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| Spanky Senior Member Canada Joined 5760 days ago 1021 posts - 1714 votes  Studies: French | Message 1 of 54 23 December 2011 at 4:25pm | IP Logged |
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Hello / Bonjour / Guten Tag
I am pleased to establish here my 2012 TAC log, representing my reckless participation in Team Freutsch TID=30291&PN=1&TPN=6">Team Freutsch, focussing on French and German language learning. Not to toot my own horn or anything, and far be it for me to brag, but of the 8 current team members, I believe I am easily the 8th most advanced learner for both languages on the team (for those whose math is as poor as my language learning capacity, that means I am the poor cousin at the lowest end of the team). Accordingly, I expect this log will constitute the kiddies pool or the shallow end of the German and French language learning pool of Team Freutsch, as I can only just barely tread water for very short periods in the French language, and have only just gotten my pinky toes wet in the German language. My hope is that by the end of the year, I will have improved sufficiently to have me safely doing a lap or two in the deep end. I am looking forward to jumping in (shallow end at first, be careful of some wicked cannonball splash action) at the beginning of January, and moving forward on a personal and team level with what I anticipate will be a challenging but productive year for me in 2012, though possibly a frustrating year for my team mates as they watch me flopping around trying hopelessly to conjugate a noun or decline a verb, or ask for the tenth time what the heck a subjunctive is. I will mostly be writing in English (cleverly coded as EN) in this log, but consistent with what my team mates are doing, I will be trying to write from time to time in both French (FR) and German (DE, which possibly stands for "De German", who knows?) from time to time, and I may intermittently provide a translation (exact, rough or ironic), particularly as my French and German may so widely miss the mark that a translation would be necessary for any actual communication to be effective. Where I will be providing an English translation of something already attempted in FR or DE, I will mark is as EN, just to distinguish it from other stand-alone English text. FR: Voila, mon journal !! DE: Ich spreche nicht Deutsch. Edited by Spanky on 23 December 2011 at 4:47pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| ReQuest Tetraglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 4836 days ago 200 posts - 228 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, German, French Studies: Spanish | Message 2 of 54 23 December 2011 at 7:43pm | IP Logged |
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I'll follow you, and good luck, team mate!
DE comes from Deutsch btw, the name of the German language auf Deutsch (in German) And it's better to say: Ich spreche kein Deutsch, oder, Ich spreche überhaupt kein Deutch. The last one really shows you don't speak German at all. Edit: I hate mobile-typing Edited by ReQuest on 23 December 2011 at 7:47pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Doitsujin Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5124 days ago 1256 posts - 2363 votes Speaks: German*, English | Message 3 of 54 23 December 2011 at 8:53pm | IP Logged |
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I wish you good luck with your German studies. How about writing your own version of Mark Twain's The Awful German language. You could call it "The Awful German language - Part Deux". (I'm sure you'll come up with a funnier name.)
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| Spanky Senior Member Canada Joined 5760 days ago 1021 posts - 1714 votes Studies: French | Message 4 of 54 23 December 2011 at 10:49pm | IP Logged |
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Thanks ReQuest, one day, with luck, I may eventually learn enough German to be able to
say, auf Deutsch, that I don't actually speak it! Doitsujin, that's an awesome Twain piece - I consider myself duly warned but, fortunately, I am too foolhardy to be scared away by the article from learning the language! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| LanguageSponge Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5570 days ago 1197 posts - 1487 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Welsh, Russian, Japanese, Slovenian, Greek, Italian | Message 5 of 54 24 December 2011 at 8:59am | IP Logged |
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Hi Spanky,
Good luck with your French and German studies in 2012; of course as your team-mate I will be following your log throughout the coming year. I thought about posting some online resources I know of for German, as I have a folder of links somewhere on my laptop, but I think perhaps it would be better to post them on our team thread? I'd also like to offer a small correction for the French - voilà is spelt thus :] Viel Glück beim Sprachlernen im kommenden Jahr. Bonne chance avec tes études dans l'année qui vient. Good luck with your language studies in the coming year. Jack PS - In English, we decline nouns (or to be more accurate for the most part in German, the articles that go along with the nouns) and conjugate verbs. Before someone jumps in and shoots me down though, there are some actual nouns which decline, but they're relatively few and far between. Edited by LanguageSponge on 24 December 2011 at 9:35am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Crush Tetraglot Senior Member ChinaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5669 days ago 1622 posts - 2299 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Mandarin, Esperanto Studies: Basque | Message 6 of 54 24 December 2011 at 9:31pm | IP Logged |
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I'm glad to see you start another log, you have by far some of the most fun and interesting logs on the site!
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| Spanky Senior Member Canada Joined 5760 days ago 1021 posts - 1714 votes Studies: French | Message 7 of 54 30 December 2011 at 6:49pm | IP Logged |
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That is extraordinarily kind of you to say Crush, thanks! From a language learning perspective, my main log is mostly a record of abysmal slothfulness in language learning, but in personal terms it is a nice record for my recollection purposes of an important period of my life. I am delighted to hear that it may have been of some interest to others as well.
I intend this log to be a bit more straightforward than my other log, and hopefully, quite a bit more active. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Bjorn Diglot Senior Member Norway Joined 4672 days ago 244 posts - 286 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English Studies: German, French | Message 8 of 54 31 December 2011 at 4:47am | IP Logged |
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Good luck with your languages studies !
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