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| Lucas Pentaglot Groupie Switzerland Joined 4984 days ago 85 posts - 130 votes  Speaks: French*, English, German, Italian, Russian Studies: Mandarin | Message 9 of 17 08 December 2010 at 11:27am | IP Logged | ||
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Funny topic!
I'm in China and I'm very happy to get rid of facebook: it allows me to do something constructive instead of wasting time on it...for example, I work my chinese! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| magictom123 Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5410 days ago 272 posts - 365 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, French | Message 10 of 17 08 December 2010 at 12:24pm | IP Logged | ||
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I update my status in Italian even though only 1 friend is Italian. Since I have the
mobile app it is a quick way of getting in some writing practise in Italian every day. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| garyb Triglot Senior Member ScotlandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5024 days ago 1468 posts - 2413 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, French Studies: Spanish | Message 11 of 17 08 December 2010 at 1:01pm | IP Logged | ||
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I found it interesting to see how many of my friends speak a foreign language - I was pleasantly surprised! Although I do suspect that a lot of people put on languages that they studied at school and have since forgotten.
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| BlondGirl Groupie United States Joined 5374 days ago 49 posts - 101 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 12 of 17 11 December 2010 at 5:54pm | IP Logged | ||
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I love using Facebook to supplement my studies. Many of my Skype/SharedTalk buddies are friended on Facebook and the little quotes from them help to show me vocabulary (especially slang)in context. I have found that frequently occurring themes are more easily integrated into my thinking processes. Example: Por vs para in Spanish. Seeing it over and over and over in different ways in small bites has almost solidified the proper usage. Que--this is used a million different ways and is confusing--or, rather, it WAS confusing.
:) I also changed my Facebook interface (along with almost every other site/program that I could) to my target language. Another bonus to getting those small bites, language blogs often post up new material on FB or you can seek friends of friends there for more exposure that is handpicked for the qualities you are needing. (Example: I am traveling the South America so I most of my FB friends are from the countries I will visit as opposed to places with very different dialects or slang.) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Serpensortia Bilingual Triglot Newbie United States Joined 5339 days ago 18 posts - 22 votes Speaks: English*, Russian*, Spanish | Message 13 of 17 11 December 2010 at 6:38pm | IP Logged | ||
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I use Facebook in Spanish, which has helped me a lot. However, it sometimes makes mistakes, and will write things like "___ he comentado on her estado."
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| Marc94 Diglot Newbie United States Joined 5063 days ago 32 posts - 50 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Russian | Message 14 of 17 12 December 2010 at 5:24pm | IP Logged | ||
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I think this is a cool feature, but I personally don't trust the actual X person speaks X language thing. For example, my brother JUST started Greek, because he is going to be studying abroad there, but yet he listed it as actually knowing the language fluently. I was going to type that that was cheating, that you can't simply put a language down that you are beginning to dabble in, but I let it go.
Otherwise, I sometimes will update my status in German, but I find it hard to find any other value for languages on Facebook. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| pobere Triglot Groupie Germany language-learning-lo Joined 5173 days ago 83 posts - 114 votes Speaks: Romanian*, German, English | Message 15 of 17 13 December 2010 at 2:42pm | IP Logged | ||
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I've just deactivated my account. It was simply USELESS. ;) Now I have more time to study. N.B.: After you deactivate your account, you must wait at least 2 weeks. Only after 2 weeks the account is deleted. If you login in these 2 weeks the account will be activated. ;) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| peppelanguage Triglot Groupie ItalyRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5681 days ago 90 posts - 94 votes Speaks: Italian*, Spanish, English Studies: French, Swedish | Message 16 of 17 27 December 2010 at 2:32am | IP Logged | ||
This sounds like TWO GREAT IDEAS: the first one: create (if the admins want to, of course) an HTLAL "profile" on facebook, where we can all meet and discuss of the stuff we talk about on the forum, in ordered discussions with videos.... (that could be an idea...) the second one: creating study groups (like...video conferences...more or less, but not in real time) in order to exchange languages.... What do you think about this TWO IDEAS (if they're great is up to you to judge) I had thanks to Spanky post (due to his consult with his 12years old daughter) ??? 1 person has voted this message useful |
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