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| osoymar Tetraglot Pro Member United States Joined 4534 days ago 190 posts - 344 votes  Speaks: English*, German, Portuguese, Japanese Studies: Spanish, French Personal Language Map | Message 17 of 29 11 September 2013 at 10:43pm | IP Logged | ||
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I have G+ although I haven't used it much.
Would it be more efficient to create a thread for each group, either in the Specific Languages forum or the forum for that language? Or would it be just as efficient, as BaronBill suggests, to just list our own information and seek each other out? The question also remains, what exactly would we do in these groups? Would they be geared more towards beginners or advanced learners? I'm really not sure myself which would be more useful. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Lakeseayesno Tetraglot Senior Member Mexico thepolyglotist.com Joined 4132 days ago 280 posts - 488 votes Speaks: English, Spanish*, Japanese, Italian Studies: Esperanto, French | Message 18 of 29 12 September 2013 at 12:16am | IP Logged | ||
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I suggested creating a group because it is a more orderly way to get in touch with several people with similar language interests, all at the same time, instead of getting in touch with them one by one.
The point would be to make this community into a rendezvous point for HTLALers, with a few added benefits (scheduled and unscheduled Hangouts, interest groups organized by target language, the possibility of adding related information, videos and links to each sub-page as well as requests for help, community calendar, etc). Why create a "directory" thread in the Specific Languages forum when the community would be a directory in itself? Edited by Lakeseayesno on 12 September 2013 at 12:16am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4626 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh | Message 19 of 29 12 September 2013 at 1:06pm | IP Logged | ||
If that's how G+ Hangouts work, then fine. If it works, it would probably become a self-sufficient spinoff of HTLAL, not really needing HTLAL at all, although of course, new HTLAL members who are interested will be pointed there. And at least the boss of G+ won't go AWOL for 4 years+, although he might be passing your personal secrets to the NSA. :-} 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Lakeseayesno Tetraglot Senior Member Mexico thepolyglotist.com Joined 4132 days ago 280 posts - 488 votes Speaks: English, Spanish*, Japanese, Italian Studies: Esperanto, French | Message 20 of 29 12 September 2013 at 5:47pm | IP Logged | ||
Maybe so. However, I don't know about your personal secrets, guys, but mine also happen to be a powerful sedative, so unless the guys at NSA are interested in some light reading before bed... :p 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Lakeseayesno Tetraglot Senior Member Mexico thepolyglotist.com Joined 4132 days ago 280 posts - 488 votes Speaks: English, Spanish*, Japanese, Italian Studies: Esperanto, French | Message 21 of 29 13 September 2013 at 1:35am | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks to everyone who showed enthusiasm about this idea. I've gone ahead and created the Community, so everyone who's got a G+ account can go ahead and look up for "HTLAL - Language Learning Den" in the Communities section. I've already set up a bunch of categories based upon checking the languages being currently learnt by everyone who responded they'd like to do this, but if I missed one, let me know and I'll add it ASAP.
In an effort to weed out both people unrelated to these forums and trolls, and to keep things a bit more private, I made it so the community shows up in the search but isn't public, so you'll have to request admission before posting. However, thanks to my job I spend two thirds of the day glued to the computer, so don't worry, you probably won't have to wait long. By the way, I thought a lot about this, and I think that if anyone here has a friend or acquaintance in G+ who's a serious language learner but not a HTLAL member, we should be able to go ahead and let them know about the community. The point is to make this community a fun place to practice a language, not an hyper-exclusive club, and from where I stand, referral by a HTLAL member should be enough to be allowed in (and besides, if there are no members to practice a language with, the existence of this community would be moot to start with). 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4626 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh | Message 22 of 29 13 September 2013 at 2:11am | IP Logged | ||
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@Lakeseayesno,
Good man Lakeseayesno. Sometimes it just takes someone to take the initiative. Hoping to meet some German, Danish or Welsh(?) speakers on G+ before too long. EDIT: I've applied to join the group, but as I don't know a thing about G+, it will take me a while to learn my way around the mechanics of the system. ....the usual boring system stuff. Edited by montmorency on 13 September 2013 at 2:23am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| prz_ Tetraglot Senior Member Poland last.fm/user/prz_rul Joined 4657 days ago 890 posts - 1190 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, Bulgarian, Croatian Studies: Slovenian, Macedonian, Persian, Russian, Turkish, Ukrainian, Dutch, Swedish, German, Italian, Armenian, Kurdish | Message 23 of 29 13 September 2013 at 9:56am | IP Logged | ||
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In recent days I've been rather quiet in this thread, but it's all because of my exams and uni difficulties... I haven't forgotten abut the idea and my "Polish promise" ;)
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| garyb Triglot Senior Member ScotlandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5005 days ago 1468 posts - 2413 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, French Studies: Spanish | Message 24 of 29 13 September 2013 at 10:52am | IP Logged | ||
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Cool, finally a reason to use that Google+ account that I signed up for years ago but never found a use for!
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