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| luke Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6999 days ago 3133 posts - 4351 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Esperanto, French | Message 25 of 195 06 April 2007 at 3:52pm | IP Logged | ||
I'm tempted to join in the fun. I'd picked up the Michel Thomas 8 CD German course at a used book store a couple years ago and it's been just sitting on the shelf. Perhaps that and a small book like Essential German Grammar would be doable in 21 or so hours. Not that I think that's enough time to develop any real proficiency, but it does make turn on the light of hope that the fledgling student has that "I'll learn a foreign language". I'd actually prefer a dialog based course, but don't want to shell out for this experiment. If anyone is aware of a Assimil like course for German, that would actually be my preference. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Farley Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 6886 days ago 681 posts - 739 votes 1 sounds Speaks: English*, GermanB1, French Studies: Spanish | Message 26 of 195 06 April 2007 at 4:25pm | IP Logged | ||
Luke, Try here I listed two books that would fit the bill. Either one would work. John 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Lastminute Diglot Newbie United States Joined 6751 days ago 3 posts - 3 votes Speaks: Yoruba*, English Studies: Spanish | Message 27 of 195 06 April 2007 at 4:37pm | IP Logged | ||
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I am in. Its funny i tried this same experiment with some co-workers of mine but we gave up because we were all too busy in our professional and personal lives at the time. I would like to give it a go again. Haitian Creole is my choice. How will we be evaluated? When i came up with this experiment, we chose the same language which was Hindi. At the and of 6 weeks we would have had an interview of sorts with a native speaker of Hindi to grade who could handle themselves the best conversation in Hindi. There is free material from the Indiana University language link that one of the members posted here. Its called Ann Pale Kreyol Edited by Lastminute on 06 April 2007 at 4:42pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| burntgorilla Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6238 days ago 202 posts - 206 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Danish | Message 28 of 195 06 April 2007 at 6:02pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'd like to do Swedish, but I would be using the FSI program, which I guess a lot of people would be using.
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| Frisco Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 6650 days ago 380 posts - 398 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Norwegian, Italian, Turkish, Mandarin | Message 29 of 195 06 April 2007 at 8:21pm | IP Logged | ||
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Since I already have some material for Turkish, Romanian and German, I'll probably pick one of those.
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| Andy_Liu Triglot Senior Member Hong Kong leibby.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6580 days ago 255 posts - 257 votes Speaks: Mandarin, Cantonese*, EnglishC2 Studies: French | Message 30 of 195 06 April 2007 at 11:34pm | IP Logged | ||
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I want to see how easy Esperanto is. So I will pick it. When to start?
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 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6703 days ago 4250 posts - 5710 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 31 of 195 07 April 2007 at 4:25am | IP Logged | ||
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I'll start on Monday, despite that I have a dreaded Russian exam in two weeks. However, I think I'll be able to cram 30 minutes.
Who knows, maybe somebody here has already started. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Journeyer Triglot Senior Member United States tristan85.blogspot.c Joined 6662 days ago 946 posts - 1110 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, German Studies: Sign Language | Message 32 of 195 07 April 2007 at 4:27am | IP Logged | ||
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I thought everyone started at the same time?
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