luke Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 7207 days ago 3133 posts - 4351 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Esperanto, French
| Message 97 of 117 09 September 2007 at 10:28am | IP Logged |
Welcome back! I hope you continue the ongoing quest to publish your book.
To me the most interesting language learning thread during your hiatus was on The Listening-Reading System. It is a long thread, but just reading the initial posts by the original author, siomotteikiru, and a couple of her clarifications should give you a clear picture of the system. I have been using it to some degree and personally think it's brilliant. I am extremely curious what your thoughts are.
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Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6599 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish
| Message 98 of 117 09 September 2007 at 10:09pm | IP Logged |
Welcome back!
Now I'll be spending even more time here :D
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administrator Hexaglot Forum Admin Switzerland FXcuisine.com Joined 7378 days ago 3094 posts - 2987 votes 12 sounds Speaks: French*, EnglishC2, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian Personal Language Map
| Message 99 of 117 10 September 2007 at 1:23am | IP Logged |
Welcome back Ardaschir!
If you would like a special thread or even your own room where people could ask you questions in a grouped fashion please let me know and I'll set it up. It could be called Ardaschir's Tree and you could gather polyglot-apprentices under that electronic tree to teach them about the art of polylgottery.
Good luck with your book. One is never quite satisfied with a book and many great books have been published posthumously. Sometimes it is good to draw the line somewhere and use a later book to expand or refine a given discourse!
Francois
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hamba Diglot Newbie Australia Joined 6733 days ago 22 posts - 32 votes Speaks: English*, Indonesian Studies: Arabic (classical), Urdu
| Message 100 of 117 11 September 2007 at 7:28am | IP Logged |
Yes welcome back Ardaschir,
I was one of those people who enjoyed reading your contributions back in 2005 but was always to hesitant to ask you anything directly. Times have changed and two years have come and gone, so I would like to ask you a quick question about your acquisition of Arabic. As someone who has been learning Arabic (on and off) for the last fifteen years, I would like your opinion as to what are the benefits of learning Arabic or what have you gained in your pursuit of this language? What if any, are the best methods of learning this language considering its supposed difficulty as testified to by many students and language difficulty scales (the FSI scale comes to mind). Thanks in advance for anything you may have the time to pass on....
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Hencke Tetraglot Moderator Spain Joined 6896 days ago 2340 posts - 2444 votes Speaks: Swedish*, Finnish, EnglishC2, Spanish Studies: Mandarin Personal Language Map
| Message 101 of 117 12 September 2007 at 8:09pm | IP Logged |
Welcome back from me too!
I also joined after you were no longer active, but you are a legend around here and your footprint lingers on everywhere in the forum as it were. I have enjoyed reading several of your old posts, as well as learning from them, and I am looking forward to more.
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LilleOSC Senior Member United States lille.theoffside.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6693 days ago 545 posts - 546 votes 4 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: French, Arabic (Written)
| Message 102 of 117 13 September 2007 at 9:36am | IP Logged |
Welcome back, Ardaschir. I enjoyed reading your old posts such as the one arguing the importance of Latin for learning the Romance languages. That polyglot institute you mentioned sounds like a great idea. How serious are you with that goal?
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JasonChoi Diglot Senior Member Korea, South Joined 6361 days ago 274 posts - 298 votes Speaks: English*, Korean Studies: Mandarin, Cantonese, Latin
| Message 103 of 117 13 September 2007 at 12:39pm | IP Logged |
Welcome back ;)
I've also joined this forum long after you disappeared, however, I've spent a considerable amount of time reading everything you've written.
If such an institute existed, I would be the first one there as polyglottery is precisely what I'm interested in! =)
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awake Senior Member United States Joined 6638 days ago 406 posts - 438 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Esperanto, Spanish
| Message 104 of 117 13 September 2007 at 1:38pm | IP Logged |
Indeed, Welcome back Ardaschir. You left the forum before I joined it, but the archives of your posts have been
of great value to me. I'm very much a beginner on the path towards polyglottery, but I've taken a lot of knowledge
and inspiration from your posts. I very much look forward to hearing your further ideas and opinions in the
future. :)
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