markdtmj Newbie United States neprenezpasmonj Joined 4660 days ago 15 posts - 24 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French
| Message 113 of 713 14 April 2012 at 11:41pm | IP Logged |
I'm hopping on the blog bandwagon to keep
track of progress in this challenge too! I'm sure I'll get bored with how it's currently
laid out and come up with a better system one of these days.
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akprocks Senior Member United States Joined 5283 days ago 178 posts - 258 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German
| Message 114 of 713 15 April 2012 at 12:10am | IP Logged |
I don't know where on earth I could find 100 icelandic movies. If someone makes a list then I might go on a
collecting spree but who knows?
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markdtmj Newbie United States neprenezpasmonj Joined 4660 days ago 15 posts - 24 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French
| Message 115 of 713 15 April 2012 at 1:52am | IP Logged |
No idea how much actual dialogue would be in it... but the Sigur Rós documentary "Heima"
has Icelandic listed in the languages. I can't help with the other 99 though... :/
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camdo2 Newbie United States Joined 4672 days ago 26 posts - 32 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish
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I'll hop on for Spanish. Got manga set up and I'll be getting some films. Looking forward to this!
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dandt Senior Member Australia regarderetlire.wordp Joined 4621 days ago 134 posts - 174 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, French
| Message 117 of 713 15 April 2012 at 5:01am | IP Logged |
does anyone else thikn they will do primarily tv shows for the movies?
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Tamise Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom jllrr.wordpress.com/ Joined 5240 days ago 115 posts - 161 votes Speaks: English*, German, Dutch Studies: French, Japanese, Spanish
| Message 118 of 713 15 April 2012 at 9:57am | IP Logged |
akprocks wrote:
I don't know where on earth I could find 100 icelandic movies. If someone makes a list then I might go on a
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Via IMDb. That lists 137 films, and from a quick look, at least some are Icelandic only. How you get them is another question of courses.
The general languages list there looks really good - not really sure what the distinction is between common and less-common as Icelandic with 137 is included in common, but Slovene with 229 is less-common.
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I'm going to try to include as many films as possible, and will watch any tv shows back-to-back until I get to film length as I think there's a real benefit to the longer exposure of a film. Luckily for me, the choice for Japanese is huge, and it's easy enough to get versions from Amazon UK.
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dandt Senior Member Australia regarderetlire.wordp Joined 4621 days ago 134 posts - 174 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, French
| Message 119 of 713 15 April 2012 at 10:10am | IP Logged |
That's a real difficulty of being in Australia. We don't have our own Amazon (not that that's a problem) but we can
order from other ones. Shipping, however, is extremely ridiculous. That's why I'm trying to use as many kindle
resources as possible.
I'm not sure what I'll do for films. I have Amelie somewhere, although there are only so many times I can watch that,
seeing as I've seen it before. Being a student at uni (not in languages) I have access to our library, so there are a few
options there. We actually have a French Film festival at the moment (or soon) but I don't want to pay $20 or so per
movie when I'll struggle to understand them. If I was buying, I wouldn't mind as I'd be able to rewatch. Perhaps next
year I can go and hope to understand some aspects.
I hope I can find books too. I'm sure I'll find something in the library.
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songlines Pro Member Canada flickr.com/photos/cp Joined 5206 days ago 729 posts - 1056 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French Personal Language Map
| Message 120 of 713 15 April 2012 at 5:50pm | IP Logged |
dandt wrote:
That's a real difficulty of being in Australia. We don't have our own Amazon (not that that's a
problem) but we can
order from other ones. Shipping, however, is extremely ridiculous. That's why I'm trying to use as many kindle
resources as possible.
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You may already know about Book Depository, but if not, I recommend them:
www.bookdepository.co.uk. (There's also a dot-com site.) Free
delivery, worldwide.
They don't stock DVDs, however.
To limit by language, do an Advanced Search. Then you can type in John Grisham, or Harry Potter, or whatever
you wish in the author or title fields respectively. I've found them reliable as far as delivery goes. Prices can be
a bit higher than on one of the Amazon sites, but once one has added Amazon's delivery charges, they compare
quite favourably.
They've recently (last Autumn) been bought by Amazon (see
Guardian
article ), but the takeover doesn't seem to have so far affected the policy of free deliveries.
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