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| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4516 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes  Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 89 of 96 05 December 2012 at 2:51pm | IP Logged | ||
Actually, yeah, I would like to know why you are randomly denigrating people for no reason? If they want to be vintage and buy Apple products and be elitist, if that is their idea of life, let them be. As if that is an automatic disqualifier for being a human... Like Solfrid said, my idea of learning Swedish is listening to Sofia Karlsson on repeat, nice and mellow folk music. That's fun and useful. Edited by tarvos on 05 December 2012 at 2:53pm 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 5035 days ago 1493 posts - 2500 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishC2 Studies: German, Russian, Japanese | Message 90 of 96 05 December 2012 at 4:47pm | IP Logged | ||
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@tarvos: you start the name calling, and we are denigrating people?
Anyway, I'm not sure what a hipster really is, I guess definitions are too mainstream ;)) About fun, well, of course everyone does different things for fun, but I don't think the concept is so different for everyone... To be more precise about what I mean, I immensely enjoy watching documentaries, and I'm re-reading for the umpteenth time a series of novels that played a very important role in shaping my view of the world. I actually find myself on the verge of tears way more times than I laugh whenever I read them. No matter how enjoyable these things are (for me, a whole lot), I would hardly call them 'fun'. What I'm talking about is the increasingly popular view (even among teachers, how sad is that?) that if it's educational it can't be fun, that 'learning' and 'fun' are somehow opposites -- and thus there's this need to add 'fun' to learning, too often drowning any learning in such quests for fun... when it should have been there all along. While of course incompetent teachers can take the fun out of learning (and I've had plenty of those, especially at the Uni where I was most vulnerable to them), whenever I hear talk about 'fun and learning' I can't help but make that connection and ask myself if anyone should embark in studying something when they actually dislike learning or making any effort for starters (I've had plenty of horrible students as well -- slackness often defeats student and teacher as easily as it defeats the student alone, and then there's two victims of it). OK, summing it up... the way I see it, 'fun' won't help your learning a bit if you don't find learning a bit fun in the first place. @Cristina: I'm really sorry you had this Frau Kräuterhexe. As my Linear algebra teacher (the best I've ever had) often quoted, 'don't confuse Math for those who show it to you; she'll never disappoint you'. I was puzzled for a year until I met the types he was referring to, in spades. Let's better forget about them all... :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5143 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 91 of 96 05 December 2012 at 5:32pm | IP Logged | ||
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Ok, Tecktight , Mrwarper has convinced me. Do not try to have fun, go for the boring stuff in stead. :-)
And can anyone tell me the definition of a hipster? For an old lady like me it sounds like someone with a hip replacement :-) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 6965 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 92 of 96 05 December 2012 at 5:41pm | IP Logged | ||
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The lede of the article on Wikipedia seems fairly accurate.
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| mrwarper Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Spain forum_posts.asp?TID=Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5035 days ago 1493 posts - 2500 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishC2 Studies: German, Russian, Japanese | Message 93 of 96 05 December 2012 at 5:42pm | IP Logged | ||
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Oh, Cristina, you just like being silly, don't you? ;)
OMG I just can't believe how right I was about our friends -- See hipster@UrbanDictionary.com, 'definition' #2. XD 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5143 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 94 of 96 05 December 2012 at 6:05pm | IP Logged | ||
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@mrwarper: You know I do :-)
Well, at least I now know I am not a hipster - not that I ever thought I was. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5143 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 95 of 96 29 December 2012 at 1:11pm | IP Logged | ||
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@Tecktight: Will you just write a new introduction here, and rename your log, or do you want to make a brand new thread for 2013?
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| Josquin Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4653 days ago 2266 posts - 3992 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Latin, Italian, Russian, Swedish Studies: Japanese, Irish, Portuguese, Persian | Message 96 of 96 10 March 2013 at 2:17pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hey tecktight,
are you still participating in the TAC? We're together on Team MIR, but it seems you haven't even created a log yet. Would be nice to hear from you, if you're studying Russian right now. Привет! 1 person has voted this message useful |
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