joshkaasik Bilingual Diglot Groupie United States Joined 4510 days ago 61 posts - 66 votes Speaks: English*, Estonian* Studies: Spanish, German
| Message 49 of 225 12 December 2012 at 4:17pm | IP Logged |
Hahaha, whoever suggested Die Zwerge is a genius.
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tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4705 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish
| Message 50 of 225 12 December 2012 at 4:20pm | IP Logged |
stifa wrote:
So regarding the Skype thing?
- Should we set up a continous text chat that we can kind of drop in on whenever we
like?
- Schedule voice chats about once a week, once every two weeks, etc?
And regarding the team name, the Russian team used an abbreviation, which was not even
a Russian word. If they had to use a word, the only one known to the commoner would be
"perestroika", "glasnost" and "vodka". :p
I don't think we should think too much about what the others think; we should have a
team name that we can proudly associate ourselves with.
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Mir is a word in Russian, it means world or peace :)
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Dagane Triglot Senior Member SpainRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4509 days ago 259 posts - 324 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishB2, Galician Studies: German Studies: Czech
| Message 51 of 225 12 December 2012 at 5:16pm | IP Logged |
Just a little question about Skype, since I'm not really into it, though I made an account. Is possible to make a group, so everyone could just drop by as you said? I mean, texting everybody at the same time in the same room. Also, is possible to have multiple videoconferences?
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TheGreaterFool Pro Member Canada Joined 4370 days ago 65 posts - 78 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Russian, Modern Hebrew, French Personal Language Map
| Message 52 of 225 12 December 2012 at 5:43pm | IP Logged |
On the theme of team name for the Germanic one, we could opt for a name that is more humorous considering that the popular option of Germans as lacking humour...so my
suggestion would be for something outrageous like Team Schnitzel...everyone loves food,
schnitzel is a funny word...i dare you to say the name and not smile...
so Team Schnitzel would be my suggestion...
cheers
niels
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joshkaasik Bilingual Diglot Groupie United States Joined 4510 days ago 61 posts - 66 votes Speaks: English*, Estonian* Studies: Spanish, German
| Message 53 of 225 12 December 2012 at 5:46pm | IP Logged |
I agree.. I also vote for either Team Schnitzel or Die Zwerge..
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Sunja Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6083 days ago 2020 posts - 2295 votes 1 sounds Speaks: English*, German Studies: French, Mandarin
| Message 54 of 225 12 December 2012 at 5:50pm | IP Logged |
Dagane wrote:
Just a little question about Skype, since I'm not really into it, though I made an account. Is possible to make a group, so everyone could just drop by as you said? I mean, texting everybody at the same time in the same room. Also, is possible to have multiple videoconferences? |
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That would be great! I think we'd all need a Skype Premium subscription to see each other on the screen. I think it's free but I don't know what the restrictions are yet. (I'm reading about it as we speak). Can anybody from the Russian team provide any insight into Skype Premium? OTherwise I'll have to get back later with an answer.
@TheGreaterFool: That would certainly be an interesting name for a team. Hmmmm, it would probably make me want to eat instead of study :p
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mrwarper Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Spain forum_posts.asp?TID=Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5224 days ago 1493 posts - 2500 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishC2 Studies: German, Russian, Japanese
| Message 55 of 225 12 December 2012 at 6:04pm | IP Logged |
N-way videoconference is a premium feature, so we did audio-only. It's a bit strange because you get to talk to your buddies avatars instead of their 'live' pictures but it works. N-way text is possible I guess but I haven't tried.
I'm available (but not on Skype!) most evenings to try out anything.
As for how the 'group' call works exactly I haven't been in charge but I think it's a good idea if we all boned up on it so we can all be 'Skype calls officer' if necessary. I propose we designate a Skype calls officer and a couple of surrogate/deputy ones so Skype sessions can be held whenever one of them and at least one of the non-techies are present.
I volunteer for first deputy officer ;)
Edit: I said everything else I had to say about names over at the Japanese Team log so I won't repeat myself here...
Edited by mrwarper on 12 December 2012 at 6:07pm
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reineke Senior Member United States https://learnalangua Joined 6445 days ago 851 posts - 1008 votes Studies: German
| Message 56 of 225 12 December 2012 at 6:11pm | IP Logged |
Du bist ein Schnitzel...
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