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kanewai
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 Message 1 of 331
19 December 2011 at 10:15pm | IP Logged 
2015 Team Caesar
French, Italian, Spanish (starts on p. 39)

Serpent: Portuguese, Italian, Spanish, Romanian, Catalan
YnEoS: French, Romanian, strong interest in other Romance languages
liammcg: Italian, French
TimmyTurner93: Portuguese
garyb: French, Italian
sillygoose1: Italian, Portuguese
Sooniye: Spanish, dabbling in French and Italian
tristano: French, Spanish
Kerrie: Spanish, Portuguese, maybe French and Italian
Anya: French, Portuguese, Italian, strong interest in other Romance languages
Ccaesar: Italian
suzukaze: Spanish, French, strong interest in Portuguese
jesm86: Portuguese

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2014 Deuxième Yürüküler Forza
Multi TAC: Turkish, Italian, French (p. 26)

Past TAC Teams:
2012 Romantics: French, Spanish, Italian, Catalan. Side trips into Derja.
2013 PAX: Spanish, French (p. 13) Side trips to Ancient Greece and Tokyo

[2012]
This will be my first TAC, and I'm looking forward to working with you all this coming
year! My long-term goal is to become proficient in 7 languages before I turn 50.
Although this is becoming a ""short-term goal with each passing year.

For 2012, I want to bump up my French and Spanish from an intermediate
level to a solid B-1 or B-2. I want to reach a level where I can read novels
comfortably, understand movies, and maintain the languages without strain. I'm also
planning some detours into Italian and maybe Catalan along the way.
Here's my rough plan:


First Quarter
Emphasis on French. I took two years of French in college, but didn't maintain
it. In 2011 I finished Pimsleur 1 and 2, FSI Volume 1, and the passive wave of Assimil
French with Ease.

For this quarter I want to finish the Active wave of French with Ease, get as far as I
can with Assimil Using French, and perhaps keep up with FSI Volume 2.

I've also been slowly working through Assimil L'arabe Sans Peine, and will start on
Arabe tunisien de poche. I don't want to TAC with Arabic, but it helps that my texts
are French-based.

I will take two breaks from French to flirt with Catalan and Italian,
each for a couple weeks. It's totally foolish and my brain will probably explode. I'm
gonna do it anyway.

Semester Exams
I hit the road in April for a 30-day wander through Barcelona, Rome, Tunisia, and
Paris. I will be putting what I learned to the test.

Second Quarter
Nice and easy: I want to reinforce my French. There are too many times where I've
reached a good level in a language while traveling, and then let it all fade when I
return home. And it fades fast! I'll focus on reading, starting with parallel texts
and graphic novels, and hopefully moving on to some solid literature. Madame
Bovary, the works of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, and The Elegance of the Hedgehog
(L'élégance du hérisson) are all on my bucket-list.

Third and Fourth Quarters
All Spanish, all the time. In 2011 I finished Pimsleur 1 and 2, and half of
Assimil Spanish with Ease. In 2012 I'll finish Spanish with Ease, and if I'm feeling
confident I'll try the French-based Perfectionnement Espagnol.

Final Exams
Three weeks in México: Guanajuato, Oaxaca, and Chiapas.

Recovery
It would be beyond fantastic if I were able to read modern Spanish literature at the
end of the year.


Edited by kanewai on 02 June 2015 at 12:31am

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kanewai
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19 December 2011 at 10:18pm | IP Logged 

TAC 2012 - The Romantics


The Team


TAC’12 ɬ and The Romantics - Mani in Lux.

Mani, Luxembourg: French, Luxembourgish, Kurdish; probably Russian, Portuguese

Gary’s TAC 2012 - The Romantics

Garyb, Scotland: French, Italian and perhaps Spanish

Michelle’s TAC 2012 Log - The Romantics

Mcsice, United States: Spanish and perhaps French or Italian

Anamsc TAC 2012-català, français, español

Anamsc, Andorra

Lianne’s TAC 2012 - The Romantics

Lianne, Canada: French, Esperanto and maybe Toki Pona {review)

TAC’12-Paco’s Español Log-The Romantics

PacoBell, United States

Pesahson’s TAC 2012 - French

Pesahson, Poland

Hendrek’s Italian TAC - The Romantics

Hendrek, United States: Italian, Persian

Songlines’ TAC: French and...?

Songlines, Canada: French, Mandarin and perhaps Italian

TAC 2012 - J’aimerais être bilingue

Microsnout, Canada: French (Québécoise)

Moving to France

PinkCordelia, France: French, Italian

TAC 2012 Español + Deutsch (team Žá)

Kyknos, Czech Republic

Kerrie’s TAC ’12 Team Žá / Romantics Log

Kerrie, US: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Croatian/Bosnian

Hasta La Fluidez, Siempre!

