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 Sprachprofi Hexaglot Pro Member Germany learnlangs.com Joined 1281 days ago 1532 posts - 538 votes  Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Italian, Latin Studies: Mandarin, Greek, Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili Personal Language Map | Message 33 of 191 07 April 2007 at 4:37am | IP Logged |
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Sprachprofi: Indonesian, Swedish, Swahili, Portuguese, Russian, other
Patuco: Swedish, Swahili Julie: Swedish, Portuguese, Dutch, other Frisco: Turkish, Romanian, German Jeff_lindgvist: Esperanto, Portuguese, other Raincrowlee: Esperanto Talairan: Swahili, Portuguese Leosmith? (might participate) Farley: Turkish lady_skywalker: Persian andee: Japanese Journeyer? (might participate) reineke: Japanese, Spanish leosmith: Esperanto, French, Russian Malcolm? luke: German - materials? Lastminute: Haitian Creole burntgorilla: Swedish Andy Liu: Esperanto I am thinking to start a week from now (Saturday the 14th) so that everybody has the time to decide on a language, look for materials, order any if necessary, and develop a study plan. Keeping an online language-learning journal would be great - if somebody later wants to learn as much as you did in just 6 weeks, they could just copy exactly what you did and hope for the best. However, since this requires additional time, it's not required. Luke, try the lessons for German I wrote for a painless introduction. Then you might like to do the free course offered by Deutsche Welle, it's dialog-based and very extensive. The beginner level is called "Deutsch - warum nicht". There is also an intermediate level as well as a course in business German. The Exeter University's online German course is also very good, but not quite as extensive. | |
| aru-aru Triglot Senior Member Latvia Joined 1268 days ago 191 posts - 16 votes Speaks: Latvian*, English, Russian Studies: Mandarin | Message 34 of 191 07 April 2007 at 6:20am | IP Logged |
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Hey, this sounds like fun! I might go for swedish or dutch. Need to take a look at what our local library says to this, though.
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| Serpent Tetraglot Senior Member Russian Federation n-e-g-a-t-i-v-e.tk Joined 1408 days ago 958 posts - 9 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, Finnish, Latin Studies: German, Portuguese, Esperanto, Belarusian, Indonesian Studies: Romanian | Message 35 of 191 07 April 2007 at 7:31am | IP Logged |
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I'm thinking about trying Esperanto... Ardaschir said that after each new language learning langs gets easier, so why not give a try.. I might drop the experiment as these are also going to be my last weeks in high school.
Although I see quite a lot of people are trying Esperanto.. Perhaps I'll take Icelandic, Greek, Indonesian, Turkish, Old Church Slavonic (the only one I'll tell my parents about if I do take it), Lithuanian or Welsh... are there any courses like this excellent one for any of the langs in my list? Update: I've realized the best possible choice for me is probably Yiddish. As I speak some German this is most likely not going to be too hard, and it will probably help me to get better grades on German at school. It would be also interesting to see what learning a new writing system is like, since I learnt the cyrillic and latin ones at about 4 or 5 and don't remember much about learning them :) Edited by Serpent on 07 April 2007 at 7:47am | |
| MeshGearFox Senior Member United States Joined 1506 days ago 310 posts - 5 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Russian | Message 36 of 191 07 April 2007 at 1:24pm | IP Logged |
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Hah! I was tempted to start the same thing myself, inspired by NaNoWriMo. In fact, I think I made a post about it in March. My idea is that the arbitrary time limit would make people work more efficiently for some reason.
Well, I think I might start something new like Afrikaans or Icelandic. Or maybe... Indonesian? I might even try something really adventurous like Greelandic, except there aren't any resources on that anywhere appparently. Just to weigh some of my options here, Icelandic has gender, and depending on how arbitrary it is, I might go for something genderless like Afrikaans. Then again, Afrikaans might be a little bit too easy and I don't want to get bored. Finnish, Basque, and Inuit or Greenlandic are all interesting from a 'I need to play around with something that's not indo-european' sense, but, as I said, only Finnish would have good resources. Anyway, I'll see what other people are doing. For the time being, though, probably either Icelandic, Afrikaans, Basque, or Finnish. Just curious, if anyome who HAS studied Icelandic is reading this, is the gender totally arbitrary, or, like in German, are there sets of prefixes and endings that tend to point you in the right direction? | |
| lady_skywalker Triglot Senior Member Netherlands aspiringpolyglotblog Joined 1701 days ago 909 posts - 12 votes Speaks: Spanish, English*, Mandarin Studies: Japanese, French, Dutch, Italian | Message 37 of 191 07 April 2007 at 4:33pm | IP Logged |
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Out of curiosity....how on Earth will our progress in our chosen language be judged? Are there any specific goals we need to achieve or is that entirely up to each person?
I'm still interested in this little game, although I can't guarantee I'll be able to do much in those 6 weeks. | |
| Asiafever Diglot Newbie Germany Joined 1264 days ago 38 posts Speaks: French*, English Studies: German, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 38 of 191 07 April 2007 at 4:38pm | IP Logged |
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Count me in!
I am currently studying Mandarin but I always wanted to learn Japanese too. I wanted to finish Mandarin first because of what's written on this website about learning multiple languages at the same time but I think I will be in! So, I'm going to learn Japanese from scratch using Pimsleur and possible other materials but most likely not. Hope my Mandarin won't be affected but both languages are completely different in many aspects so it don't think I will. | |
| Evanstar Triglot Newbie United States Joined 1263 days ago 24 posts Speaks: English*, Catalan, Spanish Studies: French, Russian, Swedish, Finnish, Latin, Swahili, Italian | Message 39 of 191 07 April 2007 at 8:34pm | IP Logged |
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I'll bite - my choice is latin :)
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| reineke Senior Member United States learnalanguageortwo. Joined 1258 days ago 670 posts - 29 votes Speaks: Zulu* | Message 40 of 191 07 April 2007 at 8:59pm | IP Logged |
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I second lady_skywalker's concern. In addition our choices may be related to something we already know. Should we just report our thoughts and disclose prior knowledge? Should we form pairs? I have no prior knowledge of Japanese but I do speak Italian and French and I have studied Latin for a few years. Consequently my other choice, Spanish, would have very different results. I know, it's all fun and games, but some attempt at usefulness we should make. I'm talking like Yoda now.
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