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| hanadi Newbie United Kingdom Joined 4046 days ago 2 posts - 2 votes Studies: French | Message 17 of 44 06 November 2013 at 12:04pm | IP Logged |
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Absolutely,making lively dialogues in terms of learning them by heart and practising them orally is successful.This is how we used to memorize new foreign vocabularies in early years at schools.
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| Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5163 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes  Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian | Message 18 of 44 11 November 2013 at 3:15pm | IP Logged |
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Let the challenge begin!
So far we have three subscribers and their assignments: Expugnator Write a total of 100 dialogues/short stories distributed through the following languages: 30 Georgian dialogues 30 Norwegian dialogues 30 French dialogues 10 Chinese dialogues kujichagulia Write a total of 30 Japanese dialogs/short stories/islands* by March 4th, 2014 Write a total of 15 Portuguese dialogs/short stories/islands* by March 4th, 2014 BarronBill * 50 dialogues/monologues/islands in Spanish by 2/1/2013 * 50 dialogues/monologues/islands in German by 2/1/2013 Completion date is March 4th, but anyone is free to finish off earlier and even propose a remaining challenge. New challengers are welcome anytime, as long as they believe the remaining time will be enough for accomplishing their tasks. It would be nice to have feedback from people who try this challenge. For example, if you are posting at correction sites, how useful ar the corrections being? Are native speakers aware of the register you mean to use, of your attempt to sound natural? 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| kujichagulia Senior Member Japan Joined 4844 days ago 1031 posts - 1571 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Portuguese | Message 19 of 44 19 November 2013 at 3:49am | IP Logged |
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I'm not exactly sure how to post updates here, but here goes. Since the challenge began last week, I have written three Japanese dialogues (27 to go) and 1 Portuguese dialog (14 to go). I posted all of them at Lang-8.
With my Japanese writings, corrections at Lang-8 come pretty quickly. I usually have two or three corrections within 12 hours of posting something. If I wait a little longer, I can get four or five. It is pretty easy to establish if a dialogue in Japanese is casual or formal, so the correctors are able to help me sound more natural depending on the situation. I've made some friends, and over time they understand the type of mistakes I commonly make, so they can easily understand what I try to say. With my Portuguese writing, corrections do not come as fast, but I did get a few corrections on my one writing. However... my writing must have been fabulous, because very little was corrected. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| BaronBill Triglot Senior Member United States HowToLanguages.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4686 days ago 335 posts - 594 votes Speaks: English*, French, German Studies: Spanish, Mandarin, Persian | Message 20 of 44 19 November 2013 at 5:18pm | IP Logged |
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Update:
Completed 8 monologues in German. Had them checked by a native speaker friend and only one needed revision to sound more natural. Completed 3 Islands in Spanish. Had them checked by a native Spanish speaking friend. All 3 needed revisions of verying degrees. Still plugging away, but may be running low on ideas... maybe a thread to discuss could be in order. Edited by BaronBill on 19 November 2013 at 5:19pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5163 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian | Message 21 of 44 20 November 2013 at 8:45pm | IP Logged |
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Well-done guys! That's the spirit! It is ok to report here once in a while. I'm rather
busy at work and didn't have time for output, only input. Today I wrote my first dialogue, it was in French. Still waiting for corrections. I try to write about anything at all that happens to me or that I intend to do. That is, I try not to dumb down my thoughts in order to make up for my shortage of vocabulary in the target language. I try to think in a complex way just like in my native language, even if that means that this time I'd be rather translating thoughts. That would still be an input exercise, anyway. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Fuenf_Katzen Diglot Senior Member United States notjustajd.wordpress Joined 4366 days ago 337 posts - 476 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Polish, Ukrainian, Afrikaans | Message 22 of 44 21 November 2013 at 5:24am | IP Logged |
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This is a great idea, especially as I'm trying to look for ways to be more active with my language.
My goal is for 50 monologues and islands in German by March 4, 2014. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5163 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian | Message 23 of 44 21 November 2013 at 3:35pm | IP Logged |
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Good then, Fünf Katzen! Good luck with your challenge!
(I have yet to read that book in order to understand the concept of 'islands'. The thing is that reading in English is absolutely low priority for me). So, updating the subscriptions: Expugnator Write a total of 100 dialogues/short stories distributed through the following languages: 30 Georgian dialogues 30 Norwegian dialogues 30 French dialogues 10 Chinese dialogues kujichagulia Write a total of 30 Japanese dialogs/short stories/islands* by March 4th, 2014 Write a total of 15 Portuguese dialogs/short stories/islands* by March 4th, 2014 BarronBill * 50 dialogues/monologues/islands in Spanish by 2/1/2013 * 50 dialogues/monologues/islands in German by 2/1/2013 Fuenf_Katzen * 50 monologues and islands in German by March 4, 2014 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5163 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian | Message 24 of 44 03 December 2013 at 5:06pm | IP Logged |
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I'm a bit falling behind at this challenge. If I keep at this rythm, I won't be able to
reach my goal before March. I usually go writing when I'm done with all the input tasks, so by this time I'm usually tired. So far, I'm managed to write 2 dialogues in Norwegian, 1 in French, 1 in Georgian and none in Mandarim. I believe Mandarin might be easier than I expect, because most textbooks are about dialogues all the time, so it's just a matter of trying. There's always the risk of writing something unintelligible a native won't even be able to correct, but I have to overcome this fear now. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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