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| Kisfroccs Bilingual Pentaglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 5406 days ago 388 posts - 549 votes  Speaks: French*, German*, EnglishC1, Swiss-German, Hungarian Studies: Italian, Serbo-Croatian | Message 561 of 656 04 September 2012 at 10:46pm | IP Logged |
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Hello everyone,
I'd like to registrate to the challenge ! :) LANGUAGE: HUNGARIAN CHALLENGE; THE HALF SUPER CHALLENGE (50 BOOKS, 50 FILMS) CURRENT LEVEL: B1 -- LANGUAGE: BCS CHALLENGE; THE HALF SUPER CHALLENGE (50 BOOKS, 50 FILMS) CURRENT LEVEL: A1 -- LANGUAGE: Italian CHALLENGE; THE HALF SUPER CHALLENGE (100 BOOKS) CURRENT LEVEL: A2 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6594 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 562 of 656 05 September 2012 at 3:02am | IP Logged |
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What a nice combination of languages ♥ welcome!
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| Kisfroccs Bilingual Pentaglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 5406 days ago 388 posts - 549 votes Speaks: French*, German*, EnglishC1, Swiss-German, Hungarian Studies: Italian, Serbo-Croatian | Message 563 of 656 05 September 2012 at 12:23pm | IP Logged |
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Thanks :) I just didn't found BCS, so I wrote Croatian.
Im @szofla by the way. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| wv girl Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5236 days ago 174 posts - 330 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Spanish | Message 564 of 656 10 September 2012 at 12:28pm | IP Logged |
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Still working on Casi una mujer. Getting easier, but vocabulary is still a problem, not that I can't get the "gist" of it,
but I'd like more than that. Still writing down vocabulary, recognize a lot more now that I've encountered them several times. Watched La Cara Oculta last night ... a pretty interesting mystery about the disappearance of a conductor's girlfriend. Finding that I understand more & more of the dialogue, though there are still small sections that blow past me completely. Finally even getting some of the curse words! Peliculas: 10/50 (20%!) 10. La Cara oculta 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| kanewai Triglot Senior Member United States justpaste.it/kanewai Joined 4886 days ago 1386 posts - 3054 votes Speaks: English*, French, Marshallese Studies: Italian, Spanish | Message 565 of 656 13 September 2012 at 3:12am | IP Logged |
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Quick update here ....
Movie 20. Plein soleil (Purple Noon; René Clement, 1960) - Really beautiful people acting badly in the south of France. Based on the novel The Talented Mister Ripley. I haven't seen the Matt Damon version to compare them, but in this one Alain Delon is riveting. Definitely recommended Books Les Misérables, tome 1: Fantine (Victor Hugo, 1862; 276 p). I'm 70% of the way through. I loved this book at the beginning, then grew to hate it. The characters are very simple (they are either beautiful and saintly, or ugly and evil), some of the passages didn't even make sense in English, and there were close to a dozen repetitive chapters just discussing the personality of the characters. I thought, I'll finish Fantine and then not bother with the next four books. It wasn't all bad - there were some great passages dealing with the nature of the soul, and some absolutely poetic images (at one point two lovers in the woods are surrounded by a "bohemia of butterflies"). But overall I didn't think I could handle 1400 pages of this. And then the action started. Fantine sells herself into prostitution to care for her child, she beats up a 'gentleman' playboy who insults her, the ruthless Inspector Javert hauls her into the station, Jean Valjean shows up to intervene, and I was on the brink of tears. Maybe I was just tired, or had had too much wine, but I was completely drawn in. The writing style has gotten easier; I hope it stays easier. I use a parallel text version, and need it to help untangle some of the longer sentences and clauses. Bel ami (Guy de Maupassant, 1885; 300 pages). I'm at 60%. The writing here is much easier than it has been with other books I've read - I'd put it at the same level as the French of the early Harry Potter books. I find I can read most pages without even needing a dictionary. *** For those looking to jump into native literature, de Maupassant would be an excellent place to start. *** He's most famous for his short stories, which are in the public domain and should be easy to find. Edited by kanewai on 13 September 2012 at 3:17am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Anya Pentaglot Senior Member France Joined 5790 days ago 636 posts - 708 votes Speaks: Russian*, FrenchC1, English, Italian, Spanish Studies: German, Japanese, Hungarian, Sanskrit, Portuguese, Turkish, Mandarin Studies: Ancient Greek, Hindi | Message 566 of 656 16 September 2012 at 12:20am | IP Logged |
