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| linkman226 Bilingual Triglot Newbie United States Joined 5118 days ago 26 posts - 39 votes Speaks: English*, Kannada*, Spanish Studies: Mandarin, French | Message 49 of 129 13 August 2012 at 2:26am | IP Logged |
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If this happens, I'll probably join with Mandarin.
It's okay if we're at an ~A1 level, right? 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| BenMilim Triglot Newbie Germany benmilim.blogspot.co Joined 4493 days ago 25 posts - 30 votes Speaks: Hungarian*, EnglishC1, GermanC2 Studies: Spanish, Russian, Modern Hebrew, French | Message 50 of 129 13 August 2012 at 6:50pm | IP Logged |
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Count me in! If I managed to finish French With Ease until then, I'll try working through
Using French. Otherwise, I might just pick up Italian or perhaps Portuguese. So excited already! 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 51 of 129 13 August 2012 at 10:57pm | IP Logged |
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The goal is to see how far Assimil alone can get you, and to see if we really can learn
with only 30" a day. Based on the previous posts, let me offer this as a beginning framework: 1. Start time: anytime November 1 - 31. End time: May 31. Duration: 6 months, +/- 4 weeks. I would be flexible if people want to start earlier or later, but we'll open the official threads on November 1. 2. We'll try two levels: Beginners for total beginners, or those who have never progressed past an A1. Intermediate for those who are around A2 / B1, and who will use one of the advanced courses. 3. Commitment: 1) To not use other courses or active styles of learning for the duration (including skype chats, lang8, etc). I think passive exposure would be fine (movies, music, etc). 2) To use Assimil 'as directed.' 3) To not race!!! 4) To post regularly in the forum. This last part is important - if we don't log and discuss our progress then there's not much point to the whole experiment! My rec would be to log every week, or every seven lessons, even if it's only a line or two. 4. Threads: We'll keep this one open for discussion, questions, logistics, and planning. In October I'll start a Registration thread for people to select their language, and admit to any prior experience : ) In November we'll open the official Assimil Experiment Log for everyone to post their updates in. 5. I don't know how to make a Twitter Bot, but I think that would be nice to have also. 6. I think if would be good if we all did an online self-assessment at the beginning and end, but I don't know of any good free ones. Any thoughts? Edited by kanewai on 13 August 2012 at 11:00pm 10 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 4798 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 52 of 129 13 August 2012 at 11:49pm | IP Logged |
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The free self-assessments will be a trouble, especially for the less common languages.
Other than that, your framework looks really good. :-) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5123 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 53 of 129 13 August 2012 at 11:49pm | IP Logged |
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My self asessment for Mandarin - which presumably will be my language of choice, will be super easy: I
will say like Manuel in Fawlty Towers: I know nooothing! Otherwise the proposal seems great! 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Bjorn Diglot Senior Member Norway Joined 4657 days ago 244 posts - 286 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English Studies: German, French | Message 54 of 129 14 August 2012 at 12:02am | IP Logged |
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Are readymade flashcards allowed?
Thinking about japanese or mandarin. No way I'm willing to do handwritten japanese or mandarin signs :-) Edit: Spelling error Edited by Bjorn on 14 August 2012 at 2:08am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| ZombieKing Bilingual Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 4316 days ago 247 posts - 324 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin* | Message 55 of 129 14 August 2012 at 2:04am | IP Logged |
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Does Anki count as active learning if we use it to review only the words that we learn in assimil lessons?
I'm really not sure what I'd sign up with... I'll have to think of something as this challenge sounds very exciting! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| pigsonfire Newbie United States Joined 4864 days ago 26 posts - 37 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Arabic (Egyptian), Cantonese | Message 56 of 129 14 August 2012 at 2:44am | IP Logged |
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I may try Le Vietnamien Sans Peine! Does anyone have experience with this course? Can't wait!
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