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| PaulLambeth Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5154 days ago 244 posts - 315 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Icelandic, Hindi, Irish | Message 225 of 361 26 December 2011 at 1:01pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'm not suggesting that Hindustani is a rare language (rare enough on this forum!), and wish to join more for study of Irish. Being so diverse in languages the team would be a motivation rather than a direct help for me. Alas, so few people study either of the two on the forum that I can't really enter a group. I could join a Germanic one on the basis of Icelandic, as I now live in Iceland yet my Icelandic's not strong, but I'd rather not do that.
I like your suggestions, although it needn't be so defined. How about: if a language is vulnerable for UNESCO or not in the top 40 languages, it can be studied for the group? Many non-vulnerable, national languages are almost never studied by forum members. Thanks for responding and I understand that I might end up being the most frequent poster. --- I might also suggest, if Rarely Studied Languages is too broad a category to get most people's interest, and because I would like TAC to benefit me more, a group like the Germanic-Sinitic one, in that it combines language groups. Perhaps an Indo-Iranian and Celtic group? Or Celtic and Germanic? Anything in combination, containing those first 2. Up for suggestions from anyone reading this. Edited by PaulLambeth on 26 December 2011 at 1:21pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| petrklic Triglot Pro Member Czech Republic Joined 4867 days ago 95 posts - 109 votes Speaks: Czech*, English, Russian Studies: Vietnamese Personal Language Map | Message 226 of 361 26 December 2011 at 2:02pm | IP Logged | ||
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I think "rarely studied languages" was always meant to include languages that are comparatively seldom studied _on this forum_. I don't know whether that is the case for Hindi, Irish or Icelandic. Hindi at least seems prominent, the corresponding language tag is in big fat red letters.
In my particular case, I was considering enrolling with Vietnamese. Looking through archives, I saw very few discussions related to Vietnamese, but I see many about the "prominent" languages: Spanish, French, German, Russian, even Polish, Mandarin, Japanese. This, in my mind, qualifies Vietnamese among Rarely Studied Languages, even though it has 80M speakers or so and there's quite a selection of learning materials. That said, Team East Asia is already formed, and I'll be part of that. If it breaks up, I'll be happy to join "Team Ր" (my proposal on the name. It's an R sound in Armenian, which I picked because it seems obscure enough), but otherwise I'll stay where I am. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Just a Dreamer Groupie Egypt Joined 4792 days ago 59 posts - 62 votes Studies: English, French | Message 227 of 361 26 December 2011 at 2:06pm | IP Logged | ||
I don't know, but If there's a team for German It would be nice, or German with a Romance language. or team with this title "Germanic languages + Romance languages", I know there's "Freutsch team" but I'm talking about wider category than this... Robert 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| a3 Triglot Senior Member Bulgaria Joined 5037 days ago 273 posts - 370 votes Speaks: Bulgarian*, English, Russian Studies: Portuguese, German, Italian, Spanish, Norwegian, Finnish | Message 228 of 361 26 December 2011 at 2:33pm | IP Logged | ||
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Is there an updated list of teams/participants? And what about languages being studied?
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| Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5337 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 229 of 361 26 December 2011 at 3:03pm | IP Logged | ||
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Great to see someone else taking on Irish for the 2012 TAC. That makes at least two of us now. Ádh mór ort (good luck)! :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Sunja Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5866 days ago 2020 posts - 2295 votes 1 sounds Speaks: English*, German Studies: French, Mandarin | Message 230 of 361 26 December 2011 at 4:31pm | IP Logged | ||
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Our Japanese Team い has grown fast over the past week! here's an update of the members:
g-bod sunja Brun_Ugle pineappleboom (also on the Romance Slavic Team) fortheo kraemder Everplayer The Real CZ Takato leisaowns I hope I haven't missed anyone! Not everybody has a TAC log yet but I'm keeping a list of team member logs here. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 6937 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 231 of 361 26 December 2011 at 5:08pm | IP Logged | ||
Not top 40 or rated by UNESCO as vulnerable or worse seems sensible and in that case you could put me down as a rather quiet member. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Jinx Triglot Senior Member Germany reverbnation.co Joined 5474 days ago 1085 posts - 1879 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Catalan, Dutch, Esperanto, Croatian, Serbian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Italian, Spanish, Yiddish | Message 232 of 361 26 December 2011 at 6:56pm | IP Logged | ||
Perfect, thanks for the link, Takato! Although I'm already on two teams myself (Freutsch and Catalan) and am therefore booked up, I would like to suggest that a just-German team be created, on the basis of the last few pages of posts in this thread. Many teams are getting rather large already, and there seems to be an unprecedented number of people focusing (exclusively or simply primarily) on German for this TAC. Just my two cents! Edited by Jinx on 26 December 2011 at 6:57pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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