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| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5004 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes  Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 305 of 360 02 July 2014 at 6:29pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hi, Emme! I totally understand your struggle with keeping the En/De balance for the SC. Some time ago, I
found myself much more interested in the French books I was reading than on the English ones despite having felt the opposite just a few weeks earlier (and without changing the books). I guess the are normal changes and there should come an opposite change to balance it out sometime ;-) I totally agree about the 6wc. My performNce wasn't that bad thanks to watching tv series in Spanish but other than that: nothing to be proud of. I don't know. Every time I sign up for a 6wc, something comes up and bites large chunks from my free time plate. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Emme Triglot Senior Member Italy Joined 5342 days ago 980 posts - 1594 votes Speaks: Italian*, English, German Studies: Russian, Swedish, French | Message 306 of 360 03 July 2014 at 8:21pm | IP Logged | ||
Exactly! After all, it’s a 20-month project, so there’s no point worrying yet. Who knows: later this year, or the next, I might even go on a German novel binge! ;-) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Emme Triglot Senior Member Italy Joined 5342 days ago 980 posts - 1594 votes Speaks: Italian*, English, German Studies: Russian, Swedish, French | Message 307 of 360 30 July 2014 at 10:36am | IP Logged | ||
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So another month is almost over, and apart from the English Super Challenge I’ve almost nothing positive to log here. I’ve done practically nothing in Spanish, Russian and even in Swedish and I’ve struggled to finish my monthly German novel.
Moreover, I have to admit to a certain forum fatigue, which means that I willingly stayed away from these boards for weeks on end. The bright side of my choice is that it freed up a lot of time I could devote to the Super Challenge in English, which is going better than expected, to be perfectly honest. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Emme Triglot Senior Member Italy Joined 5342 days ago 980 posts - 1594 votes Speaks: Italian*, English, German Studies: Russian, Swedish, French | Message 308 of 360 31 August 2014 at 2:38pm | IP Logged | ||
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Super Challenge Update: English Challenge Completed – Phase 1 finished and now I'll go for the Double
I’m completely taken by the Super Challenge, so much so that today I (already) reached the first step I had set myself at the beginning of May by tweeting my 22nd physical book and my 45th film/series in English. In total I’ve logged 5,274 pages and 9,052 minutes which means: Super Challenge completed! :-) Now that I’ve reached the first goal, I will aim for the Double Challenge. I know that most advanced learners had already decided for a double challenge back in April, but I feel more comfortable doing one step at a time and waiting to achieve one result before moving my target. As I anticipated in one of my last updates, this month I’ve finally read a non-fiction book: nothing special really, but it’s a beginning and I absolutely need to explore more books in this category. At long last, this month I’ve begun a scaringly long novel (which shall remain unnamed for the time being, lest I jinx the whole project) which had been sitting on my shelves for more than a decade. Its length had always deterred me, but this time, thanks to the challenge, I’m fairly optimistic that I might actually finish it. I’m about 200 pages in and I’m not going to