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Evita Tetraglot Senior Member Latvia learnlatvian.info Joined 6550 days ago 734 posts - 1036 votes Speaks: Latvian*, English, German, Russian Studies: Korean, Finnish
| Message 81 of 387 15 December 2014 at 8:00pm | IP Logged |
I was feeling lonely in the Korean team so I moved my name to the East Asian team.
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| Josquin Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4842 days ago 2266 posts - 3992 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Latin, Italian, Russian, Swedish Studies: Japanese, Irish, Portuguese, Persian
| Message 82 of 387 15 December 2014 at 9:09pm | IP Logged |
Evita wrote:
I was feeling lonely in the Korean team so I moved my name to the East Asian team. |
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Okay, everybody is joining the East Asian Team and there are no sign-ups for the single languages any more, so I removed the options Chinese, Japanese, and Korean from the Wikia.
If the East Asian Team should get way too big, we can split it up later, but generally we're trying not to split up teams this year.
@TimmyTurner93: As you seemed to agree with it, I moved you to the East Asian Team as well.
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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 83 of 387 15 December 2014 at 9:26pm | IP Logged |
Teango wrote:
I've signed up for Hawaiian on the Rare Languages Team in the 2015 TAC.
Hauʻoli loa nō au e hui i kā ʻoukou hui ʻōlelo kakaʻikahi, e Expugnator, Luso, a me Serpent! (I'm very happy to join your rare languages team, Expungnator, Luso, and Serpent!) :) |
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Thanks! I'm going to follow your Hawaiian log with interest! One day I thought of learning Maori but I didn't find the grammar itself that much interesting, so maybe I will learn a bit more about Hawaiian and improve my opinion.
yuhakko wrote:
redflag wrote:
[...]hopefully some
other Indonesian learners come along ... |
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I'll gladly follow you and the others. I think I might even "join" later during the
year. I've already learnt a tiny tiny bit here and there this year.
I've just very happily registered in the east asian languages team (which could be
open to southeast asian as well in my opinion) |
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I honestly believe Indonesian and Japanese in the same team would be a stretch. The learning strategies and the culture for the CJK seem to have a lot in common (even the technical issues from writing the language to searching for resources), while Indonesian is a whole different game. Just my thought, I'd gladly have you as a teammate either ways, in one single team or in two of them.
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| Woodsei Bilingual Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Woodsei Joined 4795 days ago 614 posts - 782 votes Speaks: English*, Arabic (Egyptian)* Studies: Russian, Japanese, Hungarian
| Message 84 of 387 15 December 2014 at 10:48pm | IP Logged |
@Josquin and @Serpent: Thanks for fixing the alphabetical order :) Wasn't paying a lot of
attention.
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| Stelle Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Canada tobefluent.com Joined 4142 days ago 949 posts - 1686 votes Speaks: French*, English*, Spanish Studies: Tagalog
| Message 85 of 387 15 December 2014 at 11:38pm | IP Logged |
A question about team Rare...
Last year I didn't feel that I should join that team, because my language isn't at all rare. There are already
350000+* Tagalog-speakers in Canada alone, based on an old census - and that's surely too low, since Filipinos
represent one of the biggest proportions of new immigrants to Canada right now. Worldwide, Tagalog is the first
language of over 28 million* people, and there are many more Filipinos who speak it as a second language.
*all numbers are based on rigorous research on wikipedia, and may therefore be absolutely useless
I guess I thought rare meant fewer speakers.
But if rare actually means fewer people learning a language (particularly here on HTLAL), then I'd be honoured to
be invited to team Rare!
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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 86 of 387 16 December 2014 at 12:30am | IP Logged |
Stelle wrote:
*all numbers are based on rigorous research on wikipedia, and may therefore be absolutely useless |
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Ah ah ah
Stelle wrote:
But if rare actually means fewer people learning a language (particularly here on HTLAL) (...) |
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Yes, that's what it means. Some languages with lots of speakers are not popular in this forum, whereas some with few are very in demand, year after year.
Edit: Serpent, I just noticed you'll be studying Karelian. I'd love to have you in Team Rare, but wouldn't you be better off with the other Finno-Ugric languages? Unless you reeeally want to join us... ;)
Edited by Luso on 16 December 2014 at 12:54am
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| stifa Triglot Senior Member Norway lang-8.com/448715 Joined 4871 days ago 629 posts - 813 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, EnglishC2, German Studies: Japanese, Spanish
| Message 87 of 387 16 December 2014 at 1:10am | IP Logged |
Jeffers wrote:
The log isn't just for you, it is for your team-mates. I've only done
one TAC, but it seems to me the point of being part of a team is sharing what you do,
and reading other team member's blogs. If you think your own language studies are too
boring to write about, will you still be willing to read other team members' boring
blogs?
If you just want to follow a team, with occasional participation, just subscribe to
their team log. But if you want to join in a team, then you should start a blog, and
you must read the blogs of your team-mates. |
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Frankly, I've been really bad at both writing and reading logs. I've been reading team
logs on occasions where I've noticed them popping up on the recent threads page.
However, I am learning Spanish right now, and it actually does involve som real
studying, instead of just reading Kindle books, watching native Youtube videos and
going to classes... Well, I'll consider it.
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| Warp3 Senior Member United States forum_posts.asp?TID= Joined 5533 days ago 1419 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Korean, Japanese
| Message 88 of 387 16 December 2014 at 1:35am | IP Logged |
Warp3 wrote:
I actually had no intention of joining the TAC for 2015 (I seem to be
doing them every other
year so far, since I did TAC 2012 then TAC 2014), but the talk of an East Asian team has
piqued my curiosity since I'm focused on Korean and Japanese currently and this would
allow me to participate in a single TAC team.
Thus, I'm tentatively interested in the East Asian team, but won't sign myself up until I'm
more sure that I'm actually participating in TAC 2015. If I don't sign up for the TAC, then
I
may divert over to some of the shorter challenges for 2015 instead like the 6WC,
Tadoku,
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I thought about it some more and I'm in. I've signed up for the East Asian team.
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