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| zhanglong Senior Member United States Joined 4930 days ago 322 posts - 427 votes  Studies: Mandarin, Cantonese | Message 33 of 70 19 December 2011 at 10:29am | IP Logged | ||
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Okay. I'm putting my money where my mouth is.
One Week Challenge. The only problem is finding the time, especially during the holidays. Fine. No time like the present. December 19th at 7pm until December 25 at 7pm Seven days to take the Russian practice exam and be able to *speak* to a Russian person. Under the terms of the challenge, I won't read or write. Just speak. I just wonder how much time I can actually devote to this; it's the holidays and there are tons of distractions, but it will be fun to see how far I can get. http://www.telc.net/en/what-telc-offers/russian/telc-russkii -jazyk-a2/ Off we go! Edited by zhanglong on 19 December 2011 at 10:31am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| DaraghM Diglot Senior Member Ireland Joined 6152 days ago 1947 posts - 2923 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Russian, Hungarian | Message 34 of 70 19 December 2011 at 3:00pm | IP Logged | ||
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Here's a sample comprehension test for the A2 level in Spanish.
Spanish - A2 - Comprehension Test Is this possible in a weeks learning ? A sample listening and writing test for A2 is also on this site. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| DaraghM Diglot Senior Member Ireland Joined 6152 days ago 1947 posts - 2923 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Russian, Hungarian | Message 35 of 70 19 December 2011 at 3:01pm | IP Logged | ||
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Removed duplicate post after website crashed on me. Edited by DaraghM on 19 December 2011 at 4:29pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5382 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 36 of 70 19 December 2011 at 3:37pm | IP Logged | ||
You MUST start a log about your experiment, so we can all see what actually happens during a week of intensive study! 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| hrhenry Octoglot Senior Member United States languagehopper.blogs Joined 5131 days ago 1871 posts - 3642 votes Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, ItalianC2, Norwegian, Catalan, Galician, Turkish, Portuguese Studies: Polish, Indonesian, Ojibwe | Message 37 of 70 19 December 2011 at 3:47pm | IP Logged | ||
I would add that he put together a pretty comprehensive plan BEFORE he ever starts. If all he's got is "I'm going to learn Russian in 7 days", he won't get very far. Sorry if that sounds pessimistic. R. == 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| s_allard Triglot Senior Member Canada Joined 5431 days ago 2704 posts - 5425 votes Speaks: French*, English, Spanish Studies: Polish | Message 38 of 70 19 December 2011 at 5:00pm | IP Logged | ||
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From what I have read, it is estimated that it takes around 75 to 100 hours of instruction to attain the A1 level in any of the European languages. If we cut that in half and concentrate on the spoken language, we can get the learning time down to around 40 hours. This looks doable in a week. But forget about B1 or B2.
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| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5382 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 39 of 70 19 December 2011 at 5:15pm | IP Logged | ||
I'm guessing what you read wasn't about Russian... or Finnish, for that matter. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| hrhenry Octoglot Senior Member United States languagehopper.blogs Joined 5131 days ago 1871 posts - 3642 votes Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, ItalianC2, Norwegian, Catalan, Galician, Turkish, Portuguese Studies: Polish, Indonesian, Ojibwe | Message 40 of 70 19 December 2011 at 6:57pm | IP Logged | ||
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Anybody remember that guy who set out to learn and then claimed he learned Russian in a weekend from last year?
Wonder what ever happened to him. The search function's not giving me anything meaningful for results. I doubt he frequents the forum any more, though. R. == 1 person has voted this message useful |
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