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Sprachprofi
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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 17 of 42
06 March 2014 at 8:03pm | IP Logged 
No, it's not a speaking conference. Just a few speeches by EU and African bigwigs, after
that we'll do group work.
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Hekje
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 Message 18 of 42
06 March 2014 at 8:36pm | IP Logged 
Well it sounds great. Hope it'll be a lot of fun.
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Sprachprofi
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 Message 19 of 42
08 March 2014 at 7:34pm | IP Logged 
Finished another book!

1. La Infiel by Reyes Monforte
2. Api Maut by Karl May
3. f**k Calories and Other Dietary Heresies by Krista Scott-Dixon
4. Night by Elie Wiesel
5. Bamboo People by Mitali Perkins
6. The Now Habit by Neil A. Fiore
7. 仁的故事

This is part of a series of comic books that narrate well-known stories from China's
history & mythology as illustrations of the Confucian virtues. I greatly enjoy this
chance to learn about Chinese culture with some easy reading.
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Sprachprofi
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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 20 of 42
19 March 2014 at 7:29pm | IP Logged 
Taking part in the Tadoku means that I read more Chinese, yay! I'm hoping to
significantly up my count of Chinese books, even though the challenge is only two weeks
and part of it is taken up by my parents visiting.

8. Quiet: the Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan
Cain


WOW! This book is amazing. I already recommended it to all my introvert friends, and
some non-introverts, because the book has advice for them, too. Mostly it's a book of
new insights though - new experiments etc. that I hadn't heard about and ways that the
world caters to introverts or extroverts in ways I didn't even notice. Highly
recommended!

9. 痞子哲学 by 王朔 (Filosofare randagio by Wang Shuo)

A collection of short stories or excerpts by Wang Shuo. I bought this in Italy, so the
notes are in Italian. They were very helpful, as the texts are more literary and more
colloquial than what I normally read. Without the notes I might have been lost. Now
back to something easier...
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Sprachprofi
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 Message 21 of 42
21 March 2014 at 8:25pm | IP Logged 
While struggling through my next Chinese book, I finished this short German book:

10. "Durfte Brandt knien?" by Alexander Behrens

This is a collection of opinions, newspaper articles and open letters about Chancellor
Brandt's kneeling down in Warsaw in 1970 and the German-Polish contract he signed on
the same visit, the contract that gave up the German territories east of the Oder-Nissa
line. A very controversial visit at the time, death threats against Brandt doubled in
the months afterwards, but now he is revered for it.

I also wrote about this event on my
new blog "Understanding Germany":
http://understandinggermany.de/history/chancellor-brandt-kne els-in-warsaw/

If you're interested in German society, world view, traditions and the historical
background to current events, please follow this blog!
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Sprachprofi
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Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese

 
 Message 22 of 42
05 April 2014 at 11:15pm | IP Logged 
I was in Brussels at a conference, which sapped away quite a bit of time and I'm still
not finished with my reports. On the bright side, I got to practice French a lot, spoke a
little bit of Swahili and I had time to finish a Chinese book and start another while at
the airport:

11. 你在天堂里遇见的五个人 by Mitch Albom
(original title: The Five People You Meet in Heaven)

This was quite easy and enjoyable to read!
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Sprachprofi
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 Message 23 of 42
29 April 2014 at 1:03pm | IP Logged 
12. On se left you see se Siegessäule by Tilman Birr

Too busy preparing the Polyglot Gathering these days.

I did sign up for the 6WC with Greek and the Super Challenge with Mandarin+Greek.
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Sprachprofi
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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 24 of 42
01 May 2014 at 10:24am | IP Logged 
I looked at my previous 6 Week Challenge results, since I participated almost all of
them:

Target:     Total:
24h30     70h28
21h25     47h45
15h0     69h40
34h57     83h17
21h30     92h45
21h52     92h42
49h33     81h8
4h1     25h41
35h30     82h6
33h20     117h27
52h9     85h45
28h31     58h58

I think they are quite bad, and I'm currently already behind my yearly goal by 40
hours, so I will try to do a particularly intensive 6WC. My goal shall be >40h on
target and >120h total. I'm counting on my work on LearnYu.com for a lot of it, because
otherwise there's no way I could do 20-hour weeks and still work and organize the
Polyglot Gathering.


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