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reineke
Senior Member
United States
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851 posts - 1008 votes 
Studies: German

 
 Message 1 of 13
01 July 2009 at 5:09am | IP Logged 
It's been six months. We've got six months left. Newcomers may still join by the end of the week.

Going strong (or have simply updated by June 30):

Fasulye, ExtraLean, Sunja, Crush, zenmonkey, peppelanguage, zanoni, GoldFibre,

mick33 (and his poor overwhelmed brain), Anya, tricoteuse, DaraghM,

g-bod, Marj, -Kupo-, Adrean, dmg, magister, farrioth, grwn, , sabotai,

andee, TheElvenLord, evandempsey, Lindley, Sapphire,

"oh Pimsleur how I hate you" Kuronue , Sierra (14 April 2009),

"School has been killing my soul" Eimii (right after she finished Pimsleur),

Absent (hopefully just respawning in a wall somewhere)

roncy (last post 11 April 09)

robertsl Last words April 06, 09: "It's Total Annihilation Challenge, its something on this forums where everyone makes a log of their language learning and at the end of the year they're compared and the people who have made the biggest achievements are recognised. It's just for fun times and a nice way of encouraging learning and recognising progression."),

JonB,

Volte: 31 March 2009 at 4:38am "I'm taking another break from the forum... I'll be back when my current language-learning experiment is over; in the meanwhile, this is a distraction I do not need. My initial rough estimate is "a few weeks".)

messiah: (16 March 2009) "I'm also listening freakly, I listen about 8 hours of japanese every day... radio, podcasts, drama audios etc. I feel lonely when I don't have japanese to listen LOL...In English, I'm watching old cartoons withou subtitles, like Top-Cat, 2 stupid dogs and Power Rangers, I think I need listen and read more English, let's do it! "

charlmartell ( silent but deadly!) 09 March 2009

Sprachprofi 07 March 2009

ANNIHILATED!!

"Eternal Procastination" Gon-no-suke 11 February 2009

konayuki 10 February 2009 ("I have a paper to write, but hopefully soon I'll give a detailed report on what I'm doing and my progress through the wonderful world of Japanese and Korean.")

Qbe 09 January 2009

Sajro's "TAC attempt" one post on 09 February 2009

jesskit 07 February 2009 "I've been studying even though I haven't been updating"

boyddr MIA

bluejay390 "I don't have a plan anymore! Screw it!" 03 February 2009 flew away? The favourite quote from the previous TAC: "I didn’t realize how much time had gone by since I last updated this. I barely did anything between July 22 and yesterday. In total I only did 2 hours and 30 minutes. I don’t know what happened... 23 August 2008
17 November 2008: Mierda. Este log es viejo. ...sí, pues, desde que septiembre estudié un poco."

anathema196 MIA 16 January 2009

"A year of improvement" dswans on 31 December 2008:

"I have been busy for the last week, and thus I have not had time to update my TAC entry. However, this does not mean that I have not been studying:)"

Sprachprofi asking how ya doing. We're asking how she's doing.

JimmyJameskun 1 post on 29 December 2008

Jiwon

"I can't thank reineke enough for telling me about the audiobook site. I'm downloading loads of it. My favourites are Andersen, Grimm Brothers and Tucholsky - and surprisingly, I can understand what is being said. :) " 06 August 2007

Oh, wait that's last year's victim. In any case anyone studying Deutsch should check vorleser.net or simply praise reineke some more.

Faim de Siècle 17 January 2009

ALS 12 January 2009

RyanC. 11 January 2009

J-Learner 10 January 2009 "THIS LOG IS CLOSED!" ???

charleswfb (last update- January)

Aquedita (last update- January)

OCCASVS [TAC09] "Do it now! - German" 31 December 2008

"Hello.

This is my personal thread for the 2009 TAC challenge.
I don't know how often I'm going to update my log, because I've never been into logging.

My resolutions for 2009? None at all.
My only goal is to study as much as possible and to fight my laziness."

pitwo (29 December 2008) MIA

rayos deleted all his TAC posts on 30 June 2009 Last post 03 December 2008

The "2009 TAC Plan" tryllid 21 December 2008

Aras. 21 December "Although I study, this log is being discontinued "

"Pre-TAC 2009" - Thistle 19 December 2008

Smurf36 on 15 December 2008:

Goals: Overall by 2020

Native Fluency:
French
Spanish
Czech
Mandarin

Advanced Fluency:
Portuguese
Japanese
Russian
German
Italian

Goals by December 31st 2009:

French: C1
Spanish: C1
Czech: B1
Mandarin: B1
Japanese: A2
Portuguese: A2
Russian: A1/A2
German: A1
Italian: A1

Does everyone think that this is achievable, or do you think i'm aiming to high?

no reply.

