DaraghM Diglot Senior Member Ireland Joined 6150 days ago 1947 posts - 2923 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Russian, Hungarian
| Message 169 of 713 19 April 2012 at 11:29am | IP Logged |
Given the long duration of the challenge, I'd also be tempted to add, "Talk with 100 native speakers."
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garyb Triglot Senior Member ScotlandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5206 days ago 1468 posts - 2413 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, French Studies: Spanish
| Message 170 of 713 19 April 2012 at 11:34am | IP Logged |
I'm very tempted to do my own version of this for Italian - I'm not really interested in
reading right now but I am interested in speaking, so I'll do the 100 films (most likely
including plenty TV shows) but replace the 100 books with 100 hours of speaking practice
(conversations, shadowing, self-talk, etc.). May 1 is great timing as that's around when
I plan to be completely finished with Assimil, although it could be a slow start as
French is going to be my big focus for May and June.
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Brun Ugle Diglot Senior Member Norway brunugle.wordpress.c Joined 6619 days ago 1292 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English*, NorwegianC1 Studies: Japanese, Esperanto, Spanish, Finnish
| Message 171 of 713 19 April 2012 at 2:05pm | IP Logged |
Here's a question for my fellow bloggers:
Some of you have a nifty widget for measuring your progress and counting how many books/films you've finished. How did you do that? I can't figure it out.
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Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5555 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona
| Message 172 of 713 19 April 2012 at 2:26pm | IP Logged |
DaraghM wrote:
Given the long duration of the challenge, I'd also be tempted to add, "Talk with 100 native speakers." |
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I like this idea a lot (but first you gotta catch 'em all)!
Edited by Teango on 19 April 2012 at 2:27pm
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dandt Senior Member Australia regarderetlire.wordp Joined 4623 days ago 134 posts - 174 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, French
| Message 173 of 713 19 April 2012 at 2:32pm | IP Logged |
Brun Ugle wrote:
Here's a question for my fellow bloggers:
Some of you have a nifty widget for measuring your progress and counting how many books/films you've finished.
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I got instructions from here http://stackingpennies.wordpress.com/2009/03/17/how-to-make- progress-bars-for-
your-blog/
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Brun Ugle Diglot Senior Member Norway brunugle.wordpress.c Joined 6619 days ago 1292 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English*, NorwegianC1 Studies: Japanese, Esperanto, Spanish, Finnish
| Message 174 of 713 19 April 2012 at 4:36pm | IP Logged |
dandt wrote:
Brun Ugle wrote:
Here's a question for my fellow bloggers:
Some of you have a nifty widget for measuring your progress and counting how many books/films you've finished.
How did you do that? I can't figure it out. |
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I got instructions from here http://stackingpennies.wordpress.com/2009/03/17/how-to-make- progress-bars-for-
your-blog/ |
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Wow! I actually did it! Thanks so much!
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druckfehler Triglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4867 days ago 1181 posts - 1912 votes Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Korean Studies: Persian
| Message 175 of 713 19 April 2012 at 5:20pm | IP Logged |
Teango wrote:
DaraghM wrote:
Given the long duration of the challenge, I'd also be tempted to add, "Talk with 100 native speakers." |
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I like this idea a lot (but first you gotta catch 'em all)! |
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This is a great idea! In my current situation it would be slightly insane to try this (I might have to stalk down all the Koreans in my city), but if you're in the country or planning to go to the country during the 20 months it makes a lot of sense. Actually, it would even be fun to try to do this at home - I imagine how I'd have to shamelessly bother random Koreans on the street to find these 100 people.
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Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4908 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German
| Message 176 of 713 20 April 2012 at 10:11am | IP Logged |
druckfehler wrote:
Teango wrote:
DaraghM wrote:
Given the long duration of the challenge, I'd also be tempted to add, "Talk with 100 native speakers." |
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I like this idea a lot (but first you gotta catch 'em all)! |
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This is a great idea! In my current situation it would be slightly insane to try this (I might have to stalk down all the Koreans in my city), but if you're in the country or planning to go to the country during the 20 months it makes a lot of sense. Actually, it would even be fun to try to do this at home - I imagine how I'd have to shamelessly bother random Koreans on the street to find these 100 people. |
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The easiest way, if you can't visit the country or find a large immigrant community, would be to find people to speak to on Skype.
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