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| hjordis Senior Member United States snapshotsoftheworld. Joined 5179 days ago 209 posts - 264 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: French, German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 41 of 766 04 May 2014 at 6:49pm | IP Logged | ||
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Congrats Emily! As you say, you have a whole 20 months to catch up!
I'm rounding TV episodes to a close number, even if they vary a bit episode to episode so that I can multiply by the number of episodes and log a season at a time(I decided to do my tweets per item so that I get a nice list.) For movies I'm counting exact minutes. The movies I have that are longer than 90 minutes more than make up for the ones that are shorter. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Komma Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4052 days ago 107 posts - 134 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Spanish | Message 42 of 766 04 May 2014 at 8:39pm | IP Logged | ||
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Just to be sure, because I've read a few versions about it:
One is allowed to read/watch the same book/film more than once, right? 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 43 of 766 04 May 2014 at 9:43pm | IP Logged | ||
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Yes. However, some don't count rereading if it happens during the "main" reading process, nor rewinding while listening. But that's just peer pressure/different ideas of what counts as fair. I mostly use this to boost up to the needed length (from 48 to 50 etc), and sometimes it's hard to draw the line between deliberate rereading and stumbling/struggling. For example I might reread one paragraph because it's difficult to understand, and then I decide to reread the whole page because I'm enjoying/it starts to make more sense/simply because it counts for the challenge. Edited by Serpent on 04 May 2014 at 9:48pm 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 44 of 766 04 May 2014 at 11:19pm | IP Logged | ||
You can read one book 100 times, and watch one film 100 times, and you will have completed the challenge. You would probably also go crazy, but that is another matter. 😊 Any reading again is allowed. If you have a book that is 480 pages, you can reread whichever 20 pages you like, and it will in total count as 10 books. You can read the same book for every 5th book you read, if you like, just to measure your success. Anything goes. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| tastyonions Triglot Senior Member United States goo.gl/UIdChYRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4658 days ago 1044 posts - 1823 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: Italian | Message 45 of 766 04 May 2014 at 11:53pm | IP Logged | ||
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Could there be a listening / radio version of the challenge as well? :-)
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| Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5159 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian | Message 46 of 766 04 May 2014 at 11:53pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'm also going for six languages (French full + Chinese, Georgian, Norwegian, German and
Russian half) :) . I'm just not going to use twitter. 3 persons have 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 47 of 766 05 May 2014 at 12:14am | IP Logged | ||
Well, audio books are allowed, but I am a little more hesitant about the radio. You need an iron will to stay concentrated with something which normally just tends to be background noise. And I must admit that it was with much hesitation that I went for audio book, since you lose the combination of audio and the visual which you get through a film :-) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tastyonions Triglot Senior Member United States goo.gl/UIdChYRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4658 days ago 1044 posts - 1823 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: Italian | Message 48 of 766 05 May 2014 at 12:20am | IP Logged | ||
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Oh, I was thinking more of things based around discussion (debate shows, informative stuff about science or history) or verbal narrative (e.g. readings of books / short stories), which is what I listen to -- not just having music on in the background. But it's fine, I understand not wanting to modify the conditions of the challenge. :-) Edited by tastyonions on 05 May 2014 at 12:22am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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