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| Micoh Diglot Newbie United States Joined 5742 days ago 13 posts - 24 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Mandarin, Cantonese | Message 1 of 19 14 February 2012 at 5:58pm | IP Logged |
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Hi everyone! So I created some beginner level quizzes for a bunch of different
languages on Sporcle and I wanted to share them here. Obviously since these are focused around the basics of each language, they shouldn't be hard for anyone fluent in the language, but it's always fun if you're a beginner or a notorious language-dabbler (which I'm sure accounts for a large majority on this forum!) Anyways, I'm definitely not fluent in all of these, but I think/hope I caught most of the mistakes already. Here they are: German Dutch Swedish Spanish Portuguese Italian French Chinese (Mandarin) Serbian Turkish Let me know what you think! EDIT: Adding my new quiz, which is a short German conversation here too! German Convo Edited by Micoh on 16 February 2012 at 8:14pm 9 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6598 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes  4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 2 of 19 14 February 2012 at 8:18pm | IP Logged |
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imo, omitting feira in Portuguese is like omitting -day in English: mon, tue, wednes, thurs, fri, satur, sun. maybe a bit better.
great quizes otherwise:) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Micoh Diglot Newbie United States Joined 5742 days ago 13 posts - 24 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Mandarin, Cantonese | Message 3 of 19 15 February 2012 at 10:09am | IP Logged |
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Nice catch! Fixed it. Yeah, Portuguese is one of those languages that I'm just getting
into now, so things like that are good to know! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
 Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5848 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map | Message 4 of 19 15 February 2012 at 1:48pm | IP Logged |
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Excellent idea, these basic level language quizzes. I tried the Turkish version of the quiz and I really had to think about what I could fill in. Only 8 minutes wasn't enough time for me, I would have needed at least 15 minutes.
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| Micoh Diglot Newbie United States Joined 5742 days ago 13 posts - 24 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Mandarin, Cantonese | Message 5 of 19 15 February 2012 at 5:13pm | IP Logged |
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Yeah, finding the right amount of time was the hard part to figure out. On some of the
other quizzes (like German or Dutch), people were finishing them super fast so I kept all the times around 8 minutes as a kind of arbitrary number. I'll move Turkish up to 10 for now though! Oh yeah, and if anyone has any requests for another language I'd definitely be willing to make more. I'm also trying to come up with an intermediate/advanced template for some of the languages too! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| nway Senior Member United States youtube.com/user/Vic Joined 5416 days ago 574 posts - 1707 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Mandarin, Japanese, Korean | Message 6 of 19 15 February 2012 at 6:54pm | IP Logged |
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I absolutely love the idea, and I think the concept was executed perfectly.
I'm an avid fan of Sporcle, but I've never created any quizzes on the site, so I'm not sure to what extent doing this could be "automated", but the following two spreadsheets have been floating around HTLAL and would lend themselves quite well to being adapted as Sporcle quizzes: Key Phrases / Connectors I of course don't intend to put you under any sense of "obligation", but if you're considering a template for intermediate and advanced levels, these would be worth considering as ample sources of reference material. By the way, I liked your "One Language Is Never Enough" quiz. :P Edited by nway on 15 February 2012 at 7:02pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Micoh Diglot Newbie United States Joined 5742 days ago 13 posts - 24 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Mandarin, Cantonese | Message 7 of 19 15 February 2012 at 7:47pm | IP Logged |
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Oh! Excellent, those links would help a ton. I'll try to come up with some other fun
templates for some more quizzes. And thanks, I always loved those 'identify-the-language' quizzes on Sporcle so I made one myself for fun! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| anamsc Triglot Senior Member Andorra Joined 6204 days ago 296 posts - 382 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Catalan Studies: Arabic (Levantine), Arabic (Written), French | Message 8 of 19 15 February 2012 at 10:24pm | IP Logged |
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Thanks for this!
What I always wish would exist (and I'm not saying you should do this) are quizzes in other languages where the language is not the focus. What I mean by this is the normal word ladder, trivia, etc. quizzes, but actually in Spanish, French, German, etc. Maybe if I have nothing to do one day I'll try to make some... 1 person has voted this message useful |
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