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| ancpem1 Groupie United States Joined 4387 days ago 56 posts - 60 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Russian, Greek, Latin, French | Message 121 of 231 01 January 2013 at 6:03pm | IP Logged | ||
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Here is a link to my log:
[URL=http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=34802&PN=1] Edited by ancpem1 on 01 January 2013 at 6:11pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Saga Diglot Newbie Germany Joined 4363 days ago 20 posts - 22 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Japanese, Greek | Message 122 of 231 01 January 2013 at 9:09pm | IP Logged | ||
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I just started my log today. Here's the link:
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| LanguageSponge Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5765 days ago 1197 posts - 1487 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Welsh, Russian, Japanese, Slovenian, Greek, Italian | Message 123 of 231 01 January 2013 at 10:06pm | IP Logged | ||
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Saga, ancpem1, I have added both of your logs to the list at the beginning of this thread.
To get the ball rolling a bit I decided a little while ago that I would compile a list of Little Challenges for us all along our Greek journey. Originally the only team I was going to be on was Team MIR, so I have completed the list for the Russian team first, and it will be posted in the Team MIR thread in the next day or two. I intend to do the same for Team Sparta and the Little Spartan Challenges should be ready in the next few days. I have written about 60 Little Challenges for the beginners in Team MIR and another 60 for the advanced ones, so I imagine it will be about the same number for Team Sparta too. The intention of these Little Challenges is two-fold. Firstly it's to encourage us to actually use our languages in a controlled way that doesn't involve our coursebooks. Secondly, it's to forge stronger ties within the team and to encourage us to study together. I'll give more details once I've posted the lists. Hopefully it'll be of some use to us all. Jack Edited by LanguageSponge on 01 January 2013 at 10:40pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| embici Triglot Senior Member CanadaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4609 days ago 263 posts - 370 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French Studies: Greek | Message 124 of 231 01 January 2013 at 10:31pm | IP Logged | ||
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A warm welcome to our new Spartans!
I feel like such a newby around here. Just when I was wondering how on earth I was going to find my teammates' logs I came back here and saw that LanguageSponge has made that easy for us. Wonderful! I can't wait to see these challenges that LanguageSponge has in store for us. I see so many of your are studying Russian I'm starting to think I should add that to my "dabbling" list. I have two co-workers who speak it so I could practise it daily. Silly me for not taking advantage of that fact. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5333 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 125 of 231 01 January 2013 at 11:08pm | IP Logged | ||
Great idea! I suspect that there will be a lot of Russian floating around, so you might pick up some things just because of that :-) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| embici Triglot Senior Member CanadaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4609 days ago 263 posts - 370 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French Studies: Greek | Message 126 of 231 01 January 2013 at 11:52pm | IP Logged | ||
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Another resource for Greek is page=Greek">Foreign Service Instititute's Greek Basic Course
I am not using it (yet) as it's not exactly the Greek in use today but it's not quite Katharevousa either. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| embici Triglot Senior Member CanadaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4609 days ago 263 posts - 370 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French Studies: Greek | Message 127 of 231 02 January 2013 at 1:19am | IP Logged | ||
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One thing I have been struggling with now that I am in the active wave of Assimil's le
nouveau Grec is writing in Greek. I know that cursive has fallen out of fashion in many parts of the world--including among Canadians under the age of 40 or so--but I find printing painstakingly slow. Many people tell me that Greek cursive hasn't been taught in any systematic fashion in many years. If any Greeks join their letters it's probably in a way they've seen others do it, or have learned themselves through trial and error. Does anyone have a good source for Greek cursive so that I can avoid the trial and error I've been going through for months? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| renaissancemedi Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Greece Joined 4357 days ago 941 posts - 1309 votes Speaks: Greek*, Ancient Greek*, EnglishC2 Studies: French, Russian, Turkish, Modern Hebrew | Message 128 of 231 02 January 2013 at 7:49am | IP Logged | ||
Unfortunately I couldn't find much. Maybe these http://www.foundalis.com/lan/hw/grkhandw.htm http://www.covingtoninnovations.com/pens/GreekChart.pdf http://bibleinteract.com/education/hebrewandgreek.asp It's true, nobody learns calligraphy, καλλιγραφία, beautiful writing, at school any more. You are only incouraged to write clearly so that your manuscript is readable and beautiful to look at. Trial and error is how you join letters, but you don't have to do it. Maybe you should focus on the right strokes at first, and not worry about style. Usually the first manuscripts display beautifully formed individual letters, much like a child following the teacher's rules on handwriting. In time your hand will do the rest. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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