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TAC ’14 - Team Coconut (Southeast Asia) | ||
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| tlanguell Newbie United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4040 days ago 24 posts - 54 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Vietnamese | Message 17 of 61 21 December 2013 at 8:21am | IP Logged | ||
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I am studying Vietnamese and would like to join your team (I'm already a member of
STARt). How about a name with "Tiger" since it's the indigenous animal of SE Asia? 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| doubleUelle Bilingual Tetraglot Groupie United States Joined 4036 days ago 67 posts - 95 votes Speaks: English*, Russian*, French, Japanese Studies: Spanish, Thai | Message 18 of 61 23 December 2013 at 7:25am | IP Logged | ||
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Does anyone have any preferences re: coconut vs tiger?
Coconuts are sweet, which could be a symbol of how sweet it is to learn languages (and explore other cultures). On the other hand, tigers could represent fierceness - for a fierce, strong team of dedicated learners!!! :-) I'm fine either way. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Stelle Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Canada tobefluent.com Joined 4145 days ago 949 posts - 1686 votes Speaks: French*, English*, Spanish Studies: Tagalog | Message 19 of 61 23 December 2013 at 1:06pm | IP Logged | ||
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I like Tiger, but my reasoning is a bit silly - it's mainly because I'm already a Spanish wolf, and I like the idea of
being two animals. Ha! That said, I'm not going to be an active team member until May, and there aren't any tigers in the Philippines anyway, so maybe I don't get a vote. ;) Honestly, I'm happy with whatever you guys choose - both coconuts and tigers are lovely. I'm just glad that there's a place for those of us who are learning less common languages! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| viedums Hexaglot Senior Member Thailand Joined 4667 days ago 327 posts - 528 votes Speaks: Latvian, English*, German, Mandarin, Thai, French Studies: Vietnamese | Message 20 of 61 24 December 2013 at 4:11am | IP Logged | ||
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If we want to be different from any East Asian teams (Korean/Japanese/Chinese), coconut might be better. It’s a tropical fruit after all. And eating a fresh coconut requires both hard work (to hack it open) and finesse (to avoid spilling the juice after you’ve cut a hole in it.) So we could say it’s like language learning in that way. :) I think I’ll weigh in for “Team Coconut”!
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| js6426 Diglot Senior Member Cambodia Joined 4521 days ago 277 posts - 349 votes Speaks: English*, Khmer Studies: Mandarin | Message 21 of 61 24 December 2013 at 9:24am | IP Logged | ||
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I will also vote for coconut
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| Stelle Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Canada tobefluent.com Joined 4145 days ago 949 posts - 1686 votes Speaks: French*, English*, Spanish Studies: Tagalog | Message 22 of 61 24 December 2013 at 1:33pm | IP Logged | ||
Very convincing! When you put it that way…coconut sounds much better than tiger! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| doubleUelle Bilingual Tetraglot Groupie United States Joined 4036 days ago 67 posts - 95 votes Speaks: English*, Russian*, French, Japanese Studies: Spanish, Thai | Message 23 of 61 24 December 2013 at 2:35pm | IP Logged | ||
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Team Coconut it is!
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| doubleUelle Bilingual Tetraglot Groupie United States Joined 4036 days ago 67 posts - 95 votes Speaks: English*, Russian*, French, Japanese Studies: Spanish, Thai | Message 24 of 61 25 December 2013 at 5:24pm | IP Logged | ||
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Perhaps we could also talk about what our goals are for this year.
For myself, I'd like to get to a lower intermediate / basic conversation by mid-May, whereas right now I'm a complete beginner (been studying Thai for about 1.5 months). That's a tad ambitious, but I'm determined to work hard. There is a very good chance that I will be going to Chiang Mai for a month from mid-May to mid-June, so by that point I want to be at a level where I can a) conserve and b) have enough of a foundation in the language that I can easily pick up more words, expressions etc. After that, I'd like to just keep working on my Thai, hopefully getting to a solid, upper-intermediate level by the end of the year. (I'd also like to maintain my Spanish and work on my Japanese a bit, but I guess that's less relevant to this group.) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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