Kerrie Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Kerrie2 Joined 5387 days ago 1232 posts - 1740 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish
| Message 105 of 199 09 August 2013 at 7:03pm | IP Logged |
Surrealix, how hard would it be to code something where you choose your own 25/50/75/100 for each movies/books/conversation/writing ?
Maybe if you could add each element separately:
#language1 add #25 #books
#language1 add #50 #movies
Something like that would "fit" more people - those who are not interested in reading and writing, for example.
I imagine, even if it's doable, that it would really "mess up" the rankings, but I don't think too many people care about that aspect of it.
If we do one year, instead of 20 months (or two years), I think it would be close to impossible to read 10,000 pages.
I've noticed with my Spanish that there were two "jumps" in my reading ability. The first was around 30 books, where it started to feel more natural. Then around 50-60 books, I actually started feeling like I wasn't reading in a foreign language most of time.
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jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6901 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map
| Message 106 of 199 09 August 2013 at 7:43pm | IP Logged |
Kerrie wrote:
If we do one year, instead of 20 months (or two years), I think it would be close to impossible to read 10,000 pages. |
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Really? ~28 pages per day? Impossible? Even if I'd read as slowly as one page per minute, I would have done my daily reading in less than half an hour.
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Kerrie Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Kerrie2 Joined 5387 days ago 1232 posts - 1740 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish
| Message 107 of 199 09 August 2013 at 7:49pm | IP Logged |
jeff_lindqvist wrote:
Kerrie wrote:
If we do one year, instead of 20 months (or two years), I think it would be close to impossible to read 10,000 pages. |
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Really? ~28 pages per day? Impossible? Even if I'd read as slowly as one page per minute, I would have done my daily reading in less than half an hour. |
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If you can read in a relatively new (to you) language at one page per minute, I salute you, sir!
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Anya Pentaglot Senior Member France Joined 5785 days ago 636 posts - 708 votes Speaks: Russian*, FrenchC1, English, Italian, Spanish Studies: German, Japanese, Hungarian, Sanskrit, Portuguese, Turkish, Mandarin Studies: Ancient Greek, Hindi
| Message 108 of 199 09 August 2013 at 8:50pm | IP Logged |
What about the option of "Multilingual" challenge, for example, reading 100 books in 3, 4 (or indefinite number)
languages?
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Emily96 Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 4420 days ago 270 posts - 342 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Spanish, Finnish, Latin
| Message 109 of 199 09 August 2013 at 11:04pm | IP Logged |
I like the idea of making smaller chunks for people to customize their own challenge. I started with just an Italian
50/50 challenge but then added the same in french and Spanish, even though i know i probably won't have time to
finish them all. I just wanted a way to keep track of it/have my reading "count". It would be great if i could choose a
small challenge for my "maintenance" languages and a bigger challenge for the ones that i really want to improve.
The multilingual challenge mentioned above looks interesting - do you mean that your 100 books could come from
any one of 3-4 different languages, or that you would read 100 books (or whatever) per language?
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Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5001 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian
| Message 110 of 199 09 August 2013 at 11:13pm | IP Logged |
The multilingual challenge would have one huge flaw for me. It wouldn't make me push my limits so much and progress in my worse languages as English and French would naturally invade the largest chunk of it.
Well, for the next round, we could as well have a maintain challenge like 12 books and 24 movies per year. Really, a maintenance of these skills but not something in way of the "real" SCs.
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Kerrie Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Kerrie2 Joined 5387 days ago 1232 posts - 1740 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish
| Message 111 of 199 09 August 2013 at 11:43pm | IP Logged |
I think if we had a "build your own" challenge (option), you could set that up with goals for each language. :)
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geoffw Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4680 days ago 1134 posts - 1865 votes Speaks: English*, German, Yiddish Studies: Modern Hebrew, French, Dutch, Italian, Russian
| Message 112 of 199 10 August 2013 at 12:14am | IP Logged |
Kerrie wrote:
jeff_lindqvist wrote:
Kerrie wrote:
If we do one year, instead of 20 months (or two years), I
think it would be close to impossible to read 10,000 pages. |
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Really? ~28 pages per day? Impossible? Even if I'd read as slowly as one page per minute, I would have done my
daily reading in less than half an hour. |
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If you can read in a relatively new (to you) language at one page per minute, I salute you, sir! |
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It takes me more than a minute a page in my native English. The past 16 months have shown that it tends to take
me 4-5 minutes a page when I start off one of these challenges, and eventually I can get it down to 2-3 minutes a
page.
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