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| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5333 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes  Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 241 of 432 11 April 2014 at 2:51pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'll write it up during the Easter holiday - and then I'll open up a thread where people can sign up for the
challenge. I hope you are all starting to prepare :-) 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5008 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 242 of 432 11 April 2014 at 3:43pm | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks, Cristina, that sounds awesome!
So, everyone: We've got two weeks to hoard books, movies, tv series, audiobooks and so on! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5333 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 243 of 432 11 April 2014 at 4:08pm | IP Logged | ||
And don't forget about warming up! I have a horror of a night before me: Getting up at two in the morning, bus picks us up at three, plain leaves at six and I am in Oslo at nine in the morning and at home around noon. And what do I plan to use to keep myself awake: Death and destruction in Russian - also known as an Agatha Christie novel. I am reading it now, and will make it the first book I read in May once the challenge starts, to see if reading something I have read before will take my time down from the 'one week, reading six hours a day' which is my current speed in Russian. When I accept understanding only 10% of the text, that is :-) Edited by Solfrid Cristin on 11 April 2014 at 4:09pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5165 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian | Message 244 of 432 11 April 2014 at 4:45pm | IP Logged | ||
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So you're taking a SC for Russian?! How brave of yours! My Russian is a bit behind yours,
but by no means I can take even a half challenge. I could read 2 pages a day at most. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6596 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 245 of 432 11 April 2014 at 8:48pm | IP Logged | ||
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Um this is how the challenge started in the first place.
Cavesa, the only change is that the half-challenges are allowed again. (I assume that only book+audio, not one or the other) It also turned out that I misunderstood what Cristina said here about having to choose what counts during LR. I thought the statement only applied to L2-L2, because it clearly doesn't make sense for L1-L2. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5165 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian | Message 246 of 432 11 April 2014 at 9:10pm | IP Logged | ||
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I know that the challenge started with earlier levels of the language, but I'd feel
uncomfortable with doing it for Russian, which is probably at a middle A2. I'd rather do it with an early B1 language. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6596 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 247 of 432 11 April 2014 at 9:45pm | IP Logged | ||
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I mean specifically that the challenge started because Cristina set a personal goal and was hoping a couple more equally crazy people would join.
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| Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4908 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German | Message 248 of 432 12 April 2014 at 1:45am | IP Logged | ||
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The question about pages of various things has come up from time to time. For example, how many pages to count in Word documents, etc. One guideline is the number of words per page in an average book. This site says it's about 250 words per page. I've seen others which say 300. This other site says it's 300 for a 5.5 x 8.5 book, and 350 for a 6 x 9 book.
So I'm going to reckon on 300 words per page. I have the Amélie script on Word, and Word tells me it has 9312 words; divided by 300 and it comes to 31 book pages. I haven't read it, but that seems about right. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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