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| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 4803 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes  Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 25 of 232 15 January 2014 at 9:32pm | IP Logged | ||
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If there are still places left, I wouldn't mind being on both French teams. However, if there is a flood of those interested and not enough places left, I'll be following you anyways :-D
P.S. thanks for making a second franch team, songlines. I'm sure you will be awesome! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| enrdbrow Newbie United Kingdom Joined 4366 days ago 19 posts - 30 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 26 of 232 16 January 2014 at 3:01pm | IP Logged | ||
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A massive THANKYOU! for creating and leading this second team Songlines, and more importantly for adding me to the list :)
Here is a link to my log: DB's French Log (I'll change the name once we have settled on one). Some resources I've recently come across: - Linguee.fr I've been using Linguee.fr to see some extra example usage of vocabulary that I'm putting into ANKI that I get from Teach Yourself French (I'm thinking more context, more understanding and the better I'll remember) - Le Petit Nicolas The first book is available to read online with audio and with exercises for each chapter. - Le Petit Prince Text and audio available online using the Ilya Frank Reading Method. I plan on reading this after I finish my "Easy French Reader" at the end of January. Bonne chance à tout le monde et poursuivez votre bon travail! 6 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4703 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German | Message 27 of 232 16 January 2014 at 6:37pm | IP Logged | ||
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Those are great links, enrdbrow. I've seen the Le Petit Nicolas site before, but as I've read the book 3 times, and listened to the audiobook many more times, I attempted the first quiz and got it all right easily.
I've never seen Linguee, but it looks awesome. It is great that it gives so many usage example for words and phrases. The frequency lists are useful, especially as they have phrases as well as individual words. But it is worth noting that the frequency is based on the number of times people have looked them up, not any corpus of texts. It might actually be more useful than a frequency list. As a side note, I was having difficulty with how the word "constater" is used, so it was really helpful to see that it ranks fairly high (#50 in their list), so I am not alone. After reading the examples, I have a good idea of how it works, especially the fact that it takes "que" where I would have thought it takes "de". So is this phrase correct? "Il faut constater que..." = "It is worth noting that..." 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4703 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German | Message 28 of 232 16 January 2014 at 8:38pm | IP Logged | ||
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Here's the link to my new log: http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?T ID=37873&PN=1
I spent a lot of time writing a review of the main resources I have used on the last 2.5 years. Sometime soon I'll write a plan for the coming year, but the coming week is going to be too busy I think. I plan on updating it about once a month, with a briefish summary of the activities I did for that month. I like the way Songlines does periodic summaries on her log, because it is less taxing to follow than some other people's more regular logs. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| PeterMollenburg Senior Member AustraliaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5270 days ago 821 posts - 1273 votes Speaks: English* Studies: FrenchB1 | Message 29 of 232 17 January 2014 at 6:13am | IP Logged | ||
Once a month, such a simple idea, but such a good idea! I might change to monthly after the initial month is over... Let's face it, it's the learning that's more important than the actual documentation of it. Fry on! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Sizen Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 4133 days ago 165 posts - 347 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Catalan, Spanish, Japanese, Ukrainian, German | Message 30 of 232 17 January 2014 at 10:54am | IP Logged | ||
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Personally, I plan to update my log every 4-14 days. I have some goals this year and keeping a fairly regular
log will hopefully help keep me in line. The first goal I have is to write more and improve my writing while doing so even if all I write is English. The second goal is to always work on finding new content that I can use to improve my languages in a pleasurable way. This is why I'm trying to fill all my log posts with numerous links. The more links I post, the faster I run out of new media to talk about and the harder I have to work to find new activities. At least, that's my theory. I really want to keep my studies as interesting and sustainable as possible this year. Plus I want to provide as much support and inspiration to the rest of the team as I can when they're feeling like they're in a rut and don't know what to do. I really hope that I don't demotivated myself too much by forcing it, though. Really, my goal is, I suppose, to make my life a little more exciting and varied than it has been these past two years. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
 songlines Pro Member Canada flickr.com/photos/cp Joined 5003 days ago 729 posts - 1056 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French Personal Language Map | Message 31 of 232 17 January 2014 at 1:45pm | IP Logged | ||
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A few important housekeeping things, re. my question in post 24 (and post 1, which it refers to):
Unless people feel strongly otherwise, I'm thinking of opening up registration for this team this weekend. (That is, no longer limiting it to people who were unable to sign up for Team Triomphe.) I'll also limit our team numbers to 20 members. If there are more people that that, perhaps they could either start a new team, or do TAC as independents? - Or, if later in the year, there are spots through attrition, we could fold them into our team? (I'm a bit concerned about leaving people who are entirely new to Htlal and/or French language learning out "in the cold" without a support group.) Please either PM me, if you haven't already done so, or leave a response in this thread. (Agreement or disagreement both equally accepted.) Also (in the interests of transparency), I'll note that I've already had enquiries/posts from people (ahead of Cavesa) in Triomphe who are interested in moving to our second team; and I have PM-ed one other person on the main TAC signup page who had expressed an interest in being on a French team. Given the limit on team size, and in fairness to people who might be otherwise "homeless /teamless", I doubt there'll be room to accommodate anyone wishing to officially join both French teams. People are, of course, more than welcome to follow and post on any of our logs and threads, whether they're team members or otherwise! We are currently at 10 members; 2 waitlisted from Triomphe (I haven't waitlisted Cavesa, for the reasons above); and 1 from the TAC signup thread from whom I'm expecting a PM. I will be PM-someone who had volunteered (on the main TAC signup page) to be a "godparent" in French, to see if the offer's still open. For TAC, a "godparent" is a native speaker of the target language, who's available to answer questions about the language. They aren't expected to follow all our team logs. Team Name: Do you want to wait till we have a full (or fuller) complement of team members before we decide on a name? And/or, for that matter, wait for more suggestions for names? Or...? Our team is provisionally listed (and linked) on the TAC signup thread as Second French Team (or some similar such phraseology); if we choose a new name before the 22nd (? possibly 21st?) Josquin can update the name with our new one. Otherwise, it's not a biggie - the link will still work. Thanks to everyone for posting the links to your logs - I've enjoyed reading them! ------- Update, Sunday 19th: Registration is now open, without that restriction about having to have been unable to sign up for Triomphe. I'm keeping a restriction against signing up for both French teams. Edited by songlines on 19 January 2014 at 5:35pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| songlines Pro Member Canada flickr.com/photos/cp Joined 5003 days ago 729 posts - 1056 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French Personal Language Map | Message 32 of 232 17 January 2014 at 2:44pm | IP Logged | ||
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Have to head out now, but next up:
- Quick tip on making links (for Jeffers and anyone else) - Response on log-posting frequency. - Idea for a group activity for late January and February (hint: look at DB's French log) - Will start filling in the "resources" section on the first page of this thread on Monday, the next day I have off work. I have some lists on my log, and will be gleaning others from other threads (PAX, Romulans, Triomphe, and your own logs), but if I miss any that you've found particularly useful, feel free to add them to this thread; I can update my listts. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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