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| Magdalene Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 4836 days ago 119 posts - 220 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Mandarin, German, Modern Hebrew, French | Message 9 of 128 23 October 2011 at 12:38pm | IP Logged | |||||
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In for Mandarin again. Looking forward to what'll probably be my last 6WC for a while; I
think I'll finally be able to push my Mandarin out of the lower-intermediate level it's been languishing in for some time. Thanks for organizing, Sprachprofi! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| mrwarper Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Spain forum_posts.asp?TID=Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5026 days ago 1493 posts - 2500 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishC2 Studies: German, Russian, Japanese | Message 10 of 128 23 October 2011 at 12:46pm | IP Logged | |||||
I know I don't have to--
--but if the bot can register work on other languages, you can have more than one target. How? Edited by mrwarper on 23 October 2011 at 12:46pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Jinx Triglot Senior Member Germany reverbnation.co Joined 5493 days ago 1085 posts - 1879 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Catalan, Dutch, Esperanto, Croatian, Serbian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Italian, Spanish, Yiddish | Message 11 of 128 23 October 2011 at 1:04pm | IP Logged | |||||
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This is just what I needed! Having literally JUST begun studying Catalan (I've only been to two classes), I am about as beginnery as a beginner can get. But I am indeed signed up for the course this semester, so why not use the 6WC to really motivate myself? :) Going to sign up right now...
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| a3 Triglot Senior Member Bulgaria Joined 5056 days ago 273 posts - 370 votes Speaks: Bulgarian*, English, Russian Studies: Portuguese, German, Italian, Spanish, Norwegian, Finnish | Message 12 of 128 23 October 2011 at 1:07pm | IP Logged | |||||
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What does the bot keep track of? The total time spent on learning the language?
Are there any tests or whatever? How is you progres compared with the others'? 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6270 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 13 of 128 23 October 2011 at 1:17pm | IP Logged | |||||
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MrWarper, to log your progress, you would post something like
@6wcbot I studied 10 minutes of #Japanese #Anki just now You can write this kind of message for ANY language and it will be added to your total score (= total study time) for the month. The only difference is that if you declared Japanese your main target language, this post will additionally improve your target score (= time spent on your focus language). So if you registered with Japanese, it becomes more valuable to study Japanese rather than other languages, but you're still free to study other languages. Looking at some previous 6 Week Challenge stats, your language distribution might finally look like this, this, or this, but the idea is to encourage you to make a lot of progress on one language, so you can only have one "focus" language. In registering, you declare your focus language, you cannot declare which other languages you'll be working on. EDIT: a3: the bot tracks your time. Every minute increases your ranking in the high score. If you see that studying 15 more minutes will advance you from #5 to #3 in all participants, your competitive side might motivate you to put in that time. There are no tests however, and I'm relying on everyone to report honestly. There's nothing to gain from lying. Edited by Sprachprofi on 23 October 2011 at 1:21pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| mrwarper Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Spain forum_posts.asp?TID=Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5026 days ago 1493 posts - 2500 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishC2 Studies: German, Russian, Japanese | Message 14 of 128 23 October 2011 at 1:45pm | IP Logged | |||||
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OK, I think I understand everything now. I guess the wording could be slightly improved, maybe something along the lines of
When you register (#reg #lang), that language is designated as your 'target', meaning 'main target'. After that, you can add study time to ANY language, so we have 'Total score' and 'Target score'. Study time added to languages other than your target will show up in Total Score and detailed listings, but obviously NOT in Target Score. Anyway, what's the need for twitter? Even if I almost don't know you I trust you more than those guys. It's just a feeling, but... 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6270 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 15 of 128 23 October 2011 at 2:43pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Yes, you got it.
There are three reasons for Twitter. 1) It's an easy protocol to implement, anyone can tweet what he's doing there and the bot will pick up on it. The forum's language logs couldn't be automated the same way. It also takes care of authentification. If I created a homebrew solution, I'd have to find a way to ensure that people can't update other people's scores. 2) It makes the challenge interactive. The challenge is not between you and the bot, but rather you can see what other participants are doing at the same time, and whether you are in danger of being overtaken ;-) If you're a regular user of Twitter, getting these messages about people studying languages will also serve as a regular reminder to do some studying yourself, whenever you're idle enough to be reading Twitter. You can also read HOW people are spending time on their language, and get inspired to try new materials / approaches. 3) Quite a few people are using Twitter already, either out of a desire to share what they're doing or because they're in the Tadoku challenge, which uses a similar Twitter- based bot and was my inspiration. If you're worried about privacy, just create a closed account on Twitter, so that you have to approve anyone who wants to follow you. Then you have to approve the bot before registering for the challenge. Edited by Sprachprofi on 23 October 2011 at 2:45pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| jazzboy.bebop Senior Member Norway norwegianthroughnove Joined 5218 days ago 439 posts - 800 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Norwegian | Message 16 of 128 23 October 2011 at 3:48pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I think I might sign up for this for French. I'm not working but I am studying full-time. I take it that I can just put in that I am working full-time?
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