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Julie Heptaglot Senior Member PolandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6901 days ago 1251 posts - 1733 votes 5 sounds Speaks: Polish*, EnglishB2, GermanC2, SpanishB2, Dutch, Swedish, French
| Message 17 of 553 12 December 2012 at 7:26am | IP Logged |
Jonhello wrote:
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? |
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You don't need to be at a certain level, you just need a good level of motivation :)
It is my first TAC but from what I know, it is enough to read logs of your teammates,
report about your own progress and try to do your best. :)
By the way, I've been learning Swedish for 2,5 months, so I am a complete beginner just
like you.
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| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5332 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian
| Message 18 of 553 12 December 2012 at 7:34am | IP Logged |
Julie wrote:
Solfrid Cristin wrote:
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. |
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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!
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Thank you so much, I think I'll limit myself to the Godmother role at the moment though - I have so little time
and so many languages to study, but having a native Swedish speaker here is obviously going to be very
beneficial!
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| Brun Ugle Diglot Senior Member Norway brunugle.wordpress.c Joined 6618 days ago 1292 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English*, NorwegianC1 Studies: Japanese, Esperanto, Spanish, Finnish
| Message 19 of 553 12 December 2012 at 8:11am | IP Logged |
Hi Everybody!
I'll probably pop by now and then too. It's fun watching people study a language I've studied myself. It's also interesting that Norwegian of all the Scandinavian languages seems to be the most popular.
Jonhello:
You don't even have to know "ja" and "nei" to join. Starting from zero is perfectly fine. TAC isn't a class where everyone learns the same things at the same time. We each learn in our own style and at our own pace. The purpose of TAC is to motivate you to learn more and not to give up. And of course you can get a lot of tips when you are studying with others at various levels.
If you (or anyone else) are signing up, please come to the main sign-up thread or send me a PM to let me know so that I can keep a complete list of all the teams and their members.
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jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6907 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map
| Message 20 of 553 12 December 2012 at 12:00pm | IP Logged |
Julie wrote:
@jeff_lindqvist, welcome aboard! Should I then write 'Norwegian and Danish' next to your name in the beginning of the thread? :) |
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Go ahead. At the moment I don't know what kind of studying I will do, but I have a dusty copy of Linguaphone Norwegian and a recent publication called "Tio lektioner i danska" (Helle Karman). That's a start.
Julie wrote:
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'? |
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Hmm, I haven't seen this word before (would you believe that!?), but it seems to have similar usage, e.g. Well, yes.../Well, no.../Yes, but.../No, but.../Not really, but...
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| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5332 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian
| Message 21 of 553 12 December 2012 at 12:49pm | IP Logged |
jeff_lindqvist wrote:
Julie wrote:
[QUOTE=Julie]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'? |
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Hmm, I haven't seen this word before (would you believe that!?), but it seems to have similar usage, e.g.
Well, yes.../Well, no.../Yes, but.../No, but.../Not really, but... |
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We have the exact same thing in Norwegian, and it sort of is like saying both yes and no at the same time. I
guess "not really" would cover it in Norwegian as well.
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| Julie Heptaglot Senior Member PolandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6901 days ago 1251 posts - 1733 votes 5 sounds Speaks: Polish*, EnglishB2, GermanC2, SpanishB2, Dutch, Swedish, French
| Message 22 of 553 12 December 2012 at 2:33pm | IP Logged |
jeff_lindqvist wrote:
Hmm, I haven't seen this word before (would you believe that!?)
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I would :). Actually, I've realized I haven't *seen* it either, it's mostly used in
colloquial speech.
Thank you for explanation about 'nja'. And I'm adding you to the team list!
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| sans-serif Tetraglot Senior Member Finland Joined 4557 days ago 298 posts - 470 votes Speaks: Finnish*, English, German, Swedish Studies: Danish
| Message 23 of 553 12 December 2012 at 2:57pm | IP Logged |
If you guys don't mind, I thought I could enlist as an unofficial groupie. I've been flirting with Norwegian and Danish recently, and I'm hardly done with Swedish either, so I figure this is a good team to keep tabs on.
In terms of concrete goals for the upcoming year, I'm hoping to get my Danish listening comprehension on par with Norwegian, to do some comparative grammar study of Danish and Norwegian both, and finally to improve my Swedish accent and strengthen my vocabulary. A rather long list, considering that I'm supposed to focus on German. :-)
Edit: Mwahahah! I just picked up a package at the post office. Harry Potter og Fønixordenen, in paper and audio—that's 30 h of comprehensible input, friends. This is going to be the best Christmas ever.
Edited by sans-serif on 14 December 2012 at 3:59pm
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| Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5164 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian
| Message 24 of 553 12 December 2012 at 4:27pm | IP Logged |
So, i'm in!! Norwegian was the language that brought me into language learning, and now that I finally have the time to study it, I'm going to set ambitious goals. I need to know how other students are learning and so the team will be of great help.
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