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| amyhere Diglot Newbie Australia Joined 4203 days ago 10 posts - 14 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: German, Spanish, Dutch, Mandarin, Finnish | Message 369 of 766 06 June 2014 at 2:02pm | IP Logged |
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So I was wondering what people think of counting TV shows in your native language with
subtitles in your target language as books? (I'm talking watching VOSTFR for me.) I'm working out how many pages to count by multiplying the minutes by 150 (to account for the average 150-180wpm rate of TV) and then dividing that by 250 (to account for the average 250wpp in novels). This also seems to be a pretty accurate representation when I compare it to my novel reading rate. I've always found watching TV like this to be helpful and although a slight stretch, to still be in line with the aim of the challenge to expose yourself to a lot of the written and spoken target language over a long period. I also use subtitles usually when watching TV anyway as I have ear-drum problems that make watching TV a bit difficult, so being able to count this as reading (as I really do use the French subtitles) just makes sense for me but I'm wondering what others think? (I would have just done it anyway but I don't want to be 'unfairly' advantaging myself by counting things that others don't!) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6590 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes  4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 370 of 766 06 June 2014 at 2:06pm | IP Logged |
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Cristina said it no longer counts :/ You can count that as movies though.
It also counts for Tadoku, at the rate of 5 min = 1 page. Tadoku is currently on. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5327 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 371 of 766 06 June 2014 at 7:40pm | IP Logged |
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Ok. So guys, are you up for a little June mini challenge?
The challenge is the following: -------------------------------------- Do as much reading/watching in your main target language (or chose one if they are in no particular priority) as you can in one weekend. -------------------------------------- - You can do this weekend from right now, until midnight Sunday, or any other week end in June from Friday 17.00 until 9 o'clock Sunday. - When you read, see how long it takes you to read one page. - When you watch, try to estimate how much you understand (10%, 30%) We will do this again regularly, so try to be as accurate as you can. - Register your results in the Update thread on Sunday or Monday. If you do not know whether you might get more done in a weekend later in the month, you can always register another weekend later, the weekend where you get the most done is the one which counts. Go,go,go! 6 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6590 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 372 of 766 06 June 2014 at 10:40pm | IP Logged |
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Um, why is one of the options until midnight on Sunday, and the other one until just 9pm? That's waaaaay too early :/
But great idea otherwise! Also, seems like the books/movies have balanced out a bit? It would be cool to have the actual numbers, maybe in the "about" part along with the days left etc. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4902 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German | Message 373 of 766 06 June 2014 at 10:42pm | IP Logged |
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That is a brilliant idea! Unfortunately I will be taking my daughter to see 1 Direction (I don't like 1D, but I do love my daughter who loves them). So that's half a day gone. I'll try it another weekend.
And may I say, it's nice to see your presence here. I was getting a little worried... 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| kanewai Triglot Senior Member United States justpaste.it/kanewai Joined 4882 days ago 1386 posts - 3054 votes Speaks: English*, French, Marshallese Studies: Italian, Spanish | Message 374 of 766 06 June 2014 at 11:16pm | IP Logged |
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I enjoy doing language-intensive weekends, and my Italian could use a little push. I'm
in! (Though I have no idea how to gauge my comprehension rate of anything. I'll make a good faith attempt) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| rdearman Senior Member United Kingdom rdearman.orgRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5229 days ago 881 posts - 1812 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, French, Mandarin | Message 375 of 766 06 June 2014 at 11:24pm | IP Logged |
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I probably would have picked Italian to give a boost to it this weekend, but I read the post after just having watched a French film, so I figured what the hell. I'll make it a French booster weekend!
Thanks for even more encouragement Solfrid Cristin! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6590 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 376 of 766 06 June 2014 at 11:28pm | IP Logged |
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You can always have an Italian weekend later in the month :) I'll do at least Spanish and Italian, maybe also German.
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