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| BAnna Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4623 days ago 409 posts - 616 votes  Speaks: English*, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Turkish | Message 393 of 766 10 June 2014 at 3:29am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Hope things settle down for you, dear Solfrid Cristina. I intended to devote the weekend to Russian, but real life interfered, as it tends to do. Ah well.
Russian: currently 30 minutes to read 5 pages of a very basic graded reader (15 actual pages, but the type is large and doesn't cover the entire page) and watched a TV comedy without subtitles (probably understood 25%). Things can only improve from here. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| surrealix Diglot Groupie New Zealand languagechallenge.su Joined 4605 days ago 66 posts - 152 votes Speaks: English*, Swedish Studies: French | Message 394 of 766 10 June 2014 at 3:58am | IP Logged | ||||||||
Yes.
Good spotting, the calculation was done differently. I've changed it so they're both the same now, it should be less confusing. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Stelle Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Canada tobefluent.com Joined 4145 days ago 949 posts - 1686 votes Speaks: French*, English*, Spanish Studies: Tagalog | Message 395 of 766 10 June 2014 at 11:38am | IP Logged | ||||||||
I'd like to say a huge THANK YOU for the twitter bot. It's so easy to keep track of minutes, and very motivating to see my count go up (very slowly - I'm definitely in "marathon" mode rather than sprint). I really appreciate all of the hard work that's gone into this challenge! It's really not a big deal, since I don't worry much about the rankings page, but I'm wondering if I've missed something about streaks. I've updated 5 times so far (May 11, 17, 24, 31, June 7), logging 5 films and 8 books. There's nothing next to my name on the rankings page. (I'm Stephanie / twitter handle @tobefluent). Am I missing something? Is it because some weeks I log less than a full book or movie? Or have I not met the minimum number of updates yet? Also - if it's not too much trouble, I wonder if it would be possible to put some kind of a legend on the page, so that we can see what each symbol means. Happy reading/watching, everyone! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Stelle Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Canada tobefluent.com Joined 4145 days ago 949 posts - 1686 votes Speaks: French*, English*, Spanish Studies: Tagalog | Message 396 of 766 10 June 2014 at 11:42am | IP Logged | ||||||||
Wow, that's *a lot* of stuff going on. Take care of yourself and your family! I hope that things settle down soon! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| surrealix Diglot Groupie New Zealand languagechallenge.su Joined 4605 days ago 66 posts - 152 votes Speaks: English*, Swedish Studies: French | Message 397 of 766 10 June 2014 at 11:50am | IP Logged | ||||||||
Thanks :). It's great seeing everyone using it, it really makes the time put into it seem worthwhile. (completely aside from the fact it's helping me learn a language too ;-) )
The "week" ends sometime on a Sunday, the exact time depends on your time zone. It looks like May 11th and 17th were both counted as the same week. If you look at your user page you can see that the streak badge is at 4 weeks (and there's no tick - so nothing has been counted for this week yet). If you report something before Friday, and then again next week, you'll get the badge on the front page.
Yes, I think this is a good idea, although I'm about to pack up and move halfway across the world, so I may not have the time to do it for a while! Edited by surrealix on 10 June 2014 at 11:51am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Stelle Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Canada tobefluent.com Joined 4145 days ago 949 posts - 1686 votes Speaks: French*, English*, Spanish Studies: Tagalog | Message 398 of 766 10 June 2014 at 12:23pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
Thank you! I didn't even know I had a user page. Ha! And now I see that this morning a streak badge appeared next to my name on the main page. Good luck with the move! :) Edited by Stelle on 10 June 2014 at 12:25pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| VivianJ5 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 4263 days ago 81 posts - 133 votes Speaks: English*, French | Message 399 of 766 10 June 2014 at 1:30pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
Where to, Surrealix? I'm also moving soon, from Netherlands back to the U.S., so the craziness is about to begin ;-). Have done this a few times already, so nothing surprising, but still an amazing amount of stuff to do for an international move. So much fun... 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| druckfehler Triglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4869 days ago 1181 posts - 1912 votes Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Korean Studies: Persian | Message 400 of 766 11 June 2014 at 12:28am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I have to say, the Super Challenge really doesn't seem as super this time around. It's strange to see that some participants are nearing half a challenge after only 40 days in a challenge which is supposed to run for over a year. But it's still great to see so much activity already (and I'm glad the number of pages were cut in half).
All the badges are very cool. The only thing I think is given away a bit too freely are the stars. I thought we get a star for every 25 books + 25 movies, not one for each. I really like that the challenge focuses on both reading and listening skills and on improving those at the same time. Could that be reflected in the star system? Or is everyone happy with that as it is? 1 person has voted this message useful |
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