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| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6474 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes  Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 1 of 14 03 January 2010 at 10:34pm | IP Logged |
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We are three people learning the language of Confucius and also sharing an interest in the German language. Introducing the team and their personal logs:
Annette, a native English speaker learning Mandarin and German Dragonfly, a native Russian speaker learning Mandarin, German and Spanish Sprachprofi, a native German speaker learning Mandarin, French, Italian, Greek and Arabic In this communal log we shall encourage each other, especially when somebody hasn't written much lately, mark milestones and discuss methods and materials related to our common languages. The log name is derived from a quote by Confucius: 三人行必有我师, meaning roughly "among three people walking with me, one of them must be my teacher". It also creates a link to German as it's the title of an easy Chinese reader for Germans. Edited by Sprachprofi on 04 January 2010 at 11:48am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| annette Senior Member United States Joined 5510 days ago 164 posts - 192 votes Speaks: English* | Message 2 of 14 04 January 2010 at 9:18am | IP Logged |
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Thanks for creating this log for us! Go Team H!! We'll show that silly Team M who really
knows how to study the Zhongwen... ;) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6474 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 3 of 14 12 January 2010 at 9:51pm | IP Logged |
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Welcome to the team, Toffeeliz!
Annette, Dragonfly, how are you coming along? 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| minus273 Triglot Senior Member France Joined 5769 days ago 288 posts - 346 votes Speaks: Mandarin*, EnglishC2, French Studies: Ancient Greek, Tibetan | Message 4 of 14 13 January 2010 at 12:08am | IP Logged |
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加油!
Especially to Sprachprofi, who created one of the first foreign language courses in my life. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| annette Senior Member United States Joined 5510 days ago 164 posts - 192 votes Speaks: English* | Message 5 of 14 13 January 2010 at 2:03am | IP Logged |
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Oh, I didn't know we had a new team member. Go Toffeeliz!
I'm fine. I'm taking a Classical Chinese course conducted completely in Mandarin, which looks like it'll be very good for me. I had the first class today and am excited to go to my next. Character work is going slowly because word lists and vocabulary are always the most time-consuming part of any language study for me, and I have another language that is sucking up all my drill time. But I'm optimistic that this will come with time. The Classical Chinese course generally does not teach vocabulary as it focuses on grammar and comprehension, but because all writing and reading is done in Mandarin, I'm guessing I'll have lots of practice there! How are you all doing? Having opportunities to practice speaking, I hope? Conversation can certainly be the hardest part to "schedule!" ETA: Thanks to minus273 for cheering us on. It's very interesting to me that you are studying Tibetan. Is this decision partly political for you or are you just very interested in the culture/language? Edited by annette on 13 January 2010 at 2:04am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| dragonfly Triglot Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 6483 days ago 204 posts - 233 votes Speaks: Russian*, EnglishC2, Spanish Studies: German, Italian, Mandarin | Message 6 of 14 13 January 2010 at 10:36am | IP Logged |
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Hi, teammates!
I have to admit I don't have an opportunity for speaking now. I hope to catch up with it later. What I do is mainly listen, read and write. This week I'm concentrating on ChinesePod and my reader. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Toffeeliz Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5684 days ago 116 posts - 130 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin Studies: Russian | Message 7 of 14 13 January 2010 at 1:24pm | IP Logged |
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I feel a little tight for messing up Sprachprofi's log name for the team heh. :D Thanks for adding me in at the last minute.
Annette - why Classical Chinese? dragonfly - 加油！ Personally, after starting Uni I had to cancel my regular Chinese lessons so I'm putting extra effort in to keep my Chinese on track. I have some friends in class that speak Chinese which I get to speak to sometimes. As for German, I'm still trying to get a foothold. It's the first language where I haven't had immersion beforehand and the sounds are very strange to me at the moment. :D 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| annette Senior Member United States Joined 5510 days ago 164 posts - 192 votes Speaks: English* | Message 8 of 14 14 January 2010 at 12:51am | IP Logged |
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Conversational practice is always the hardest thing for me to find time/opportunity
for, so I'm very happy that I'll be getting lots of practice in my class. I hope you all are just as lucky! I know conversation isn't strictly "necessary" in that speaking will come naturally from comprehension/reading practice, but it's still nice to have a back-and-forth dialogue every once in a while. Toffeeliz, I am taking Classical Chinese mostly because I'm very interested in Classical writings. My hope is to one day make it through Zhuangzi without too much difficulty - unfortunately he LOVES weird, obscure, archaic words that are hard to find in the average dictionary, so we'll see whether I ever make it there. What do you mean approximately by your use of the word "tight?" Is it like embarrassed or just bad or what? In my area of the US, we use it like "cool" which is obviously not what you're going for here ("dude, you're awesome! your party was hella tight!"). I'm always very interested in UK-isms and seeing how speech varies between regions. I had a lot of exposure to Mandarin as a toddler but then didn't touch the language for a long time and ended up completely forgetting it. But I'm always surprised at how much my early experience with Chinese has helped me. When I first started learning Mandarin, I couldn't say or understand anything, but I never had any problems with tones or pronunciation, and when I got to very basic grammatical points, I had a much easier time than my friends! Unfortunately characters and new vocabulary are still very hard! Edited by annette on 14 January 2010 at 12:53am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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