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| aloysius Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6241 days ago 226 posts - 291 votes  Speaks: Swedish*, English, German Studies: French, Greek, Italian, Russian | Message 1 of 21 31 December 2012 at 4:05pm | IP Logged |
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I'm Jonas, born in 1965 and living outside Stockholm in Sweden, where I work at the county archives. I'm not a
particularly talented language learner, nor have I grown up in a multi-language environment, but for some reason I'm really fascinated by foreign languages and it's one of my greatest interests. Partly it's the technical, linguistic aspect that intrigues me; how languages are constructed from a logical (or for that matter not so logical) point of view. But it's also the cultural aspect in its broadest sense (history, literature, society and so on) which makes it so exciting to study a foreign language. And all the languages on my list (Russian, Greek, German, French, Italian, English) are certainly associated with immense cultural riches. This is my TAC log for 2013, where I will make regular notes of my progress. For the first time I participate on two teams: Mir for Russian and Sparta for Greek. I'm also happy to see that there are many members on those teams who share my other languages, so I'm sure we'll have a great year together! I guess that for listening and reading I'm an A2 in Russian and in the upper bound of B1 for Italian and French. My goals for 2013 are simple enough. Working my way through Assimil for Greek, reading 5000 pages (around 2 million words) and watching/listening to films/TV/radio/podcasts/audiobooks for 75 hours in Russian, Italian and French. In other words I'm doing three Half Super Challenges. Other than that I have no set goals and plans. And apart from Assimil I have a lot of other resources, which I will refer to whenever I use them. Let's go then, shall we? //aloysius 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| renaissancemedi Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Greece Joined 4359 days ago 941 posts - 1309 votes Speaks: Greek*, Ancient Greek*, EnglishC2 Studies: French, Russian, Turkish, Modern Hebrew | Message 2 of 21 31 December 2012 at 4:16pm | IP Logged |
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Good luck, καλή τύχη!
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| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5335 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 3 of 21 31 December 2012 at 4:47pm | IP Logged |
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Let's go indeed! I am so happy to be on both teams with you, and I think this small team is ideal in that we all have several languages, most of them the same, and we are all really passionate about languages, and don't mind comparing them.
So let us plead to the Greek gods that they help us on the way, and loosen out tongues for Greek speech even without the help of any substances :-) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| LanguageSponge Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5767 days ago 1197 posts - 1487 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Welsh, Russian, Japanese, Slovenian, Greek, Italian | Message 4 of 21 01 January 2013 at 11:13am | IP Logged |
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Привет, aloysius
I wish you the best of luck with the Challenge this year and I am really looking forward to working with you on both Team MIR and Team Sparta. I am sure we'll make loads of progress together on both teams. Be sure to ask any questions you like about Russian, and if you ask them openly on your log I'll pick them up reasonably quickly. Больших успехов! Jack 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4708 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 5 of 21 01 January 2013 at 2:46pm | IP Logged |
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Gott nytt år!
Jag vet inte hur bra jag klarar med svenska idag, men jag ska försöka ändå: Lycka till med ryska! Du är en mycket erfaren människa som förmodligen inte behöver stor hjälp, men det är alltid bra att höra från andra medlemmar! Vilka resurser använder du då för ryska? I almänhet, förstås. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| M. Medialis Diglot TAC 2010 Winner Senior Member Sweden Joined 6358 days ago 397 posts - 508 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: Russian, Japanese, French | Message 6 of 21 01 January 2013 at 2:49pm | IP Logged |
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Good to start a new year with you again aloysius. :) Surfing through 2 million words sounds like a wonderful and inspiring goal! You have a nice combination of languages - and I have to confess that I'm a bit jealous of everyone who is studying Greek (I can never resist a cool-looking writing system). Skål kosmonaut!
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| riff Newbie United States Joined 5295 days ago 32 posts - 36 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Russian | Message 7 of 21 01 January 2013 at 9:42pm | IP Logged |
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Привет aloysius! Wow, 2 million words is quite the challenge. I look forward to following
your progress in Russian. Just out of curiosity, what will you be reading in Russian to reach 2 million? Are you going for the big guns (Tolstoy, etc), or something more contemporary? Good luck :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Silbermond Diglot Groupie United Kingdom xuexisprachen.wordprRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4357 days ago 64 posts - 79 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Mandarin, Italian, Spanish | Message 8 of 21 01 January 2013 at 10:25pm | IP Logged |
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Hello, aloysius! Wow, your goals are impressive - I hope you reach them all, especially
the reading 5000 pages. I'm not sure I even manage that many in my native language every year! How are you finding Assimil for Greek? I have to confess to getting bored of it after a while so one of my goals is to push through and use it anyway. But regardless, good luck in your goals for this year! I look forward to working with you as part of Team Mir :) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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