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| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5018 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes  Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 81 of 713 13 April 2012 at 12:53am | IP Logged | |||||
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This sounds wonderful but I cannot participate now as I am already too busy. However, if
late comers are still welcome, I will join sometime during the summer :-) Good luck everyone, have fun. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6606 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 82 of 713 13 April 2012 at 2:19am | IP Logged | |||||
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| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6606 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 84 of 713 13 April 2012 at 2:44am | IP Logged | |||||
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| microsnout TAC 2010 Winner Senior Member Canada microsnout.wordpress Joined 5480 days ago 277 posts - 553 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 85 of 713 13 April 2012 at 5:11am | IP Logged | |||||
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I will try this challenge but I also find the 100 book target unrealistic especially since I have been purposely
neglecting reading lately in favour of speaking/listening in order to avoid adopting literary vocab and grammar when speaking. Now is a good time to resume reading I think. Several years ago I did try to reach a goal of reading 100 childrens books by sitting in the library with a stack of 10- 20 at a time (I didn't want to buy them). I remember being surprised at the number of verb tenses and advanced grammar in books for 6-8 year olds. I stopped after about 85 - just had enough of dragons, friendly monsters and talking forest animals for a while. I like emk's idea of 100 film + 25 books, one book per month plus 5 extra and if I do better thats great. Edited by microsnout on 13 April 2012 at 5:12am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| dandt Senior Member Australia regarderetlire.wordp Joined 4633 days ago 134 posts - 174 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, French | Message 86 of 713 13 April 2012 at 6:55am | IP Logged | |||||
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I'm planning on working on just as much as I can get.
As a relative beginner, i'm unlikely to get through 100 books or whatever, especially if we're only counting 100pages or over/joining them together. I'm just basically going to treat a book as a book, just like in the MS- Read-A-Thon where I stupidly read whatever harry potter book was out that month (5 I think) and one of the lord of the rings books. As I'm still new at french, getting through any book, no matter the size, is a giant challenge so I'm going to count anything I read. Obviously, within reason. This being said, if I were to manage to get through the first Harry Potter (doubtful as it is probably much above my level) I'm going to count it as one. That and books are hard to come by here. 25 books may be more realistic for me. But yeah, I'm going to get as far through it as I can. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5018 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 87 of 713 13 April 2012 at 10:16am | IP Logged | |||||
You are putting me back before a hard choice :-D : 1.I won't participate now so I will have less excuses for procrastination (which is a huge trouble of mine) 2. I will have excuse for the films and tv series I watch at least with foreign subtitles And the last question is: Which language? "Obvious" choice seems to be Spanish. French is surely above B1. Other options are somewhere between A0-A2 (German, Italian, Swedish). Does anyone choose that beginner- phase languages for te challenge? 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Sunja Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6094 days ago 2020 posts - 2295 votes 1 sounds Speaks: English*, German Studies: French, Mandarin | Message 88 of 713 13 April 2012 at 10:42am | IP Logged | |||||
I'm starting at zero! I can't exactly "read" in my beginnner language but I can already pick the language apart -- as long as it's not too complicated. I'm starting with children's books. There's not that many children's books available so I also plan to read each book twice -- but I'll give it a week or so between reads It's all a bit too advanced for me but I figure this will be a fun and interesting experiment. If this actually works I'll do this for the next language. If it doesn't work I'll still pick up a mass of vocabulary and idioms/phrases to help me towards fluency and I haven't lost anything. edit: typos Edited by Sunja on 13 April 2012 at 10:43am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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