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| J-Learner Senior Member Australia Joined 5826 days ago 556 posts - 636 votes  Studies: Yiddish, English* Studies: Dutch | Message 89 of 182 25 November 2008 at 4:02am | IP Logged | ||||||||
Yeah I agree I have just never been involved in competition. Too much of an outsider for such a thing. I am sure that if I found myself in a group of similarly passionate people I would rise to the challenge. Good luck to everyone. Shalom, Yehoshua. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| -Kupo- Groupie United Kingdom Joined 5863 days ago 84 posts - 84 votes 1 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: German, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Russian | Message 90 of 182 25 November 2008 at 4:14am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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This looks like the kick of incentive that I need. I will create a log later in preparation once I have figured out a semi-comprehensible plan.
Edit: Log located here Edited by -Kupo- on 25 November 2008 at 5:24am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
 Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5643 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map | Message 91 of 182 25 November 2008 at 4:50am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I am in the learning process of the Turkish language and I have been invited to take part in the TAC 2009.
It's a difficult descision for me to say "yes" or "no", because it is a project for a whole year and it is very time-consuming to keep a learning log for the target language. What is most efficient for my learning process? I tend to say that spending my extra time on e-mail contacts with native speakers of Turkish might have a bigger impact than writing a learning log. But I have still not made my descision. Edited by Fasulye on 25 November 2008 at 4:53am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| DaraghM Diglot Senior Member Ireland Joined 5947 days ago 1947 posts - 2923 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Russian, Hungarian | Message 92 of 182 25 November 2008 at 5:14am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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As the default winner of TAC 2008, with a log that was as tedious to write, as it was to read, what should people write in their daily, weekly or monthly logs to make them more interesting ? And what should be avoided ?
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| charlmartell Super Polyglot Senior Member Portugal Joined 6040 days ago 286 posts - 298 votes Speaks: French, English, German, Luxembourgish*, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Dutch, Italian, Latin, Ancient Greek Studies: Mandarin, Japanese | Message 93 of 182 25 November 2008 at 9:29am | IP Logged | ||||||||
I never ran out of steam, I just stopped blogging, for several reasons, one of them being the time it took to comment on what I'd done that day. I find recording how much time I spent and how much of that was active and how much passive pretty useless, as it tells me nothing about what I'm actually achieving, doing right or could improve upon. And a detailed account proved rather time-consuming. I also stopped spending so much time on this forum, again for several reasons. But I was going to report properly on my progress at the end of the year, which end seems to have come upon us rather suddenly, in November! So I'll now wind up my 3 logs (Russian, Italian and miscellaneous) with final comments about what I actually did do (as opposed to what I had stated that I would do) and then get ready for TAC 2009. It's going to be similar to, but at the same time totally different from Volte's: a whole bunch of languages, different levels though none of them totally new. I'm afraid this TAC 2008 has made it crystal clear: I stray, not for me the straight and narrow. And I've realised that it really doesn't matter, that it's much more fun that way. Unless one has a compelling reason, like an exam or an imminent journey. I haven't got either at the moment, so I can play. That said, I do have plans and I set goals, but they're flexible, not set in stone. More about that later. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Volte Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 6235 days ago 4474 posts - 6726 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto, German, Italian Studies: French, Finnish, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 94 of 182 25 November 2008 at 9:38am | IP Logged | ||||||||
Exactly. I logged what I did in a fair amount of detail last week - on paper, for my own use, in a way that probably didn't take 5 minutes a day. A writeup I'd put on the forum (with links, notes about what was interesting, and basically making things less dry than "did 5 minutes of X. Did 9 minutes of Y.") tends to take more like a half hour - fine for if I can't stand the thought of studying more that day, but not so good on a daily basis. Similarly, my personal notes can be much more terse; for the forum, I generally try to provide a little context so I don't waste time writing things that could only possibly make sense to me.
I look forward to reading all of that. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Leopejo Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Italy Joined 5905 days ago 675 posts - 724 votes Speaks: Italian*, Finnish*, English Studies: French, Russian | Message 96 of 182 25 November 2008 at 10:09am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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