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Emily96
Diglot
Senior Member
Canada
Joined 4426 days ago

270 posts - 342 votes 
Speaks: English*, French
Studies: Spanish, Finnish, Latin

 
 Message 57 of 195
25 April 2014 at 1:49am | IP Logged 
Just registered! I'm so excited. The table looks so neat with all those zeroes...

Language: French
Challenge: full
Level: probably a C1, at least for my comprehension
Comments: So ready for this. I've got twenty second hand books, a tv series on netflix, and a list of movies. That
should keep me going for a while until i start hearing recommendations from my fellow super challengers =)

Language: Spanish
Challenge: full ( i think i can pull it off... 20 pages and 30 min a day to complete both)
Level: somewhere in the B range. probably higher than i think thanks to transparency with french.
Comments: Spanish materials will be a little harder to get but i'll manage. I have some tv series lined up and a few
books in mind.

General comments: I'm so excited. Did i mention that? I joined the last super challenge half way through and pretty
much just played around, but now that i'm starting at the beginning i think i can do this. I'll definitely need it - i'm
graduating this year and I won't have classes to keep me going with my studies. but i think that's ok, since i'm right
at the level where massive input is what i need to get closer to fluency.

Good luck everyone!!! See you all at the finish line!
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Sprachprofi
Nonaglot
Senior Member
Germany
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Joined 6468 days ago

2608 posts - 4866 votes 
Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian
Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese

 
 Message 58 of 195
25 April 2014 at 9:04pm | IP Logged 
Hoping this will be more doable than last year's...

Language: Chinese
Challenge: Half
Level: B2

Language: Modern Greek
Challenge: Half
Level: B1
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Anya
Pentaglot
Senior Member
France
Joined 5791 days ago

636 posts - 708 votes 
Speaks: Russian*, FrenchC1, English, Italian, Spanish
Studies: German, Japanese, Hungarian, Sanskrit, Portuguese, Turkish, Mandarin
Studies: Ancient Greek, Hindi

 
 Message 59 of 195
25 April 2014 at 9:28pm | IP Logged 
Language: Spanish
Challenge: Full
Level: B1

Language: French
Challenge: Full
Level: C1

Language: Turkish
Challenge: Full
Level: A1

Edited by Anya on 25 April 2014 at 10:10pm

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milesaway
Triglot
Senior Member
Russian Federation
Joined 4329 days ago

134 posts - 181 votes 
Speaks: French, English*, Russian
Studies: Finnish, Sign Language

 
 Message 60 of 195
26 April 2014 at 4:36pm | IP Logged 
Language: Russian
Challenge: Full (or more)
Level: B2/C1 (not sure)

Language: Finnish
Challenge: Full
Level: A1

Comments: I'm doing my own personal super challenge, which started on January 1st and
ends on May 31st, 2015. I'm doing Russian for that one, with a goal of 250 books (each
book is 100 pages).
I'm excited, but nervous about Finnish. I'm optimistic that I'll finish it, but we'll
see.
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Serpent
Octoglot
Senior Member
Russian Federation
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Joined 6595 days ago

9753 posts - 15779 votes 
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Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish

 
 Message 61 of 195
26 April 2014 at 11:47pm | IP Logged 
How lovely! Do you come across a lot of Finnish in St Petersburg?
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diffuse
Newbie
United Kingdom
Joined 3865 days ago

12 posts - 21 votes
Speaks: English*
Studies: French, German

 
 Message 62 of 195
27 April 2014 at 12:02am | IP Logged 
LANGUAGE: French
CHALLENGE: Half
CURRENT LEVEL: B1-ish
COMMENTS: I read a lot better than I listen (or speak...), so I'm hoping forcing myself to watch more French stuff will help remedy that!


LANGUAGE: German
CHALLENGE: Half
CURRENT LEVEL: A2
COMMENTS: I feel really wobbly about German, so this feels even scarier than the French challenge! I may start off relatively gently with some manga, or perhaps now's the time to lay in lots of stock in graded readers...

Edited by diffuse on 27 April 2014 at 12:02am

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Expugnator
Hexaglot
Senior Member
Brazil
Joined 5164 days ago

3335 posts - 4349 votes 
Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento
Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian

 
 Message 63 of 195
27 April 2014 at 1:33am | IP Logged 
Expugnator wrote:
LANGUAGE: French

CHALLENGE: Full
CURRENT LEVEL: B2/C1
COMMENTS: My current activities already allow me to complete the reading part of the
challenge (20 pages x 350 workdays = 7000 pages /50 = 140 books). As for the video
part, I only do 10 minutes a day, which would give me roughly 39 films. It is going to
be a challenge to watch more in French.


LANGUAGE: Norwegian

CHALLENGE: Half
CURRENT LEVEL: B1/B2
COMMENTS: My current activities already allow me to complete half the reading part of
the challenge (10 pages x 350 workdays = 3500 pages /50 = 70 books). As for the video
part, I do 10 minutes a day, which would give me roughly 78 films, thus allowing me to
apply for a half challenge.


LANGUAGE: Mandarin Chinese

CHALLENGE: Half
CURRENT LEVEL: A2/B1
COMMENTS: My current activities already allow me to complete the listening part of the
challenge (I watch 10 minutes fixed but I usually find time to watch 20 minutes more
from series and I really enjoy it). On the other hand, I haven't started reading at
all. So, I'm going for the half challenge with the hope that I will feel comfortable
about reading a bit more and just watching a bit less.


I'm quoting myself because I decided to go for half challenges in my remaining
languages. I believe I can do it: I have about one hour for each each day, plus I will
soon get past the textbook stage for all of them. So, besides a full French, a half
Norwegian and a half Chinese, there will also be:

LANGUAGE: Georgian

CHALLENGE: Half
CURRENT LEVEL: B1
COMMENTS: It will be a little troublesome to find Georgian video, but I think I can
accomplish the reading part. On the other hand, there's always Radio Tavisufleba/Radio
Free Europe with audio news + script in a dozen languages (most often the same story
covered in a wide range of languages - they even have Avar and Adyghe!).

LANGUAGE: Russian

CHALLENGE: Half
CURRENT LEVEL: A2
COMMENTS: Russian will be the easiest in terms of finding material ^^ I have an amount
of stuff I'd be reading in my language anyway, which I can read in Russian.

LANGUAGE: German

CHALLENGE: Half
CURRENT LEVEL: B1
COMMENTS: Like Georgian, I'll focus more on reading. It will be easier to find reading
materials and I have a whole bunch of books I would read in Portuguese which I can then
read in German. I still have to learn to get films and TV series.
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milesaway
Triglot
Senior Member
Russian Federation
Joined 4329 days ago

134 posts - 181 votes 
Speaks: French, English*, Russian
Studies: Finnish, Sign Language

 
 Message 64 of 195
27 April 2014 at 11:03am | IP Logged 
Sadly, no. I occasionally run into a Finn now and then, but the resources are very
limited for Finnish. I bought some kids books when I was last in Helsinki, so those
should help me. I'll be going back to Finland this summer, likely Helsinki again, and
possibly Tampere or Turku, so I'll find some used book shops and get some more materials.

I've got more than enough materials in Russian, although I suppose I have it easier by
living in Russia. I go to the library every 2 weeks and take out 3-4 books to read. I
don't always finish them (such as this 2 week period, where I'm still reading the same
book. Sigh) but I've got a nice big selection to choose from. :D


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