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| druckfehler Triglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4677 days ago 1181 posts - 1912 votes  Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Korean Studies: Persian | Message 73 of 457 26 December 2012 at 3:41pm | IP Logged | |||||
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iawia, I think it would be great to have you as part of our team. Right now we're already 15 participants, so Brun Ugle, the organizer of this TAC, has set up a new Asian team for everyone registering now. On January 1st we'll see if that new team has enough members (at least 5 I think) - if it doesn't everyone can join our team. At the moment it looks like everyone will be in our team, but I'd still ask you to register in the official thread. You'll be put down for the second team until it's decided whether everyone can join us or whether you'll have your own team. Sorry to make you wait!
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| druckfehler Triglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4677 days ago 1181 posts - 1912 votes Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Korean Studies: Persian | Message 74 of 457 29 December 2012 at 5:02pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Thanks for the link suggestions, everyone! I'll add them to the list.
Study Logs I've added everyone's logs to the front page. We're only missing three logs now. Team Name Poll For everyone who hasn't voted yet, you have one day left: Please Vote Here I'll make the name official on December 31. At the moment it looks like we'll keep the crane, but 6 people haven't voted yet, so nothing's decided yet. The members of Asian Team #2 are also invited to vote, because it looks like they'll join us. New Members? It looks like there won't be enough people for a second Asian team, so the following people will probably join our team on January 1: maurelio1234 (Mandarin), Crush (Mandarin), iawia (Japanese, Thai, Cantonese), picnick (Korean, Mandarin) Edited by druckfehler on 29 December 2012 at 5:04pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Haksaeng Senior Member Korea, South Joined 6007 days ago 166 posts - 250 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Korean, Arabic (Levantine) | Message 75 of 457 30 December 2012 at 9:26am | IP Logged | |||||
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I started my log. Here it is:
http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?T ID=34764&PN=1 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Bakunin Diglot Senior Member Switzerland outerkhmer.blogspot. Joined 4939 days ago 531 posts - 1126 votes Speaks: German*, Thai Studies: Khmer | Message 76 of 457 30 December 2012 at 6:27pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Hi everybody! Druckfehler kindly invited me to join the Asian team seeing me looking around for fellow South East
Asian language learners (without success). So better a TAC 2013 with the big cousins from the North than no TAC at all :) This is my first TAC, and I'm looking forward to being on a team with you! I'll be learning Thai in 2013. I've been learning Thai for about 3 and a half years now, and I'm tremendously enjoying it. I started out using a natural approach (adapted from ALG [automatic language growth]) with a very long silent phase (22 months), no translation and no explicit grammar study. After those roughly two initial years, speaking started to happen, then reading and writing. Now I actively use all four skills, with a focus on listening and reading, but I've also developed a few friendships in the language and enjoy talking and chatting with them. Listening: I listen to anything I can get my hands on, which is not much, unfortunately. But it includes the daily news podcasts of Voice of America and NHK (Japan), the stuff SBS (Australia) uploads to itunes, TV on demand and tailor-made recordings. Reading: I still enjoy books for young readers, they're easy to read and good fun. I'm currently reading through a stack of Enid Blyton adventure stories, but I also have several kilograms of books for young readers by Thai authors, science magazines and other stuff I want to read like Steve Jobs biography or The Hobbit. I buy way more books than I manage to read... I also do a lot of reading on the internet, ranging from stories and news articles (mostly in preparation for tutoring sessions) to random blog posts. Speaking: I have regular conversation sessions through italki where we discuss up to three news articles per session which I prepare in advance, and I talk with friends on a regular basis. Writing: I chat a fair bit on whatsapp with Thai friends, and I also write the occasional lang-8 entry when I see that I write too little. My TAC goals are to spend 1000 hours on Thai during 2013, respecting a healthy balance between the four language skills. I plan to update my log every 20 hours or so, and of course I'll try to stay up to date on my team mates' logs. I wish everybody a successful TAC 2013 with lots of fun! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| picnick Triglot Newbie Canada Joined 4158 days ago 22 posts - 33 votes Speaks: Tagalog, English*, Spanish Studies: Korean, Mandarin | Message 77 of 457 30 December 2012 at 7:12pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Hi everyone, I'm one of those new members who signed up late and are joining you guys
for this year! I'm participating as a high beginner/low intermediate Korean, and a extremely low beginner Mandarin :P I'm looking forward to doing this with all of you, it sounds really fun and all of your posts sound friendly :) I'm new to both TAC as well as this forum in general so I'd like to introduce myself to everyone: I'm a senior high school student in Vancouver, one who love languages and linguistics in general. I've been doing self-study for both Korean and Mandarin. For both, I'm going with a mix of online grammar courses, consuming media (TV/music), and general conversation practice with friends. I'm lucky enough that Vancouver is the type of the North American city with so many immigrants that Caucasian is technically a minority race now (49%), so there's no shortage of people at school to practice Korean or Mandarin with. I've been studying Korean on and off since 2008 when I first started learned how to read Hangul, but I haven't been 'hardcore' studying for more than a year or two now. This hardcore studying basically just means anything other than passively listening to K-Pop :P. TTMIK is my go-to resource for grammar, and plain reading/watching with Naver dictionary close at hand helps my vocab. I'm at the level where I can hold normal conversations with my Korean friends. I initially started learning Mandarin this September by downloading Rosetta Stone, but I'm going to shift my focus away from that and look for other, more concrete resources. (Suggestions would be greatly appreciated!) I'm at a very basic level where I can construct the simplest of sentences (你好， 我在和水， 这只够很大， etc） But hoping to get at a conversational level next year! Don't want to make this any longer than it already has gotten by rambling, so I'll post my whole story on my own log thread. I'm still new here so I'm not too sure how it all works. Do I just make my own personal thread, but then put our team name (whatever it ends up being) in the title? And then do I just regularly report my progress/what I've been doing to study in the thread? Sorry for all the noob questions, haha I'll figure it out soon enough. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Bakunin Diglot Senior Member Switzerland outerkhmer.blogspot. Joined 4939 days ago 531 posts - 1126 votes Speaks: German*, Thai Studies: Khmer | Message 78 of 457 30 December 2012 at 7:17pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Here's my log: http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?T ID=34767&PN=1&TPN=1
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| druckfehler Triglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4677 days ago 1181 posts - 1912 votes Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Korean Studies: Persian | Message 79 of 457 30 December 2012 at 7:25pm | IP Logged | |||||
Welcome to the team, Bakunin and picnick! It's great to see you join :)
Have a look at the second post in the thread, where some of our members have recommended study materials. Maybe you'll see something you find useful.
Yes, that's basically what happens :) Aside from that we will have monthly team challenges (I'll explain those in more detail on January 1) and you should follow every team member's log at least semi-regularly and comment and encourage them on their language journey. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| maurelio1234 Triglot Groupie BrazilRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5889 days ago 61 posts - 92 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, EnglishC2, French Studies: German, Mandarin | Message 80 of 457 30 December 2012 at 8:21pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Hi,
thanks for accepting me in this group ;) Just created my TID=34769&PN=1&TPN=1">learning log, and voted on the group name! I really prefer the "Asian Team" ;) Let us keep it simple! ps: Just in case the link doesn't work, my learning log: http://how-to-learn-any- language.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=34769&PN=1&TPN=1 1 person has voted this message useful |
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