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| Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5165 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes  Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian | Message 33 of 766 03 May 2014 at 5:49pm | IP Logged | ||
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If I'm watching TV series that are 20min each episode, should I count two episodes as 1
film or should I wait till I complete 90 min? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5333 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 34 of 766 03 May 2014 at 6:02pm | IP Logged | ||
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@radioclare: A theatre play works just fine. Have a good time!
@ Expugnator: You can count 4 episodes as a film. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4908 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German | Message 35 of 766 03 May 2014 at 6:04pm | IP Logged | ||
I wait until episodes add up to roughly 90 minutes, or I just tweet the actual number of minutes. For example, Les villages de France is about 17-18 minutes per episode. Last SC I tweeted it like this: @langchallenge watched a #film in #french "Les villages de France (7 episodes)" It was probably over 90 minutes, but I didn't want to get 90 minutes credit for watching less than 90 minutes. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Luso Hexaglot Senior Member Portugal Joined 6060 days ago 819 posts - 1812 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, French, EnglishC2, GermanB1, Italian, Spanish Studies: Sanskrit, Arabic (classical) | Message 36 of 766 03 May 2014 at 7:25pm | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks for the replies.
I checked a few random pages of my ebooks and I have about 150 words per page in each case. I decided I'm going to count each as half of a printed page. For every 100 ebook pages read, I'm going to tweet 50. I could make a pro ratio (multiply by 150/250=0,6), but I feel it's more honest like that. And I also like to KISS. ;) I also noticed that audiobooks should be filed as movies. I guess it makes sense, as it's easier to find a yardstick (in this case, it's elapsed time). It also suits me, because I have more books than films available. Edited by Luso on 03 May 2014 at 7:28pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6596 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 37 of 766 03 May 2014 at 8:07pm | IP Logged | ||
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Yeah, I usually just make the font large enough that it makes sense to count each page as half. It also depends on the format: PDF books retain their own page numbering, for example, and it's generally at least 1:1. I have some books where it's even 1:2, especially in scanned books.
Audiobooks with the accompanying text can count for reading. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6596 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 38 of 766 04 May 2014 at 4:55pm | IP Logged | ||
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Kerrie came up with a really cool idea: if you want to state any custom info, like your goal or level or whatever, before you start logging you can tweet it as 1 page read or 1 minute listened. If you've already started logging you can edit your very first entry to include that.
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| Kerrie Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Kerrie2 Joined 5394 days ago 1232 posts - 1740 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 39 of 766 04 May 2014 at 5:44pm | IP Logged | ||
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I love how Cristina suggests only one (or two) languages.
Serpent is signed up for 13 languages. (To be fair, English, Finnish, and Portuguese she is already fluent in, and she read 5000 pages in Italian and Polish last time around.) Still, wow! hehe There are five other people who have signed up for more than three languages. Sofije (7) this name is (6) Anna (5) zombiecide (4) Kerrie (4) I will say - in my defense - that I have already done the SC in Spanish, so doing it again in Spanish will be much easier. And all four of my languages are closely related. The rest of ya'll are crazy. (Okay, I am too, a little.) :D Let the games begin! :) (I know, it started a few days ago, but I was busy reading my first book in Spanish!) No matter how many languages you are doing - one, two, or fifteen - I hope everyone makes lots of progress in their chosen languages! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Emily96 Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 4427 days ago 270 posts - 342 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Spanish, Finnish, Latin | Message 40 of 766 04 May 2014 at 6:33pm | IP Logged | ||
Once i figured out what the "strange coincidence" was i burst out laughing. Anyways, read my first french "book"! It was actually 94 pages once i scaled it and now i really want 6 more pages to make it count for two. I'm kind of jealous of all those people who have actually had time to read lots this weekend, but then again, i have 20 months to catch up =) I did not know that movies only had to be "about" 90 mins. I can't decide if i'll switch to that or continue counting everything in exact minutes... 1 person has voted this message useful |
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