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| fiziwig Senior Member United States Joined 4862 days ago 297 posts - 618 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 201 of 656 08 May 2012 at 5:24am | IP Logged | ||
FWIW I'm "Fiziwig", not "Fitzwig". :) And believe it or not I'm already half way through "Hunger Games" in Spanish, and I thought it was going to be too hard for me! 1 person has 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 202 of 656 08 May 2012 at 9:07pm | IP Logged | ||
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UPDATE - Added Dutch "films" 1-4
FILMS, ETC. (French) 1. The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly FILMS, ETC. (Dutch) 1. Naar Het Middlepunt Der Aarde (audiobook) 2. Naar Het Middlepunt Der Aarde (audiobook) 3. Naar Het Middlepunt Der Aarde (audiobook) 4. Naar Het Middlepunt Der Aarde (audiobook) Based on length, I counted this audiobook as 4 films. Still no books finished yet. I picked up some reading material at a user book sale over the weekend, including a copy of Le Petit Prince for 50 cents, which I'm about 25% through. Still working on various HP in Dutch, French, and German (to provide context for reading the French). 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Marikki Tetraglot Senior Member Finland Joined 5492 days ago 130 posts - 210 votes Speaks: Finnish*, English, Spanish, Swedish Studies: German | Message 203 of 656 09 May 2012 at 2:27am | IP Logged | ||
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UPDATE, Super Challenge, Spanish
#books I have read two books, Donna Tartt's "The secrect history/ El secreto" and Alicia Giménez Bartlett's "Ritos de muerto". Both were language and style wise well written books which made them suitable for slow reading. Clumsy and boring writing style is so much more painful when you can't read fast! I'm little bit worried about my reading speed. Maybe I should re-read some easy books and be strict about not looking up any unknown words. Last thing I want is getting used to reading Spanish slowly. And how on earth I'll be able to read 97 books in 19 months and 3 weeks if I continue reading this slowly? #films I've still been watching just Colombian telenovelas and some TV series. I failed to understand enough last week, when I watched one epidode of "The Closer" dubbed, so I was very pleased to notice I could follow "The mentalist". 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| eggcluck Senior Member China Joined 4698 days ago 168 posts - 278 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Mandarin, Japanese | Message 204 of 656 09 May 2012 at 2:31am | IP Logged | ||
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2 more movies down so now up to 3
2， 龙门飞甲 3， 爱 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| RMM Diglot Groupie United States Joined 5224 days ago 91 posts - 215 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Italian, Spanish, Ancient Greek, French, Swedish, Japanese | Message 205 of 656 09 May 2012 at 3:07am | IP Logged | ||
I wouldn't worry about that. I think we are all counting on the idea that we will continuously pick up speed the more we read. Practice makes perfect after all. The more you read the more used to reading you will be and the larger your vocabulary will have become, which in turn will also make your reading easier and smoother. I'd quit the challenge right now if I weren't convinced that my reading speeds will indeed improve the further along I go. At any rate, it looks like you are actually doing a really good job for this early in the challenge. Most participants haven't even finished one book yet. 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 206 of 656 09 May 2012 at 6:48am | IP Logged | ||
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Do not worry about reading speed. In Norwegian and English I can read a couple of pages per minute, in
Russian my average is now 8.5 pages. Per hour... Do not worry. We will gain reading speed as we read more. 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 207 of 656 09 May 2012 at 6:56am | IP Logged | ||
Corrected! And congratulations on your accomplishment! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| prz_ Tetraglot Senior Member Poland last.fm/user/prz_rul Joined 4856 days ago 890 posts - 1190 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, Bulgarian, Croatian Studies: Slovenian, Macedonian, Persian, Russian, Turkish, Ukrainian, Dutch, Swedish, German, Italian, Armenian, Kurdish | Message 208 of 656 09 May 2012 at 7:36am | IP Logged | ||
:-o Impressive! 1 person has voted this message useful |
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