6WC 6 Week Challenge - Aug 2016
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Re: 6WC 6 Week Challenge - Aug 2016
Thanks for your suggestions - I'm now in. Following the bot separately is what made the registration go through in the end.
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Re: 6WC 6 Week Challenge - Aug 2016
Hey there! I've signed up for Farsi (Persian) and hope to put in a couple hours a day and hopefully hold a decent conversation with my boyfriend...
I've got Anki, the Lonely Planet spoken Persian phrasebook, the podcasts Chai and Conversation and PersianPod101.com and will be spending a lot of my time on sentence shadowing for pronunciation and familiarity. Been studying for a couple years, but haven't made much progress, so I hope this will really kickstart my learning!
I've got Anki, the Lonely Planet spoken Persian phrasebook, the podcasts Chai and Conversation and PersianPod101.com and will be spending a lot of my time on sentence shadowing for pronunciation and familiarity. Been studying for a couple years, but haven't made much progress, so I hope this will really kickstart my learning!
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- CarlyD
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Is there a way to change languages during the 6WC? I've been continuing on Spanish, but I'm feeling the need to switch back to German for a few months.
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Re: 6WC 6 Week Challenge - Aug 2016
CarlyD wrote:Is there a way to change languages during the 6WC? I've been continuing on Spanish, but I'm feeling the need to switch back to German for a few months.
I think the only way to do it would be to actually quit the challenge and rejoin with a different target language. I find my own balance between Spanish and German might tip either way during a 6WC, and most people that study multiple languages probably experience low target language numbers compared to their overall numbers. If you intend to keep studying both languages during the 6WC, and can accept that your target language numbers are relatively low, you might not want to bother switching. If you really want to switch target languages, make sure you write down the numbers for what you've done so far because everything will disappear if you quit and you will have to retweet what you've done if you want it to be counted by the bot.
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Re: 6WC 6 Week Challenge - Aug 2016
smallwhite wrote:Starts: Monday, 1st Aug 2016 00h00m01s your time
Ends: Sunday, 11th Sep 2016 23h59m59s your time
2 weeks out of 6 have passed. How's everyone doing?
smallwhite wrote:My goal for Dutch is to reach a TY/Hugo/Colloquial kind of textbook level, and I think this Aug 6WC would be enough to take me where I want to be.
I'm doing well. Very well. In fact, so well that I've fallen in love with Dutch! I like how it sounds, I like pronouncing it, I like how it looks in print, I like V2 (verb-2nd-place-in-sentence). I've always liked German word order (also V2 and also TMP) because I find it very neat and tidy, but it's so rigid that every sentence looks the same, making sentences look like application forms (Christian name, then surname, then age, then gender, then birthday...) or like database data (Peter, male, 30; Paul, male, 32; Mary, female, 31...) Whereas Dutch word order is German word order plus some flexibility, so sentences feel more lively and seem to convey emphasis better.
And like every girl madly in love, I'm starting to think about commitment. You know, things like marriage, babies, B2 and fluency. I want to get good at Dutch!
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I was solidly in third position for a while there, but then I was bumped to fourth, with little chance of clawing my way back up again. Now I'm switching back and forth between fourth and fifth place.
I love Italian! It's such a beautiful language, and my comprehension is growing by leaps and bounds.
But now it looks like we're going on a road trip. We're rather spontaneous people, we're on a year-long sabbatical from work, and we decided yesterday to push Guatemala back to October, and spend 6 weeks driving across the United States to California and back again to Toronto. We're going to leave on Thursday. I have no idea what the Six-Week challenge will look like from a car! I won't have any data on my phone, and we'll be camping, so other than reading books and writing in a journal, I'm not sure what else I'll be able to do.
But I do love an adventure!
I love Italian! It's such a beautiful language, and my comprehension is growing by leaps and bounds.
