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| vermillon Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4489 days ago 602 posts - 1042 votes  Speaks: French*, EnglishC2, Mandarin Studies: Japanese, German | Message 9 of 129 21 July 2012 at 8:13am | IP Logged | ||
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I'm in! Is the idea to take on "several" languages through Assimil and compare them at the end of the session?
Languages I'm interested in as part of lust-wandering (alphabetical order): -Hieroglyphs -Indonesian -Latin -Norwegian -Polish -Swahili but of course I couldn't do all of them as I'm already fairly busy with Classical Chinese, Old English and German... Would it have to be a language we have no knowledge of? I've some "basics" in Latin, but I suppose Assimil would take me much further. I've done Michel Thomas's Polish, and no nothing of the four others... 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| nuriayasmin70 Diglot Senior Member Germany languagesandbeyoRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4332 days ago 132 posts - 162 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: SpanishB1, Portuguese, Czech, Hungarian | Message 10 of 129 21 July 2012 at 9:01am | IP Logged | ||
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I've had a look at some Assimil courses but have never used one, so I'd be interested. End of the year sounds fine to me, too. By then I'll have taken (and hopefully passed) my Spanish B2 exam and will do less intensive Spanish studies. So I'd like to add another easy language. My first choice would be Norwegian but I've already got enough study material at home and don't want to buy more, so Dutch is more likely. And there's still some time to make a decision, isn't there?
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| kanewai Triglot Senior Member United States justpaste.it/kanewai Joined 4700 days ago 1386 posts - 3054 votes Speaks: English*, French, Marshallese Studies: Italian, Spanish | Message 11 of 129 21 July 2012 at 12:14pm | IP Logged | ||
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It's nice to see the interest!
I'm thinking November / December, so there's plenty of time to decide on a language! It'll be Russian, German, or Japanese for me. I need to do more research first, and figure out which would be best (all are on my long-term wish list). I can't imagine starting more than one language myself, but if people are motivated, shoots, go for it. I'd be wary of burning out, though . And we could set 'beginner' at less than 50 hours of study. Or less than A-1 level. Or even just leave it vague & let people self-define it. I'm not sure which is best.. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Julie Heptaglot Senior Member PolandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6714 days ago 1251 posts - 1733 votes 5 sounds Speaks: Polish*, EnglishB2, GermanC2, SpanishB2, Dutch, Swedish, French | Message 12 of 129 21 July 2012 at 12:43pm | IP Logged | ||
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I think I'll give it a try, too. I've never asctually done a whole Assimil course - I
worked with French (Polish-based) but switched to other methods somewhere in the middle. And I have a couple of Assimil courses waiting for me (I did about five lessons of Dutch and had a look at the first lesson in a couple of other courses). I'm thinking about Hungarian for the challenge, just to try learning something completely different. This might change, though. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| wv girl Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5050 days ago 174 posts - 330 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Spanish | Message 13 of 129 21 July 2012 at 12:50pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'd be tempted with Italian. I got the the course in April, I think, just before I started the 1/2 challenge in Spanish,
so I've only done about 7 lessons before putting my time into reading. Time is always an issue ... as the reading is certainly getting easier, I might be able to attempt this related language. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Globe-trotter Triglot Newbie Netherlands Joined 4408 days ago 29 posts - 44 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, German Studies: Thai | Message 14 of 129 21 July 2012 at 3:21pm | IP Logged | ||
You have Dostoevsky and Tolstoy, we have the Helicopter song. :-) 5 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6408 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 15 of 129 21 July 2012 at 3:54pm | IP Logged | ||
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LOL!
There are a few other songs at lyricstraining that I adore. But Helicopter is easier XD under than 50 hours seems fine! Oh damn, I haven't been able to find Assimil Danish or Swedish but the Norwegian download is working :/ I definitely want to have some level of knowledge in it...but f**k. What are you doing to me, Assimil? :D Edited by Serpent on 21 July 2012 at 3:59pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5145 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 16 of 129 21 July 2012 at 4:40pm | IP Logged | ||
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I am a challenge junkie, so even though evey fiber in my body screams, NO,NO,NO, I'm in. :-)
I have recently bought Assimil for Greek, Japanese and Mandarin, and did about 20 hours of Greek last summer with another book which is now all forgotten, 0 hours of Japanese and perhaps 15 hours of Mandarin, so I should qualify at all three. Not that I will DO all three, :-) Of course I also have Swahili, Slovak and Ukrainian Assimil which are blinking enticingly to me from the bookshelf... 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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