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| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5335 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes  Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 9 of 553 11 December 2012 at 10:44pm | IP Logged | |||||
You just got my wires crossed :-) Are you studying Norwegian and Danish? The general tasks are: keep a log, read the logs of the others, give lots of encouragement. I suppose having you on the team would be extremely beneficial to these who study Swedish. Edit: You are too fast for me Serpent :-) Edited by Solfrid Cristin on 11 December 2012 at 10:45pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Gosiak Triglot Senior Member Poland Joined 5127 days ago 241 posts - 361 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, German Studies: Norwegian, Welsh | Message 10 of 553 11 December 2012 at 11:01pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Hello everybody :)
This is my first TAC but I've been following some of this year's logs so I think that I get the idea. I'll start my Scandinavian/Celtic log after Christmas. Team Viking sounds powerful, I like it very much. I briefly considered Team Ragnarok but I figured that it's too gloomy and I guess we will survive another 'end of the world'anyway. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7157 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 11 of 553 11 December 2012 at 11:19pm | IP Logged | |||||
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You guys could have a lot of fun with the team's name. There's bound to be something suitable or irreverant from Norse mythology or even some likeable lampoon of Scandinavia (Hägar the Horrible?)
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| Gosiak Triglot Senior Member Poland Joined 5127 days ago 241 posts - 361 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, German Studies: Norwegian, Welsh | Message 12 of 553 11 December 2012 at 11:41pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Ginnungagap Vikings? According to wikipedia one of the meanings of Ginnungagap is "magical (and creative) power-filled space". Chung, you got me inspired. :)
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 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6910 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 13 of 553 12 December 2012 at 1:11am | IP Logged | |||||
To use a Swedish expression: "Nja." :) I watch Norwegian clips on Youtube and listen to Danish radio dramas all the time, but I don't call this "studying". Not yet. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5335 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 14 of 553 12 December 2012 at 1:25am | IP Logged | |||||
Perhaps I should join the team - with Swedish. I have actually spoken quite a lot of "Swedish" in my time with a Swedish colleague. He would speak "Norwegian" to me and I would speak "Swedish" to him, and then we would laugh so hard we would almost fall over. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Julie Heptaglot Senior Member PolandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6904 days ago 1251 posts - 1733 votes 5 sounds Speaks: Polish*, EnglishB2, GermanC2, SpanishB2, Dutch, Swedish, French | Message 15 of 553 12 December 2012 at 2:11am | IP Logged | |||||
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@jeff_lindqvist, welcome aboard! Should I then write 'Norwegian and Danish' next to
your name in the beginning of the thread? :) And I've got a question about the "nja" expression - how is it exactly used, what does it mean? Is it something like German 'jein'?
This sounds a lot like a couple of conversations I had with Slovaks ;). If you want to join the team with Swedish, you're of course more than welcome! Edited to add my first attempt to write something in Swedish on this forum ;) Du är välkommen! Edited by Julie on 12 December 2012 at 2:15am 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Jonhello Diglot Newbie Latvia Joined 5048 days ago 14 posts - 14 votes Speaks: English*, Latvian Studies: Norwegian | Message 16 of 553 12 December 2012 at 7:00am | IP Logged | |||||
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I am contemplating joining this team as I am presently studying Norwegian.
However, I am a beginner have just started learning about 4 or 5 weeks ago. Do I need to be at a certain level to join? My motivation is very high as I will be spending about 6 weeks in Norway this summer and possibly work there periodically in the future (5 to 12 weeks a year). Another motivator is my wife. She grew up in Sweden where we visit regularly. In the past, I promised her I would learn Swedish after I conquered Russian. Though I never conquered Russian (not even close), learning Norwegian seems like an partial fulfillment of my promise. I would love to be with my wife and her Swedish friends without their feeling the need to always switch into English. God willing, my (future) Norwegian will help me understand SOME of the Swedish be spoken around me. So as far as I understand, the expectation of being part of the team is to study proactively and post progress regularly, correct? 1 person has voted this message useful |
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