But now it looks like we're going on a road trip. We're rather spontaneous people, we're on a year-long sabbatical from work, and we decided yesterday to push Guatemala back to October, and spend 6 weeks driving across the United States to California and back again to Toronto. We're going to leave on Thursday. I have no idea what the Six-Week challenge will look like from a car! I won't have any data on my phone, and we'll be camping, so other than reading books and writing in a journal, I'm not sure what else I'll be able to do.
But I do love an adventure!
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So far so good for me. I'm the one who, after a back and forth with fourth and fifth, surpassed Stella for fourth place. I suspect that will be where I stay unless I decide to binge watch Welcome to Sweden and get to the sections where it's all in Swedish which could happen now that my summer classes are over.
Right now I'm completing a chapter in Rivstart every 2 to 3 days which puts me on course to complete chapter 18 by the end of the challenge. Given that my goal in terms of progress, was to complete chapter 15 I'm pretty pleased. But really my main goal is to see this challenge through and to study Swedish everyday for the six weeks.
Right now I'm completing a chapter in Rivstart every 2 to 3 days which puts me on course to complete chapter 18 by the end of the challenge. Given that my goal in terms of progress, was to complete chapter 15 I'm pretty pleased. But really my main goal is to see this challenge through and to study Swedish everyday for the six weeks.
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Re: 6WC 6 Week Challenge - Aug 2016
smallwhite wrote:smallwhite wrote:Starts: Monday, 1st Aug 2016 00h00m01s your time
Ends: Sunday, 11th Sep 2016 23h59m59s your time
2 weeks out of 6 have passed. How's everyone doing?smallwhite wrote:My goal for Dutch is to reach a TY/Hugo/Colloquial kind of textbook level, and I think this Aug 6WC would be enough to take me where I want to be.
I'm doing well. Very well. In fact, so well that I've fallen in love with Dutch! I like how it sounds, I like pronouncing it, I like how it looks in print, I like V2 (verb-2nd-place-in-sentence). I've always liked German word order (also V2 and also TMP) because I find it very neat and tidy, but it's so rigid that every sentence looks the same, making sentences look like application forms (Christian name, then surname, then age, then gender, then birthday...) or like database data (Peter, male, 30; Paul, male, 32; Mary, female, 31...) Whereas Dutch word order is German word order plus some flexibility, so sentences feel more lively and seem to convey emphasis better.
And like every girl madly in love, I'm starting to think about commitment. You know, things like marriage, babies, B2 and fluency. I want to get good at Dutch!
Dammit... you're tempting me to have an affair with Dutch without French knowing... Actually as I speak i'm ripping the audio to Assimil - Le Néerlandais in the hopes that some day in the future we can all get along Yep I know the feeling with Dutch, initially it sounds off putting, learn a little and it sounds playful, and fun, learn a little more and you get hooked and want to defend it's front cover by saying once you get to know it, it's really quite nice indeed.
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- smallwhite
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Re: 6WC 6 Week Challenge - Aug 2016
PeterMollenburg wrote:Dammit... you're tempting me to have an affair with Dutch without French knowing... Actually as I speak i'm ripping the audio to Assimil - Le Néerlandais in the hopes that some day in the future we can all get along
Then there's motivation for you to finish off French asap. My French knows I'm seeing Dutch. And Swedish, and Korean and Latin and all the little nymphs that don't even make it to my profile, but he's fine with it Boy, are those nymphs seductive!
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Dialang or it didn't happen.
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Re: 6WC 6 Week Challenge - Aug 2016
smallwhite wrote:PeterMollenburg wrote:Dammit... you're tempting me to have an affair with Dutch without French knowing... Actually as I speak i'm ripping the audio to Assimil - Le Néerlandais in the hopes that some day in the future we can all get along
Then there's motivation for you to finish off French asap. My French knows I'm seeing Dutch. And Swedish, and Korean and Latin and all the little nymphs that don't even make it to my profile, but he's fine with it Boy, are those nymphs seductive!
It's not a 6 week one, but nevertheless, challenge accepted! Or should I say 'geaccepteerd', sorry I mean 'accepté'
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