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Asiafeverr
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Message 9 of 22

09 April 2012 at 7:47pm | IP Logged

LANGUAGE: Chinese
CHALLENGE: Pick a radical and learn 50+ characters that contain it.

LANGUAGE: Many
CHALLENGE: Try out the free Pimsleur lesson in as many languages as possible within one day.

LANGUAGE: Any
CHALLENGE: Shadow and memorize the first article of the human rights in your target language (usually
posted with audio on omniglot).

LANGUAGE: Non-Latin based
CHALLENGE: Learn another writing system

LANGUAGE: Any
CHALLENGE: Watch the news and try to summarize recent events in your target language.
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Chung
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Message 10 of 22

19 April 2012 at 6:24am | IP Logged

LANGUAGES: Uralic
CHALLENGE: Gather as many links to learning material in as many Uralic languages as possible before the end of the month.

This isn't quite random as I got inspired by appelduvide's post requesting tips for resources in Nenets.
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Chung
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Message 11 of 22

22 April 2012 at 8:42am | IP Logged

Chung wrote:

The challenge's result can be seen by scrolling to the lower portion of the first post in this thread (i.e. under "ADDENDUM" in red)
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Serpent
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Message 12 of 22

23 July 2012 at 2:29am | IP Logged

Shamelessly promoting...

LANGUAGE: Portuguese
CHALLENGE: Play a Moonspell song at lyricstraining (Trebaruna, Os Senhores da Guerra, Ataegina!!!)

I've uploaded and synced them but they're still waiting to be approved...

Edited by Serpent on 23 July 2012 at 2:33am
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mikonai
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Message 13 of 22

23 July 2012 at 4:50pm | IP Logged

I always loved those dare threads on the writing forums! Here's one of mine:
LANGUAGE: any
CHALLENGE: write a haiku (or five!).
(for those who don't know, a haiku is originally a Japanese poem of three lines: the
first and last lines have five syllables each, and the middle line has seven syllables.
They're surprisingly addictive.

Billy Bob wrote:

LANGUAGE: any
CHALLENGE: Write at least 1,000 words of fanfic for a tv show/comic/whatever that you
like.

Taken! I've been needing to write a short story or something to test my Italian anyway.
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slymie
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Message 14 of 22

16 November 2013 at 6:02am | IP Logged

Asiafeverr wrote:

LANGUAGE: Chinese
CHALLENGE: Pick a radical and learn 50+ characters that contain it.

is 50+ a typo? we would have to do this exercise in 古代汉语 Ancient Chinese back in
university and then it was only 5.
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Serpent
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Message 15 of 22

04 May 2014 at 7:35pm | IP Logged

Iversen wrote:

Challenge: listen to a recording in a language you know fairly well and get the general meaning. Listen again slowly and in small doses and hear what the speaker really said.

Example: I have just listened to a podcast from a Spanish newspaper about yesterday's switch-off-the-light-for-an-hour event. The lady mentioned some public places that had turned off their night floodlights for an hour for the sake of climate change. Nice and wellmeant and for a good cause and all that. Actually she said that the most 'emblematic' monuments (landmarks) had switched off the lights to remind people that there is a lot to do "por luchar por el cambio climático"... so the newspaper actually supports climate change?

I've found a similar example! The teams are actually fighting NOT to descend into the lower division, obviously.
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Gunshy
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Message 16 of 22

12 May 2014 at 2:53pm | IP Logged

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Edited by Gunshy on 12 May 2014 at 3:05pm

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