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| nogoodnik Senior Member United States Joined 5358 days ago 372 posts - 461 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Modern Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew, Russian, French | Message 177 of 195 01 July 2010 at 12:11am | IP Logged | |||||
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I'm tentatively in. I'm studying three other lanugages right now, but I could definitely spend an additional 30 minutes per day on a new one for six weeks. The hard part is choosing one: Georgian, Amharic, Aramaic, or Norwegian...or maybe a French-based Assimil course?
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| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6259 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 178 of 195 01 July 2010 at 9:22am | IP Logged | |||||
The materials at http://drop.io/latin_101_1, _2, _3 and so on? Those are what I now use with students, as it's only 25 lessons until you're ready to read Caesar etc. in the original. There's also a Latin course I created while still at high school, at http://www.learnlangs.com/latin, but there are more lessons and they don't lead as far... Anyway, if you work through the lessons yourself and then we meet up to discuss the solutions, I'm ready to do that for free. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6492 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 179 of 195 01 July 2010 at 11:30am | IP Logged | |||||
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eh, sorry to critize you, but Gaius Julius Caesar was not a king!
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| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6259 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 180 of 195 01 July 2010 at 11:38am | IP Logged | |||||
Theory and practice. "rex" had more broad use than the English word "king" btw. Edited by Sprachprofi on 05 July 2010 at 8:27am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Spanky Senior Member Canada Joined 5745 days ago 1021 posts - 1714 votes Studies: French | Message 181 of 195 01 July 2010 at 7:09pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I'm totally in. Swahili, likely with the FSI material. I will not be able to start until sometime next week.
Should we post results here, or start independent 6WC logs? Anyone else interested in learning Swahili? The FSI material looks interesting and is chopped (or even finely minced) into 150 very short manageable units (looks like audio clips of only a couple of minutes on a random sampling). FSI Swahili 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| ellasevia Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2011 Senior Member Germany Joined 5931 days ago 2150 posts - 3229 votes Speaks: English*, German, Croatian, Greek, French, Spanish, Russian, Swedish, Portuguese, Turkish, Italian Studies: Catalan, Persian, Mandarin, Japanese, Romanian, Ukrainian | Message 182 of 195 01 July 2010 at 7:35pm | IP Logged | |||||
I'll be doing a separate log for mine... I'm currently torn between Hebrew and Latin. Hungarian might happen too, even though I told myself I shouldn't...
I'm already learning Swahili (and tomorrow I'm off to Tanzania, so hopefully I'll get to practice) so I could maybe be of some assistance if you need anything, but I'm still beginner-intermediate-ish. I'm not really familiar with the FSI Swahili material, or any FSI for that matter, but I would recommend the books Teach Yourself Swahili and Spoken World Swahili (by Living Language) if you can get them. Also, I just recently found this Swahili dictionary, which is extremely helpful. There's also this good online dictionary. Good luck! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Spanky Senior Member Canada Joined 5745 days ago 1021 posts - 1714 votes Studies: French | Message 183 of 195 05 July 2010 at 7:24am | IP Logged | |||||
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Thanks ellasevia, good luck to you as well. I will start sometime later this week, and will post a separate log. I will probably not have more than an hour per day at best, so not expecting much other than some fun. Edited by Spanky on 05 July 2010 at 7:38am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| zohan Triglot Groupie Romania Joined 5043 days ago 45 posts - 45 votes Speaks: Romanian*, English, Swedish | Message 184 of 195 07 July 2010 at 3:04pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I am gonna be starting Hebrew tomorrow, if you have any recommendations before I begin I would be happy to take it, I'm a beginner and I wanna be able to have a conversation in this language at the end of this challenge. I just met a really cool guy who is from Israel and it would be fun to surprise him with his native language.
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