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| kanewai Triglot Senior Member United States justpaste.it/kanewai Joined 4678 days ago 1386 posts - 3054 votes  Speaks: English*, French, Marshallese Studies: Italian, Spanish | Message 1 of 129 20 July 2012 at 11:20pm | IP Logged | |||||
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A couple of us have talked about doing some type of Assimil-related challenge later in the year, and rather than continue to hijack other threads I thought I'd open up the discussion and move it here.
The What The general idea would be for participants to pick a new language and work through the relevant Assimil text on it. When Later in the fall or early winter - this is very much a pre-planning thread! A lot of us are involved in the Super Challenge, and (at least for me) it's still taking a significant amount of time and energy. I don't want to take away from that. At some point reading should become easier and we can start to look at other challenges! Why? - Some of us are Assimil junkies - It will be interesting to see how Assimil courses compare in different languages - It's an excuse to indulge our wanderlust and work on a new language I definitely picture this as something we would do with our 'side' or 'wish-list' languages, and not with our main target languages. What are your all thoughts? Is there an interest here, and if so, what type of protocols and parameters would you suggest? 6 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| sillygoose1 Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 4425 days ago 566 posts - 814 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, Spanish, French Studies: German, Latin | Message 2 of 129 20 July 2012 at 11:35pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Do you mean just going through each course and ranking them/sharing experiences or using just Assimil as a stepping stone to further learning? Edited by sillygoose1 on 20 July 2012 at 11:35pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| kanewai Triglot Senior Member United States justpaste.it/kanewai Joined 4678 days ago 1386 posts - 3054 votes Speaks: English*, French, Marshallese Studies: Italian, Spanish | Message 3 of 129 21 July 2012 at 12:02am | IP Logged | |||||
Whether it's a stepping stone or not would be more up to the individual, I think. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| fabriciocarraro Hexaglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Brazil russoparabrasileirosRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4504 days ago 989 posts - 1454 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, EnglishB2, Italian, Spanish, Russian, French Studies: Dutch, German, Japanese | Message 4 of 129 21 July 2012 at 12:13am | IP Logged | |||||
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Awesome challenge! I'm most certainly in!
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| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4496 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 5 of 129 21 July 2012 at 12:28am | IP Logged | |||||
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I have l'Hebreu which I can use for this.
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| sillygoose1 Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 4425 days ago 566 posts - 814 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, Spanish, French Studies: German, Latin | Message 6 of 129 21 July 2012 at 12:31am | IP Logged | |||||
Sounds like a load of fun. Some guidelines could be that if you used any material besides Assimil previously, you can't use that language for the challenge. Also, I'm not sure if it would be good with everyone if active skills were permitted to be used during Assimil or only after the course has finished to measure it's true effect. I'd like to try this with Hungarian, Russian, or Romanian. Edited by sillygoose1 on 21 July 2012 at 12:32am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6386 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 129 21 July 2012 at 12:41am | IP Logged | |||||
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I'm definitely interested :D
One thing I'm certain about is that in my opinion any methods of using Assimil should be allowed. The official one, the use of shadowing and scriptorium in addition to it, the method described in the shadowing article on wikia, anythning else one can think of... Would it be okay to enter with a language that you understand but don't study all that much? I regularly read tiny bits of Dutch and Catalan on twitter but that's pretty much everything I do. (oh and I play the helicopter song at lyricstraining XD) My level is comparable to someone who's travelled to the country and picked up some random vocabulary, for example. I SRS what I do know but I have just around 30 cards for each. Now that I think of it, I'll probably do an additional experiment, with an intermediate language in which I haven't done Assimil (Italian, Spanish or even German). 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Coheed Triglot Newbie Canada Joined 4475 days ago 26 posts - 40 votes Speaks: French*, English, Spanish Studies: Romanian, Irish | Message 8 of 129 21 July 2012 at 4:29am | IP Logged | |||||
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Count me in! My Romanian needs some serious improvements.
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