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Hekje
Diglot
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Speaks: English*, Dutch
Studies: French, Indonesian

 
 Message 25 of 223
04 January 2014 at 9:39pm | IP Logged 
Sprachprofi wrote:
I would like to join team Rare. My focus languages right now are
Indonesian and Chinese, but I may pick Arabic and/or Swahili back up in the coming months.
My log:
http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?T ID=37745

This is great to hear! I'm very happy to be on a team with another Indonesian learner. :-)

I would be interested in doing monthly challenges for sure.

prz - Thank you for the links!
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zecchino1991
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Studies: Italian, Modern Hebrew, Russian, Arabic (Written), Romanian, Icelandic, Georgian

 
 Message 26 of 223
04 January 2014 at 11:02pm | IP Logged 
Hi, I would like to join with Georgian.
Here
is my log.

Regarding my level, technically I am not a beginner because I started a couple years ago, but I still wouldn't
say I'm at a very high level. So maybe you could call it low intermediate. Although, I'm not sure if I'm quite B1
yet, so I would estimate I'm more of an A2. And my goal is to be able to converse enough to get around in
Georgia, since I am planning to go there soon. So I guess that would be B1 or B2?

Edited by zecchino1991 on 05 January 2014 at 1:25am

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Sprachprofi
Nonaglot
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Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian
Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese

 
 Message 27 of 223
05 January 2014 at 7:00am | IP Logged 
Okay, here's an idea for the January challenge: introduce yourself in your target
language.
And say more than just "I am __ . I come from __ " - in fact, try to make
it a really long text.

This is something I learned from the book "How to improve your foreign language
IMMEDIATELY" (which I recommend to anyone): it really helps to be able to talk forever
about a topic that commonly comes up, so that you can bridge awkward silences.
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Sprachprofi
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Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese

 
 Message 28 of 223
05 January 2014 at 6:27pm | IP Logged 
Resources for all languages:

http://gloss.dliflc.edu/ - G.L.O.S.S. audiovisual
materials
http://www.bliubliu.com - read graded texts and
improve your vocabulary
http://tedxtalks.ted.com/browse/talks-by-languageTEDx talks in
various languages, some with subtitles
http://www.childrenslibrary.org/ - children's books in many
languages including very rare ones (use Advanced Search by language)

Indonesian-specific:
http://www.indokarlmay.com/v6/?page_id=233 - Karl May books as PDF in
Indonesian

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Zireael
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Speaks: Polish*, EnglishB2, Spanish
Studies: German, Sign Language, Tok Pisin, Arabic (Yemeni), Old English

 
 Message 29 of 223
05 January 2014 at 7:44pm | IP Logged 
How do I use BliuBliu with Arabic?
It keeps giving me texts streaked through with proper names in Roman alphabet, therefore invalidating the whole point (of course I know S/S or Prada)
It says I know 113 words, while maybe 13 of them were real Arabic.

Edited by Zireael on 05 January 2014 at 8:16pm

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Expugnator
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Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento
Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian

 
 Message 30 of 223
06 January 2014 at 9:51pm | IP Logged 
- გამარჯობათ!
- გაგიმარჯოთ! როგორ ხართ!
- კარგად ვარ! შენ საიდან ხართ?
- ბრაზილიელი ვარ, ორმოცდაცხრა წლისა ვარ. ბელუ-ორიზონტში ვცხოვრობ, მაგრამ ბაიაში
დავიბადე.
- ძალიან კარგია რომ ქართულად ლაპარაკობთ. გილოცავთ!
- სიმართლე რომ ვთქვათ, ჩემი ქართული კარგად არ არის. უკვე ორიოდე წლის ვსწავლობ, მაგრამ
ქართული ძალიან ძნელი ენაა. ბევრი სიტყვა ჯერ კიდევ არ ვიცი.
-ნუ წუხხარ, თქვენ მალე კარგად ლაპარაკი შეძლებთ!

- Hello!
- Hello! How are you?
- I am Brazilian, 29 years old. I live in Belo Horizonte, but I was born in Bahia.
- So nice of you to be speaking Georgian. Congratulations!
- To tell you the truth, my Georgian is not good. I've already been studying it for
about two years, but Georgian is a very difficult language. I still don't know many
words.
- Don't worry, you'll soon be speaking well!
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prz_
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Studies: Slovenian, Macedonian, Persian, Russian, Turkish, Ukrainian, Dutch, Swedish, German, Italian, Armenian, Kurdish

 
 Message 31 of 223
07 January 2014 at 1:08am | IP Logged 
To be honest, if the info from my Georgian friend is true: except the TV or radio programmes, Georgians use only გაუმარჯოს (informal) and გამარჯობა (formal).
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Sprachprofi
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Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese

 
 Message 32 of 223
07 January 2014 at 11:04am | IP Logged 
Zireael wrote:
How do I use BliuBliu with Arabic?
It keeps giving me texts streaked through with proper names in Roman alphabet,
therefore
invalidating the whole point (of course I know S/S or Prada)
It says I know 113 words, while maybe 13 of them were real Arabic.


Bliubliu tries to find texts that contain only a few new words, because reading a text
that is full of new words is frustrating. So one strategy for such texts is if they
contain a lot of names or other words in Roman alphabet - these are automatically
considered as known, so you can focus on learning the Arabic words around them. Once
you
know a decent amount of Arabic words, Bliubliu will give you all-Arabic texts.
Alternatively you can set your initial level higher, then Bliubliu will assume you know
a
certain number of basic Arabic words already.

Since texts are added automatically from various blogs and news sites (as well as some
manually-added texts, you can contribute texts too!), there are occasionally texts that
are English when they should be a foreign language, or texts that are uninteresting.
You can flag those and Bliubliu will remove them.

Edited by Sprachprofi on 07 January 2014 at 11:06am



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