Ligador: Spanish and German

BlackDahlia’s TAC 2012 Romantics Log

BlackDahlia, US: French

Tw561’s TAC / The Romantics

Tw561, US: Italian, Spanish

Mepisevaerg’s TAC Log 2012

Mepisevaerg, US: German, Mandarin, Spanish

Luso's Log

Luso, Portugal: Italian, German, Arabic

Ar, Fr, Māori, Gàidhlig Team ɬ & Romantic

Quabazaa, New Zealand: Arabic, French, Māori, Gàidhlig

My Spanish Log TAC 2012 Romantics

Dearwanderlust, United States: Spanish

updated 24 Jan 12

Edited by kanewai on 25 January 2012 at 8:07pm

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ellasevia
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 Message 3 of 331
20 December 2011 at 12:06am | IP Logged 
kanewai wrote:
It's totally foolish and my brain will probably explode. I'm gonna do it anyway.

Yes! That's my strategy for everything! Good luck with all your languages this year!
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pesahson
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 Message 4 of 331
20 December 2011 at 8:15am | IP Logged 
kanewai wrote:

Semester Exams
I hit the road in April for a 30-day wander through Barcelona, Rome, Tunisia, and
Paris. I will be putting what I learned to the test.


Final Exams
Three weeks in México: Guanajuato, Oaxaca, and Chiapas.




Hi Kanewai, welcome to the team. :)
I love your idea of exams!
It's definitely a great motivation.
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Lianne
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20 December 2011 at 4:34pm | IP Logged 
I like how you added all our countries to the list of team-mates. I hadn't noticed how spread out we are!

Best of luck!
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kanewai
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 Message 6 of 331
23 December 2011 at 1:19am | IP Logged 
I've been getting my materials ready to kick off the New Year and TAC right!   Assimil Using French is in the mail, and I've downloaded (and already started) Volume 2 of FSI French.

I'm still struggling with finding the right Italian materials. A friend loaned me her complete set of Pimsleur Italian - all three volumes. This was a score! Although I'm not sure I have the fortitude to do another full Pimsleur course. I've downloaded FSI Italian FAST, and I think that might be my main focus.

I also took a look at "Teach Yourself Catalan" book at the library. It wasn't bad, but it was a bit more linear than I wanted. There was a chapter for pronouns, a chapter for each tense, a chapter for genders, etc.   I'm too used to the more holistic approaches of Assimil/FSI/Pimsleur type courses to go back to this.   I'll keep poking around.
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kanewai
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 Message 7 of 331
24 December 2011 at 12:09am | IP Logged 
I picked up Michel Thomas Italian at the library. It's only 2 cd's, so I'm doing this more to see if I want to buy it or not. I want to do an Italian intensive, and I don't think Pimsleur is made for that.

My first impressions are mixed. I like the pacing, and the students aren't as irritating as I thought they would be. I am worried about his accent, though - he has a strong Polish accent in English, and I imagine his Italian would be equally Polacized. Or whatever the Polish equivalent of Anglicized would be.

The bigger issue is the, ahem, clarity of the digital recordings. It is very, very clear. I can hear his saliva swishing around. Did they record this from inside his mouth? He reminds me of those older gentlemen you meet who are growing hard of hearing and so stand just a little bit too close when they talk and you're trying to listen to what they're saying but damn they really are standing too close and it is starting to get just a bit uncomfortable.

I might go ahead and buy the ten cd set. I would like to know personally how MT compares to Pimsleur, and most people agree that MT is better suited to cramming.

I'm also jumping way ahead of myself. I told myself: no Italian until I've finished my French. I just wanted to peak ahead a little bit. I promise I won't do it again ... or at least until TAC 2012 really kicks off ...


side note: Whoever stocked our public library should have consulted with HTLAL first. There are shelves full of sub-par programs (Learn French in Ten Days! Making Out in Gaelic! Speak Ancient Greek with the Five Minutes a Day Method! ). And yet they only have the short versions and the introductions for the courses that actually work.

Edited by kanewai on 24 December 2011 at 12:13am

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Kerrie
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 Message 8 of 331
24 December 2011 at 2:35am | IP Logged 
Hello, Kanewai. Welcome to TAC 2012. =)

I'm focusing on French and Italian next year, too (among a few others). Have you looked at the Living Language Ultimate Italian series? They're fairly linear, too, but I like them a lot better than the Teach Yourself series. Plus, if you have a fair amount of French (even passive), you can probably fly through them pretty quickly.


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