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TAC 2015 - Rare Languages Team Thread | ||
Tags: Telugu | Hawaiian | Albanian | Team Thread | Malay | Sanskrit | Georgian | Tagalog | Indonesian | Thai | Rare Languages | Farsi/Persian | Hindi | Hebrew | Dutch | Arabic | Total Annihilation Challenge (TAC) | ||
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| Luso Hexaglot Senior Member Portugal Joined 5860 days ago 819 posts - 1812 votes  Speaks: Portuguese*, French, EnglishC2, GermanB1, Italian, Spanish Studies: Sanskrit, Arabic (classical) | Message 89 of 113 15 March 2015 at 3:45pm | IP Logged |
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@ Expugnator:
I just used your Georgian challenge posts as an example because you've achieved a lot in a short period of time, and that might be frightening to less experienced learners who don't follow your log closely. I could as easily have used Sprachprofi's progress with Hebrew, or last year with Indonesian. It was a way of saying that we must try to keep beginners motivated. No criticism was implied, quite on the contrary. @ All: With this thought in mind, please feel free to post, ask for advice, give advice, etc. As Expugnator said, we are united by our difficulties. Let's share them and try to find solutions. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| geoffw Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4487 days ago 1134 posts - 1865 votes Speaks: English*, German, Yiddish Studies: Modern Hebrew, French, Dutch, Italian, Russian | Message 90 of 113 16 March 2015 at 2:19am | IP Logged |
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I think the recent technical difficulties unsubscribed me from updates to this thread. I've been around and posting,
but I didn't realize there had been any activity on this thread. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Stelle Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Canada tobefluent.com Joined 3943 days ago 949 posts - 1686 votes Speaks: French*, English*, Spanish Studies: Tagalog | Message 91 of 113 16 March 2015 at 5:21pm | IP Logged |
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I'm up for any challenges, whether linguistic or cultural! I love learning more about the cultures behind the
languages that you're all learning, and am also interested in learning more about how you're navigating learning less "popular" languages. Salamat! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Monox D. I-Fly Senior Member Indonesia monoxdifly.iopc.us Joined 4934 days ago 762 posts - 664 votes Speaks: Indonesian* | Message 92 of 113 24 March 2015 at 4:56am | IP Logged |
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Ummm... For those who knows Arabic, which one is the correct way of saying "You are a kind and beautiful woman."?
Anti khoirun wa jamiilunnisaa'. Anti khoirotun wa jamiilunnisaa'. Anti khoirun wa jamiilatunnisaa'. Anti khoirotun wa jamiilatunnisaa'. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Luso Hexaglot Senior Member Portugal Joined 5860 days ago 819 posts - 1812 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, French, EnglishC2, GermanB1, Italian, Spanish Studies: Sanskrit, Arabic (classical) | Message 93 of 113 05 April 2015 at 11:13pm | IP Logged |
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FIRST QUARTER REPORT
1. Purpose and scope of this summary Last year, I added this feature to Team Rare's log. I believe that knowing how things are going may help with our motivation. This year, the Team is larger, but I'll try to keep things simple. 2. Team structure Up to now, we have 18 members from 12 countries, learning 16 languages. Since some members are learning more than one language, there are 26 instances of languages being learned in the team. As for language families, we have: Indo-European (Albanian, Dutch, Hindi, Persian and Sanskrit), Semitic (Arabic and Hebrew), Kartvelian (Georgian), Austronesian (Hawaiian, Indonesian, Malay and Tagalog), Dravidian (Kannada and Telugu), Uralic (Karelian) and Tai-Kadai (Thai). That's 7. Regarding scripts: Latin, Arabic, Georgian, Hebrew, Devanagari, Brahmi and Thai (to keep it simple, I grouped variants). That's also 7. Level-wise, there are quite a few As, along with a few Bs, and just one C. 3. Team progress and cohesion It's quite difficult to offer mutual support under these conditions. The knowledge is not transferable, even between languages of the same family. Up to this moment, it's not been easy to find activities appealing to a significant number of team members. I invite you to step up and say "hey, I'd like to do this-and-that". Please. :) As for the permanence rules, I've decided to be (even more) forgiving. Motivation is hard as it is. We don't need to worry about the "regularity police". However, this "get out of jail card" won't be available forever. 4. Second quarter forecast Quoting from last year: "As the year progresses, it's usual for our updates to become less frequent. Spring comes, then summer. School years end, we go on vacation. That's just natural." Based on that, let us know you're still out there. We are here for mutual support. 5. Feedback This is an "edit" section, designed to incorporate further suggestions. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| geoffw Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4487 days ago 1134 posts - 1865 votes Speaks: English*, German, Yiddish Studies: Modern Hebrew, French, Dutch, Italian, Russian | Message 94 of 113 09 April 2015 at 1:38am | IP Logged |
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I'm still here, but not getting any email notifications from HTLAL, as I noted before. I'm trying to remember to stop
by this thread every now and then to check if there's been any update. And for my part, I've been regularly doing Hebrew Assimil (French base). I just finished lesson 24. It's still very easy for me, but I'm hoping to really ease into and through Assimil as much as I can. I think it's about to really ramp up on the modern vocabulary, which is a big blind spot for me. Fortunately, it's almost all loanwords from languages I know or neologisms coined based on ancient vocabulary that I might know, so learning it isn't that painful. I'm also listening to Hebrew radio on occasion, but not all that regularly. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5355 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 95 of 113 09 April 2015 at 2:11am | IP Logged |
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Teango signing in too... :)
I've been working away at Hawaiian, and each new chapter completed or speech presented in class brings me that much closer to my goal of reaching an upper intermediate level of proficiency this year. I'm already much more comfortable with Hawaiian resources (although my listening skills require plenty of work), and I think I'm probably on the cusp of breaking into the low intermediate level right now. It's great to look back on the resources I couldn't make head nor tail of last year, and now realise I can make some sense of it all. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6269 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 96 of 113 10 April 2015 at 7:33pm | IP Logged |
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I'm still around, too!
My Hebrew Add1Challenge ends tomorrow and I'll do a Day 90 video, but I lost a significant share of my motivation after that successful Hebrew dinner with Alex Rawlings, Maria Weidner, my Hebrew tutor and some local friends. Also, this is the hot period of the Polyglot Gathering and I'm under a lot of stress organizing everything and not spending nearly enough time studying or reading. :-( Fortunately I did that Dutch intensive course, so in terms of numbers I'm still well ahead of where I should be for my yearly goal (241 hours instead 205). 1 person has voted this message useful |
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