Reading through the language resource thread, someone's comment made me think that it might be useful to have a contact directory of people, organised by language you are learning. And now I think about it, another organised by language you can help WITH.
So, if you could reply below, that will help me see which language for definite (because in the other threads, there's a lot of "I'd like to" or "I have the tapes", but it's not always clear for sure what people are going to DO).
Please reply to say which ones you are setting the goal of learning, and which you could help with, in terms of conversation and practice. Something like:
Learning:
German
Can help with:
Italian
As long as it's clear (to make bold, put beforehand and then after (no . in the brackets though). Then I'll edit it into this post :-)
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BFS goals - http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/node/1075131
81,739 / 50,000
Dec 30, 2007 - 15 13
a directory is a GREAT idea!!
learning:
Greek
can help with:
French, but only a little :)
0 / 50,000
Dec 30, 2007 - 15 33
Learning:
Hindi
Sorry, can't help with anything but Pig Latin!
9,038 / 50,000
Dec 30, 2007 - 15 59
Learning: German
Can help with: Polish (I'm native), Swedish
50,157 / 50,000
Dec 30, 2007 - 16 09
[b]Learning:[/b] German
[b]Can Help With:[/b] Sorry I can't help with anything.
30,007 / 50,000
Dec 30, 2007 - 16 46
Learning
Latin or Spanish
can help with
English (a little bit, I'm not that great at helping out, but I am always willing to try)
Also I can help people read music, not really a language, but the offer is there.
Nicole
21,678 / 50,000
Dec 30, 2007 - 16 52
Great idea!
I'm learning:
Intermediate Japanese
Mandarin
Italian
Advanced French (mostly just needed for the practice)
I can help with:
French
English
Beginning Japanese
2,366 / 50,000
Dec 30, 2007 - 17 28
Awesome idea!!
Learning:
Arabic
Can help with:
Spanish (7 years of experience...maybe I can finally use it!!)
50,250 / 50,000
Dec 30, 2007 - 18 24
I'm spreading myself a bit thin on some of this and so far most of this is something I'm teaching myself.
seeking to learn Sumerian (less about speaking and more of the basics of language structure and cuniform writing) and gealic (irish preferably) but getting any two sources to agree what that is ,is nearly impossable.
in the process of learning Mandarin (spoken, writing might take a bit more time), Japanese, greek (and maybe the written form of the ancient version of it).
Can help with Glossolalia (if you really want, not that it's an actual language, but it can be fun)
50,334 / 50,000
Dec 30, 2007 - 18 55
Learning:
Spanish
Can help with:
English
206 / 50,000
Dec 30, 2007 - 19 47
Learning:
Japanese
Can help with:
English and Spanish
54,720 / 50,000
Dec 30, 2007 - 20 22
Hey!
Thought I'd let you know about a free language learning tool that my kids and I use. It's awesome! I've moved up to the paid product because it allows you to make your own lists. You can also share lists, and there are lists from textbooks there too. But we started out with the free product. Let me know what you think!
http://www.byki.com/
There are a ton of languages to choose from. Check it out!
I'm working on Spanish now. I'm not a master at anything yet, but have some French, Latin and Japanese.
Lynn
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Dec 30, 2007 - 20 47
Learning:
Latin and/or Italian
Can help with:
French (moderately well)
English (fluent)
50,049 / 50,000
Dec 30, 2007 - 21 23
Learning:
Spanish and/or Latin/Irish (I'm indecicive)
Can Help With:
English
10,412 / 50,000
Dec 30, 2007 - 22 16
Learning: Latin
Can only help with English.
20,016 / 50,000
Dec 30, 2007 - 22 28
Great idea!
Learning German, English beyond FCE level
Can help with Spanish (native, 20 years of experience!)
74,510 / 50,000
Dec 30, 2007 - 23 47
Awesome idea.
Learning:
Polish
Japanese
Can Help With:
English
50,036 / 50,000
Dec 31, 2007 - 00 54
Learning:
Japanese
Can help with:
French
50,004 / 50,000
Dec 31, 2007 - 05 21
Learning (@ different stages, from beginning to advanced):
Arabic, Russian, Latin, Greek, Indonesian, Swahili, Thai, Spanish, French, German
Can help with:
Dutch, English, Hebrew (Ivrit), beginners' Spanish, German
0 / 50,000
Dec 31, 2007 - 02 14
Learning:
Spanish, Hungarian
Can Help With:
English, Russian (a little)
3,606 / 50,000
Dec 31, 2007 - 02 30
I''m Learning
French
I Can help with
Japanese and English (native English speaker)
50,790 / 50,000
Dec 31, 2007 - 03 14
Learning:
Italian
Can help with:
Hebrew
1,858 / 50,000
Dec 31, 2007 - 04 08
Learning:
Hindi
Malay
Can help with:
French
English
50,013 / 50,000
Dec 31, 2007 - 07 38
Learning: Latin
Can help with: English
53,585 / 50,000
Dec 31, 2007 - 07 52
Learning:
Spanish
Can help with:
English
52,937 / 50,000
Dec 31, 2007 - 08 48
Learning: German (reading/writing/listening, no speaking; from scratch).
Not good enough to help with anything. Sorry.
50,182 / 50,000
Dec 31, 2007 - 08 52
Learning:
Latin, German
Can help with:
Latin (for those behind me- I'm going pretty quickly)
33,018 / 50,000
Dec 31, 2007 - 10 08
Learning: Haitian Creole
(Am I crazy?)
Can't really help with anything but English.
50,030 / 50,000
Dec 31, 2007 - 10 40
Learning:
Spanish (I've taken three years at school so I have a little knowledge), Russian, French
Can help with:
English I suppose. It's my native language but I've never taught so I don't know how much help I'd be.
9,519 / 50,000
Dec 31, 2007 - 11 15
Learning:
French
Can help with:
English, Japanese, maybe Lithuanian (i can ask my dad, he's native)
good luck guys! go language learners!!
40,490 / 50,000
Dec 31, 2007 - 12 35
Learning:
Mandarin
Can Help With:
English
French (well, I can help you get started anyways)