rush it, but I will take my time, reading only a few chapters a week and interspersing it with other more manageable novels over the next few months. The German challenge is coming along much more slowly, but I’m still managing one novel a month which should guarantee that by the end of 2015 I successfully complete the challenge anyway. At the moment I haven’t got more ambitious goals. The end of August means that the challenge is 4 months old and that we’ve gone through its first fifth, so I think it’s time I posted here the list of what I’ve done so far, just like I did with my previous mini-Super Challenge. As you can see, four of the books I’ve read in English were printed with such generous fonts (and in a couple of cases with illustrations to boot) that I needed to calculate a more fair page equivalent for the challenge. Luckily those books weren’t too many. English Super Challenge: 105 Book units / 101 Film units Books 1 - David Lodge, The British Museum Has Fallen Down, 1965, pp. 176. 2 - Sebastian Faulks, Birdsong, 1993, pp. 503 3 - Sandra Cisneros, The House on Mango Street, 1984, pp. 110 (= 72 for the challenge). 4 - Edward St. Aubyn, Some Hope, 1994, pp. 209. 5 - John Steinbeck, The Pearl, 1947, pp. 96. 6 - Christopher Isherwood, Mr Norris Changes Trains, 1935, pp. 230. 7 - Siri Hustvedt, The Sorrows of an American, 2008, pp. 320. 8 - Robert Galbraith, The Cuckoo’s Calling, 2013, pp. 449. 9 - Karen Joy Fowler, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, 2013, pp. 320. 10 - Anne Tyler, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, 1982, pp. 314. 11 - Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake, 2003, pp. 436. 12 - Edward St. Aubyn, Mother’s Milk, 2006, pp. 279. 13 - Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time, 1925, pp. 156. 14 - Willa Cather, My Ántonia, 1918, pp. 272. 15 - Thornton Wilder, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, 1927, pp. 128. 16 - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, 1925, pp. 208. 17 - Jim Crace, Being Dead, 1999, pp. 210. 18 - Rebecca Miller, The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, 2008, pp. 233. 19 - Zadie Smith, The Embassy of Cambodia, 2013, pp. 69 (= 35 for the challenge). 20 - E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web, 1952, pp. 184 (= 125 for the challenge). 21 - Jen Campbell, Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops, 2012, pp. 119 (= 55 for the challenge). 22 - Margaret Atwood, Year of the Flood, 2009, pp. 448. Films 1 - Love Actually (135’) 2 - The Sixth Sense + DVD Extras (158’) 3 - Summer (83’) 4 - House of Sand and Fog (126’) 5 - The Big Bang Theory - Season 4 (520’) 6 - When Harry Met Sally... (96’) 7 - Rough Magic (104’) 8 - Scrubs Season 1 + DVD Extras (730’) 9 - The Da Vinci Code (149’) 10 - Black Swan + DVD Extras (152’) 11 - Midnight in Paris (94’) 12 - Moneyball + DVD Extras (176’) 13 - Detachment (98’) 14 - Death Defying Acts (97’) 15 - The Good German (105’) 16 - The Iron Lady + DVD Extras (132’) 17 - ABC The Book Club - Series 7 (265’) 18 - Sherlock – Season 2 (265’) 19 - Chaos Theory (87’) 20 - We Need to Talk about Kevin (107’) 21 - The Help + DVD Extras (154’) 22 - Winter’s Bone (96’) 23 - Hell on Wheels – Season 1 ( 430’) 24 - American Beauty + DVD Extras (322’) 25 - The Thin Red Line (171’) 26 - Scoop (96’) 27 - Nixon (192’) 28 - The Vampire Diaries - Season 4 (1035’) 29 - Something New (99’) 30 - You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (98’) 31 - Flash of Genius (119’) 32 - The Perks of Being a Wallflower (102’) 33 - The Burning Plain (107’) 34 - Wag the Dog (97’) 35 - Captain Phillips (134’) 36 - Royal Pains - Season 1 (504’) 37 - Conspiracy (96’) 38 - Match Point + DVD Extras (137’) 39 - A Serious Man (106’) 40 - Hurlyburly (122’) 41 - Hell on Wheels – Season 2 ( 430’) 42 - ABC Jennifer Byrne Presents – 2011 Series (313’) 43 - Dial M for Murder + DVD Extras (132’) 44 - It's Kind of a Funny Story (101’) 45 - The Wolf of Wall Street (180’) German Super Challenge: 26 Book units / 61 Film units Books 1 - Mark Haddon, Supergute Tage oder die sonderbare Welt des Christopher Boone (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time), 2003, pp. 283. 