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| Julie Heptaglot Senior Member PolandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6908 days ago 1251 posts - 1733 votes  5 sounds Speaks: Polish*, EnglishB2, GermanC2, SpanishB2, Dutch, Swedish, French | Message 233 of 553 11 January 2013 at 5:15pm | IP Logged | ||
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A great job, Kez & Mae!
Challenge 9 should be changed: I've got no idea what 'soft adjectives' are but I suppose it's something Russian ;). I've got some more challenge ideas (I tried to think about something different from writing/speaking, as we already have a lot of challenges of this kind). Beginner: - for the next 10 Wikipedia articles you'll read in any language, switch to your Scandinavian language and try reading the beginning of the article. (If there is no TL version of a given article, you simply wait for the next one.) - read 1000 words in total of original 'simple' Scandinavian articles, with no use of dictionary (e.g. Swedish 1, Swedish 2, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish 3) - find 10 items in your room whose names you don't know in your Scandinavian language, and learn them (including the article and the plural form) - find TV news in your Scandinavian language and watch 10 minutes a day, five days in a row - choose a city in the TL country and do research on the Internet, using your Scandinavian language only (how many inhabitants? what history? what tourist attractions? etc.). You may consider switching to TL Google to reduce the number of results in other languages. - switch the language to Scandinavian (on your mobile, operating system, browser, other software and/or social network services, depending on what is possible). - choose a letter and try to write as many words beginning with it as you can in two minutes. Do this for five letters in total. - choose randomly a word from a (paper) dictionary. Pronounce the word, read the translation/definition. Find a few examples of use on the Internet. Think of a possible situation/context where you could hear/see the word, or use it yourself. Decide whether you like the word and find it useful. Do it for three words. Beginner/Advanced: - satisfy your Scandinavian wanderlust! Read about a grammar issue of your choice in a Scandinavian language you don't learn. - satisfy your Scandinavian wanderlust again! Try reading an article in a Scandinavian language you don't learn. Oh, and I'd include the two challenges Cristina came up with to the point classification :) Edited by Julie on 11 January 2013 at 5:18pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5339 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 234 of 553 11 January 2013 at 5:23pm | IP Logged | ||
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Is it possible somehow to include later language specific challenges as well?
I am waiting to after I come back from my holidays to write about a grammar point I call "The Yoda rule" and I would like to have a challenge for that too. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Julie Heptaglot Senior Member PolandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6908 days ago 1251 posts - 1733 votes 5 sounds Speaks: Polish*, EnglishB2, GermanC2, SpanishB2, Dutch, Swedish, French | Message 235 of 553 11 January 2013 at 5:57pm | IP Logged | ||
I think so. In my opinion, we don't have to - and we shouldn't - close the list of challenges at any point. I'm pretty sure we'll come up with more ideas during the year, including the amazing challenges of our Godmother. If that's the case, we can always add an additional award/rank, and I find a secret rune ;). 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Kez Diglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 4362 days ago 181 posts - 212 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English Studies: Swedish | Message 236 of 553 11 January 2013 at 6:41pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'll add the new challenges, and edit the ones that need to be edited. And it might be
a good idea to not 'close' the list and keep on adding challenges. We can always raise the amount of runes you'll need for a challenge. Maybe make even more ranks in a few months when we're running out. I was thinking of making a TAC2013 - Team Viking - Challenge Thread tomorrow. In there I will post all the challenges, ranks, runes, achievements etc. And then we can post the challenges we've done in there, and I can edit the post to add ranks, achievements & runes etc. It will give us a more clear overview. What do you think? I don't mind putting some hours in it to fine-tune it. Maybe we can make a special list for our lovely Godmothers challenges? Give it some special achievements or something? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 Mae Trilingual Octoglot Pro Member Germany Joined 4996 days ago 299 posts - 499 votes Speaks: German*, SpanishC2*, Swiss-German*, FrenchC2, EnglishC2, ItalianB2, Dutch, Portuguese Studies: Russian, Swedish Personal Language Map | Message 237 of 553 11 January 2013 at 7:16pm | IP Logged | ||
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The Runes Quest: a journey through all challenges based on LanguageSponge's
input. Based on your number of challenges completed, we collect the runes. Depending on the number of runes collected, our viking rank will be somewhere between 1 and 7. Solfrid Cristina's Viking Challenge: The challenge will be posted on a weekly basis, a predefined day (e.g. Sunday). After 6 days we close the respective challenge, read the posts and decide who's getting a shield: - 3rd place = Bronze Shield - 2nd place = Silver Shield - 1st place = Golden Shield As we post an article per VC, we could just post our answers right there, in order to not mess everything up. Too many threads in here will make things more complicated IMO. Moreover, everybody can post a comment there, not even need to register. Have a look: [Viking Challenge #1] [Viking Challenge #2] Viking of the Week: Could be those getting a shield for the weekly VC. So those nominated for the VC will automatically be VotW. Viking of the Month: I'd suggest we leave this one open to reward the team member that has distinguished him-/herself by doing something special to bring our team forward. I would also go further and suggest, it may not be limited to just doing challenges at home and being language related, so that also a groupie or so could get it ;-) (just an idea). For the moment I think we have enough tasks to complete, and we need to organise everything so that we can get the ball rolling. Please do note your ideas here or in your log, so we can come back to that later. I wouldn't recommend to create further team threads, because: - we might lose track of what we're doing at all, - it will become more difficult for other teams to follow our progress if our activities are all spread around, and - after a few months we might just stick to one thread anyway... Just a few ideas... Feel free to add yours. Last question: Do we all have a log now? Edited by Mae on 11 January 2013 at 7:20pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6914 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 238 of 553 11 January 2013 at 7:48pm | IP Logged | ||
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Mae, if you haven't already done that, please add the challenges, runes, medals, swords, shields, axes etc. to the Wordpress page.
Imagine if there was a way to autosync our logs with Wikipedia (or similar) - add the URLs to the articles you read, the system automatically counts the number of words (or word forms), identifies the language, checks if it's a first read or re-read, keeps track of how many articles there is left until "next level"... :) (The Esperanto site Lernu has something similar based on the lessons available, it works so-so). 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Kez Diglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 4362 days ago 181 posts - 212 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English Studies: Swedish | Message 239 of 553 11 January 2013 at 9:49pm | IP Logged | ||
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Yeah you got quite a good points there Mae. I think i've done what I could for this idea
at the moment, i'll leave the rest to the more experienced TAC/forum users. "As we post an article per VC, we could just post our answers right there, in order to not mess everything up. Too many threads in here will make things more complicated IMO. Moreover, everybody can post a comment there, not even need to register. " It could work posting it as an comment there, but we need people to read & correct it as well. Which might happen less fast if it's not on the forum. Just a thought though. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Mae Trilingual Octoglot Pro Member Germany Joined 4996 days ago 299 posts - 499 votes Speaks: German*, SpanishC2*, Swiss-German*, FrenchC2, EnglishC2, ItalianB2, Dutch, Portuguese Studies: Russian, Swedish Personal Language Map | Message 240 of 553 11 January 2013 at 10:51pm | IP Logged | ||
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Good point, indeed... I don't have an idea what could work best.
In any case we should have a little bit more feedback from the other members. According to the "TAC 2013 Organization and Sign-up" we are 21. I made a PDF document with all challenges, some explanations, the ranks, and a worksheet to print out. I'll upload everything to our website. You can find the document in our media library. Edited by Mae on 11 January 2013 at 10:51pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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