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| Wulfgar Senior Member United States Joined 4668 days ago 404 posts - 791 votes  Speaks: English* | Message 49 of 713 12 April 2012 at 4:09am | IP Logged | ||
How about adding: - 100 hours of conversation - 1 grammar Then it would be kind of like learning a language. 3 persons have 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 50 of 713 12 April 2012 at 6:05am | IP Logged | ||
B1/B2 should be ok. The articles and the Italian TV too. The music and music I think will fall outside OF this particular challenge :-) And as for the 20 months requirement that is a maximum time. If anyone want to do just half a Super challenge and finish it before, that is fine. Edited by Solfrid Cristin on 12 April 2012 at 8:26am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| sofiapofia Pentaglot Groupie United Kingdom Joined 4938 days ago 88 posts - 103 votes Speaks: Swedish, Hindi, Portuguese, English*, Marathi Studies: German, Danish, Sanskrit, Icelandic | Message 51 of 713 12 April 2012 at 6:19am | IP Logged | ||
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This sounds fantastic! I would love to join with German! I'm at B1/B2 level and would
love to work on my German. The only problem is that I need to work on my Swedish; I need to study specialized vocabulary for the TISUS exam. Also I would really like to watch more movies and read more in Swedish. And then I plan to start with an intensive ab initio French course from September onwards at university. I don't see how I will have time to focus on just one language for the super challenge. I'm sure there are a lot of us on here that would like to bring in more than one language into this super challenge. In an ideal world, I would LOVE to focus entirely on German for the challenge, but I have other language commitments (I also study Sanskrit at university besides my degree) I really really want to do this and I'm going to have a think about how I can fit this challenge into my schedule. Super idea, Solfrid! (If I may!) 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 52 of 713 12 April 2012 at 7:14am | IP Logged | ||
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I realize that most of us learn more than one language, but the whole point of this particular challenge is to
focus so much on one of the languages that it pushes you from basic to at least intermediate. You join this challenge if you have one language that you want to move from studying to speaking. We are all good at spreading ourselves thin. But 100 films and 100 books - in the same language- gives real results. So I will be flexible on every aspect as of how you watch listen or read - but it is one language only. If you are hesitant as to which language to chose you just ask yourself which language you would really like to go from knowing a little - until knowing - and you have it. :-) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| sofiapofia Pentaglot Groupie United Kingdom Joined 4938 days ago 88 posts - 103 votes Speaks: Swedish, Hindi, Portuguese, English*, Marathi Studies: German, Danish, Sanskrit, Icelandic | Message 53 of 713 12 April 2012 at 7:27am | IP Logged | ||
German then! :) This is a fantastic idea, this challenge is! Edited by sofiapofia on 12 April 2012 at 10:01am 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 54 of 713 12 April 2012 at 8:30am | IP Logged | ||
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Ok. Off to Spain now. I'll log on if I can, but otherwise ReneeMona is in charge!
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| Sunja Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6082 days ago 2020 posts - 2295 votes 1 sounds Speaks: English*, German Studies: French, Mandarin | Message 55 of 713 12 April 2012 at 9:30am | IP Logged | ||
That would definitely make it even more of a challenge for me since I'm starting from zero. speaking for a full 60 sections is the best I can hope for for at least half a year yet^^ 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| DaraghM Diglot Senior Member Ireland Joined 6148 days ago 1947 posts - 2923 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Russian, Hungarian | Message 56 of 713 12 April 2012 at 10:49am | IP Logged | ||
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I'd like to propose a parallel super challenge, or you could call it a supreme challenge. The parallel super challenge could run for 20 months, or as long as needed. The idea is very simple. Study your target language for 1,000 hours. You can't blend different languages in this figure. This means if you clock up the hours doing 100 books and 100 films you've already met this challenge. However, it also covers watching television, reading magazines or newspapers, and all other language study. I really like the original challenge, but I'm finding it very hard, and very expensive, to find that many films and books in any of my TLs. According to various reports, it takes 500-600 hours of "guided study" from scratch to reach B2. I think 1,000 hours total study should also cover it. The supreme version of this challenge would be to reach 1,000 hours in all your target languages individually.
Edited by DaraghM on 12 April 2012 at 10:52am 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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