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| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4613 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes  Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh | Message 25 of 34 02 January 2014 at 1:58pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
My point about G+ was really about the "hangouts" which one can set up between groups of people - Skype-like audio/visual communication between groups of up to (I think) 10 people. Not perfect, but far easier and cheaper to organise frequent virtual meetings than physical ones. I'm not aware that Facebook offers a similar facility. It's not difficult to set up a Google / Google+ account. Not that I'm a shill for Google ... far from it actually, but G+ Hangouts seem like too good a resource for language learners to ignore, especially as someone (edit: not me, I hasten to add) from HTLAL has already gone to the trouble of creating the HTLAL G+ Language Learning Den "community". It's a shame that it's not used more. Edited by montmorency on 02 January 2014 at 2:00pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Julie Heptaglot Senior Member PolandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6688 days ago 1251 posts - 1733 votes 5 sounds Speaks: Polish*, EnglishB2, GermanC2, SpanishB2, Dutch, Swedish, French | Message 26 of 34 02 January 2014 at 3:10pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Montmorency, it does sound very interesting. Facebook, if I am not mistaken, does not offer a similar facility. I have to think about setting up a separate Google and Google+ account (I really do not want to create a Google+ profile for my normal Google account).
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| patrickwilken Senior Member Germany radiant-flux.net Joined 4318 days ago 1546 posts - 3200 votes Studies: German | Message 27 of 34 02 January 2014 at 5:51pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I would love to meet EMK I find his posts and attitude really inspirational.
I live in Berlin! So I hope to see some of you this year if any of you make it here. First round is on me! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| sctroyenne Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5176 days ago 739 posts - 1312 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Spanish, Irish | Message 28 of 34 02 January 2014 at 6:42pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
Just so you know, if you already have an account on YouTube or Gmail, there's a good chance Google has already gone to the trouble of creating a Google+ account for you unless you've been actively denying them (a kind of shady thing they did to inflate their numbers and encourage more users). If you're ever signed in under a Google or Google- related account, look along the top and see if you see +yourname. If you do, that's it. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Julie Heptaglot Senior Member PolandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6688 days ago 1251 posts - 1733 votes 5 sounds Speaks: Polish*, EnglishB2, GermanC2, SpanishB2, Dutch, Swedish, French | Message 29 of 34 02 January 2014 at 7:15pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Sctroyenne, thank you for your advice. I very much dislike the Google shady policy to inflate their numbers, which is one of the reasons I do not have a Google+ account. And indeed, I went to great lengths to avoid creating one. As I have a Gmail account and an Android phone and tablet, I can't even count how many times I had to deny them actively, and I am pretty sure one day I will end up creating an account by mistake :(. And I gave up on posting app reviews on GooglePlay when they started to require a Google+ account. I just don't want to post my reviews under the real name (yeah, could have used another e-mail to register Android devices...) and to have my main e-mail address, which I use for both work and private purposes, associated with a social network account.
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| ellasevia Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2011 Senior Member Germany Joined 5927 days ago 2150 posts - 3229 votes Speaks: English*, German, Croatian, Greek, French, Spanish, Russian, Swedish, Portuguese, Turkish, Italian Studies: Catalan, Persian, Mandarin, Japanese, Romanian, Ukrainian | Message 30 of 34 03 January 2014 at 9:13pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
Goodness, I can't believe I didn't see this until now, but thank you so much, Solfrid Cristin! You'd most definitely be very high up on the list of forum members I'd like to meet (as would ReneeMona, Teango, Sprachprofi, LanguageSponge, and TixhiiDon, to name just a few). You're like my wonderful, language-learning mother figure! I'll be in Europe again most of this coming summer, so I hope that we'll maybe be able to meet up this time! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5119 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 31 of 34 03 January 2014 at 10:02pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
That would be great - just let me know which countries, and we'll see if we could make it :-) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6488 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 32 of 34 05 January 2014 at 2:31am | IP Logged | ||||||||
So true. 3 persons have voted this message useful |
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