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| BaronBill Triglot Senior Member United States HowToLanguages.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4690 days ago 335 posts - 594 votes  Speaks: English*, French, German Studies: Spanish, Mandarin, Persian | Message 17 of 40 07 November 2013 at 9:37pm | IP Logged | |||||||||||
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| alang Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 7222 days ago 563 posts - 757 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish | Message 18 of 40 08 November 2013 at 6:23am | IP Logged | |||||||||||
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My Austronesian list right now are as follows: Indonesian, Tagalog, Cebuano/ Bisaya, Ilocano, Hawaiian, Maori, Malagasy. Malay? only if there were more resources, but Indonesian helps with that. Only the first three I am interested in a high level of conversation, but the others are only for fun. I already have the book "Loan Words in Indonesian and Malay", so it will be a nice contribution to other languages of interest in the future. I am still waiting for a book on cognates between Tagalog and Cebuano/ Bisaya, as it would cut down a lot in vocabulary acquisition. I see myself signing up for Indonesian for sure and maybe Tagalog. This is of course planning for the future. 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 40 08 November 2013 at 11:22am | IP Logged | |||||||||||
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How can we sign up for updates? Do you have a mailing list where you'll announce materials as they become available?
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| freakyaye Senior Member Australia Joined 4839 days ago 107 posts - 152 votes | Message 20 of 40 08 November 2013 at 3:22pm | IP Logged | |||||||||||
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To OP:
Are these materials available? You don't mention a website and as an Aussie learning Indonesian is in my blood! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||||||||
| Crush Tetraglot Senior Member ChinaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5866 days ago 1622 posts - 2299 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Mandarin, Esperanto Studies: Basque | Message 21 of 40 11 November 2013 at 1:07am | IP Logged | |||||||||||
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I'd also like to be kept up to date on these courses, if there's a mailing list or anything similar. :)
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| snoonan Triglot Newbie United States learningindones Joined 6252 days ago 23 posts - 56 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Indonesian | Message 22 of 40 15 November 2013 at 5:36am | IP Logged | |||||||||||
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Sorry to go dark on this thread. We left for a month in SE Asia and were offline for the first leg of the trip. Finally at
our home base in Jakarta!
It's interesting about the Cebuano/Visaya -- we put that towards the end of the list since it's not very popular as a target language. I have a friend who lives in Davao City and he was always steering me away from doing things with it. We even have good connections for the audio production there. I think it would be "easy" for us after we have a Tagalog in place, but I have some doubts about whether a decent number of people will end up using it. We will definitely continue to include it in research hoping we can find the right interest. BTW, I do find myself laughing as I work on the technical breakdown of Tagalog -- My Spanish and Indonesian vocabulary keeps popping up all over the place!
The new materials aren't available yet -- we're asking the questions now in order to get feedback on the general direction. If you're interested in our earliest work, we do have our existing Indonesian course linked on my profile. It doesn't have much of what was mentioned in this thread, but it might be of interest. And yeah, Australians are like 1/3rd of our site traffic -- you guys definitely love to learn Indonesian.
Sure, I just set something up (see link below). It's not a mailing list, but just a list I can BCC: anyone interest in trying out early material. I may send our REALLY rough stuff early if there's interest. Even those materials are probably better than nothing. The idea being that we don't always know what we think we do. Real learners trying things out is the only way to know what works and what doesn't. We have a massive base of Indonesian users, but really almost no one in the other languages yet. Thanks! https://d ocs.google.com/forms/d/1Bn1rEQofUFxEdHaCP14SlNI3sMfyELho77xT aXQOomY/viewform edit: fixed URL Edited by snoonan on 16 November 2013 at 10:10am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||||||||
| YnEoS Senior Member United States Joined 4255 days ago 472 posts - 893 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Russian, Cantonese, Japanese, French, Hungarian, Czech, Swedish, Mandarin, Italian, Spanish | Message 23 of 40 15 November 2013 at 6:24pm | IP Logged | |||||||||||
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This looks wonderful! I'd definitely be interested in using an updated Indonesian course as well as a Malaysian course. Thai is also on my hitlist though pretty far down, so we'll see if I ever get there or not.
If you venture into doing some Dravidian languages as well, that would be incredible! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||||||||
| alang Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 7222 days ago 563 posts - 757 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish | Message 24 of 40 16 November 2013 at 12:29am | IP Logged | |||||||||||
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Out of my Austronesian list, the most probable viability are: Indonesian, Malay, and Tagalog. Malagasy is a question mark. Cebuano/ Bisaya is of a personal interest, as I see why even native speakers don't think it would be very marketable. When I meet people from the Filipino community, aside from Tagalog are either Cebuano or Ilocano speakers. I looked over the top 100 languages spoken by native speakers on Wikipedia. The list might give an indication on which ones are best to make resources for in a survey. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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