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What to choose for the next 6WC in August | ||
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| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6597 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes  4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 9 of 16 21 July 2012 at 8:02pm | IP Logged | ||
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Here's the info. The registering for August is not open yet I think.
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| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5009 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 10 of 16 21 July 2012 at 8:14pm | IP Logged | ||
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There is August 6WC? Great! I wanted to intensively study German in August anyways!. (But
I may as well have an opportunity to spend two weeks in France. At least I hope so...) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5009 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 11 of 16 21 July 2012 at 8:17pm | IP Logged | ||
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So, if it isn't clear from my previous post: I think the 6WC is one of the best
opportunities to strenghten our motivation and move one of your weaker languages a lot forward. So, Cristina, good luck with your Russian, if you choose following the same logic as I do. And if not, there is no better opportunity to start Mandarin :-) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 emk Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5532 days ago 2615 posts - 8806 votes Speaks: English*, FrenchB2 Studies: Spanish, Ancient Egyptian Personal Language Map | Message 12 of 16 21 July 2012 at 8:42pm | IP Logged | ||
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I think there's a lot to be said for pushing Russian up to B1. That extra self-
sufficiency is worth something. But I've recently started messing around with a non-Indo-European language with an ideographic script. And this has had a very curious effect: It has forced me to improve my study techniques. All of a sudden, I'm getting a lot better at mnemonics, and I'm putting in practice more ideas from AJATT. And this is carry back over to my French. For example, my kids were recently pushing around little toy wheelbarrows, and I discovered that the French word for wheelbarrow is brouette. I immediately broke that down into "brou" and "ette", and pictured one of the little wheelbarrows full of beer brewing equipment. The word stuck instantly. And I'm getting much more aggressive with "fill in the blank" cards in Anki. If I read a phrase which uses "à" or "de" to introduce the infinitive (always a guessing game for French students), I paste it into Anki and hit the cloze button. So there's something to be said for a nice, challenging wanderlust project if it can teach you new study techniques. 6 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| iguanamon Pentaglot Senior Member Virgin Islands Speaks: Ladino Joined 5262 days ago 2241 posts - 6731 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese, Haitian Creole, Creole (French) | Message 13 of 16 21 July 2012 at 10:14pm | IP Logged | ||
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It's the old HTLAL dilemma, Christina- get to a high level in a few languages or have a smattering of many. I think you'll be disappointed in yourself if you miss this chance to boost your Russian. Russia is next door to Norway and you'll have more opportunity to use and maintain it- especially by reading.
Get a phrasebook for Mandarin. Learn some greetings, pleasantries, courtesies and necessities. Use this opportunity to push your Russian forward. B1 in Russian would be a nice accomplishment to have and quite useful on the Trans-Siberian and even useful in Mongolia- some second language speakers and the use of the Cyrillic alphabet in Mongolian. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| bluejay390 Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6278 days ago 227 posts - 259 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Mandarin, Japanese, Malay, Italian | Message 14 of 16 21 July 2012 at 11:02pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'm considering choosing Mandarin for the up coming 6WC too! Either that or Japanese
again.
I've taken two semesters of Chinese classes (about a year/a little less than year of Chinese studying) and I can put together some sentences. I even started weiboing. So, I think it depends more on how you study and what kind of materials you have. I think you could learn a good amount of survival Chinese in six weeks. Having said that, it might be worth it to you to focus on Russian for the 6WC and just pick up a good phrase book or something for Mandarin later. If you can get to B1 in Russian before your trip, you'll probably have a way more enjoyable time speaking Russian on your trip. Russian might help you in Mongolia too because you would be able to read most of the signs since Mongolian uses the Cyrillic alphabet, and Russian is a popular language to study in Mongolia. In short, I would go with Russian for the 6WC and learn a little survival Chinese on the side. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4707 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 15 of 16 22 July 2012 at 1:03am | IP Logged | ||
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I think you might do well to focus on the tasks you know are going to avail you -
Russian. If you want to do a good job, do a good job. But that's my insanity talking. I'm doing Swedish (instead of Hebrew). :) 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Heather McNamar Senior Member United States Joined 4782 days ago 77 posts - 109 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Latin | Message 16 of 16 22 July 2012 at 9:17pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'm probably going to do French since I'm still a long way from where I want to be, but I'm still going to make time for Japanese. I might be doing some freelance writing work, too, so between those two activities I should be plenty busy.
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