm excited for the new year, the new TAC, and new language goals. :) 3 persons have voted this message useful |
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