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| Amerykanka Hexaglot Senior Member United States Joined 4952 days ago 657 posts - 890 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish, Polish, Latin, Ancient Greek, Russian | Message 33 of 361 05 December 2011 at 11:15pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I am interested in participating, but I am not clear on what the TAC involves (which is kind of ridiculous since I've been a member of this forum for over a year, but what can I say). So here are my questions: 1) What do you do, other than create a log? 2) How do you "win"? and 3) Are you required to study a certain amount of time, or can you just go at your own pace?
If I did participate, it would be with Polish, Spanish, and Latin. Edited by Amerykanka on 05 December 2011 at 11:15pm 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 34 of 361 05 December 2011 at 11:26pm | IP Logged | |||||
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In the interest of inclusion (and it's definitely not a problem for me since my target languages fit quite nicely), I have nothing against being part of a Finno-Ugric-Slavonic team per hribecek's idea. I do confess though that a group specifically for Finno-Ugric sounds attractively geeky and somehow suits the common perception of Finno-Ugric being an "outsider" or "lone wolf", hehe. A tentative Finno-Ugric roster could be: a3, Chung and mick33. A tentative Finno-Ugric-Slavonic one could be: a3, Chung, hribecek, Kisfröccs and mick33 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| oziohume Bilingual Hexaglot Newbie Belgium Joined 4519 days ago 30 posts - 43 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish*, Catalan, Italian, French, German Studies: Dutch | Message 35 of 361 05 December 2011 at 11:35pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Even though I'm not exactly sure of all further implications, I'd like to join a group
(if at all possible) and my target languages would be: German: From passive C1/ active B2 to C2 in both categories. French: From an A2 level to a strong B1-ish. Really committed to both languages. Also possibly practice my Català since it's a bit rusty, but not as target. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| cathrynm Senior Member United States junglevision.co Joined 5906 days ago 910 posts - 1232 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Finnish | Message 36 of 361 06 December 2011 at 1:04am | IP Logged | |||||
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I think Finno-Ugric makes sense. I have a good enough support system for Japanese here, but I need some more prodding to keep the nose to the grindstone with Finnish. I assume it's just required to post regularly about studying, right? There was a Finnish group, but it kind of died off. I forget if it was this or last year.
Seems to me that Slavonic languages are kind of their own thing. Nobody is working on Baltic languages, like Lithuanian or Latvian? These are also kind of lesser studied languages and might make sense to include. 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 37 of 361 06 December 2011 at 1:23am | IP Logged | |||||
That's what I was thinking. It seems that I'll update my current log as usual, but in the team's log add only a brief summary about what I've been doing and link to the more detailed entry of my current log.
As far as I know, no one has posted about studying Latvian or Lithuanian. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Vos Diglot Senior Member Australia Joined 5347 days ago 766 posts - 1020 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Dutch, Polish | Message 38 of 361 06 December 2011 at 1:57am | IP Logged | |||||
I agree that perhaps teams could be a tad bigger this year also, as for the second year in a row after the first two months or so it's simply been me and me alone representing the 'team'. I've enjoyed keeping the log and learnt a heap all the same though, but it would be nice having more of a motivational team thing going on. My languages for next year will be: Spanish - Probably around the mid B2 area at the moment. Want to be a solid C1 working towards C2 by the end of the year. This will be my main language for next year, however as I've kind of moved on from grammar books and courses, I'll simply be reading, writing, listening, building vocabulary and hopefully speaking. Polish - At the moment I'm just a beginner, low A1. But started learning Polish last week and will continue to do so throughout the year. Hoping for a solid B1 by December 2012. Dutch - I'll continue doing my sporadic bits and pieces of Dutch every now and then, as my motivation for this language tends to ebb and flow quite strongly, however no doubt that I'll be doing some Dutch at some stage throughout year. Current level probably A2/B1, with the aim to improve atleast a little on that - strong B1. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6378 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 39 of 361 06 December 2011 at 2:02am | IP Logged | |||||
Edited by Serpent on 06 December 2011 at 2:35am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| cathrynm Senior Member United States junglevision.co Joined 5906 days ago 910 posts - 1232 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Finnish | Message 40 of 361 06 December 2011 at 2:35am | IP Logged | |||||
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If there aren't enough bodies to go around, on second thought, I see the advantage of combining Slavic/Finno-ugric.
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