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| fmmarianicolon Diglot Newbie United States Joined 4345 days ago 28 posts - 30 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Sign Language Studies: Japanese | Message 1 of 25 03 January 2013 at 12:38am | IP Logged |
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TAC 2013 Teams
Team Sakura 桜 for Japanese, Team Romulan for Spanish, Individual for American Sign Language. New year, new goals, new adventure! A Quick Snapshot of Me I'm a 30-year-old living in San Diego, CA. I currently work for a non-profit that supports Deaf citizens with various services including interpreting. I recently graduated with my degree in English-American Sign Language interpreting. Now I want to improve Spanish (learned from my parents) so I can join the ranks of the preciously few trilingual interpreters in this major border city. Additionally, I want to start learning Japanese so I can take my husband (who has been to Japan) on a vacation there. My Language Goals for 2013 Japanese 2013 Starting Level: Almost from Scratch. 2013 Goal: Beginner, equal to JLTP Level 5. My husband and I previously took Japanese I class two years ago. I enjoyed it, but I have forgotten almost everything since then including the kana. I still have the Genki I textbook (but not the accompanying CD), and I came across the Japanese courses on Memrise. My husband and I would also like to take a class together. Spanish 2013 Starting Level: Semi-fluent. 2013 Goal: Start entering A level fluency. I heard Spanish all around me growing up, but I didn't speak or write it. Now I'm trying to become a trilingual interpreter professionally, and my choices as a child are holding me back. I am enrolled in Spanish classes at school (Spanish 4 for the spring) and plan to obtain my bachelors. I have started writing entries at Lang-8 to work on my output. American Sign Language 2013 Starting Level: Semi-fluent. 2013 Goal: Obtain the National Interpreter Certification from the Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf . I started learning ASL years ago when I met Deaf people for the first time. Now I am working with the Deaf in an administrative position (scheduling assistant), but I need to pass the national performance exam to start working as an interpreter. I need to work on input and output, so finding a mentor and practicing with vlogs will be key here. HTLAL, TAC 2013, and Me I recently discovered HTLAL and look forward to the Total Annihilation Challenge. Unfortunately, it looks like I'm a bit late so unsure if I'll be flying solo or as part of a team. If anyone reading has any tips, I'm receptive to them! Edited by fmmarianicolon on 04 January 2013 at 5:28pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| fmmarianicolon Diglot Newbie United States Joined 4345 days ago 28 posts - 30 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Sign Language Studies: Japanese | Message 2 of 25 03 January 2013 at 7:03pm | IP Logged |
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I have spent the morning brainstorming resources for the three language goals I want to
achieve. I am listing them below so I can have them all in one place for reference. If anyone reading has suggestions on what to use (or what NOT to use), please let me know. This is what I've arrived at so far: Multiple Languages
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| Brun Ugle Diglot Senior Member Norway brunugle.wordpress.c Joined 6619 days ago 1292 posts - 1766 votes  Speaks: English*, NorwegianC1 Studies: Japanese, Esperanto, Spanish, Finnish | Message 3 of 25 03 January 2013 at 7:14pm | IP Logged |
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We are collecting links for resources for Japanese on the thread for team Sakura and will hopefully be getting around to collecting resources for Romance languages on the thread for team Romulan.
Try these two sites also. They have very good resources for several languages: G.L.O.S.S.Free language lessons from DLI. Multiple languages and levels. FSIFree downloads of old FSI courses where the copyright has run out. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| fmmarianicolon Diglot Newbie United States Joined 4345 days ago 28 posts - 30 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Sign Language Studies: Japanese | Message 4 of 25 03 January 2013 at 10:57pm | IP Logged |
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Wow, thanks for the G.L.O.S.S and FSI resources! I found the FSI course for Spanish
intriguing -- they have a Head Start program for Puerto Rico. Since most Spanish courses are based on Spain or Latin America, I look forward to seeing a P.R.-based course. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Brun Ugle Diglot Senior Member Norway brunugle.wordpress.c Joined 6619 days ago 1292 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English*, NorwegianC1 Studies: Japanese, Esperanto, Spanish, Finnish | Message 5 of 25 04 January 2013 at 7:33am | IP Logged |
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As team leader for both teams, it is my pleasure to welcome you to
“Team Sakura桜” for Japanese and "Team Romulan" for Romance languages. Edit the title of your log to show the team names, then stop by the team threads and introduce yourself. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| fmmarianicolon Diglot Newbie United States Joined 4345 days ago 28 posts - 30 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Sign Language Studies: Japanese | Message 6 of 25 04 January 2013 at 5:15pm | IP Logged |
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Thank you for the welcome! I am excited to be a part of the teams. I'll start making
the edits and introductions now. :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| benbassist Groupie United Kingdom Joined 5426 days ago 51 posts - 52 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Mandarin, Japanese | Message 7 of 25 04 January 2013 at 7:08pm | IP Logged |
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おはようございます。
I am looking forward to following your progress with Japanese. A good online Dictionary is Jisho.org, the Denshi Jisho Bookmarklet is good for looking up words. がんばって! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| fmmarianicolon Diglot Newbie United States Joined 4345 days ago 28 posts - 30 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Sign Language Studies: Japanese | Message 8 of 25 04 January 2013 at 11:10pm | IP Logged |
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ありがとう ございます for the link to Jisho.org! I have already used it to look up がんばっ
て. Hurray for new words!! 1 person has voted this message useful |
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