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| 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 465 of 656 13 July 2012 at 5:44pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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UPDATE - Added Dutch Film Entries 10-14
BOOKS (French) 1. ... FILMS, ETC. (French) 4. ... BOOKS (Dutch) 11. ... FILMS, ETC. (Dutch) 10-14. De Reis om de Wereld in 80 Dagen (audiobook) Continuing my previously noted reading, but I also just got the 1500-page German translation of My Life, by Bill Clinton, so we'll see how much reading time gets taken away from Dutch and French by that. I am not entered in any Super Challenge for German, but I also am still reporting for my log: BOOKS (German) 9. ... FILMS, ETC. (German) 6. ... 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| patrickwilken Senior Member Germany radiant-flux.net Joined 4530 days ago 1546 posts - 3200 votes Studies: German | Message 466 of 656 13 July 2012 at 7:25pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
Well you are allowed to watch and count the same movie multiple times, so you could just listen to the same album multiple times if they are really equivalent. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| patrickwilken Senior Member Germany radiant-flux.net Joined 4530 days ago 1546 posts - 3200 votes Studies: German | Message 467 of 656 13 July 2012 at 7:34pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Weekly update for German Super-Challenge:
BOOKS: Slowly reading through my first graphic novel. By the time I finish this it's going to count twice, given the amount re-reading I am doing! I am packing up house now, and about to decamp to Berlin for a couple of months. I'll be interested how much this is going to impact my German studies. MOVIES: 14-16. Breaking Bad - Season 1 (2008). The dubbing is not bad on this excellent series. Geil Kristall. The more I watch the easier it gets. I am starting to think that I just really need to watch a lot of TV and movies to learn German. I guess it's always good to play to your strengths. 8/10. 13. Kurz und Schmertzlos (1998). Fatih Akin's first feature film. Quite different from the other's I have seen (Soul Kitchen; Im Juli). A sort of multicultural Mean Streets set in the immigrant community of Hamburg, which follows three friends (one Turkish, one Greek, one Serbian) who navigate the crime scene and get sucked in ever deeper. Some difficultly following the dialogue, but definitely worth watching. I keep a notebook next to me as a watch so I can write down phrases or words that I don't understand. I got quite a few good idioms out of this, like 'du bist ein kleiner hosenscheißer' (lit. you are a small boy who still shits in your pants - perhaps roughly translated as 'you are a pussy'), 'quatsch mit soße' (literally 'crap with sauce' - perhaps 'that's bullshit') and 'das ist so abgefahren' (literally 'this is so departed' but as an idiom 'this is so crazy'). This came out in the same year as Lola Rennt - which I like a lot - but this is definitely the superior film. Not sure why, it was released with the English title "Short, sharp, shock"; when the title would literally and more reasonably be translated as "Short and Painless". Recommended. 8/10. 12. Im Juli (2000). A romantic comedy, by Fatih Akin, with a very straight Moritz Bleibtreu travelling overland from Hamburg to Istanbul to meet his true love. Not bad, but a little too implausible for my liking. Still I always like a good road movie across Europe, and the Balkans look particularly nice in Summer. 6/10. Edited by patrickwilken on 13 July 2012 at 7:35pm 3 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 468 of 656 13 July 2012 at 7:47pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
I know, I love it. It really feels like magic sometimes, doesn't it? The brain is amazing. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Kerrie Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Kerrie2 Joined 5392 days ago 1232 posts - 1740 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 469 of 656 13 July 2012 at 7:51pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
I thought we had come to the consensus that music would not count for audio, but that anyone who wanted to could keep track of it separately. 2 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 470 of 656 13 July 2012 at 9:03pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
That is correct. Listening to music is great, but it does not count as film for the Super Challenge. Edited by Solfrid Cristin on 13 July 2012 at 9:04pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| patrickwilken Senior Member Germany radiant-flux.net Joined 4530 days ago 1546 posts - 3200 votes Studies: German | Message 471 of 656 14 July 2012 at 12:55am | IP Logged | ||||||||
Like complete magic. It's so cool how we learn without having access to the learning mechanism. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| patrickwilken Senior Member Germany radiant-flux.net Joined 4530 days ago 1546 posts - 3200 votes Studies: German | Message 472 of 656 14 July 2012 at 1:02am | IP Logged | ||||||||
Fine with me. I am not counting albums. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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