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| 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 33 of 432 18 January 2014 at 8:46pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
edit: basically, the intensity and consistency matter more than the specific volume. I could've completed my audio challenges much earlier, but I deliberately avoided that. While there's a point where it's better to do a lot in one go than "do something every day", that's definitely not 100-150 hours. And I think this also applies to the original suggestion that "you can do the films within the first year and then focus on the reading part". Edited by Serpent on 18 January 2014 at 9:34pm 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 34 of 432 18 January 2014 at 9:09pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
Edited by Serpent on 18 January 2014 at 9:22pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| kanewai Triglot Senior Member United States justpaste.it/kanewai Joined 4888 days ago 1386 posts - 3054 votes Speaks: English*, French, Marshallese Studies: Italian, Spanish | Message 35 of 432 18 January 2014 at 9:24pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I really like the symmetry of 100 / 100.
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| 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 36 of 432 18 January 2014 at 9:35pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Me too, so if we have 90-min "films", we can also totally have 50-page "books". I like this idea.
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| Emily96 Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 4427 days ago 270 posts - 342 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Spanish, Finnish, Latin | Message 37 of 432 18 January 2014 at 9:38pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I think you've got most sides of this debate covered, but just to throw my two cents in: I'd definitely like to have the
option to aim for smaller goals. Although I'm not planning to tackle as many languages as serpent, I would like to focus largely on Spanish with a little French (and maybe Latin or Finnish?) on the side, mostly for maintenance purposes. I guess that wasn't really the original intent of the challenge, but like serpent, i find it just as impressive to read 10000 pages in 5 languages as in 1, and i want all my time spent on languages to count! Besides that, i'll leave the math to others. Numbers like the 20/200 or 30/300 are nice, or we could adjust definitions and keep it 100/100, or say 10000 pages/100 movies, but i don't know if any of that is well-balanced so someone else can decide =) And yeah, even if people don't really care about the number of books because they're actually just counting pages, round numbers are more fun to say and make it easier to explain the challenge to others. Oh and also i agree with whoever said that it's not about it just being 10 pages a day or whatever, it's the keeping that going for two years that makes it challenging, plus it's not actually that linear. Very true! 3 persons have 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 38 of 432 18 January 2014 at 10:05pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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10000 pages/100 movies was actually the classic super challenge. Quite few completed it though and most of them with some extra opportunities that others don't have, like living in the L2 country (or simply living in the US and learning Spanish) or like emk whose wife speaks French to him and the kids. Heck, I myself was lucky that I got to visit Poland twice and Malta once. Don't get me wrong, I know that tons of people choose to remain monolingual despite similar opportunities... but it was objectively easier than it will be for Emily96 with Finnish or Latin. (Also note how the only full challenges completed were in French, German, Spanish, and the classic 50/50 half challenge only adds Italian, Dutch and my Polish* to that. The rest of the languages are films/audio only.)
And yeeeees about wanting all your studying to count. That's why writing and conversations were included - I really don't think that writing 1 page is equivalent to reading 100 (or 50), but if other people want to make it count, why not =) It was also me who said it about the average pages per day thing :D I think we all had days when we didn't read even one page. *my Polish half challenge is also the only one that anyone completed in a Slavic language. Somehow even Japanese and Chinese have a higher rate. I'll be really happy if next time Cristina wins with Russian though ♥ Edited by Serpent on 18 January 2014 at 10:23pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| maydayayday Pentaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5218 days ago 564 posts - 839 votes Speaks: English*, German, Italian, SpanishB2, FrenchB2 Studies: Arabic (Egyptian), Russian, Swedish, Turkish, Polish, Persian, Vietnamese Studies: Urdu | Message 39 of 432 19 January 2014 at 1:20am | IP Logged | ||||||||
I'm in for Russian. 2 persons have 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 40 of 432 19 January 2014 at 2:21am | IP Logged | ||||||||
Not half as happy as I would be :-) 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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