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Polyglotted
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 Message 185 of 195
08 August 2010 at 11:11pm | IP Logged 
I'm tempted to join doing either Hungarian or Mandarin (I know it was easy languages, but I'm going to be studying it at university in about 6 weeks, so a headstart is always good.)


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sunny
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 Message 186 of 195
08 August 2010 at 11:19pm | IP Logged 
Polyglotted wrote:
I'm tempted to join doing either Hungarian or Mandarin (I know it
was easy languages, but I'm going to be studying it at university in about 6 weeks, so a
headstart is always good.)



I was thinking Romanian. For just six weeks could not do any harm.
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maydayayday
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 Message 187 of 195
24 August 2010 at 1:15pm | IP Logged 
Interesting experiment! Slightly mad in the nicest possible way but very tempting. I will bear it in mind for the dark winter months. Has anyone consolidated the results anywhere by which I mean "what capability do people achieve after a six week challenge ?"   
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halfstepdown88
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 Message 188 of 195
05 September 2010 at 9:09pm | IP Logged 
I am interested in trying Russian or Mandarin Chinese. Is this still going on? This sounds like a fantastic idea!
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songlines
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 Message 189 of 195
05 September 2010 at 10:15pm | IP Logged 
halfstepdown88 wrote:
I am interested in trying Russian or Mandarin Chinese. Is this still going on? This sounds like a fantastic idea!


If there's interest in restarting this project, I'd be happy to join in with either Mandarin Chinese or German. I won't be free to start till after October 5th, though.
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halfstepdown88
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 Message 190 of 195
06 September 2010 at 12:35am | IP Logged 
How does this work? Find a few people who want to try your language, then go at it for 6 weeks and check up on
eachother?
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songlines
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 Message 191 of 195
06 September 2010 at 5:43pm | IP Logged 
halfstepdown88 wrote:
How does this work? Find a few people who want to try your language, then go at it for 6 weeks and check up on
eachother?


It doesn't have to be the same language. The idea of having a set start (and finish) date is, I assume, to give people a bit more impetus, as well as having a core group of people who can encourage each other during the project. Post your progress on your language log. Tag the log with "6WC" so that other members can easily find it.

- Or that's what I've gathered, as a "newbie" here myself.



Edited by songlines on 06 September 2010 at 9:22pm

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Cowlegend999
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 Message 192 of 195
28 October 2010 at 2:41am | IP Logged 
Perhaps you could get a native speaker to skype with the person after the 6 weeks are over, they could
rate the person's pronounciation, grammar, vocabularly etc. I just started Cantonese a few weeks back so I
don't want to start a new language so soon, it does sound like fun though so good luck guys :)


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