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| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4705 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 9 of 34 15 October 2013 at 11:50am | IP Logged | ||
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I'll drink a cuppa with anyone here who's a cool frood and doesn't take himself overly
seriously. But if I have to Name Names, then it's going to be the lads and lasses that have been on team MIR or Lugus with me - Cristina, Teango, Tecktight (where the hell did you go, love?), fabriciocarraro, and so on. I would also include the people here who study Dutch such as Hekje or Vos because let's face it they are awesome. And then there generally interesting people around here such as Iversen, jeff_lindqvist, Chung, Serpent etc. who'd be cool to hang out with. Oh and Sprachprofi and Arekkusu. 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| irishpolyglot Nonaglot Senior Member Ireland fluentin3months Joined 5631 days ago 285 posts - 892 votes Speaks: Irish, English*, French, Esperanto, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Sign Language Studies: Mandarin | Message 10 of 34 15 October 2013 at 3:46pm | IP Logged | ||
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@montmorency
Thanks for including me :) I'm in Valencia until Christmas, Japan for January/February, and then in the states a little and then back in Europe and most definitely going to the polyglot conference in Berlin in June. So hopefully I'll run into you there! I'm going to try to finally meet Khatzumoto next year. Any questions you'd like me to ask him? :D 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| daristani Senior Member United States Joined 7142 days ago 752 posts - 1661 votes Studies: Uzbek | Message 11 of 34 15 October 2013 at 5:34pm | IP Logged | ||
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Chung, I've sent you a PM, but your inbox is evidently full. If you can delete some of the excess mail, I'll resend it.
Best, daristani 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6907 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 12 of 34 15 October 2013 at 6:03pm | IP Logged | ||
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In case the rumours are true regarding a polyglot conference in Berlin next year, I'd do my best to go there and "level up" most of my languages (including a few flirts...). Hopefully I'll see some of you there. :)
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| Henkkles Triglot Senior Member Finland Joined 4251 days ago 544 posts - 1141 votes Speaks: Finnish*, English, Swedish Studies: Russian | Message 13 of 34 15 October 2013 at 6:54pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'll try to make the conference happen next year too.
Although I hope that my only redeeming quality is not the fact that I study a particular language, Chung; juos don finat Helssegis, mun hálidašin vuolat duinna juhkat. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4826 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh | Message 14 of 34 15 October 2013 at 11:04pm | IP Logged | ||
Hi Benny! :-) I'm not sure I could think of a sensible question to ask him. It was more a question of gazing on in wonderment. :-) My perception of him is of an obsessive, but in a good way. :-) Enjoy your travels! :-) 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5332 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 15 of 34 15 October 2013 at 11:28pm | IP Logged | ||
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I have waited a while to post in this thread, because I knew doing so would take me for ever. There are so
many people whom I would like to meet that it would probably be a lot quicker to say who I am not interested in meeting. :-) I cannot mention every single soul, but I'll mention a few of the people who are at the top of my list. The people in my present and previous TAC teams, in particular: Kerrie - who is an inspiration with all her languages, and who has basically helped me keep my sanity over the last few months by answering my messages at all impossible hours, and who I indeed hope to see next year in Oslo Teango -whose sense of humour, unfailing support through thick and thin and good Russian advice always brightens up my day, and who I consider family. Tarvos - my second in command, whose enormous amounts of study is a constant inspiration and who cracks me up with his dry humour - and who I also hope to see in Oslo soon LanguageSponge - who is a wonderful person who I have exchanged countless PMs with on every possible topic of linguistic and human nature ( miss you Jack - hope to see you active again soon and in person!) Fabriciocarraro - my teammate of two teams who is a noble soul with an even temper and a voracious lust for languages Mrwarper - who has interesting posts and a wonderful sense of humour (oh wait, I have already met you - never mind, I'd love to meet you again :-) Ogrim - who is basically a gentler, more polite, male version of me (we are both Norwegian and share most of the same languages) - next Christmas in Oslo? Emme - for whom I have been a really inefficient mentor, but who still stays with me and helps everyone with their Italian Ellasevia - who I was supposed to have met in