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| DaraghM Diglot Senior Member Ireland Joined 6151 days ago 1947 posts - 2923 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Russian, Hungarian | Message 1 of 29 25 June 2012 at 11:32am | IP Logged |
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What are you achievements since joining this forum ? Have you learnt to speak a language to basic or advanced fluency ?
Since joining the forum I have, - Got to basic fluency in Spanish from nearly scratch. - Massively increased the amount of time I spend on languages due to TAC and other challenges. - Learnt a huge number of techniques to help my study. L-R, wordlists, etc. - Realised I'm not alone in my language obsessions. Edited by Fasulye on 25 June 2012 at 12:18pm 5 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Hampie Diglot Senior Member Sweden Joined 6659 days ago 625 posts - 1009 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: Latin, German, Mandarin | Message 2 of 29 25 June 2012 at 12:52pm | IP Logged |
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I've gotten two pokals under my name for usefullness of my posts!
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 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6703 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 3 of 29 25 June 2012 at 1:08pm | IP Logged |
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Status summer 2006: Danish and English as good as ever, French and German still usable, Spanish almost usable but homegrown, Italian rusty and everything else seemingly gone.
Status summer 2012: Getting my full dozen of languages at at least basic fluency when I - with a bit of luck - have survived the congress in Galway and the one hour lecture in Esperanto which I have promised to deliver there (not my usual criterion, which is that I can do a monolingual voyage somewhere, but probably as demanding). Getting at last half a dozen other languages and half-dialects to the stage where I can read them fairly fluently and with a little help write them and make bad videos in them (or ask for a bread or the toilet if I should travel to a relevant place). Getting a further half dozen to the stage where I at least can read ordinary texts in them and probably would be able to activate them fairly easily in the right surroundings. Furthermore: getting a stab at my first non-European language (Indonesian) and discovering that it isn't too scary. Learning and - not least - discovering a lot of useful techniques, which to a large extent can compensate for the loss of an academical study environment when compared to my situation in the seventies. Getting the internet at my disposal with dictionaries, encyclopedias, grammars, speech synthethizers and translators .. HTLAL can't take the honour for those things, but I might have used them less without HTLAL. Getting acquainted with learners with other language combinations and other study habits - although it is depressing to see so many interesting characters have a short time of glory here and then getting lost in the mist again (but that's life). Getting a blog done in the form of my log plus a five-part study guide which I can refer to whenever I want. Getting my first Youtube videos publicized without really being harassed. Edited by Iversen on 25 June 2012 at 1:14pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| druckfehler Triglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4868 days ago 1181 posts - 1912 votes Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Korean Studies: Persian | Message 4 of 29 25 June 2012 at 1:21pm | IP Logged |
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I've been here for only just under a year, so I haven't achieved all that much, but I think I have still learned some important things, namely
- that much more is possible in language learning than I thought - that monitoring my progress publicly can make me study obsessively As far as hard skills go: - a (for me) surprising amount of vocabulary - the Arabic (Persian) abjad, which I had always found extremely intimidating - gone from A2 Korean to a solid B1 and am on my way to B2 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5334 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 5 of 29 25 June 2012 at 2:00pm | IP Logged |
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Ah - you beat me to it - I was just going to ask the very same question :-) Well I'll just contribute instead then.
I have been here in little over two years and seen the following progress: - I have discovered Pimsleur, Assimil, Michel Thomas and Rosetta Stone (have not actually received the last one but will soon) - I have finished level 1,2 3 of Pimsleur Russian, and most of all three levels of Michel Thomas Russian as well as half of Assimil Russian, and have moved Russian from a language I was giving up to one I am passionate about, and gone from zero to what I hope is a solid A2 - I have been inspired to go four times to Ukraine, and am going to St, Petersburg this summer and on the Transsiberian this autumn - I have read my first book in Russian, and have had my first conversations in Russian - I have rediscovered that I am capable of insane amounts of studying when I need to, and won the Tadoku challenge the one time I participated, and have participated in three 6 week challenges, with 3rd place as my personal best. - I have made friends with two Russians, - I have watched lots of series in French, a number of films in Russian and started to watch series in German, and have noted significant progress in French and some progress in German already - I have won the TAC 2011, and have discovered how much help and inspiration you can get through your team mates and others who follow your log, - I have met and planned to meet several people from the forum, and have had multilingual conversations with them, - I have dabbled in Turk, Greek and Swahili, and have just started Mongolian and Mandarin. I have also gotten study material for Japanese, Arabic and Slovak. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| jdmoncada Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5034 days ago 470 posts - 741 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Finnish Studies: Russian, Japanese | Message 6 of 29 25 June 2012 at 3:19pm | IP Logged |
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I joined over a year ago, not quite a year and a half. During that time, I have:
*Participated in four 6WCs (Japanese, Japanese, French and Russian respectively) *Studied Japanese to N5 level *Revived my Russian so that it is now possibly better than it was originally *Resurrected the Hungarian I thought was dead *Gotten to know French better instead of just being "vaguely familiar" with it *Gotten more confidence and competence in all aspects of language learning. It might be my age/maturity, but I just feel like I'm a better language learner now than when I was younger and learning things in public schools and universities. I thought my curiosity for languages had a limit, and it does. The interesting part is that I've realized my limit has been pushed farther than I had previously thought. I thought I would just have 4 languages (English, Spanish, Finnish and German) in my head, but now I know I have enough mental room for 4 more (Japanese, Russian, French and sometimes Hungarian). 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| The Aussie Newbie Australia Joined 4848 days ago 10 posts - 11 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 7 of 29 25 June 2012 at 3:56pm | IP Logged |
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-Learned many, many different techniques to learn languages.I'm wanting to try out L-R next week!
-Brought my low C grade average in French up to a high B, due to motivation. -Renewed intrest in foriegn languages, as well as the tools and resoucres to learn them. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| sillygoose1 Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 4636 days ago 566 posts - 814 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, Spanish, French Studies: German, Latin | Message 8 of 29 25 June 2012 at 3:59pm | IP Logged |
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-Went from a few basic phrases in a university course to being fairly conversational
-Gained lots of motivation from reading the forums -Found out about great courses, study methods, and some good movies I have to say though, if I didn't discover this website I'd be completely lost with figuring out how to learn a language and I would never have dreamed about learning more languages, but because of HTLAL, it is a new hobby of mine. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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