2 - Donna Leon, Das Gesetz der Lagune: Commissario Brunettis zehnter Fall (A Sea of Troubles, 2001), 2002, pp. 321. 3 - Donna Leon, Die dunkle Stunde der Serenissima: Commissario Brunettis elfter Fall (Willful Behaviour, 2002), 2003, pp. 373. 4 - Donna Leon, Verschwiegene Kanäle : Commissario Brunettis zwölfter Fall (Uniform Justice, 2003), 2004, pp. 330. Films 1 - Kein Entkommen 2 - WDR Hörspiel Sir Joe von Bodo Traber, ©WDR 2013 (55’) 3 - Commissario Brunetti: Reiches Erbe 4 - Woran Dein Herz hängt 5 - WDR Hörspiel Das Kreuz auf dem Erlenberg von Bodo Traber, ©WDR 2014 (55’) 6 - WDR Hörspiel Bad Salzuflen weltweit von Christian Möller und Heiko Behr, ©WDR 2012 (54’) 7 - WDR Hörspiel School Shooter von Thorsten Nesch, ©WDR 2012 (51’) 8 - WDR Hörspiel Severina von Rodrigo Rey Rosa, ©WDR 2012 (51’) 9 - WDR Hörspiel Ferienwohnungen für Vögel von Mariann Kaiser, ©WDR 2014 (51’) 10 - WDR Hörspiel Geschäfte und Gefühle von Pierre-Jean Bouyer, ©WDR 2013 (46’) 11 - WDR Hörspiel Hate Radio von Milo Rau, ©WDR/ORF 2014 (53’) 12 - WDR Hörspiel In Mother We Trust von Charlotte Knothe, ©WDR 2014 (52’) 13 - WDR Hörspiel Hollywood Shootout von Myra Çakan, ©WDR 2013 (53’) 14 - WDR Hörspiel Love the Machine, Hate the Factory von Chatarina Koller und Jan Valk, ©WDR 2013 (54’) 15 - WDR Hörspiel Mehrwert von Tim Staffel, ©WDR 2013 (53’) 16 - WDR Hörspiel Mord am Hindukusch von Holger Siemann, ©WDR 2013 (51’) 17 - WDR Hörspiel Stalkradio von Ulrich Woelk, ©WDR 2014 (54’) 18 - Idiotentest 19 - WDR Hörspiel Nachts ein weißer Sound von Marianne Zückler, ©WDR 2014 (50’) 20 - WDR Hörspiel Paradise von Tom Peuckert, ©WDR 2014 (53’) 21 - WDR Hörspiel Überwachen und Mahnen von Serotonin, ©WDR 2013 (51’) 22 - Mein Traum von Venedig 23 - WDR Hörspiel Popcorn von Ben Elton, ©WDR 2014 (56’) 24 - Ein Sommer in Amsterdam 25 - Sehnsucht nach Rimini 26 - Scrubs – Die Anfänger S01 (520’) 27 - WDR Hörspiel Hass! Mehr Hass! Die Geschichte von Eric und Dylan von Joachim Gaertner, ©WDR 2014 (49’) 28 - WDR Hörspiel It’s your turn von Hugo Rendler, ©WDR 2013 (54’) 29 - Bella Dilemma 30 - WDR Hörspiel Körpergigant von Stéphanie Marchais, ©WDR 2014 (54’) 31 - WDR Hörspiel Nur Mut: Jimi Bowatski hat kein Schamgefühl von Dick Laucke , ©WDR 2013 (55’) 32 - WDR Hörspiel Open Shell von Josef Maria Schäfers und Stella Luncke, ©WDR 2013 (52’) 33 - WDR Hörspiel Ambrose Bierce verschwindet von Ulrich Land, ©WDR 2014 (54’) 34 - WDR Hörspiel Der Flüsterer von Klaus-Peter Wolf, ©WDR 2014 (54’) 35 - WDR Hörspiel Mutterseelenallein von Matthias Kapohl, ©WDR 2014 (54’) 36 - WDR Hörspiel Vom Bösen: Hugo der Wolf. Eine Steampunk-Romanze von Ulrich Bassenge, ©WDR 2014 (44’) 37 - Commissario Brunetti: Verschwiegene Kanäle 38 - Lebe lieber Italienisch! 39 - Von Mäusen und Lügen 40 - WDR Hörspiel Klaus Barbie - Begegnung mit dem Bösen von Peter F. Müller, Leonhard Koppelmann und Michael Müller, ©WDR 2014 (174’) 41 - Der Rekordbeobachter 42 - WDR Hörspiel Vom Bösen: Polka Hurricane. Drogenkriegstotentanz von Michael Farin und zeitblom, ©WDR 2014 (52’) 43 - Luks Glück 44 - WDR Hörspiel Absturz der Gladiatoren von Frank Naumann, ©WDR 2014 (52’) 45 - WDR Hörspiel Blaubart von Amelie Nothomb, ©WDR 2013 (53’) 46 - WDR Hörspiel Das Erfinden der Liebe von José Ovejero, ©WDR 2014 (55’) 47 - WDR Hörspiel Vom Bösen: German National Tours von Kristian Kuszinsky und Marcus Seibert, ©WDR 2014 (44’) 48 - The Help 49 - Commissario Brunetti: