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lady_skywalker
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 Message 25 of 54
30 April 2007 at 6:41am | IP Logged 
If you want something fairly mindboggling, Georgian or Basque would be good options. The grammar is quite challenging and they're both rather minor languages so you can at least take pride in learning something that few others do. ;)
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sergiu
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 Message 26 of 54
30 April 2007 at 7:20am | IP Logged 
Fairly ,rather and quite all have the same meaning ,right? :)
So now you're looking for a 5th language,how about Japanese?
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sergiu
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 Message 27 of 54
30 April 2007 at 8:12am | IP Logged 
Can somebody tell me where Ardaschir mentioned about his learning methods?
Thanks in advance

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Thuan
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 Message 28 of 54
30 April 2007 at 11:19am | IP Logged 
Sounds like a great challenge. I would like to attempt something like that myself. The languages I would take are: literacy in Japanese (Japanese novels are great and it's much more enjoyable to read these in Japanese), intermediate level in Mandarin, Swedish (6WC right now, a language that I would like to keep working on everyday without spending too much time on it), Cambodian and Korean (this is going to be quite a challenge, might take something else).

Right now I'm just studying Japanese and Swedish. Looking forward to your future postings on this project. Good luck!
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Languagelover1
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 Message 29 of 54
01 May 2007 at 6:08am | IP Logged 
Sergiu, there is an answer to this question I ask in the Alexander Arguelles thread.

Steve

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sergiu
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 Message 30 of 54
01 May 2007 at 11:46am | IP Logged 
Thanks ,I enjoyed reading the articles.
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vb
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 Message 31 of 54
01 May 2007 at 5:35pm | IP Logged 
Notes from the trenches:

German has rather stolen a march on the other languages. Being the impatient type, I've carried on wading through my 'German Made Simple,' assuming that as long as I can get about 90% comprehension of the texts, I can't go too far wrong. Have got almost half way now and should be able to finish the book in a rather rough-and-ready way in three days time, after which I will go through it again and cherry-pick grammatical points to drill. BOOM-SHACK-A-LACK!

Esperanto is trudging along workmanlikely on a lesson a day.

Am ordering Assimil Mandarin and will attempt to diligently follow the prescribed method, so Mandarin is on the back-burner until the Assimil arrives. Visit to Beijing is pencilled in for mid-September (complete with an international foosball tournament to enter!)

Still to look for Hindi materials.

I've plumped for Spanish as a fifth choice - useful rather than especially exotic. Will probably go down the same route as with the German (read; memorise vocab; drill grammar), tho hopefully will progress to unsimplified materials more quickly.
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vb
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 Message 32 of 54
25 December 2007 at 6:42pm | IP Logged 
Hmmm Unfortunately, I had to put this project on hold after being headhunted for a job (teaching Maths).

Holidays now, so am doing about 6hrs of Spanish a day (starting from scratch) to see how far I can get. Major use of online grammar drills so far; should polish off regular verb forms (including subjunctive) by end of the first week and then be on to the finer points and vocab crunching.

Pronouns of various colours/possessive adjectives etc treated today so much of the some irritating bits have already been dealt with (to a degree).

Edited by vb on 25 December 2007 at 6:50pm



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