|
 |
Super Challenge/Adv, Cha. Reg, Upd, 2013 | ||
Tags: Organization | Super Challenge | ||
Share with:
| ||
 Language Learning Forum : Language Learning Log |  | |
| kanewai Triglot Senior Member United States justpaste.it/kanewai Joined 4881 days ago 1386 posts - 3054 votes  Speaks: English*, French, Marshallese Studies: Italian, Spanish | Message 113 of 199 10 August 2013 at 12:19am | IP Logged | |||||
I got the impression that a lot of people were caught unawares at how much time 100 books would take. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| grunts67 Diglot Senior Member CanadaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5294 days ago 215 posts - 252 votes Speaks: French*, English Studies: Spanish, Russian | Message 114 of 199 17 August 2013 at 1:18am | IP Logged | |||||
I got the same impression. Also, there is not a lot of people at the moment who are still trying to finish they challenge. I guess a lot of people just quit. I'm not sure if I will be able to finish. I still need to do a lot of work in the next 4 months... 50 books, 30 movies, 65 texts and the more difficult for me 70 conversations. If I can achieve 100 movies, 100 books, 50 texts and 50 conversations, I will be really happy as I have started late and did nothings for 3 months. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5001 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 115 of 199 17 August 2013 at 2:00am | IP Logged | |||||
|
How so? I can still see a few active logs with the challenge. For example Garyb is doing more than ok and still quite a lot of others (sorry, have been less dilligent about logs of others' during the last few weeks).Perhaps someone should check the original list of participants (not only the twitter bot lit) and check the logs/bots? Perhaps I will, during the next dose of procrastination.
Well, we already dumbed it down to 100 x 100 pages. It is true that 100 books would take ages (especially for the crazy people like me who barely consider something under 400 pages a book). But still, it is a lot even though it is more realistic endeavour. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| grunts67 Diglot Senior Member CanadaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5294 days ago 215 posts - 252 votes Speaks: French*, English Studies: Spanish, Russian | Message 116 of 199 17 August 2013 at 3:00am | IP Logged | |||||
I meant considering the number of people who joined the challenge maybe 25% (random number) are still active. Also, I;m really looking forward to see how many persons will be able to achieve their goals. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5001 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 117 of 199 17 August 2013 at 4:05am | IP Logged | |||||
|
25% would still be a success. How many of us usually don't finish 6wc? I usually don't (things tend to happen at wrong time). I would really love to see a list of those still in.
Perhaps we can guess a number? I dare guess 15 people will have finished at least one of their challenges. What do you think? When I am at the update page: having finished movie part of English ASC, I am now progressing with the other three parts of my 2 ASCs: ASC English books 59,4/200 ASC French movies 55/200 ASC French books 25,3/200 It doesn't look so, I know, but I believe I will manage to get this all done before the end of the year. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| grunts67 Diglot Senior Member CanadaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5294 days ago 215 posts - 252 votes Speaks: French*, English Studies: Spanish, Russian | Message 118 of 199 17 August 2013 at 7:17am | IP Logged | |||||
|
Considering the time that we have left, you will be really good to do that.
Once I eliminate the time to watch the movies you need, you will still need to read 10,42 pages per hour (250,12 pages per day) too achieve your goal. Those calculations are base on 24 hours availability per day for 135 days. If you manege that, you are a machine (or you don't work) !!! Even if you do half of it, your commitment will probably get you in a really high level of proficiency. Good luck and by all means, prove me wrong !!! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| kanewai Triglot Senior Member United States justpaste.it/kanewai Joined 4881 days ago 1386 posts - 3054 votes Speaks: English*, French, Marshallese Studies: Italian, Spanish | Message 119 of 199 17 August 2013 at 8:10am | IP Logged | |||||
|
It's pretty easy to check on the people who are using twitter:
17 people have finished the film part of their own challenge 2 have finished the book part of their own challenge If you look at it in terms of the original 100 / 100: 12 people have watched > 100 films 14 are within range of reaching 100 (between 70 and 99 films) 20 more have over 50 films, and will need to watch two films per week to reach 100. 4 have read > 100 books 2 are within range (74 and 77 books) 6 are behind (55 to 68 books) but could catch up if they read 200 pages / week. Not everyone logs here (boo!), and there are some I question (one person logged 1000 pages the first week). And I know some people thought they'd do the films the first half of the challenge, and the reading the second half - and learned too late that they would have needed to started reading a lot from day one to make 100 books. Edited by kanewai on 17 August 2013 at 10:24am 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| patrickwilken Senior Member Germany radiant-flux.net Joined 4525 days ago 1546 posts - 3200 votes Studies: German | Message 120 of 199 17 August 2013 at 9:10am | IP Logged | |||||
I was one of those people. I started that challenge at A1+ and didn't have the skills to start reading at that point. So I only I only started doing the book part in November last year. I haven't been updating my challenge on the Board, but at the moment for the SuperChallenge I am at 200+ movies, and at about 6000 pages - so to finish I need to read about 28 pages/day, which seems quite doable now. I have found the Super Challenge really useful, but didn't really like the 100 pages = 1 book part. At the start of next year I want to run a one year 50 book challenge. So essentially one book per week. Book length doesn't count - if you want to make the challenge harder read 500 page books, easier 200 page books. For simplicity graphic novels, movie scripts, newspaper articles etc won't count toward the challenge. If anyone wants to join me I'd suggest having a 25 book challenge (a book every two weeks) and a 12 book challenge (a book/month). At the same time I would like to try a 300 movie challenge (so about 1 film/day) - for simplicity 2 episodes of a standard TV show will count as 1 movie. Again I would suggest shorter challenges of 150 films, and perhaps 50 films (approx 4 films/month). 1 person has voted this message useful |
|  | 
Printable version
|
| Copyright 2024 FX Micheloud - All rights reserved No part of this website may be copied by any means without my written authorization. |