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Update: German 13%
Read 5.2/100 books "Grammar" "German for 30 days" "Methode90:Units 12-20" "Ines meines Herzens" "Die schonheit des augenblicks"(exibition book) "Heute heiratet mein man" Watched 31.5/100 films TV: News "Galileo" "Literature im foyer" " Joko gegen Klaas" "Spiegelshow" +other tv watching Films: "Che" "Empire" "Ryans Tochter" "Karate kid" "Willkomen bei den Sch'tis" "Die Bruder Karamasow " "Vorleser" "Salt" "Die legend von beowulf" Serials "Csi" "Bigbentheory" "Dokumentationsreihe: der Inn" "Grey's anatomy" 1.9/100 pieces of writing "German for 30 days": copying, exercises 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Anya Pentaglot Senior Member France Joined 5790 days ago 636 posts - 708 votes Speaks: Russian*, FrenchC1, English, Italian, Spanish Studies: German, Japanese, Hungarian, Sanskrit, Portuguese, Turkish, Mandarin Studies: Ancient Greek, Hindi | Message 567 of 656 17 September 2012 at 10:43pm | IP Logged |
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Update:Japanese 8%
Read 1.8/50 books " grammar " "The sputnik sweet heart " Watched 6.4/50 films films: "Idiot " "Kozure okami" "Yukinojo henge" audiobook: "gift of the mag" others: "Assimil:units 1-34" 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| kanewai Triglot Senior Member United States justpaste.it/kanewai Joined 4886 days ago 1386 posts - 3054 votes Speaks: English*, French, Marshallese Studies: Italian, Spanish | Message 568 of 656 20 September 2012 at 10:06pm | IP Logged |
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Week 20: 23 books, 21 films (22% finished)
Film 21: Change moi ma vie (Change My Life; Liria Bégéja, 2001). A romance between Nina, a former actress (Fanny Ardant), and Sami, a drug-addicted Algerian transvestite prostitute (Roschdy Zem). - France has so many great actresses; it's too bad their aren't as many great directors. This movie had a promising start, but then became this strange unrealistic fantasy when Sami suddenly sobers up, stops dressing like a woman, and becomes a smoking hot straight man. It was almost offensive. Books 18-20. Les Misérables, tome 1: Fantine. Victor Hugo (265 pages) - Although I was frustrated a lot at the beginning of the book, I was hooked by the end. The writing became easier, the narrative moved along faster, and I was up half the night reading about the final confrontation between Javert, Jean Val Jean, and Fantine. I'm looking forward to the the next tome (Cosette). Books 21-23. Bel ami. Guy de Maupassant (300 pages) - I stayed up late to finish Bel ami also. I've seen this book compared to Madame Bovary, but the characters and writing style are much different. Both were self-centered egoists, but Madame Bovary was much more naive, and turned a blind eye to the damage she was causing to everyone around her. Bel Ami knew exactly what he was doing. He started off as a bit of a charming rogue, but by the later half of the book I was hoping that one of his mistresses would finish him off with poison. On Deck: BD: Les aventures de Tintin: L'Oreille cassée. This has been sitting on my desk for a few months now, waiting for a nice lazy weekend for me so start. Books 24-27: Harry Potter et la Chambre des Secrets. (365 p) Books 28-30: Le Père Goriot. Honoré de Balzac (1835) (300 pages). - I'm struggling with Balzac. I picked this because it was shorter than most of the other classics on my list, but it might take me longer to read. Oops. Right now I need an English translation to help me. I'm hoping that it gets easier as it goes along. I tried the parallel-text version from Amazon, but didn't like it and returned it the first day. Right now I'm reading from the collection Balzac: Oeuvres complètes (La Comédie humaine) (101 books for $1.99!). The formatting seems good so far. I'm still looking for a good English translation. I don't like the public domain one(I'm not sure who the translator was), and am waiting on an English copy from the library. Edited by kanewai on 20 September 2012 at 10:15pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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