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| PaulLambeth Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5373 days ago 244 posts - 315 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Icelandic, Hindi, Irish | Message 1 of 44 27 December 2011 at 3:07am | IP Logged | ||
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TAC 2012: Team ɬ
This is the main thread for team ɬ, an open team for anybody who intends to study at least one rarely tackled language in 2012 - namely one which is either: - not in the top 40 most spoken languages (link) - listed as "vulnerable" or higher (link) - incompatible with any other group Naturally this definition is quite loose as it leaves in many highly-studied European languages, but the general aim is to give those who pick less common languages a chance to be in a team for TAC 2012. The current team members are (as of 26th January 2012): Ellsworth (log), studying Irish espejismo studying Persian hrhenry (log), studying Georgian jellyfish (log), studying Persian Mani (log), studying Kurdish and Luxembourgish PaulLambeth (log), studying Irish and Hindi Quabazaa (log), studying Maori, Scots Gaelic, French, and Arabic zecchino1991 (log), studying Georgian This thread will serve as a place where members can post their experiences, milestones and anything of interest to the rest of the group. Please post if you want to join! Once personal blogs are set up I will link to those. The team name "ɬ" is the voiceless alveolar lateral fricative, a sound found fairly commonly among Native American languages and otherwise quite scattered. As far as I know it does not appear in any more commonly studied languages. Paul Edited by PaulLambeth on 26 January 2012 at 5:15am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Ellsworth Senior Member United States Joined 4957 days ago 345 posts - 528 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Swedish, Finnish, Icelandic, Irish | Message 2 of 44 27 December 2011 at 3:14am | IP Logged | ||
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I am planning on studying Irish. That counts right? If so, count me in please.
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| PaulLambeth Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5373 days ago 244 posts - 315 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Icelandic, Hindi, Irish | Message 3 of 44 27 December 2011 at 3:17am | IP Logged | ||
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You're fantastic! I was hoping to find a fellow Irish learner with this group, and one appeared in 7 minutes.
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| Ellsworth Senior Member United States Joined 4957 days ago 345 posts - 528 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Swedish, Finnish, Icelandic, Irish | Message 4 of 44 27 December 2011 at 3:21am | IP Logged | ||
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Very cool. What is your current level in Irish?
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| PaulLambeth Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5373 days ago 244 posts - 315 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Icelandic, Hindi, Irish | Message 5 of 44 27 December 2011 at 3:23am | IP Logged | ||
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I'm pretty much just starting. I did it for a few weeks at the beginning of November's 6WC, but then had essays and examinations so could not continue. I'm about to get back onto it once I'm home from the beginning of January. It's been a goal of mine for a while, though. Yourself?
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| Ellsworth Senior Member United States Joined 4957 days ago 345 posts - 528 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Swedish, Finnish, Icelandic, Irish | Message 6 of 44 27 December 2011 at 3:33am | IP Logged | ||
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I really have no understanding of it beyond the Wikipedia page as of yet. I got a
book(http://www.amazon.com/New-Irish-Grammar-English/dp/0714 412988/ref=pd_rhf_pe_p_t_1) for Christmas, so I plan on studying actively and maybe moving on to different programs. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| hrhenry Octoglot Senior Member United States languagehopper.blogs Joined 5130 days ago 1871 posts - 3642 votes Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, ItalianC2, Norwegian, Catalan, Galician, Turkish, Portuguese Studies: Polish, Indonesian, Ojibwe | Message 7 of 44 27 December 2011 at 3:39am | IP Logged | ||
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Link to my Log.
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| PaulLambeth Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5373 days ago 244 posts - 315 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Icelandic, Hindi, Irish | Message 8 of 44 27 December 2011 at 3:49am | IP Logged | ||
I haven't seen that book before. Last Christmas I was bought this by Mícheál Ó Siadhail, and started work on it with my girlfriend, but my ability didn't really go past pronunciation. It was excellent, if horribly binded, for the early bit of the 6WC though. Teango on this forum also has a really good list of resources, some of which are free. He's also planning on studying Irish in 2012. Thanks Rick, I'll put a link in the first post. Bedtime for me but I'll make my own thread soon. Edited by PaulLambeth on 27 December 2011 at 3:50am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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