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LittleBoy
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Speaks: English*, French
Studies: German, Spanish, Mandarin, Esperanto

Message 9 of 14

18 January 2013 at 1:42am | IP Logged

Hello fellow Team 鶴 member!

I'm very jealous that you have the commitment to stick to just the one language. Oh, and I can't agree more about the difficulties of pronouncing tones correctly.

Best of luck for 2013!
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billyshears66
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Studies: Mandarin

Message 10 of 14

21 January 2013 at 3:18am | IP Logged

Hi Teammate. Best of luck to you. How are you liking livemocha? I started that site, but
wasn't feeling it. I didn't spend much time on it.

Keep up the good work. Look forward to this year on the team with you!
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maurelio1234
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Speaks: Portuguese*, English^C2, French
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Message 11 of 14

21 January 2013 at 1:07pm | IP Logged

billyshears66 wrote:

Hi Teammate. Best of luck to you. How are you liking livemocha?
I started that site, but
wasn't feeling it. I didn't spend much time on it.

Keep up the good work. Look forward to this year on the team with you!

Hi,

I don't like the courses... It feels like "computer generated" for me...
I just use it for writing/speaking excercises, for their quick and accurate feedback,
and the fact that they propose a list of subjects we can write/read about. For me it
makes it better than lang8.

I use it for chatting too. I can find chinese speakers there anytime I want and the
chat window plays a sound when someone tries to talk to me! This makes it much better
than sharedtalk ;)!

good luck for you!!

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maurelio1234
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Message 12 of 14

27 January 2013 at 8:27am | IP Logged

Hi,

That's my weekly update:

I'm now at lesson 5 of FSI Module 6 (Transportation). So I kept my
objective of doing one comprehenson lesson a day. In the end of the day, the lessons
are not that complicated, I just have a couple of new words to learn everyday and I
keep struggling in a couple of points of the tape everyday, so I feel I'm progressing
slowly everyday.

I've just read 5h this week, it is bad news, because I wanted to read more, but I
transport time is limited, and at some point I need to choose between doing the
comprehension tapes or simply reading. The good news is that now I can read a novel
chaper in something like 30min, whic is amazing! (6 months ago it was 1h!). I think I
read at least 7 chapters of two different books. My main problem is the people's
names... I feel it hard to associate them to the characters and to recognize them in
the text, I just need to try a better strategy for keeping track of that :)

I didn't chat that much this week, which is also bad news :( I installed 微信 in my
tablet this week, just to try to find random people for chatting and I changed its
default language to chinese too! But I don't feel it helped a lot :(

Finally, I didn't keep my objective of having chinese sites as the most accessed
ones in my browsed this week...

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maurelio1234
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Message 13 of 14

02 February 2013 at 4:38am | IP Logged

Hi,

That's my weekly update:

I continued my FSI until the 7th lesson of the meeting module, but then I
decided to stop. I think I will be better of spending this time reading books to
improve my vocabulary or watching chinese movies with subtitles.
I could read
11h this week, which means I read more than 15 chapters in my book :) that's amazing!
I'm reading a chapter in <25min now. In order to help me with people's names, I always
keep a list of people's names in evernote when reading ;) It helps!
I didn't
chat a lot this week... but I feel I'm improving very fast in this skill :) Yesterday I
got my first douban and wechat friends :)
Finally, I didn't keep my objective
of having chinese sites as the most accessed ones in my browser this week, but I feel
I'm more and more independent of popup dictionaries to read :) that's good news!

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maurelio1234
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Message 14 of 14

02 February 2013 at 4:48am | IP Logged

ahh, and I'm taking part of the 6 weeks challenge! http://6wc.learnlangs.com/
I stay connected in twitter all the time seeing other people studying in real time,
that's a good incentive to do the same!!!

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