Kez Diglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 4355 days ago 181 posts - 212 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English Studies: Swedish
| Message 401 of 553 17 February 2013 at 6:31pm | IP Logged |
In the beginning it was Expugnator, Julie & me. And after 45 minutes Liddytime joined us.
I guess we'll set the next appointment now? It seems that 3pm is not a good time for
everyone. Anyone has a time suggestion?
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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 402 of 553 17 February 2013 at 11:24pm | IP Logged |
Too bad I had to leave when liddytime entered! We could have talked more in Norwegian. It
still worked out with Kez and Julie speaking in Swedish and I in Norwegian, though.
Languages are indeed similar.
Next Sunday at 8pm UTC there will probably be another team's session ;) In fact, next
Sunday I'll be busy the whole day long. Still, I think that 6 pm UTC would work fine as a
usual time for me, and it would also allow for some North Americans to join us.
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liddytime Pentaglot Senior Member United States mainlymagyar.wordpre Joined 6227 days ago 693 posts - 1328 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Galician Studies: Hungarian, Vietnamese, Modern Hebrew, Norwegian, Persian, Arabic (Written)
| Message 403 of 553 18 February 2013 at 1:03am | IP Logged |
Yeah, that was a lot of fun this morning (er, afternoon for most of you)! That's the first time I've actually tried to speak Norwegian to anyone other than my wall...uff..
I'm a bit rusty. We should figure out which "challenges" we'll cover in advance for our next session so we can spend more time talking in
our TL's.
Like expugnator, I was amazed that I could totally follow the Swedes! (fist vigorously pumping in the air...) I'll admit that 3pm UTC is a bit early for
me ( @ 7am on a Sunday, I'm still comatose) : anything 4pm UTC onwards would work for me. If we keep it at 3pm I'm still
up for it, I'll just have to set an alarm, or two! :-)
Edited by liddytime on 18 February 2013 at 3:18am
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Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5845 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 404 of 553 18 February 2013 at 9:00am | IP Logged |
I'm checking the Skype-meetings of the team. A meeting at 8 pm UTC (= GMT) = 9 pm CET would not be possible for me as I have another appointment on Sunday evenings. Besides this it's too late in the evening for me anyway.
So, if this remains the the meeting time, I will not be able to join with my Danish. Besides this I don't know at all, whether I will be able to understand SPOKEN Norwegian and Swedish. Maybe not. I have no listening experience with these languages in the spoken form.
Fasulye
Edited by Fasulye on 18 February 2013 at 5:15pm
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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 405 of 553 18 February 2013 at 12:04pm | IP Logged |
Anytime in the afternoon (i.e. 1pm-5pm UTC) is possible, I just have to keep it in mind.
Just speeking freely in a target language isn't doable for me, so it's probably a good idea to use some lightweight topics, e.g. "Introduce yourself", "Describe your day" etc. (Maybe you've already done so.) These might take anything from 30 seconds to a minute. Some may write this down beforehand and then read aloud. A small group can do their short introductions and then there's plenty of time to ask questions about their target languages (if a native speaker is present).
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suzukaze Triglot Senior Member Italy bit.ly/1bGm459 Joined 4600 days ago 186 posts - 254 votes Speaks: Italian*, English, Spanish Studies: German, French, Swedish, Japanese
| Message 406 of 553 21 February 2013 at 12:56am | IP Logged |
Hi there everybody :) I joined this forum a few months ago and have been a lurker ever since. I finally decided to quit being an inactive member and join this year's TAC, albeit I'm “slightly" late. According to the TAC masterpost applications are still open, right?
I was originally going to wait until next year to join this challenge, but as I already keep an off-line long of my language study and definitely plan to stick to my resolutions I thought…why not? Lovely team name by the way!
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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 407 of 553 24 February 2013 at 2:11pm | IP Logged |
Hey, it has been awfully quiet in this thread recently. Are we meeting on Skype today? If so, then when exactly?
jeff_lindqvist wrote:
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Yeah, we've already done this. Actually, you've got no idea how accurate you were :). That's precisely what we did: introducing ourselves and describing what we were doing during the day. I think we could repeat these topics once, though: practice makes perfect, and there might be people joining the conversation who didn't hear the introductions. Just speaking freely in TL wouldn't be doable for us either.
@Suzukaze, you're welcome to join the team. Just open a log and post the link in this thread. Now you have no other choice than to stick to your language-related resolutions :).
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Kez Diglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 4355 days ago 181 posts - 212 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English Studies: Swedish
| Message 408 of 553 24 February 2013 at 5:13pm | IP Logged |
Hey guys! Sorry I couldn't make it today for the Skype session. I've had a really busy
week + weekend but i'm finally done with the freaking exam. Time to focus on Swedish
again!
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