BAnna Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4622 days ago 409 posts - 616 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Turkish
| Message 145 of 225 14 January 2013 at 12:50am | IP Logged |
Danke, Josquin and Sunja for the clarifications!
Songlines, looking at the German team for 2012 worried me. It looks like there aren't many who were still active at the end of the year. I hope our experience is different.
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renaissancemedi Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Greece Joined 4358 days ago 941 posts - 1309 votes Speaks: Greek*, Ancient Greek*, EnglishC2 Studies: French, Russian, Turkish, Modern Hebrew
| Message 146 of 225 14 January 2013 at 7:38am | IP Logged |
I hope so as well. I'm just picking up the pace with German!
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Sunja Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6085 days ago 2020 posts - 2295 votes 1 sounds Speaks: English*, German Studies: French, Mandarin
| Message 147 of 225 14 January 2013 at 10:01am | IP Logged |
It gets hard to post after half a year -- I should know -- I fell out during the summer of the last TAC :( But I'm sailing at a good clip right now with my languages and I hope I can keep the momentum going. To extend the metaphor, as long as I've got wind in my sails, this could be the year that I make it -- yea! (eek, it's only January..)
As it stands right now we've got two members that don't have logs. Tecktight even deleted her old log, so I can't tell if she's planning to come back or not. Ignis Fatuus has only made two posts in the entire forum. How's that possible? I'm always posting! ;) I wonder if he'll make a third post?
And I've been eagerly awaiting Nils' response to all those great comments in his log! TheGreaterFool, where are you hiding? ;)
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Luso Hexaglot Senior Member Portugal Joined 6061 days ago 819 posts - 1812 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, French, EnglishC2, GermanB1, Italian, Spanish Studies: Sanskrit, Arabic (classical)
| Message 148 of 225 14 January 2013 at 11:11pm | IP Logged |
BAnna wrote:
Danke, Josquin and Sunja for the clarifications!
Songlines, looking at the German team for 2012 worried me. It looks like there aren't many who were still active at the end of the year. I hope our experience is different. |
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renaissancemedi wrote:
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I'd like to assuage (nice word) some or your worries. I participated in last year's TAC. I don't think I was a very good member (I was not very regular at times), but I made it to the end.
Now for the useful part: I joined as the member of just one group, although I was studying three different languages. I elected the Romantics (due to Italian), although I was also focused on German and Arabic. I don't know whether there were people in more than one team, but I doubt it (maybe there were some exceptions).
My point is: in 2012, I studied German throughout the year. I was also a TAC player. But, due to having joined a different team, it did not show. I think this year will be different: players are connected to teams that represent all target languages (I joined three teams). So, everyone studying German and joining TAC is represented in this team. Which makes it (and all others) stronger.
Edited by Luso on 14 January 2013 at 11:37pm
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songlines Pro Member Canada flickr.com/photos/cp Joined 5209 days ago 729 posts - 1056 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French Personal Language Map
| Message 149 of 225 15 January 2013 at 2:33am | IP Logged |
BAnna wrote:
Songlines, looking at the German team for 2012 worried me. It looks like there aren't many who were still active
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I myself have been guilty of the "early enthusiasm followed by mid-year dropping out" phenomenon. And if
procrastination were an Olympic event, I could easily "procrastinate for Canada"...
Speaking from experience, if you do have a little (or not-so-little) lapse, just try to resume without:
- Feeling embarrassed. You won't be alone in having been temporarily derailed. The important thing is getting
back on track.
- Waiting till you can do a super-duper return-to-the-forum-post with all kinds of excellent achievements to
report. The perfect is indeed "the enemy of the good" in situations like this. (Some of you may recognize this
impulse from other spheres of your lives, e.g. putting off chores like writing long-overdue letters, because you
feel you have to do an extra-special job to compensate for your tardiness.)
I've already mentioned this thread in a number of places, but for anyone who hasn't yet read it, and is worried
about maintaining the discipline to reach your goals, I recommend this entire thread :
30 days , which EMK started.
Edited by songlines on 15 January 2013 at 7:16am
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WingSuet Triglot Senior Member Sweden Joined 5351 days ago 169 posts - 211 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, German Studies: Cantonese
| Message 150 of 225 16 January 2013 at 8:34pm | IP Logged |
Hello everyone! I know it's late, and it says in the sign-up thread that this group is
closed, but I thought I'd ask anyway if it's okay for me to register. I'm studying German
full-time at university, so I will definitely keep up with my German studies. I'll also
try my best to keep posting, last year I didn't post regularly but at least I kept going
through the whole year. The problem is that I lost motivation as I didn't hear much from
my team mates. I was hoping to find a bigger team this year to join.
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Bjorn Diglot Senior Member Norway Joined 4868 days ago 244 posts - 286 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English Studies: German, French
| Message 151 of 225 17 January 2013 at 2:11pm | IP Logged |
I'm back from fluhell :-)
Updated my log, had a Skype session in German and are picking up my books.
I wish everyone in Team Schnitzel many happy hours with the German language.
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Dagane Triglot Senior Member SpainRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4511 days ago 259 posts - 324 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishB2, Galician Studies: German Studies: Czech
| Message 152 of 225 17 January 2013 at 2:58pm | IP Logged |
I haven't got any previous TAC experience, so I can't tell if this one will be successful. However, I started to study a language by my own (English) almost 13 months ago. I've missed some days and even a few entire weeks. By the time being I continue studying English everyday and most times I don't see it as an imposed must. Because of this, I know how difficult is both beginning to study and persevering. I think songlines is right. Don't matter if we slack for some time as long as we return. I don't see the point in coming back with lots of progress, since it could discourage us after we had been goofing off for a time.
@WingSuet: as far as I know, inscriptions are allowed until January 31th, so if nobody claims...
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