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| leosmith Senior Member United States Joined 6550 days ago 2365 posts - 3804 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Tagalog | Message 1 of 69 05 March 2008 at 11:18pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I am approaching 1000 posts, and I've made a promise to myself to retire at that point. This place is addictive,
and it's a great excuse not to study. However, if it weren't so excellent, helpful, interesting and entertaining, I wouldn't be here. I'd like to thank each and every one of you for tolerating me, schooling me, and keeping it fun. On the way out the door, I'd like this thread to be a place where you can talk about the member you've found the most helpful to you. Interpret this any way you want. This is your chance to show thanks and appreciation to the incredible contributions a favorite member has made. I ask that you follow these loose guidelines. First, only one member mentioned per post. Second, please tell us how they helped you, and third, within your post please include the most useful post of your helper, or a link to your favorite thread. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| rob Diglot Senior Member Japan Joined 6165 days ago 287 posts - 288 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French, Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese, Norwegian, Mandarin | Message 2 of 69 06 March 2008 at 3:14am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I think this is a nice idea for a thread, and I can immediately think of three people I would consider my favourites. However, I'll stick to your guidelines and only mention one, which means that Professor Arguelles clearly stands out. The fact that he has gained his own room shows this, and he has provided many posts which are extremely well considered. I find his post on the Germanic Family to give great insight into his way of thinking, and the fact that he provided us with his personal study charts says more in numbers than words possibly could.
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| leosmith Senior Member United States Joined 6550 days ago 2365 posts - 3804 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Tagalog | Message 4 of 69 06 March 2008 at 2:23pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
Many people have helped me a lot, so it's really hard to choose. But probably the one I think about the most is Linguamor. Her relentless insistence on comprehensible input have forever changed how I think of language learning. She was fair but tough, which made her somewhat controversial here. My favorite post of hers contained links to some very interesting papers on leaning languages with tutors:
Linguamor, if you are out there, thanks, and I hope you will return some day soon! Leo 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| vanityx3 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6461 days ago 331 posts - 326 votes 1 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Spanish, Japanese | Message 5 of 69 06 March 2008 at 2:39pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I will have to say I found atamagaiiiiiii very helpful, but perhaps in an unexpected way.
Even though she was very controversial and never helped me directly, she did help me indirectly. I mean this as in reading the L-R system thread and all the posts, I started getting excited about language learning. The posts made me think and they made me want to learn more and more French. The thing I think about most is just exposure, the more exposure I can have in French the better, and I think this is a backbone of L-R.
Even though I was inevitably to impatient for L-R, I did retain my enthusiasm and found ways that do work for me and that are fun at the same time. I will always remember that I need to be passionatly in love with the language I'm learning for myself to learn it. So in a weird way, I found atamagaiisdajkhru very helpful, though only indirectly. Edited by vanityx3 on 06 March 2008 at 7:18pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Seth Diglot Changed to RedKing’sDream Senior Member United States Joined 7224 days ago 240 posts - 252 votes Speaks: English*, Russian Studies: Persian | Message 6 of 69 06 March 2008 at 3:50pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I have enjoyed reading the posts of SolidSnake.
Whether or not I agree with everything he says, he's taken dedication to a new level and has done this whole learning a foreign language thing the right way in my opinion. I think one of the most important principles he has adhered to is working hard on one language and only on one language at a time. If I could do everything over again this is definitely one thing I would be much more diligent about. Good luck, leosmith. I agree that is far too easy to waste a lot of quality free time reading posts on this website instead of studying. Edited by Seth on 06 March 2008 at 3:53pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| leosmith Senior Member United States Joined 6550 days ago 2365 posts - 3804 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Tagalog | Message 7 of 69 06 March 2008 at 4:04pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Two quick comments. I'd like this to be more than just a praise thread - I'd like people to be able to read examples of these helpful folks, perhapse getting inspired themselves. So please don't forget to include a favorite quote or link that helped you. Feel free to update your posts to include these.
Also, I asked that we mention only one helper per post because I think it's more classy to devote a whole post to a single person. After all, they deserve it. But using seperate posts, feel free to post about as many people as you want, even if they've already been mentioned. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Ra Diglot Newbie Norway Joined 6139 days ago 14 posts - 19 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English Studies: German, French | Message 8 of 69 06 March 2008 at 5:11pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Iversen without a doubt. His posts are really informative, and his writing style makes them a pleasure to read. The list of languages he know makes him sort of an inspiration as well.
His first post in this thread is a good example. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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