Die dunkle Stunde der Serenissima 50 - WDR Hörspiel Als wir Krieg spielten von Dirk Laucke, ©WDR 2014 (54’) 51 - WDR Hörspiel Das Geisterschiff von Margareth Obexer, ©WDR 2013 (75’) 52 - WDR Hörspiel Die Spur des Geldes von Erhard Schmied, ©WDR 2013 (54’) 53 - Wir haben gar kein' Trauschein 54 - WDR Hörspiel Chickenworld von Christoph Güsken, ©WDR 2014 (53’) 55 - WDR Hörspiel Do Brasil: Maracanazo. Trauma und Traum des brasilianischen Fußballs von Tom Noga, ©WDR 2014 (53’) 56 - WDR Hörspiel Glaube, Liebe, Mafia – Die Frau des Paten von Mark Zak, ©WDR 2014 (54’) 57 - WDR Hörspiel Shuk von Eugen Egner, ©WDR 2014 (47’) 58 - Bankraub für Anfänger 59 - Commissario Brunetti: Vendetta 60 - Commissario Brunetti: Venezianische Scharade 61 - Das Duo – Liebe und Tod 62 - WDR Hörspiel Lullaby (1/2) von Chuck Palahniuk, ©WDR 2014 (55’) 63 - WDR Hörspiel Lullaby (2/2) von Chuck Palahniuk, ©WDR 2014 (55’) 64 - Willkommen in Kölleda 65 - WDR Hörspiel Fischpiraten von Bernd Grashoff, ©WDR 2013 (54’) 66 - WDR Hörspiel Gehwegschäden von Helmut Kuhn, ©WDR 2013 (54’) 67 - Commissario Brunetti: Acqua Alta 68 - WDR Hörspiel Ich töte, du stirbst von Patricia Melo, ©WDR 2014 (55’) 69 - Frühling für Anfänger 70 - Commissario Brunetti: In Sachen Signora Brunetti 71 - Commissario Brunetti: Nobiltà 72 - Liebe auf den dritten Blick 73 - WDR Hörspiel Sucking Blood von Edgar Lipki, ©WDR 2013 (50’) Edited by Emme on 31 August 2014 at 2:43pm 5 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5329 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 309 of 360 31 August 2014 at 2:55pm | IP Logged | ||
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Wow! I am super impressed! Great job!
Now please tell me you can also notice an improvement in your actual abilities :-) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Emme Triglot Senior Member Italy Joined 5342 days ago 980 posts - 1594 votes Speaks: Italian*, English, German Studies: Russian, Swedish, French | Message 310 of 360 31 August 2014 at 3:23pm | IP Logged | ||
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Well, it’s hard to judge, really, as progress at this level seems so slow!
There aren’t many words you actually learn doing extensive reading: maybe just a couple of words a novel. I’m not saying that there are only a couple of words in a novel that I don’t know, but that only two or three unusual words may be repeated often enough and be sufficiently important for the story that you actually end up learning them. I’m more sanguine about my progress in listening comprehension, especially when dealing with non-standard pronunciation. Right now, my crux is the series Hell on Wheels: a few characters there speak with a very strong Southern accent (US). Well, saying “speaking” goes probably too far: they actually mumble their lines which makes it really hard for me to understand. But I think it’s slowly getting easier episode after episode. So it turns out the Super Challenge is helpful! ;-) Thanks for inventing it! 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6904 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 311 of 360 31 August 2014 at 5:26pm | IP Logged | ||
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Impressive stuff, Emme!
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| BAnna Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4617 days ago 409 posts - 616 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Turkish | Message 312 of 360 01 September 2014 at 3:31am | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks for the extensive list of materials. Congratulations on your accomplishment!
Any particular ones you would recommend in German? Thanks in advance :) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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