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| Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5554 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes  Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 1 of 96 01 January 2012 at 8:37pm | IP Logged |
"Preparing for Lift Off in 2012!"
[ Artistic impression of Sputnik 1 (image by Gregory R Todd, source: Wikipedia) ] Interesting resources - check. Immersion support systems - check. Killer methods and an amazing team of fellow linguanauts - check! All systems are confirmed "go" for Teango in Team Sputnik, repeat, all systems are "go". T-minus 10 seconds and counting...10..9..8..7..6..5..4..3..2..hang on a minute...abort, abort! I haven't said anything about my language goals for 2012 yet... LANGUAGE GOALS FOR 2012 (proficiency levels based on the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages, CEFR)  Primary goals: Russian (from beginner to basic fluency)
I've ducked and dived in Russian over the last few years, but always seem to fall flat on my face. With the Olympics coming to London in 2012, what better time to come out of the corner fighting like a crazed Cossack, and prove the pundits wrong by coming home with the triglot title belt held high! Listening: B1 --> B2 Reading: B1+ --> B2 Speaking: A2+ --> B2  Secondary goals: Irish (from beginner to elementary)
I've amassed several shelffuls of books and CDs over the last year, and can't wait to get stuck into TG4 (Ireland's Irish language tv channel). I'll be starting this language almost from scratch, and being half Irish, I just hope I don't let the folks down. Listening: A0 --> A2 Reading: A0 --> A2 Speaking: A0 --> A2  Maintenance goals: German (maintain basic fluency)
Time to make amends for neglecting my German for well over a year, and letting it rust away shamefully outside in the rain like an old garden trowel. I have several audiobooks and films waiting in the ranks to help me get back on track, and a bottle of Riesling to launch my studies. ;) Listening: B2 --> B2 Reading: B2 --> B2 Speaking: B1+ --> B2 ADDITIONAL NOTES This is my third year of the Team TAC, and I have a really lucky feeling about 2012. It's finally time for me to stop floundering in my language studies and raise my game to a whole new level. I can't wait to try out several new ideas that I've been developing over the past few months, and need to organise my time in and around work even more than ever. With exams in January, I anticipate a particularly busy start to the year. However, once my spare time frees up again, I hope to take off like a firework finale. With my inevitable susceptibility to wanderlust, and depending on how my plans pan out over 2012, who knows...I might even try my hand at some other languages too (French, Japanese, Hawaiian and Finnish are all quite alluring contenders for a short-term challenge). ;) And last but not least...a proud and hearty "Привет!" to my fellow TAC linguanauts (Aloysius, Drsarvo, Ellsworth, Fabriciocarraro, Isabliss_27, Lynxrunner, M. Medialis, Ruskivyetr, Senor smile, Solfrid Cristin, Tecktight and Woodsei). I'm looking forward to tracking Team Sputnik's upward trajectory on the language radar this year, and watching our foreign language skills soar into the stratosphere. Good luck and welcome to the space race, comrades! :) Edit - I've amended my initial estimated levels and goals to more accurately reflect my current skills, following a period of 4 months' inactivity in Russian (just a few passive films in December, as far as I recall), and 1-2 years of inactivity in German (I must be getting very rusty by now). I will also be starting Irish much closer to a complete beginner than anywhere near A1, and have indicated this with A0. Edited by Teango on 11 August 2012 at 5:05pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Ellsworth Senior Member United States Joined 4955 days ago 345 posts - 528 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Swedish, Finnish, Icelandic, Irish | Message 2 of 96 01 January 2012 at 10:53pm | IP Logged |
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Ah great write-up. Good luck this year!
Also, we have such similar language agendas(Irish, Russian, German). 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5332 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 3 of 96 02 January 2012 at 12:19am | IP Logged |
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Hmm. Love the picture, and as someone with a fear of hights, I can only say that with you guys on the team, I feel confident that we'll all be high fliers this year!
What are the new ideas that you have developed, by the way? Pray, share! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Woodsei Bilingual Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Woodsei Joined 4795 days ago 614 posts - 782 votes Speaks: English*, Arabic (Egyptian)* Studies: Russian, Japanese, Hungarian | Message 4 of 96 02 January 2012 at 10:56am | IP Logged |
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I just, I don't know... I was completely blown away by your introduction. The best I've seen! Teango, you're an
inspiration! It would be great fun following you log. :) Keep up the good work and happy new year! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| M. Medialis Diglot TAC 2010 Winner Senior Member Sweden Joined 6355 days ago 397 posts - 508 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: Russian, Japanese, French | Message 5 of 96 03 January 2012 at 2:52pm | IP Logged |
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Me and my comrades at the command bridge have gone through your data a second time, and we are now standing here nodding our heads decisively: Your spacecraft and your state-of-the-art equipment have been polished to perfection, and your preparations are flawless. After having double-checked the latest readings from the TTAC Space Observatory, we all agree - The Triglot Galaxy is definitely within reach!
It is indeed a dangerous mission, with the 31-Ex-CELTA asteroid belts having scared away many aspiring cosmonauts. But we are confident in your abilities and bravery to graciously pass through the dangers and maybe even catch a glimpse of the radiant Fin:Hw-Escargot nebulas in the WL sector. We have also recently heard reports of some large-tailed Houki-Boshis (ほうき星) spotted in the 6WC quadrant! I also took the opportunity to sneak in a picture of Юрий Гагарин on your seat in the flight deck: 
Good luck on your mission, Spaceman Teango! :D 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5554 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 6 of 96 03 January 2012 at 11:45pm | IP Logged |
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@Ellsworth
Thanks, and good luck to you too! I'm looking forward to comparing notes on Irish later in the year. @Solfrid Cristin Ah, you'll soon lose your fear of heights and Russian grammar once you see the world anew from above the clouds. I'm really happy we're on the same team this year, and as for my new methods...I'll be putting them thoroughly through their paces first...and all will be revealed in time. ;) @Woodsei After reading your new log, I just wanted to drop everything and move to Tokyo - Japanese is an amazing language! Wishing you all the best in finishing the RTK and making giant waves of progress in Japanese LR, and if you find any promising new language apps for the iPad, let us know. @Medialis Your confirmation checks and cosmic calculations come as excellent news, Mission Control! Until recent advances that led to the discovery of this distant 3-language constellation, my instrumentation was largely obscured by interference from clustered polyglot pulsars and domestic asteroids fields, rendering my shuttle craft unable to pierce beyond the linguistic mysteries of even the nearby Digloteuse Prawn Nebula. However, thanks to the amazing support of our team of language engineers at forum control, I will be finally ready for launch on 20th January (following my final cosmonaut exam!). This will be a big step for me, but I guess, just a small step for stamp-kind. :) Edited by Teango on 10 January 2012 at 10:35am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| fabriciocarraro Hexaglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Brazil russoparabrasileirosRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4713 days ago 989 posts - 1454 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, EnglishB2, Italian, Spanish, Russian, French Studies: Dutch, German, Japanese | Message 7 of 96 04 January 2012 at 12:41am | IP Logged |
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Great post, Mark! I hope we'll be able to help each other in Russian! =)
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| Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5554 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 8 of 96 05 January 2012 at 9:58pm | IP Logged |
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Cheers Fabricio! I look forward to chatting and sharing tips in Russian in the coming months. :)
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