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| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6263 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes  Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 1 of 136 20 January 2012 at 1:04am | IP Logged |
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The new challenge starts on February 1st, as expected. The bot is now ready to accept
sign-ups. Tweet something like "@6WCBot I want to #register to study #Esperanto intensively in February. #HTLAL user; working #full-time." Full-time = that's how long you're busy with things other than languages. Keep in mind that your main target language has to be a weak one - not better than lower intermediate level. You may however submit the work you do on other languages as well. If you're not familiar with the idea yet, read this explanation or ask someone who scored well previously. The leaderboards for previous 6 Week Challenges can be found here . The main page is now tracking sign-ups and scores for February. If you would like to be part of a group of people studying the same language, consider #Esperanto or #Finnish. From the planning thread and things people have told me personally, it sounds like there will be a decent-sized group studying Esperanto this time. As for Finnish, February is the time for the Accelerated Challenge ( http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?T ID=30352), exactly 45 hours in 30 days, so at least for the start of the challenge there should be some people logging Finnish hours. Good luck and have fun! Edited by Sprachprofi on 20 January 2012 at 1:05am 5 persons have voted this message useful | |
| aloysius Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6033 days ago 226 posts - 291 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, German Studies: French, Greek, Italian, Russian | Message 2 of 136 20 January 2012 at 8:29am | IP Logged |
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Yes, it will be great fun!
I'll take you up on Finnish, which I've never studied or even have any learning materials for. Whether accelerated or not I do not yet know. I guess I'll do Assimil. /aloysius 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| pesahson Diglot Senior Member Poland Joined 5521 days ago 448 posts - 840 votes Speaks: Polish*, English Studies: French, Portuguese, Norwegian | Message 3 of 136 20 January 2012 at 9:42am | IP Logged |
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Great! I've been looking forward it since the last challenge ended. I'm doing French again, it's still lower intermediate. I can't wait until February :)
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| zenmonkey Bilingual Tetraglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6345 days ago 803 posts - 1119 votes 1 sounds Speaks: EnglishC2*, Spanish*, French, German Studies: Italian, Modern Hebrew | Message 4 of 136 20 January 2012 at 12:02pm | IP Logged |
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I will be joining in. In the spirit of comparing the effectiveness of language learning methods here is my 6W Challenge profile
Time: I work full time, so I cannot commit more than a few hours a day, at most. Language: Arabic Start level: Lowly beginner, less than 15 hours studied to date, mostly over the script. Vocab is perhaps 10 words. I have some understanding of the script and almost nothing about the grammar. Method focus: 60%+ Assimil (passive-then-active), 20%+ Anki cards, <20% - the remaining will be podcasts (Arabicpod101 plus whatever else I find), possibly Living Language or Al Kitaab Self-perception of language learning ability: I probably under-rate myself but I do not think I am a rapid or highly effective learner - despite knowing several languages and having a light grasp of others, learning is hard work for me! Let me know if anyone else is doing Arabic and we can compare results and methods used! Have a great challenge! Edited by zenmonkey on 20 January 2012 at 12:04pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Ellsworth Senior Member United States Joined 4750 days ago 345 posts - 528 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Swedish, Finnish, Icelandic, Irish | Message 5 of 136 20 January 2012 at 1:21pm | IP Logged |
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I'm going to do French. I have purposely not studied to much to see how much I can do in
this. Time: I'll try full time, maybe an hour on weekdays, 4 hours on weekends Language: French Level: Low beginner, about 4 hours studied to date. Method Focus: Song lyrics, movies 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 4802 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 6 of 136 20 January 2012 at 2:20pm | IP Logged |
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I'll join, even though I will trully start a week later. I have already said that the next 6wc I'd participate in would be Esperanto and I still think it is a good idea. How many Esperantists to be will be in?
To provide info like in the posts above: level: none, I've just read a bit about Esperanto and briefly looked at the grammar to see what can I expect. method: lernu. There is enough to use that I shouldn't need anything else during the 6wc. goal: to see how far can I get in the "easy language" during 6 weeks. I am curious. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6390 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 7 of 136 20 January 2012 at 3:03pm | IP Logged |
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I'm in with Indonesian!
and I have a question about the bot, so the languages have to be in different tweets, but what about different activities? say for Tadoku I can tweet "5 #es #book; 2 #es #lyric; 4 #es #news". I know the format is different but can I combine activities like that or should there be separate tweets for everything I do? So excited<333 that will be my first 6WC of this kind, after the ones with Yiddish and Esperanto FIVE years ago. OMG. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| FireViN Diglot Senior Member Brazil missaoitaliano.wordpRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5022 days ago 196 posts - 292 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, EnglishC2 Studies: Italian | Message 8 of 136 20 January 2012 at 3:22pm | IP Logged |
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I'm in for Esperanto this time. Will be using Lernu and some ebooks I found. Some say it's possible to learn Esperanto in a few months.. oh well, let's see how far I can get (:
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