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| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4632 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes  Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh | Message 9 of 17 17 September 2013 at 8:20pm | IP Logged | ||
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Welcome 40pancakes, and here I am giving this thread a blatant "bump". Don't normally
approve of bumping threads for the sake of it, but I feel we really need to keep this thing alive until it fully takes off. @40pancakes: no shortage of interest in Spanish over there. I don't know about Japanese. Edited by montmorency on 17 September 2013 at 8:20pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Lakeseayesno Tetraglot Senior Member Mexico thepolyglotist.com Joined 4138 days ago 280 posts - 488 votes Speaks: English, Spanish*, Japanese, Italian Studies: Esperanto, French | Message 10 of 17 18 September 2013 at 3:46am | IP Logged | ||
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Well, I AM trying to get the Japanese section to take off, but so far it's only Kristoff and me, so we'd love to have more people participating!
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| liddytime Pentaglot Senior Member United States mainlymagyar.wordpre Joined 6033 days ago 693 posts - 1328 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Galician Studies: Hungarian, Vietnamese, Modern Hebrew, Norwegian, Persian, Arabic (Written) | Message 11 of 17 18 September 2013 at 4:47am | IP Logged | ||
Shoot Benny an email at benny AT irishpolyglot DOT com . He is learning Japanese from Spain right now, I'm sure he would be game for a video hangout! Any other (beginning) Polish learners out there?? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Monkel Tetraglot Newbie Germany Joined 4218 days ago 3 posts - 5 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto Studies: Spanish, Mandarin | Message 12 of 17 18 September 2013 at 8:02am | IP Logged | ||
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Hello,
I requested to join the group. My name: Manuel H... (Although I lack the time to study a lot right now... so I doubt I will be of much use to the group) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Michel1020 Tetraglot Senior Member Belgium Joined 4821 days ago 365 posts - 559 votes Speaks: French*, English, Spanish, Dutch | Message 13 of 17 18 September 2013 at 11:31am | IP Logged | ||
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What would I get in this g+ thing that I don't have here already ? Video Chat in group ? I prefer one to one chat.
Beside if you already reach the point where you can chat with natives you will get more friends to talk to if you open yourself to other domains than language learning. If you don't reach that point yet come back in chat later. Now if there is something more than the chat in this g+ thing, please explane. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Lakeseayesno Tetraglot Senior Member Mexico thepolyglotist.com Joined 4138 days ago 280 posts - 488 votes Speaks: English, Spanish*, Japanese, Italian Studies: Esperanto, French | Message 14 of 17 18 September 2013 at 7:33pm | IP Logged | ||
First and foremost, nobody's forcing you go join if you don't see eye to eye with this idea. Also, fwiw, if you don't like group chats, Hangouts can be also done between two people, just like in Skype. Second, "that I don't have here already" sounds to me like you think we're trying to replace HTLAL. We're not. The forums are an incomparable wealth of knowledge, whereas the Learning Den is more like a sandbox for people to hang out and practice with other people from a forum they already know. As to what else there is to G+, its format enables people to share links to articles and learning resources through the whole internet with people interested in the same languages as you, in more of a bulletin board fashion than the forums do. It also enables you to get to know and maybe befriend forum members while outside the language learning context. Thirdly, the whole point of this was to see if it is possible to simplify common-language meetups between forum members/language learners, and now that we've got a sensible number of members, there are several people trying to make it get off the ground. From where I stand, making the community was like adding an activity calendar and a playground to the forums, nothing else. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| osoymar Tetraglot Pro Member United States Joined 4540 days ago 190 posts - 344 votes Speaks: English*, German, Portuguese, Japanese Studies: Spanish, French Personal Language Map | Message 15 of 17 18 September 2013 at 7:39pm | IP Logged | ||
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Well, I quite like group conversations and they seem to work very well on g+. And while I
also like speaking to "normal people" occasionally, there's also a lot of fun to be had in speaking Japanese to a Czech person about how their Klingon studies are going. That's fine if that doesn't interest you. The layout of g+ certainly isn't as suited to long-form written discussions as we often have here, so I think it's no threat to the forum. But it is very handy for sharing links, asking quick questions, etc. I would certainly recommend that more people join, if only for selfish reasons, but it's up to you! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4632 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh | Message 16 of 17 18 September 2013 at 9:37pm | IP Logged | ||
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Well, as far as I can tell, Skype 1-to-1 sessions between HTLAL members has never
really taken off, or taken off in great numbers. Of course, we cannot know what individuals are arranging by PM between themselves....perhaps there are hundreds of HTLAL members, pairing-off (or meeting in groups - I do know of one), but if so, it isn't being reported back here publicly, so to speak. So group hangouts seem like a fresh approach, and one that might work, because it doesn't require two people with matching language requirements to find each other. Also, I know from my own experience (not online, particularly, just generally), a 1-to- 1 session can be a bit exhausting, whereas with a group, there is less pressure on any one individual. (This depends on the circumstances of course). So lets' accentuate the positive, elimeyenate the negative, latch on to the affirmative, and not mess with Mister in-between. :-) Edited by montmorency on 18 September 2013 at 9:38pm 3 persons have voted this message useful |
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