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| fiziwig Senior Member United States Joined 4862 days ago 297 posts - 618 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 153 of 713 18 April 2012 at 6:24am | IP Logged | |||||
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Jackpot!
I went to the local charity thrift store and for $20 US came home with 22 paperback books in Spanish to get me started. I got a nice selection of spy stories, young adult fiction, A 120 page book on the wildlife of the Yucatan, a book on Mexican archeology, a book of Peruvian literature, and two Harlequin Romance novels, plus Fahrenheit 451 and S.E. Hinton's Rumblefish (translated into Spanish as La ley de calle) and a 250-page illustrated collection of famous fairy tales. And I already have the complete set of Harry Potter, Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, and a dozen other books in Spanish, so I now have between 40 and 50 books in Spanish just waiting to be picked up a read! Come on May!!!!! 8 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Brun Ugle Diglot Senior Member Norway brunugle.wordpress.c Joined 6617 days ago 1292 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English*, NorwegianC1 Studies: Japanese, Esperanto, Spanish, Finnish | Message 154 of 713 18 April 2012 at 11:31am | IP Logged | |||||
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I've finally given into peer pressure and spent all morning creating my own blog. It still needs some work, but it will have to wait. I'm exhausted.
I also have a question. What if a book is over 1000 pages? Does it count as 4 books? If so, how many pages would count as 3 books? 4 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| geoffw Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4685 days ago 1134 posts - 1865 votes Speaks: English*, German, Yiddish Studies: Modern Hebrew, French, Dutch, Italian, Russian | Message 155 of 713 18 April 2012 at 2:51pm | IP Logged | |||||
Good question. I had assumed 100-499 = 1, 500-749 = 2, 750-999 = 3, etc., but maybe we need a ruling on that. When I made my count of how many books HP in French was earlier in the thread, I based my count on my equations above. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Einarr Tetraglot Senior Member United Kingdom einarrslanguagelog.w Joined 4610 days ago 118 posts - 269 votes Speaks: English, Bulgarian*, French, Russian Studies: Swedish | Message 156 of 713 18 April 2012 at 6:47pm | IP Logged | |||||
Thanks for the link mate. It will definitely be quite useful, since most of the time I'm on the move/not able to bring a paper book with me. :) I've put some effort into updating my blog as well. But since I'm a beginner in the field it looks so imperfect in my eyes, but that's all I can do about it so far. :D 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Brun Ugle Diglot Senior Member Norway brunugle.wordpress.c Joined 6617 days ago 1292 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English*, NorwegianC1 Studies: Japanese, Esperanto, Spanish, Finnish | Message 157 of 713 18 April 2012 at 7:35pm | IP Logged | |||||
I agree with your assessment, especially as it is exactly what I was thinking ;) After all, I could chop my book in half (!) and have two books that were each over 500 pages and would therefore count as two books each, ie four books in total. Unless we get a ruling that says something different, I'm going with your calculations. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6467 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 158 of 713 18 April 2012 at 9:14pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Sounds like a great challenge! I won't be able to participate though, because 100 books
in 20 months is > 1 book per week and I don't have that kind of time, least of all for only one language... 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5331 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 159 of 713 18 April 2012 at 9:48pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Good question. I had assumed 100-499 = 1, 500-749 = 2, 750-999 = 3, etc., but maybe we need a ruling on that. When I made my count of how many books HP in French was earlier in the thread, I based my count on my equations above.[/QUOTE] That's exactly how I thought it too :-) Edited by Solfrid Cristin on 18 April 2012 at 9:51pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Volte Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 6436 days ago 4474 posts - 6726 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto, German, Italian Studies: French, Finnish, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 160 of 713 18 April 2012 at 10:25pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I'm in... for Japanese. May I count LR'd books and books with parallel texts as normal books? This is assuming, of course, that I actually pay attention to all the Japanese.
Edited by Volte on 18 April 2012 at 10:28pm 4 persons have voted this message useful |
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