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| bluejay390 Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6276 days ago 227 posts - 259 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Mandarin, Japanese, Malay, Italian | Message 1 of 13 08 May 2012 at 4:05am | IP Logged |
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Right now I am focusing on Spanish, Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, and Malay. I know for
sure that I want to reach high levels in/"master" Spanish, Mandarin, and Japanese. This is a general log though so in the future I'll do updates for other languages too. I am also going to try to write in this log in my target languages often. I've registered for the Super Challenge for 100 books and 100 films in Spanish! I'm pretty sure I'll have no trouble completing the films part of the challenge but I'm not so sure about the book part. Honestly, if I even get to half of that I'll be happy. I am also doing the 6 Week Challenge for Japanese. I kind of lost a week though because I was busy finishing up my last week of college classes for this semester and this week is final exams. I'm currently reviewing what I've learned from Japanese For Busy People I and then I'll (re)start on the next book soon. Since the last time I posted on these forums I've picked up Mandarin seriously, took some pretty good classes at uni and managed to get a good foundation started. 我可以说一 点儿中文！我喜欢学中文。=） 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| bluejay390 Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6276 days ago 227 posts - 259 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Mandarin, Japanese, Malay, Italian | Message 2 of 13 17 May 2012 at 7:00pm | IP Logged |
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¡Las reglas del Super Challenge ha cambiado! 100 páginas es un libro. En el pasado 100-
499 páginas estaba un libro, 500-999 páginas estaba dos libros, etc. Tal vez puedo leer "100 libros" ahora. XD Y hablando del Super Challange, ¡Ví mi primera película en español! Ví La Isla Interior. Es una película buena sobre una familia. El padre es esquizofrénico y los niños tienen niveles varios de enfermedad mental lo que tratan vivir con. Ví la película con subtítulos porque no tuve posibilidad inutilizarlos. Películas 1. La Isla Interior Libros Edited by bluejay390 on 18 May 2012 at 1:45am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| bluejay390 Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6276 days ago 227 posts - 259 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Mandarin, Japanese, Malay, Italian | Message 3 of 13 23 May 2012 at 5:04am | IP Logged |
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Spanish Super Challenge
2/100 films (214 minutes) 1/100 books (160 pages) Películas 1. La Isla Interior (94 minutes) 2. Girls (HBO series) (4 episodes) (120 minutes) Libros 1. Deudas De Deseo (160 pages) 
I love HBO series. There's only four more episodes of Girls left this season. They are already planning the second season. Since I started watching Girls in Spanish from the first episode, I'm just going to continue to watch it in Spanish first. I also finished my first book! It was an easy read, freebie romance novel. I figured I would start with something easy and short to build up my confidence. Of course, since the rules changed so that 100 pages = 1 book, my plan to start with a short book first doesn't really matter now. :p I'm also thinking of joining the super challenge with Japanese too because, even though I won't reach even 50 books in Japanese, I do plan on starting to read in Japanese soon. I have some easy readers to start with and then some manga and actual books after that. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| bluejay390 Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6276 days ago 227 posts - 259 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Mandarin, Japanese, Malay, Italian | Message 4 of 13 11 June 2012 at 8:10pm | IP Logged |
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I probably shouldn't be starting another book (I have so many that I'm currently
reading already), but I'm in an Irish mood~ so I'm reading Coelho's Brida in Spanish en este momento. On the Japanese side of things, I signed up for a half super challenge and I'm currently 40ish pages into a manga called カノン. Super Challenge Updates Spanish 3/100 films 1/100 books Películas 1. La Isla Interior (94 minutes) 2. Girls (HBO series) (4 episodes) (120 minutes) 3. Jane Eyre (120 minutes) Japanese 1/50 films 1. The Sea is Watching (119 minutes) I absolutely love both movies: "Jane Eyre" and "The Sea is Watching". I've seen "The Sea is Watching" before and was so happy to see it being show on my tv again so I had to watch it. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| bluejay390 Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6276 days ago 227 posts - 259 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Mandarin, Japanese, Malay, Italian | Message 5 of 13 25 June 2012 at 1:43am | IP Logged |
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8/100 films 1/100 books Películas 1. La Isla Interior (1 hour 34 minutes) 2. Girls (HBO series) (4 episodes) (2 hours) 3. Jane Eyre (120 minutes) 4. Football Euro 2012 Italy vs Ireland (1hr45min) 5. Football Euro 2012 Suecia vs Francia (1hr45min) 6. Football Euro 2012 La Republica Checa vs Portugal (1hr45min) 7. Football Euro 2012 Alemania vs Grecia (1hr45min) 8. Football Euro2012 Spain vs France (1hr45min) I watched today's team too but in English instead of Spanish because my brother was watching some of it with me. I'm so glad that Italy won! Team Italia all the way! Although I have been watching random Japanese tv, I have not been keeping track of the time for the Super Challenge, so there's no update there. Edited by bluejay390 on 25 June 2012 at 1:43am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Michael K. Senior Member United States Joined 5727 days ago 568 posts - 886 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Esperanto | Message 6 of 13 25 June 2012 at 2:54am | IP Logged |
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Good luck with the Super Challenge, Lisa.
