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TAC 2014 - Rare Languages Team Thread | ||
Tags: Nahuatl | Armenian | Team Thread | Sanskrit | Georgian | Indonesian | Rare Languages | Hebrew | Arabic | Total Annihilation Challenge (TAC) | ||
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| Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5164 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes  Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian | Message 177 of 223 01 July 2014 at 9:06pm | IP Logged | ||
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You're right about my part of Brazil. It's been several years since we had an actual winter here.
I'd like to thank you for this post and for the good leadership, Luso. I'm glad we manage to keep a team of people interested in so diverse languages one from another. My suggestion for a challenge is about the news. I thought about each of us reading a news item - it can be a short, factual article - on their target language and write a summary of it in a couple of sentences. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Luso Hexaglot Senior Member Portugal Joined 6059 days ago 819 posts - 1812 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, French, EnglishC2, GermanB1, Italian, Spanish Studies: Sanskrit, Arabic (classical) | Message 178 of 223 02 July 2014 at 2:53am | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks for the comment about my leadership. I've had these ideas about steering a TAC team for a couple of years. Team Rare is my live experiment, so to speak. It really is nothing much, if you have some management background. And I'm having fun doing it.
As far as the challenge is concerned, I think it can open new horizons, and is therefore a good idea. Learning news terminology is a good way of getting able to visit sites in your target language. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Zireael Triglot Senior Member Poland Joined 4649 days ago 518 posts - 636 votes Speaks: Polish*, EnglishB2, Spanish Studies: German, Sign Language, Tok Pisin, Arabic (Yemeni), Old English | Message 179 of 223 15 July 2014 at 5:56pm | IP Logged | ||
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Comparing the second quarter report to the first quarter report, I see only 3 people have dropped out. That's great!
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| Luso Hexaglot Senior Member Portugal Joined 6059 days ago 819 posts - 1812 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, French, EnglishC2, GermanB1, Italian, Spanish Studies: Sanskrit, Arabic (classical) | Message 180 of 223 16 July 2014 at 12:55pm | IP Logged | ||
I have some good news and some bad news. The bad news first: 3 persons represent 30% (out of 10); at that rate, there would be no one by the end of the year. The good news is that those 3 persons dropped out during the first quarter (I only took them out of the list after 4 months, which means they had already left before), and no one seems to be gone (really gone) since. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Lakeseayesno Tetraglot Senior Member Mexico thepolyglotist.com Joined 4332 days ago 280 posts - 488 votes Speaks: English, Spanish*, Japanese, Italian Studies: Esperanto, French | Message 181 of 223 17 July 2014 at 8:23am | IP Logged | ||
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Not completely sure if I'm being considered amongst the drop-outs, but as I promised, here I am, checking back in for duty. The move to another country didn't pan out, which means I'm back to the schedule I had pre-crazy moving preparations and whatnot, which in turn means I can go back to the study schedules I had before taking leave from the team (yay!).
Looking forward to this month's challenge. However, I need to do a small modification. There are no news outlets in Nahuatl (that I know of at this point, anyway), but there is a Wikipedia. May I do the challenge with an article from it instead? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Luso Hexaglot Senior Member Portugal Joined 6059 days ago 819 posts - 1812 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, French, EnglishC2, GermanB1, Italian, Spanish Studies: Sanskrit, Arabic (classical) | Message 182 of 223 17 July 2014 at 4:45pm | IP Logged | ||
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Lakeseayesno, no one "drops out" by being absent for a couple of weeks (especially after announcing it). It only shows you didn't read the posts. Since they are a bit boring (and not strictly language-related), I'd say: good for you.
Regarding your question, the answer is obviously yes. I still considered a tongue-in-cheek answer that would have you searching for original Aztec news articles, but sometimes that does not go very well in this forum, and I don't want to spend the next few pages trying to clarify things. I'm not going to do anything this month with Sanskrit but, if I were, I'd also be doing a modified version of the challenge, although every classical language must be a treasure trove of news' reporting. Having written that, I'm doing the Super Challenge, and there seems to be people attempting "impossible" languages (in broad terms, the SC consists of seeing 100 movies and reading 100 books in 20 months). You could ask them how they do it. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Lakeseayesno Tetraglot Senior Member Mexico thepolyglotist.com Joined 4332 days ago 280 posts - 488 votes Speaks: English, Spanish*, Japanese, Italian Studies: Esperanto, French | Message 183 of 223 17 July 2014 at 10:40pm | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks, Luso!
I hold back from joking in here sometimes too--guess humor is not as universal as one would think, so it's better to keep it safe and keep HTLAL going in peace, huh? I think maintaining a Nahuatl online news site would be the cat's whiskers, though. It would both really validate the language as a viable modern communication channel, and it would help keep the native community informed. Guess that's something I can put on my bucket list! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5164 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian | Message 184 of 223 19 July 2014 at 1:21am | IP Logged | ||
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So, here's the article I read:
BRICS I will refrain from writing a summary in Georgian because that would mean writing almost the same words. It is about the new bank of the BRICS, why is was created, how each country participates in it and which countries may join it in the future. Enough with this as politics is not allowed ;) As for the effect in my language learning, I'm glad it seemed much easier now than the first and the second times I tried reading some news at this site. Now I can more or less make syntactical sense of the Georgian period, something that is often underrated by people avid by doing SRS (not my case, fortunately). As if it weren't enough, Google Translate is coming with a near perfect translation, which means it also improved enormously both Georgian-English and English-Portuguese (yeah I know English is still the connecting language). I like the challenge and I think it was quite motivating to come back and see some improvement. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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