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| 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 473 of 766 14 July 2014 at 3:32pm | IP Logged | |||||
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To the original question as to what in an immersion course would count for the Super Challenge, I think my
answer would be : Most probably very little. If you are still doing it in August, count is for the 6 week challenge which is better suited for that. And while pulling my hair out in frustration, I feel like splitting the challenge in two next time. One which would be the original challenge, with physical books (novels) and actual films, where you got the advantage of consistency from a book, and the mutual reinforcement from the visual and audio which was my original thought, and one which would be like the 6 week challenge where anything imaginable you do in another language counts: Swimming while listening to safety warnings, count it as part of a film,:reading road signs in Croatia: Count it as part of a book: intimate contact with a hot Russian, just include lots of pillow talk and you are on, girl. I hope someone else could manage the "if it is in a foreign language, count it"- challenge though. Thank you Jeffers, Kanewaii and Kerrie for helping me to try to keep this challenge on the road. I am very pleased that people get so engaged, but remember that there are other challenges which are more comprehensive, and that you could also define your own challenge, if you feel that this one is limiting your freedom of action. The point of the challenge was to do something you would otherwise not do: focus on lots of reading, and on lots of films. Long stories which would have their own value. I try to accommodate everyone, but neither reading spam, nor reading poems, an Internet article or a lesson in your beginner's course was part of my original idea, and neither was watching football, or theatre or audiobooks. I am not saying that these are less valuable, I have greatly enjoyed listening to an audiobook for the third time in a short space of time, but they are a far cry from what I had in mind. So whenever you want to include something that you do anyway, please keep in mind that the point of this challenge is not to count everything you already do, but to challenge yourself into doing something you would not normally do. Edited by Solfrid Cristin on 14 July 2014 at 3:36pm 7 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| rdearman Senior Member United Kingdom rdearman.orgRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5235 days ago 881 posts - 1812 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, French, Mandarin | Message 474 of 766 14 July 2014 at 3:57pm | IP Logged | |||||
I'd prefer to manage that one! Just ask; Is it in a language you didn't learn before you were 5 years old? Yep! It counts! :) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4664 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English*, Italian*, French Studies: Japanese | Message 475 of 766 15 July 2014 at 12:06am | IP Logged | |||||
Just in case I wanted to tweak my spreadsheet to try to count towards "the original challenge" ... "novels" means a single story of 50+ pages or would a collection count? I have graded readers (physical books) but they're short stories of 5-10 pages each. That sounds like it wouldn't count? Does it have to be physical books or would the same material in electronic form count? (I only have Harry Potter electronically ... and I have access to a Kindle ...). So is "physical books" a requirement? Does "film" mean "something that could have appeared in a cinema and is at least 90 minutes long" or does (say) a series of (usually 10 or 11) anime episodes of 25 minutes or a series of drama episodes of 40+ minutes each (usually 10 or 11 per series) count in the original spirit of things? I'm not looking for a harder challenge ... I'm just wondering what I'm doing that meets the original conception and what I'm doing that doesn't. 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 476 of 766 15 July 2014 at 12:10am | IP Logged | |||||
All of it counts :-) 3 persons have 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 477 of 766 15 July 2014 at 1:48am | IP Logged | |||||
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| PeterMollenburg Senior Member AustraliaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5475 days ago 821 posts - 1273 votes Speaks: English* Studies: FrenchB1 | Message 478 of 766 15 July 2014 at 2:14am | IP Logged | |||||
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Hmmmm,
Now i'm staring to wonder whether I should be counting these things which I have been: 1)When I watch the news in French? 2) Yabla (online learning program of 'real' visual content- ie not deliberately slow, but it is graded according to difficulty, see www.yabla.com for sample clip)??? edit: Yabla is basically a massive collection of video clips of 3-5 minutes in length in which subtitles can be turned on or off Eat a fry Edited by PeterMollenburg on 15 July 2014 at 2:17am 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Kerrie Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Kerrie2 Joined 5394 days ago 1232 posts - 1740 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 479 of 766 15 July 2014 at 2:45am | IP Logged | |||||
Eating fries does not count. :) 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 480 of 766 15 July 2014 at 6:42am | IP Logged | |||||
I think they fall outside the scope of this particular challenge :-) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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