Luai_lashire Diglot Senior Member United States luai-lashire.deviant Joined 5789 days ago 384 posts - 560 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto Studies: Japanese, French
| Message 41 of 220 18 April 2011 at 6:23pm | IP Logged |
I'm in for French, I have some experience in the language but have never had any luck resurrecting it before. I'll be
using Assimil and then diving right into L/R. I'll also be logging maintenance hours in Japanese. My twitter name is
the same as my name here if anyone wants to follow me.
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Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6431 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese
| Message 42 of 220 19 April 2011 at 10:07am | IP Logged |
The bot is ready! (I hope!)
Read the instructions at http://6wc.learnlangs.com/howto and then start
flooding the bot with sign-ups. And bookmark the neat stats page I made!
Start of the challenge is May 1st, midnight your time.
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vanillabean Groupie Canada Joined 4969 days ago 53 posts - 63 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish
| Message 43 of 220 19 April 2011 at 5:13pm | IP Logged |
Wow, that is so great! Thanks.
Approximately how long does it take the bot to confirm your registration?
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Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6431 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese
| Message 44 of 220 19 April 2011 at 5:28pm | IP Logged |
I have the bot set to check for new Twitter messages (registrations and scores) every 5
minutes. However, there was an unforeseeable database issue, so the first few
registrations took longer to process. Now it's working fine.
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Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6431 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese
| Message 45 of 220 19 April 2011 at 6:57pm | IP Logged |
There is a problem with people who protected their updates. Protecting your updates on
Twitter means that nobody is able to see them unless they become your friends first. That
includes the bot, so the bot won't know you're signing up if your updates are protected.
Consider un-protecting your updates. If that is not an option, follow the bot and wait
till it requests to friend you; allow that request and only THEN post your registration.
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hjordis Senior Member United States snapshotsoftheworld. Joined 5147 days ago 209 posts - 264 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, German, Spanish, Japanese
| Message 46 of 220 19 April 2011 at 10:45pm | IP Logged |
liddytime wrote:
ellasevia wrote:
Spanish won't work for me because I already speak it, but I'll watch eagerly from the sidelines
and can offer help to anyone that needs it.
...but you said that we could theoretically choose any language? Hm... In that case I choose Polish. I don't have
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I'm in the same boat... I already speak Spanish. But I would love to try INDONESIAN ( Bahasa Indonesia )
I'm starting from ground zero and I'm curious how much I can learn in 6 weeks since it it "rumored" to be an "easy"
language. I've never done a challenge before so I don't really know the procedure but I imagine one tries to learn
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I'm not interested in Spanish, but I think I will do Indonesian as well. I don't have much time, but I have been meaning to try it out, so I'll see how much I can get done.
Edited by hjordis on 19 April 2011 at 10:45pm
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schoenewaelder Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5521 days ago 759 posts - 1197 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: German, Spanish, Dutch
| Message 47 of 220 20 April 2011 at 4:25pm | IP Logged |
I have had multiple false beginnings with Spanish (most recently just a few weeks ago), so will definitely be using May for some intensive study. Unfortunately I am going to be without internet for a few months (well, I'm sure I'll be able to look in on you occasionally, but won't be doing any posting or twittering).
My experience with Dutch was very positive, now being able to read children's books, newspaper headlines, websites, and of course some of the other participants went much further.
Hopefully I will be able to get to the same level with Spanish. At the moment I'm A0+ for language "feel" (I know that doesn't get mentioned much in the courses, basically I've been through MT a couple of times), but A0- for actual hard grammar and vocab.
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getreallanguage Diglot Senior Member Argentina youtube.com/getreall Joined 5432 days ago 240 posts - 371 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: Italian, Dutch
| Message 48 of 220 21 April 2011 at 9:39pm | IP Logged |
Well, I've made my decision. Count me in for Dutch! Currently the only materials I have is the 2003 edition of Teach Yourself Dutch (book and audio CDs). I'd greatly appreciate suggestions on other materials, particularly of the kind available online.
Edit: leafing through the TY Dutch book I can see that it doesn't offer a lot of detail regarding grammar. Any grammar references online, however basic the grammar points covered, would be greatly appreciated!
Edited by getreallanguage on 21 April 2011 at 9:46pm
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