Croatia this spring, and who is one of the most awesome kids I know, both linguistically and spiritually (missing you teammate - team Ohana will live forever!!) ReneeMona - also from team Ohana, who I actually have met, but also miss here and would like to see again Josquin and Expugnator who are both really great at keeping up their studies of both Russian and other interesting languages, and who help me stay on the road to mastering Russian Embici, stelingo and Renaisancemedi from team Sparta who are very supportive and inspire me to hang on to my dream of one day speaking Greek Kujichagulia and Woodsei from team MIR, who are great support and inspirations in my Russian studies Tecktight from team Sputnik who I was supposed to have met in St. Petersburg last year, but who in the end could not make it - and all the rest of my teammates of course :-) And outside of my team there are - this time in alphabetical order: Arekkusu - with some of the most interesting posts on the forum Benny - whose language philosophy is very close to mine, and who must be one of the most inspiring people within the language community - I went out and bought three language courses in Mandarin because of him. All I have to do now is to open them :-) Brun Ugle - who organised the TAC, and became a friend in the process (miss you too, girl - get back in the saddle!) Cavesa - who always has an interesting new angle on every topic and a kind word Chung- who manages to stir my interest for languages way out of the beaten track, and who has contributed so much to this community Daristani - who in a matter of hours came up with study material for one of the more obscure languages here Datsunking - who has an unparalleled enthusiasm for languages that could make the statues of Notre Dame want to learn German Emk - who always make me think "Damn, why could I not have phrased this half so well" and who must be one of the kindest people I know - thank you for encouragement when I most needed it :-) Espejismo - who always has a good advice on Russian usage Fasulye - who is an inspiration and an ever supportive soul G-bod - who sent me a nice message when I was feeling down Iguanamon - who has an insight, an intellectual force, and an empathy like few people I know, and always a kind word for others Iversen - who is my hero and role model (done blushing now :-) Jinx - who always makes me laugh, and think, and reflect, Julie - who is the proud captain of team Viking and who is very supportive Kanewaii - who made me finally finish reading Mme. Bovary after 30 years of trying, and whose resumés of French film are simply awesome Languagenerd09 - who has an open and inquisitive mind :-) Leosmith- who I sincerely miss fighting with, and who makes me mad, and makes me laugh and who turned out to be a surprisingly nice person when I talked to you - would love to actually meet you :-) Liddytime - (I envy all those languages of yours - but call me for some Norwegian Skyping when you are ready) Mark- who I adore because he is Mark, and because he is Russian, and because he has infinite patience in helping us out with our Russian mistakes, Meramarina - who I miss seeing - and who has the loveliest of tones in her posts MultiMae - who I have Skyped with, and who is a delightful person and a really impressive polyglot Prz - who is supportive and has very interesting posts Serpent - who might possibly be the one person on the planet who might make me watch a football match, who is a force of nature and incredibly impressive with all her languages - she has the energy of an entire football team!!! Songlines - who has sent me interesting material and words of comfort when I was low Sprachprofi - who has done wonders for this community with her 6wc and who has a really impressive language background S allard - who is one of the most impressive posters, that I noticed on my very first day here, and whose points of view I always listen to, whether I agree or not. TanyaB - I would love to pick your brain or tips on how to activate my Russian! TixiiDon - whose soul is as beautiful as the Georgian alphabet he easily could inspire us to learn Volte - whose posts I love, because I always learn a lot from them And last but not least VonPeterhof - who has very interesting, intelligent posts, and who I would love to do a language exchange with :-) And then there are the ones that fill me with awe, and who are of infinite inspiration who I have already met, but would like to meet again - Richard Simcott and Luca Lampariello. Cannot meet them often enough. Plus, obviously, anyone else who would like to meet me :-) Edited by Solfrid Cristin on 15 October 2013 at 11:38pm 11 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| oziohume Bilingual Hexaglot Newbie Belgium Joined 4736 days ago 30 posts - 43 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish*, Catalan, Italian, French, German Studies: Dutch | Message 16 of 34 15 October 2013 at 11:45pm | IP Logged | ||
I would most definitely want to meet you, Solfrid Cristin. You are one of the kindest and most insightful people in this forum. I hope I do meet you and others here, and because of that I would definitely attend the PolyglotFest in Berlin. LMR 1 person has voted this message useful |
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