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| sctroyenne Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5389 days ago 739 posts - 1312 votes  Speaks: English*, French Studies: Spanish, Irish | Message 201 of 522 10 June 2014 at 12:26am | IP Logged | ||
Finally discovering my main competitors' logs ;) I have to admit I took a screenshot when I took the lead and got my two stars. But only because I knew I wouldn't hold on to it for long. I, on the other hand, am impressed by the high reading totals. I get a good amount done during my commutes but after too long my eyes just tend to glaze over. Though I'm a bit more slow-going right now since I'm primarily reading history books which are quite dense (I'll be reaching for the trashy fiction for my other languages). I listen to a lot of podcasts and I watch Canal+ comedy news shows every day. Also over Memorial Day weekend I had a little trash TV marathon which helped boost my totals. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Radioclare Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom timeofftakeoff.com Joined 4581 days ago 689 posts - 1119 votes Speaks: English*, German, Esperanto Studies: Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian | Message 202 of 522 12 June 2014 at 12:43am | IP Logged | ||
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Congratulations on getting a third star, Anna :) It looks very impressive, it is bigger
than all the other stars! *** I'm working in London for the rest of this week and so haven't been getting very much done. Yesterday I read 31 pages of 'Polje Mačeva' and today I read 35. I haven't had time to watch any more films, which is a bit disappointing. I logged into my neglected Memrise account this morning and found that I had 754 Croatian words requiring watering. I promptly logged right back out again. The amazingly good news though is that the problem with my boyfriend's passport has been resolved and it is now apparently on its way. So I won't have to travel Spain on my own, and learning of Spanish can be suspended :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Radioclare Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom timeofftakeoff.com Joined 4581 days ago 689 posts - 1119 votes Speaks: English*, German, Esperanto Studies: Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian | Message 203 of 522 15 June 2014 at 6:33pm | IP Logged | ||
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I haven't been online much this week; I was working in London on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, then went straight to Esperanto House in Staffordshire
on Friday evening for the trustee working weekend, which has involved about 12 hours of meetings. I also haven't got as much done for the Super Challenge as I would have hoped. I didn't have time to do anything at all on Thursday, although this was partly because I took the evening off to watch Croatia play in the opening game of the World Cup. On Friday I read 32 pages of 'Polje Mačeva' on the train to Stafford; I could have read more but I was sitting next to a really noisy group of girls on their way to a hen night in Liverpool so it was quite hard to concentrate properly on Croatian. Saturday was dominated by Esperanto meetings, but in the evening we had a break between the close of business and going out for dinner, which I used to watch two more episodes of 'Bitange i Princeze'. I hadn't watched any of this since I started my Twilight reading marathon, so I was pleasantly surprised to discover that I was suddenly understanding a *lot* more of the dialogue than when I first started watching it in May. The extensive reading is obviously having some effect, even if I can't feel it when I am struggling through descriptions of Roman battles in 'Polje Mačeva'. I read another 35 pages before bed on Saturday evening, and I was pleased to realise that I'd already surpassed my Tadoku target of 1,000 pages this month. Perhaps I should have aimed a bit higher! The most exciting find of the day, however, is that the library at Esperanto House has a number of Serbocroatian/Esperanto dictionaries, including this one, which I spent some happy minutes flicking through during one of the breaks and which is now firmly on my wishlist. Unfortunately it's not a lending library, so I couldn't borrow it. Overall the Esperanto meeting was pretty productive. Nobody tried to speak Esperanto to me at breakfast which was a blessing. We spoke a little Esperanto over dinner. Mainly it was good to be around friends, to share frustrations and experiences and to make some plans for the future. The meeting took place in our library which has over 13,000 titles in Esperanto and I think sitting there surrounded by so many books all weekend reminded me of how ignorant I actually am of Esperanto culture, how little Esperanto literature and poetry I have actually read, and how I should really make more effort. Perhaps if I did, I would feel less inclined to kabei. I also felt guilty that I should try to write more in Esperanto. I should try to write more, full stop. But then, there are a lot of things I should do, not least tidy my house where I have just realised that I still have the Easter cards on the mantelpiece! I blame this on the Super Challenge ;) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6595 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 204 of 522 15 June 2014 at 11:43pm | IP Logged | ||
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| Radioclare Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom timeofftakeoff.com Joined 4581 days ago 689 posts - 1119 votes Speaks: English*, German, Esperanto Studies: Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian | Message 205 of 522 16 June 2014 at 11:28am | IP Logged | ||
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Yes, I think the real challenge will not be reading 5,000 pages but continuing to read every day/week throughout the challenge.
Since the challenge started I've been using all my language learning time to either read or watch films, but now I'm thinking that it might be better to split my time more evenly between this and going back to studying grammar and vocab. I still have at least another 5 chapters which I haven't completed in my BCS textbook. I'm going on holiday on Saturday and considering having two weeks off from Croatian, although this has less to do with the challenge and more to do with the overwhelming size of my pile of unread English books: 
(Those aren't all my unread books, I have another small pile on my Balkans shelf). 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| rdearman Senior Member United Kingdom rdearman.orgRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5234 days ago 881 posts - 1812 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, French, Mandarin | Message 206 of 522 16 June 2014 at 11:53am | IP Logged | ||
Doesn't reading count toward your vocabulary? Or do you mean something different like Anki decks or Goldlists? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Radioclare Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom timeofftakeoff.com Joined 4581 days ago 689 posts - 1119 votes Speaks: English*, German, Esperanto Studies: Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian | Message 207 of 522 16 June 2014 at 12:45pm | IP Logged | ||
I'm a bit lazy when I read, so I only look up words when not knowing them is seriously hampering my understanding of the plot. Before the challenge started I was taking vocabulary from my textbook, creating courses with it in Memrise and practising them every day on the train. That increased my vocabulary significantly which has definitely helped with reading, but I've let it slip since May (I have 881 words which require watering on Memrise - aaargggh!) so I was contemplating going back to actively doing that. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6595 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 208 of 522 16 June 2014 at 5:22pm | IP Logged | ||
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Yeah, one of the biggest challenges is not neglecting your textbook-based learning etc :) Also remember that monolingual textbooks count, and so do texts from coursebooks.
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