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| Ari Heptaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 6583 days ago 2314 posts - 5695 votes  Speaks: Swedish*, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese Studies: Czech, Latin, German | Message 121 of 195 13 April 2007 at 1:09am | IP Logged | ||
Descent, free Chinese resources: Sinosplice, ChinesePod and Zhongwen Chinese dictionary. I haven't checked out MandarinTools yet, but it looks alright. There's also a sort-of frequency dictionary (you can choose between characters and digrams (two-character compounds)) at this place. There aren't any translations, though, but you can copy the characters into Zhongwen Development Tool, which is an excellent OpenSource flashcard program with a built-in dictionary. Good luck! EDIT: And of course, Chengo Chinese, mentioned somwhere else on this forum. I haven't checked it out, but it sounds good. Edited by Ari on 13 April 2007 at 8:28am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Marj Senior Member United States Joined 6567 days ago 257 posts - 283 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Mandarin, French | Message 122 of 195 13 April 2007 at 1:18am | IP Logged | ||
You might try http://www.melnyks.com/ I haven't used it yet, but I listened to part of the first lesson and it sounded interesting. Marj 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Yaghz Newbie United States Joined 6636 days ago 36 posts - 37 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, Japanese | Message 123 of 195 13 April 2007 at 10:48am | IP Logged | ||
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thanks, I might check these out. Not sure exactly if I wanna do the challenge yet.
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| lady_skywalker Triglot Senior Member Netherlands aspiringpolyglotblog Joined 6891 days ago 909 posts - 942 votes Speaks: Spanish, English*, Mandarin Studies: Japanese, French, Dutch, Italian | Message 124 of 195 14 April 2007 at 2:18am | IP Logged | ||
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I'm not sure I can limit myself to just 30 minutes a day. The Pimsleur lessons are almost that long and while I still want to use them in my study, I don't want my entire 6 weeks' worth to spent on listening to them. :p
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| Frisco Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 6857 days ago 380 posts - 398 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Norwegian, Italian, Turkish, Mandarin | Message 125 of 195 14 April 2007 at 2:25am | IP Logged | ||
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I don't think you have to. It was Sprachprofi's suggestion, but I don't recall it being set in stone. I'm just going to study my language for 6 weeks at my own pace and see how much progress I've made. If we need to put an asterisk on my results, so be it.
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| Rmss Triglot Senior Member Spain spanish-only.coRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6565 days ago 234 posts - 248 votes 3 sounds Speaks: Dutch*, English, Spanish Studies: Portuguese | Message 126 of 195 14 April 2007 at 5:41am | IP Logged | ||
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Man, this experiment looks really cool and fun to participate in. Can I still join? I'd love to do Esperanto as I always wanted to learn as much as I can of the language but I don't want it to slow down my other language study progress.
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| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6471 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 127 of 195 14 April 2007 at 5:55am | IP Logged | ||
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Today is the STARTING DAY!
GOOD LUCK EVERYBODY! Participants in order of sign-up: Sprachprofi: Swahili Patuco: Swahili Julie: Swedish, Portuguese, Dutch, other Frisco: Turkish Jeff_lindqvist: Esperanto Raincrowlee: Esperanto Talairan: Swahili, Portuguese leosmith: Esperanto, French, Russian Farley: Turkish lady_skywalker: Persian Journeyer? (might participate) reineke: Japanese + Spanish Malcolm? luke: German, Esperanto, French? Lastminute: Haitian Creole burntgorilla: Swedish Andy Liu: Esperanto aru-aru: Swedish, Dutch Serpent: Yiddish MeshGearFox: Welsh Asiafever: Japanese Evanstar: Latin Ari: Esperanto, Portuguese, ANYTHING Clintaroo: Korean Pintbomb: Esperanto Knarvil: Welsh sergiu: Turkish shyopstv: Swedish Declan1991: Icelandic LorenzoGuapo: Dutch Vargas: Dutch Volte: Persian dreaminjosh: Hindi MissMyChris: Danish karinatereza: Swedish Kegel: Spanish Chung: Mongolian mdhelmke: French Rmss: Esperanto Yaghz: Chinese Sorted by language: Chinese: Yaghz Danish: MissMyChris Dutch: Vargas, LorenzoGuapo Esperanto: Reincrowlee, Andy Liu, Pintbomb, Jeff_lindqvist, Ari, Rmss French: mdhelmke Haitian Creole: Lastminute Hindi: dreaminjosh Icelandic: Declan1991 Japanese: Asiafever, reineke Korean: Clintaroo Latin: Evanstar Mongolian: Chung Persian: lady_skywalker, Volte Spanish: reineke (not documenting), Kegel Swahili: Sprachprofi, patuco Swedish: Burntgorilla, shyopstv, karinatereza Turkish: Farley, sergiu, Frisco Welsh: Knarvil, MeshGearFox Yiddish: Serpent Undecided as to the language: Julie: Swedish, Portuguese, Dutch, other Talairan: Swahili, Portuguese leosmith: Esperanto, French, Russian luke: German, Esperanto, French? aru-aru: Swedish, Dutch Haven't confirmed they are in or with what language: Journeyer Malcolm Of course you don't have to adhere to the rules I set down (starting today, 6 weeks, 30 minutes per day or the equivalent). These are just geared towards making the results comparable, for those who'd like to see how well they do compared to others or how well certain methods work out. I believe that a lot of people are tempted to do more than 30 minutes per day, but I didn't want to set the standard any higher because people with a full-time job (or with other languages to study too) may not have the time to participate then. Some people may also not be able to study every day, but even these can participate because they could be doing 3 1/2 hours (one week's worth) over the weekend or so. I am myself planning to adhere to the 30 minutes per day even when I have the time and motivation to do more, because I have so far been studying very irregularly (a whole day some time and then 2 weeks of nothing, etc.) and I want to prove to myself that I have the discipline to seriously and regularly study a language on my own over a few weeks. I am also planning to have another 6 Week Challenge for myself later, during which I will try to learn as much as humanly possible, without a time limit. Rmss, of course you're welcome to join. You are not late yet, today is the first day of studying for those following the schedule. Of course people can also join in later, and some have started early. Edited by Sprachprofi on 14 April 2007 at 11:00am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Rmss Triglot Senior Member Spain spanish-only.coRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6565 days ago 234 posts - 248 votes 3 sounds Speaks: Dutch*, English, Spanish Studies: Portuguese | Message 128 of 195 14 April 2007 at 6:34am | IP Logged | ||
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Okay, cool. :-). Just did my first half hour of Esperanto with lernu.net.
Mi estas Rmss, kiu vi estas? ;-). Kiel vi fartas? 1 person has voted this message useful |
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