JohnnyR 08 December 2008

"Pre-TAC 2009" Othar MIA 04 December 2008

Blindsheep’s TAC 2009 - "January to June" ENDED ON 28 November 2008

ExtraLean's kiss of death: "Cheers, but you don't need luck. Just patience and persistance, so I will wish you those as well."

nooblearner: "I have finished the MT foundation course... I think I will take Thanksgiving off except a MT cd on the way to and from my aunt's house where we will be going to eat."

noobs...

Mojka 25 November 2008 "I suppose it's too early for me to state that I love Japanese or not. I need some more time to discover the language. Today I have gone through one Michel Thomas lesson"...

'nough said.

Vai TAC 09 (...all ye who enter here)
...won't find anything



SpankyTAC "2028"

"I am taking the liberty of bending the TAC rules somewhat to establish on a trial basis a log for my study efforts in the form of an extended TAC self-challenge.   I am keeping a separate log of a more narrative nature elsewhere, and intend here only to render a dry record for my own purposes of material studied or reviewed, so it is unlikely to be of any real interest to others.   Feel free, however, to poke around: it is mostly the fear that others will see here what a lazy fellow I am that hopefully will motivate me to keep studying at least six days a week.

Challenge: attain by the end of May 2028 at least a "just a shade beyond rank beginner" conversational and reading ability in the following languages (not necessarily acquired in the following order): French, German, Japanese, Italian, Norwegian, Indonesian, Czech, Swahili, Mandarin, Spanish, Arabic, Scottish Gaelic, Greek, Portuguese, Croatian, Turkish, Swedish, Russian, Africaans and one of either Thai, Laotian or Cambodian.

Henceforth, only study log entries and no more narrative comment from me here until the end of May 2028, at which time I (a new, improved, multi-lingual and considerably more smug I) will come back to gloat and etc.

Best wishes to everyone in their own mad TACs and learning language goals.
Spanky


Edit: After a night's reflection, I have changed my mind - two separate logs seems a little excessive, so I'll discontinue this one and diarize it for 2028 just to see how things have turned out."

Edited by Spanky on 29 January 2009 at 9:22am

Spanky, you don't bend TAC, TAC bends you.

random member we should all poke fun at: krog "eeee" "100 Bücher" e= a book in English d = a book in German.

qrwn's language trip sailed away? No, it moved to his personal blog!

So has reineke's. And here are some of his resolutions:

1 Sleep more
2 sleep less but use the time wisely
3 try to relax; if unsuccessful, see no.4
4 try not to burst a vessel
5 stop posting

Edit: I managed to write my 500th post. Posts 470-500 were reserved for the TAC. SOMEONE HELP ME, PLEASE!! Aaaahh!

Edit edit: buy more Visine

01 January 2009

I will periodically provide updates on my blog (link on the left side). Or not, lol. I will stop posting here.


If I missed you, or if you wish to expiate your sins you may post here.
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Volte
Tetraglot
Senior Member
Switzerland
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Speaks: English*, Esperanto, German, Italian
Studies: French, Finnish, Mandarin, Japanese

 
 Message 2 of 13
01 July 2009 at 6:42am | IP Logged 
I've been traveling rather than running serious experiments. Things are progressing despite that and my lack of updates, though.

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reineke
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851 posts - 1008 votes 
Studies: German

 
 Message 3 of 13
01 July 2009 at 6:48am | IP Logged 
Hello Volte

Great to hear from you! Glad to hear that "things are progressing." Now I'm curious, of course.
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ExtraLean
Triglot
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France
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897 posts - 880 votes 
Speaks: English*, French, Spanish
Studies: German

 
 Message 4 of 13
01 July 2009 at 11:20am | IP Logged 
Whoohooo I made the cut. Unlike some other pathetic #learnanylanguage members. Still the hard inner core all made it through, and will sail on to the end.
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Iversen
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 Message 5 of 13
01 July 2009 at 11:39am | IP Logged 
... and running alongside the track without taking part in the competition I would like to point out that I have had great fun maintaining my multiconfused log, - and I have also learnt a few things and got a lot of writing experience. Better doing that than participating and then coming to a standstill after a month or two...
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ExtraLean
Triglot
Senior Member
France
languagelearners.myf
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897 posts - 880 votes 
Speaks: English*, French, Spanish
Studies: German

 
 Message 6 of 13
01 July 2009 at 11:45am | IP Logged 
Iversen wrote:
Better doing that than participating and then coming to a standstill after a month or two...


Like some people. I won't name names, that's already been done. The shame and public humiliation should teach people the meaning of 'sticktoitness'
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Sunja
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Germany
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2020 posts - 2295 votes 
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Speaks: English*, German
Studies: French, Mandarin

 
 Message 8 of 13
01 July 2009 at 1:37pm | IP Logged 
Half a year gone already! I've got to get it in gear....


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