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| matt25 Pentaglot Newbie Germany Joined 6386 days ago 19 posts - 19 votes Speaks: German*, French, English, Latin, Ancient Greek | Message 1 of 12 13 June 2007 at 8:26am | IP Logged |
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Since I did not get any replies on my post in the "forum rules" topic I will post again here what I wanted to propose.
This forum shall help people who are interested in languages to learn better and more efficiently. I appreciate this very much and in view of all the helpful information provided and the vivid forum participation I am sure that it helps a lot. However, I still miss one thing a lot: Actually practising languages in this forum. Sure, there is plenty space to ask every kind of question concerning language / learning problems but there is no opportunity to actually communicate in certain languages. I consider this as a great pity especially since I do not know another place with such a amount of people speaking Swahili (!) or Korean. So my proposition is: Install one Forum called "Language Practise" (or something like that) and maybe several subforums for the different languages. I am sure, a lot of people would use this. Would be great if for every subforum there maybe was a native speaker who could correct some of the made mistakes. Well, what do you think about this? P.S. If this has already been posted anywhere, I just could not find it. Sorry in this case. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Volte Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 6439 days ago 4474 posts - 6726 votes  Speaks: English*, Esperanto, German, Italian Studies: French, Finnish, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 2 of 12 13 June 2007 at 9:33am | IP Logged |
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There used to be the 'multilingual lounge' here, but it apparently did not work very well. At this point, there are only individual threads in non-English languages. The closest to what you want, recently, was probably Sprachprofi's thread with three passages of various levels of difficulty to translate into whichever language you wanted to.
Have you considered using the unilang forums? The Kiswahili and Korean ones aren't huge, but they exist, and people seem to post in whichever they prefer of English and the forum language in the language-specific forums there. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| matt25 Pentaglot Newbie Germany Joined 6386 days ago 19 posts - 19 votes Speaks: German*, French, English, Latin, Ancient Greek | Message 3 of 12 13 June 2007 at 9:47am | IP Logged |
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Thanks for your post. I have already seen Sprachprofi's thread and actually it received quite a participation. Do you not think special language forums would be used a lot? I think it is worth a try. At least for the major languages.
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| Volte Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 6439 days ago 4474 posts - 6726 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto, German, Italian Studies: French, Finnish, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 4 of 12 13 June 2007 at 9:56am | IP Logged |
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I'm happy with special forums for specific languages, and also without them. If they were here, I'd use them; as they're not, I practice languages elsewhere.
Other posts on this can be found by this query; the thread here may be of interest. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| matt25 Pentaglot Newbie Germany Joined 6386 days ago 19 posts - 19 votes Speaks: German*, French, English, Latin, Ancient Greek | Message 5 of 12 13 June 2007 at 10:02am | IP Logged |
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Okay the thread you presented covers everything I was wondering about. Still I am sure sepcial forums would be working out in several languages, but I am fine wihthout them, too.
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| victor Tetraglot Moderator United States Joined 7318 days ago 1098 posts - 1056 votes 6 sounds Speaks: Cantonese*, English, FrenchC1, Mandarin Studies: Spanish Personal Language Map | Message 6 of 12 14 June 2007 at 6:50pm | IP Logged |
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There was already a discussion in the senior forum about something like this. Most people thought that single-language threads in the practical self-study questions section already suffice. The reception for the Multilingual Lounge was rather unsatisfactory also.
Members of our forum have got a good number of languages covered, so feel free to start your new thread in the practical self-study questions section. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Darobat Diglot Senior Member Joined 7188 days ago 754 posts - 770 votes Speaks: English*, Russian Studies: Latin | Message 7 of 12 16 June 2007 at 3:46pm | IP Logged |
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I think it may be worth bringing the multilingual lounge back. When we had it, the forum was very new and still very small. I bet it would receive considerably more traffic now that the site has grown. Edited by Darobat on 16 June 2007 at 3:48pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| MissMyChris Newbie United States Joined 6438 days ago 17 posts - 17 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, French | Message 8 of 12 16 June 2007 at 4:33pm | IP Logged |
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Wasn't the previous multilingual lounge only open to the moderators? If this is open to everyone, I'd guess there would be a lot more action.
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