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| zenmonkey Bilingual Tetraglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6554 days ago 803 posts - 1119 votes  1 sounds Speaks: EnglishC2*, Spanish*, French, German Studies: Italian, Modern Hebrew | Message 1 of 5 29 January 2012 at 12:20am | IP Logged | ||
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Has anyone used skype in a group to have a multi-person language session?
Would there be some interest in setting up sessions like that? I personally don't have premium access but might be interested in getting one if there was real interest here (and the languges were within my interest area). Thoughts? Edited by zenmonkey on 29 January 2012 at 12:21am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6911 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 2 of 5 29 January 2012 at 1:00am | IP Logged | ||
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I've had group conversations when I took an Esperanto course two years ago. There were some technical problems, probably due to the number of people (6-10). Noise, disappearing words... people unfamiliar with the program, audio feedback problems (even just one person having the microphone turned on resulted in a lot of squealing noise). The microphone was turned on by default, but worked fairly OK as long as you only turned it on when you spoke.
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| tibbles Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5193 days ago 245 posts - 422 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Korean | Message 3 of 5 29 January 2012 at 7:23am | IP Logged | ||
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I don't see much value in skype group sessions at least for conversation practice because they will dilute the amount of time you'll have for speaking the target language. In other words, if you and 7 others do a skype conversation for 1 hour, that's only 7.5 minutes of speaking for each person if everything is divided evenly.
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| Brun Ugle Diglot Senior Member Norway brunugle.wordpress.c Joined 6622 days ago 1292 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English*, NorwegianC1 Studies: Japanese, Esperanto, Spanish, Finnish | Message 4 of 5 29 January 2012 at 10:01am | IP Logged | ||
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The Russian TAC team (Sputnik) does this. It seems like they are starting to get the hang of it.
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 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 5 of 5 29 January 2012 at 10:53am | IP Logged | ||
We have used the free version of Skype for conference calls with 3-4 polyglots. It's possible to add some people with the free version and there is one chatbox and that means, if one person writes there all people of the group can read it and respond to it. However, I have no experience with skyping with more than 4 people. Fasulye Edited by Fasulye on 29 January 2012 at 10:54am 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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