amyhere Diglot Newbie Australia Joined 4207 days ago 10 posts - 14 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: German, Spanish, Dutch, Mandarin, Finnish
| Message 33 of 44 13 January 2014 at 7:49pm | IP Logged |
I know I'm very late compared to everyone else but this sounds like a great way to work on my "chatty"
French so as I'm doing the 6WC anyway next month, my goal is to do 20 French dialogues before the 4th of
March (that's when everyone else is finishing, right?).
Edit: Actually I'll also do 5 Finnish conversations before the 31st of January as I'll be in Finland during this
time!
Edited by amyhere on 13 January 2014 at 7:52pm
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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 34 of 44 13 January 2014 at 8:03pm | IP Logged |
Alright, amyhere! Good luck with your dialogues, I think you can do it!
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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 35 of 44 19 January 2014 at 5:17pm | IP Logged |
04 Norwegian dialogues out of 30
04 French dialogues out of 30
04 Georgian dialogues out of 30
03 Chinese dialogue out of 10
Over 10% is done. One month and a half to go. Today I did one dialogue for French, one
for Chinese and one for Georgian. I'm starting to record these dialogues, even though it
doesn't sound so natural to have the same person read both sentences. I'm getting good
feedback.
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Phoenix23 Newbie United Kingdom pilgrimwriter.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 3961 days ago 3 posts - 4 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, French
| Message 36 of 44 19 January 2014 at 8:55pm | IP Logged |
kujichagulia wrote:
* An "island" is a speech or a collection of statements a person can use when having a
conversation in a foreign language. The concept comes from Boris Shekhtman's excellent
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Thanks for the book recommendation, getting hold of it now.
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Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4906 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German
| Message 37 of 44 20 January 2014 at 1:09pm | IP Logged |
On a different website for Hindi learners, someone studying Hindi wrote her own exercises for each chapter of Teach Yourself Hindi, making an effort to use as much of the grammar and vocabulary covered so far in the textbook. She posted her exercises to the discussion forums, and a bunch of us helped her to correct them. It was a great boost to her learning, and now (about 4 years later) she is reading some pretty advanced Hindi novels. All this in the middle of nowhere in the USA, without a Hindi speaker anywhere to be found.
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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 38 of 44 27 January 2014 at 7:44pm | IP Logged |
05 Norwegian dialogues out of 30
04 French dialogues out of 30
04 Georgian dialogues out of 30
03 Chinese dialogue out of 10
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chiagnology Newbie Italy Joined 3937 days ago 11 posts - 13 votes Speaks: Italian* Studies: English, German
| Message 39 of 44 15 February 2014 at 4:02am | IP Logged |
is this challenge still ongoing?
I'd like to commit myself to writing at least one short English dialog x day and also one very short German dialog x day (a basic A1-A2 level dialogue)
so, at the end of march, I will have done about
30 English dialogues
30 (short) German dialogues (it' more accurate to say 30 4-lines dialogues)
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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 40 of 44 15 February 2014 at 11:55pm | IP Logged |
No problem, go ahead!
I'm no way near finishing my dialogue. The fact is, I didn't manage to make this dialogue
writing part of my routine. I'll have to boost up in this final month if I want to to
least accomplish the site for one of the languages.
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