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| Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5351 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes  Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 81 of 672 01 January 2012 at 9:08pm | IP Logged | ||
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I really enjoyed meeting up over Skype yesterday, and hope everyone in the Team had a great New Year's celebration. I'm still half-conscious and don't want to see another salad for at least a week, after a Russian party that continued well into the morning. Still somehow I've summoned up enough energy to post my new language log for the year, so please feel free to drop by anytime.
Think I'm going to collapse on the sofa now and veg out to a new episode of "Sherlock" ...good luck once again to everyone in 2012! Edited by Teango on 04 January 2012 at 10:27pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5129 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 82 of 672 01 January 2012 at 11:28pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hi, I really enjoyed the skype session too. The same time of day on Sundays works fine for me, but if that is a bit too early for the Californians, I am happy to do it later in the day (any time between that time - 17.00 and 21.00 Norwegian time is fine). Perhaps we could start trying to do it every other week or so and see how that feels? If that turns out to be too much we could do it once a month, of it is too little we could try weekly.
Since there were only a few of us who made it the first time, I guess we would perhaps need another introductory session, to get to know everyone, and after that perhaps we could start trying to introduce ourselves in Russian, and write a few questions for our team mates? In Russian :-) I am not quite sure how we will work around the fact that we are at very different levels - but with this creative bunch, I am sure we will figure it out!! Edited by Solfrid Cristin on 01 January 2012 at 11:34pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Woodsei Bilingual Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Woodsei Joined 4592 days ago 614 posts - 782 votes Speaks: English*, Arabic (Egyptian)* Studies: Russian, Japanese, Hungarian | Message 83 of 672 02 January 2012 at 10:00am | IP Logged | ||
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It sounds the session went great! I'll definitely try to join future sessions. I'm just wondering if, with my non-
existent Russian, it would be advisable to join in the Skype meetups. I would love to, but I don't want to set everyone back. I finally posted my log. I apologize for the late post, I'm battling a nasty flu case. Happy New Year! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Woodsei Bilingual Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Woodsei Joined 4592 days ago 614 posts - 782 votes Speaks: English*, Arabic (Egyptian)* Studies: Russian, Japanese, Hungarian | Message 84 of 672 02 January 2012 at 10:03am | IP Logged | ||
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Oh, the link to my log is this :
Woodsei's TAC 2012 Japanese + Russian 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Woodsei Bilingual Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Woodsei Joined 4592 days ago 614 posts - 782 votes Speaks: English*, Arabic (Egyptian)* Studies: Russian, Japanese, Hungarian | Message 85 of 672 02 January 2012 at 10:11am | IP Logged | ||
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Actually, I made a mistake. Here's the correct link:
http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?T ID=30623&PN=1 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5129 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 86 of 672 02 January 2012 at 11:28am | IP Logged | ||
I am trying to figure out a model how we can work around that. I must admit that when on the Skype session, one of the guys said "Privjet", I almost fainted, just of the thought of actually having to speak Russian in front of others, and I suspect I am not alone. One of my ideas, that I have been toying with this morning, is the following: Let us all write down a certain amount of questions in Russian, in this thread (What is your name, where do you live, why do you learn Russian - complete with possible answers.) We can correct each other's questions, so that we have a base of let's say 50 questions in writing, that we know are more or less correct. We also provide possible answers. We can then use those to get us started speaking Russian in our Skype sessions. Teango will go: "Ruskivietr: What is your name". Ruskivietr (whose name Teango already knows:-) may answer by his full name, or just repeat his nic, or whatever he feels comfortable with - and then gets to ask the next question, either back to Teango, or to another person. We can give a number to each question, so the absolute newbies who can just say "My name is" , and "I am from country x", can say in beforehand that they can only deal with question 2 and 4. Those who are more advanced can say that they are open for all questions except 16 and 19, and the really advanced ones can open up to any questions. Those wo are petrified at saying anything at all, just smile and listen. This exercise is just meant to get us off the ground, of course, I assume that we will move into some sort of natural conversation after a little while. It is also possible that we will split into smaller conversation groups, as it may get tedious to those who are very advanced to listen to the very beginner questions over and over again, and in any event 12 people is a lot for a skype session. 4-5 people at the time may be better after a while. We can also prepare a theme each time: - What did you do this week end, - what are your hobbies, - what will you be doing in your next holiday - Tell us about your family - Do you do any sports (I fully master the vocabulary I need for that one (HET!) Everyone looks up what the word for their hobbies are, or what sort of crazy things they were doing during the week end :-) and we can help eachother out with the grammar as we go along. The best thing is of course to find themes that are interesting enough for us to really want to communicate in Russian, and we will have lots of "teachers" around who can help us find the words we do not know. Feel free to develop or reject the idea, as this was just my first thoughts. In my previous life I used to be a language teacher. Getting the pupils to actually open their mouths and say something in a foreign language, and get used to eachother, and not feel bad if they made a mistake, was 80% of the job. If we can overcome that, we can get as far as we want to! Would this be feasible? 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| fabriciocarraro Hexaglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Brazil russoparabrasileirosRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4510 days ago 989 posts - 1454 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, EnglishB2, Italian, Spanish, Russian, French Studies: Dutch, German, Japanese | Message 87 of 672 02 January 2012 at 1:45pm | IP Logged | ||
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Here is my brand new log, guys! =)
http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?T ID=30625&PN=1 I'm just having some trouble adding the language tags on it, can anyone help me with that? Edited by fabriciocarraro on 02 January 2012 at 1:47pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Tecktight Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member United States Joined 4771 days ago 227 posts - 327 votes Speaks: English*, Serbian Studies: German, Russian, Estonian | Message 88 of 672 03 January 2012 at 3:13am | IP Logged | ||
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I'm glad to hear that you're still alive, Teango.
It seems most of us can make Sunday at 14.00. This works the best for me, as well. Solfrid, I like your idea. I think that'd be an excellent way to get things off the ground. I also have a suggestion that might be beneficial. Though I can scarcely believe I am now in the position to be singing praises to my Russian textbook, it is rather helpful in that it provides many dialogues throughout the text. Each dialogue covers a basic learning theme (ex: what's in your house, who your family is, etc.) that is acted out through fictional characters. My Russian professor used to have us memorize the dialogues and then, during the next class, would pair us off and have us recite them. The dialogues were very helpful in improving our speaking abilities because they featured many generic expressions that we had occasion to use again and again. Each pair of students had to recite their dialogue in front of the class, so the class heard every dialogue multiple times, which helped us remember them even more. I think if we implemented this as a part of our Skype sessions, it would give us a good solid base to start the Skype session with and ensure we get practice, and we can allow for the more free-flowing conversation afterwards. I own the Year 1 and Year 2 textbooks, so we will be sustained for a good while. Let me know if this is something you'd all be interested in it, and I'll type up the dialogues and e-mail them to all of you. My Year 1 textbook is, unfortunately, not with me here in Los Angeles, but when I return to school in about two weeks, I'll have it, and can type the dialogues. Edit: The dialogues, by the way, are nothing to be scared of. Each is a few lines long, at most. :) Edited by Tecktight on 03 January 2012 at 3:20am 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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