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| Sierra Diglot Senior Member Turkey livinginlights.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 7126 days ago 296 posts - 411 votes  Speaks: English*, SwedishB1 Studies: Turkish | Message 1 of 30 22 July 2011 at 12:47pm | IP Logged | ||
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I wasn't entirely sure what forum this belongs in- mods, feel free to move it if my
placement's not appropriate! Anyway, do any of you keep a blog that's at least tangentially language-related? I'm always on the lookout for these. "But Sierra!" you might say... "Right at this very moment you're on a forum full of countless language logs!" Well... yeah, and I love reading these, but language blogs have a slightly different appeal to me. They're usually written for a broader audience and include more posts about things which are only sort-of-language-related, which makes for nice reading. Also, to be honest, I'm a bit curious about how my fellow language nerds spend their days. Anyone? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5849 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map | Message 2 of 30 22 July 2011 at 12:54pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hi Sierra,
Here's my blog with my target languages Danish and Turkish: My Blog Kind regards, Fasulye 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| slucido Bilingual Diglot Senior Member Spain https://goo.gl/126Yv Joined 6677 days ago 1296 posts - 1781 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Spanish*, Catalan* Studies: English | Message 3 of 30 22 July 2011 at 5:20pm | IP Logged | ||
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There are a lot of language related blogs.
I am planning to create a Videoblog, but I am too lazy and I am only working in my surrealistic youtube channel. Using blogs to write in your target language(s) is a method some people use. I think the irish polyglot recommends it. It is really a good idea even if you do not have readers. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| B-Tina Tetraglot Senior Member Germany dragonsallaroun Joined 5529 days ago 123 posts - 218 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Polish | Message 4 of 30 22 July 2011 at 8:15pm | IP Logged | ||
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Sierra: your profile links to "http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/forum/sierralights.blo gspot.com", which is why it can't work :) (remove everything before sierralights)
I have a small blog on my endeavours of learning the Polish language, which can be found here. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6705 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 5 of 30 27 July 2011 at 4:08pm | IP Logged | ||
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I don't need a blog as long I have got my multiconfused log thread here at HTLAL. And I probably have more readers here than I would have if I had left it bumpling aimlessly around out in the big dark internet universe.
About the misdirected link: write http://sierralights.blogspot.com/ in your profile. The reference to the site you currently are at (fx HTLAL) creeps in when you leave out http:// Edited by Iversen on 27 July 2011 at 5:17pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| slucido Bilingual Diglot Senior Member Spain https://goo.gl/126Yv Joined 6677 days ago 1296 posts - 1781 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Spanish*, Catalan* Studies: English | Message 6 of 30 27 July 2011 at 5:14pm | IP Logged | ||
As long as it is useful to practice your target languages, I think the number of readers is less important, but it might be a motivation. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6705 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 7 of 30 13 August 2011 at 3:57pm | IP Logged | ||
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to Slucido: in principle and from an ideal viewpoint I agree with you - the number of readers shouldn't a goal in itself. In practice I can't avoid being slightly proud of having a log that is 2 or 3 days from reaching one million hits after less than 3 years - call it vanity if you want, but if you publish something it is nice to know that somebody is going to read it. As an illustration I'm also webmaster for a homepage in Danish which in average has around 70 visitors for the whole site. It may be politically incorrect to focus on visitor numbers, but there must be a limit to political correctness somewhere.
But numbers aren't everything, and I have also made Youtube videos which haven't had millions of views yet. And that's probably a good thing because too high visitor numbers would also attract the kind of badtempered mudslinging gripe heads who lurk everywhere on Youtube. In spite of the difference in visitor numbers both my log messages and my videos have one main function, namely to force me to think about language as a mean of communication and not only a study object. Without those channels I could just as well be sitting on Pluto with a broken antenna on my sender. OK, so why don't I have a blog? If HTLAL suddenly disappeared I would probably get one, and its first entry would be my guide to learning languages plus a few of my other contributions to HTLAL. But I would still prefer the rather unstructured format of my multiconfused log. Besides I wouldn't find it very inspiring to have a blog entirely in English - the world is already full of those - so I would still be skipping around between languages even if I had a blog. In short, if I had a blog I would just be writing the same things as I do now (and as I write them now). So why change anything? Edited by Iversen on 13 August 2011 at 4:15pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5849 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map | Message 8 of 30 13 August 2011 at 4:42pm | IP Logged | ||
... and that's why I don't write MY blog in English! Almost everybody does it, so I won't do it that way. Fasulye Edited by Fasulye on 13 August 2011 at 4:43pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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