Vos Diglot Senior Member Australia Joined 5564 days ago 766 posts - 1020 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Dutch, Polish
| Message 105 of 195 06 May 2014 at 7:20am | IP Logged |
LANGUAGE: Spanish
CHALLENGE: Full
CURRENT LEVEL: B2
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LANGUAGE: Dutch
CHALLENGE: Full
CURRENT LEVEL: B1
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COMMENTS: Will be keeping track of my progress in my log: Vos - Aprendizaje de Lenguas
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QiuJP Triglot Senior Member Singapore Joined 5853 days ago 428 posts - 597 votes Speaks: Mandarin*, EnglishC2, French Studies: Czech, GermanB1, Russian, Japanese
| Message 106 of 195 06 May 2014 at 4:43pm | IP Logged |
LANGUAGE: Russian
CHALLENGE: Full
CURRENT LEVEL: B1/B2 (reading and writing), (A1/A2)(listening and speaking)
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LANGUAGE: French
CHALLENGE: Half
CURRENT LEVEL: B2
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LANGUAGE: English
CHALLENGE: Half
CURRENT LEVEL: C2
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COMMENTS: Hopefully, I will be keeping track of my progress in my log :link. Russian is my main objective, and I hope that I can solve most of the problems I found out from my recent trip to Russia. I wish to take certification test for Russian as well. At the same time, I am doing English because my work requires me to read documents or texts not translated into other languages. I featured out that it would be better that I make use of the challenge to install discipline to read my materials. I will be taking certification test in French within 2 - 3 years and this challenge, I hope, can prepare me for this.
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Bownly Newbie United States Joined 3854 days ago 2 posts - 2 votes Speaks: English*
| Message 107 of 195 07 May 2014 at 10:09pm | IP Logged |
LANGUAGE: Japanese
CHALLENGE: Full, baby!
CURRENT LEVEL: Uh, it's hard to say. My listening skills are abysmal, my speaking skills are nonexistent
(because I've never even held a conversation in Japanese!), but my reading skills are pretty good. So
basically, anywhere from A1-B1/B2 depending on the activity and subject matter.
COMMENTS: I feel very tempted to just read manga for the reading portion, but I have a few books on hand
that I'll hopefully get around to reading. Similarly, instead of watching anime for the movies portion, I'd rather
watch real movies or maybe branch out into watching doramas. (If anyone has any (free) recommendations,
I'm all ears!)
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oskarth Diglot Pro Member Sweden Joined 3850 days ago 1 posts - 1 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German Personal Language Map
| Message 108 of 195 09 May 2014 at 3:31pm | IP Logged |
LANGUAGE: German
CHALLENGE: Full
CURRENT LEVEL: A2/B1
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suzukaze Triglot Senior Member Italy bit.ly/1bGm459 Joined 4600 days ago 186 posts - 254 votes Speaks: Italian*, English, Spanish Studies: German, French, Swedish, Japanese
| Message 109 of 195 11 May 2014 at 9:13am | IP Logged |
I was almost forgetting to sign-up here...swamped me -.-
LANGUAGE: French
CHALLENGE: full
CURRENT LEVEL: uh, I think A1/A2 writing and B1 in reading/listening comprehension?
COMMENTS: I gathered a lot of material for my first 6WC challenge, but since I followed a rather traditional route back then (grammar exercises and audio courses) I didn't have the chance to actually use it.
LANGUAGE: English
CHALLENGE: full
CURRENT LEVEL: C2
COMMENTS: I use English everyday and with my other languages having a higher priority I hardly do anything "serious" to improve my level. I haven't picked any specific material yet, but I will focus on classic literature and film or TV series where characters don't speak with the accents I'm already used to hear.
I'm still debating whether I should join with Spanish or German so I will edit this post accordingly. Hopefully I will manage to make up my mind soon. Updates will be posted at my log.
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Lianne Senior Member Canada thetoweringpile.blog Joined 5113 days ago 284 posts - 410 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Esperanto, Toki Pona, German, French
| Message 110 of 195 12 May 2014 at 8:52pm | IP Logged |
I just discovered that this sign-up thread existed. I've been registered on the Twitter bot and participating there for 8 days already!
LANGUAGE: French
CHALLENGE: full
CURRENT LEVEL: A1
COMMENTS: Starting this challenge has really made me appreciate just how spoiled I am in terms of availability of resources. Many of the DVDs I already own have the option to switch to French audio, which is what I've been doing so far (watching the Harry Potter movies and episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer in French). I live a 15 minute walk from a library that contains mostly French materials, including children's books, adult books, movies, etc. And there are several French bookstores within walking distance.
I'm already getting so much enjoyment from watching movies in French; every word I understand is so exciting! I'm focusing on movies first, books later, since I think that's easier, though I might start introducing some reading soon, sticking with books I've already read in English, so that I'm familiar with the story.
I'll be sticking with my usual yearly log to post updates for this challenge. My 2014 log is here.
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miertje Diglot Newbie Netherlands Joined 4067 days ago 21 posts - 27 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English Studies: German, Russian, French
| Message 111 of 195 15 May 2014 at 11:11pm | IP Logged |
Allright, I'm joining in.
LANGUAGE: French
CHALLENGE: Half
CURRENT LEVEL: A2 maybe?
LANGUAGE: German
CHALLENGE: Half
CURRENT LEVEL: B1? Listening and reading are far ahead of active skills.
COMMENTS: Reading that bit in the original post about doing movies the first year, and
reading books the next, convinced me to go for it with Russian as well.
This is also my first language challenge so I'm only doing half for each.
I will write in my language log (Miertje's languages) about it.
[edit; I've withdrawn with Russian.]
Edited by miertje on 16 July 2014 at 11:45pm
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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 112 of 195 15 May 2014 at 11:14pm | IP Logged |
I finally decided to register! I had borrowed a bunch of books from the Alliance
Française at the beginning of the month so I'm already making progress. So here I am!
LANGUAGE: French
CHALLENGE: Full
CURRENT LEVEL: C1
COMMENTS: This should be a piece of cake for me to finish given my current level of
activity so I'll actually be quite strict with myself (no counting podcasts I only hald
listened to and the like). I'm hoping to read a lot of nonfiction and thankfully I have
easy access to two Alliance Française libraries to do so (otherwise it's difficult and
expensive to source). I'll throw in some fiction as well. I'll try to favor native
French movies/series as much as possible to really push my listening skills though
there are a few Anglophone series I want to catch up on.
LANGUAGE: Irish
CHALLENGE: Half?
CURRENT LEVEL: A1-A2
COMMENTS: I already watch a lot and I love it. The challenge will be reading - that's
very slow-going for me. And I need to make progress with my Irish text books to make
reading a bit easier. I anticipate a half challenge for Irish but we'll see what I'm
able to do...
LANGUAGE: Spanish
CHALLENGE: Half?
CURRENT LEVEL: B1-ish
COMMENTS: Hard to grade myself since I have very strong passive skills (mostly thanks
to French)and it's just a matter of practice for me to get to a solid B2 level. This
challenge ought to help a lot, though I'll need to accompany it with some
writing/speaking practice. I'm not working on Spanish much right now but I'm making
plans in the near future to (including a potential trip to Central America. I'll see
what time I'm willing to put in after the other two over the course of the next year
and a half. Even if I don't complete it, I figure if it gets me to choose to watch/read
something in Spanish from time to time then it's a personal success.
You can follow my log
here.
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