I'm also doing it for Spanish, but I'm really far behind. At the rate I'm going, I'll only read 30 books and watch 40 movies. I'm thinking of doing Japanese in the fall, so what do you think of Japanese for Busy People? Good luck with your languages and college. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| bluejay390 Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6276 days ago 227 posts - 259 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Mandarin, Japanese, Malay, Italian | Message 7 of 13 04 July 2012 at 7:32am | IP Logged |
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Thanks Michael! And good luck to you too!
Haha, at the rate I'm going with reading I'll be lucky to even get to 30 books myself. I like Japanese for Busy People. Is there anything specific you want to know about the books? I like the layout of the book. There's a dialogue at the beginning of a chapter and a good amount of exercises to reinforce grammar points. The only thing I really have a problem with is that Volume I doesn't have kanji at all and Volume II only uses some selective kanji but I get around that by writing the vocabulary in google translate or a dictionary, finding the right kanji and including the kanji on my flashcards. If you do start learning Japanese, I would also take a look at Japanese Sentence Patterns for Effective Communication. It is not a textbook but I have it and I think it is a really good resource and reference. It's not just for sentences either. There are verbs and adjective charts in the back which I use often. It is also a good book if you want to give the AJATT Sentence method a try. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| bluejay390 Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6276 days ago 227 posts - 259 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Mandarin, Japanese, Malay, Italian | Message 8 of 13 20 July 2012 at 11:39pm | IP Logged |
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我的新教科书到来了！我高兴！My new textbook has arrived and I'm very happy about it. Time to
give Chinese some more attention! -Super Challenges- Spanish 12/100 films 1/100 books Películas 1. La Isla Interior, with subtitles (1 hour 34 minutes) 2. Girls, HBO series, 4 episodes (2 hours) 3. Jane Eyre (120 minutes) 4. Football Euro 2012 Italy vs Ireland (1hr45min) 5. Football Euro 2012 Suecia vs Francia (1hr45min) 6. Football Euro 2012 La Republica Checa vs Portugal (1hr45min) 7. Football Euro 2012 Alemania vs Grecia (1hr45min) 8. Football Euro2012 Spain vs France (1hr45min) 9. Girls, HBO Series, 4 episodes (2 hours) 10. The Motocycle Diaries, with subtitles (2 hours) 11. Camino Hacia El Dorado (1hr20min) 12. No me iré sin mi hija (1hr40min) Libros 1. Deudas De Deseo (160 pages) I finally finished watching Girls. I had recorded the show but didn't get back to watching it until recently. I kind of lost some interest in it. I wasn't expecting to really like The Motocycle Diaries but I did! It is a very good movie. Japanese 5/50 films 0/50 Books 映画 1. The Sea is Watching, with subtitles (119 minutes) 2. The Mystic Archives of Dantalian, with subtitles, episodes 1-6 (2hr24min) 3. The Mystic Archives of Dantalian, with subtitles, episodes 7-12 (2hr24min) 4. たぶらかし -Stand-in Actress Maki-, with subtitles, Episodes 1-6 (3 hours) 5. たぶらかし -Stand-in Actress Maki-, with subtitles, Episodes 7-13 (3hr30min) 本 The Mystic Archives of Dantalian is an ok anime, but it stops just when things started getting good! I really hope there is a second season. I have too many unanswered questions! I've also been reading some manga here and there but I can't count that just yet. The drama Taburakashi started off a little boring but got really good around episode 4 and continued to get better after that. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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