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Stelle Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Canada tobefluent.com Joined 4143 days ago 949 posts - 1686 votes Speaks: French, English, Spanish Studies: Tagalog	Message 73 of 87 25 April 2015 at 5:08pm \| IP Logged
	Spanish I watched 2 episodes of El Internado this week (3x09 and 4x01) - and it's getting SOOOOO good! The twists and turns, while a bit silly at times, keep catching me by surprise. I really wish that I didn't have to work so that I could just binge watch the whole series in a few weeks. I walked to work four days this week, which meant lots of time for listening to podcasts: Fallo de Sistema - Conexo: all about alternate realities, with clips from movies and video games, and an interview with a Spanish young adult author. I've put his book (Conexo) on my to-read list. Nómadas - Kioto: travel documentary about Kyoto, Japan. Very interesting! Fallo de Sistema - Miedos y aquilarres: all horror, nightmares and blood in this episode! Another interview with a Spanish author about his novel El libro de Ivo, but I don't really like gory books, so I don't expect that I'll ever read it. Futuro abierto - Ucrania: report on what's going on right now in the Ukraine. Radio ambulante - El otro, el mismo: entertaining and amusing story about two men with the same name, and many other things in common. Catástrofe ultravioleta - Morgan: fascinating episode about orcas. I really love this podcast! This is the most listening that I've done in one week in a very, very long time! I'm not quite at the halfway point for films in the Super Challenge, since I'm only counting movies or TV shows, but I know that if I'd counted all of my radio shows as films, I'd be far past 100 by now. I also read a chapter or two from El asesino de la Vía Láctea every day. I'm really enjoying it! I'm about 40 pages from done, and will post an updated list of books for 2015 when I finish. I also had my weekly hour-long chat with Auri on Sunday morning. I've decided to put all other tutoring on hold for now. I'm going to decide this summer whether or not I really want to sit the C1 exam. I'm actually pretty confident that I could succeed, but I'm not sure that I really care enough to do it. We'll see! Tagalog I let Tagalog slide this week. I only worked on it last weekend - I didn't even spend 5 minutes on it during the week! Oops! In six days, I'm going to hit the one-year point of studying Tagalog. I'm nowhere near where I expected to be by this point. I'm going to carry on with my slow, unstressful approach to Tagalog, doing it whenever the mood strikes. The truth is that this language is less important to me than other things. I've decided that it's ok to admit that, and just keep learning it unhurriedly. 3 persons have voted this message useful
Clarity Groupie United States Joined 3521 days ago 85 posts - 107 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish	Message 74 of 87 28 April 2015 at 11:52pm \| IP Logged
	Another addictive Spanish TV series! Where have they been all my life. I'll keep El Internado on my radar. You haven't steered me wrong on any of these shows. 1 person has voted this message useful
1e4e6 Octoglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4289 days ago 1013 posts - 1588 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Norwegian, Dutch, Swedish, Italian Studies: German, Danish, Russian, Catalan	Message 75 of 87 29 April 2015 at 12:18am \| IP Logged
	If you want a fun series, more like funny because it is ridiculous, I recommend sometihng that I found this week: Pesadilla en la cocina (Alberto Chicote) It is basically one of Spain's best chefs going to messed up restaurants and fixing them, very similar to Gordon Ramsey style. It is also comical because his caracter is like Ramsey's, cussing a lot, and overexaggerating and is very animated. It has already 4 seasons. 5 persons have voted this message useful
Clarity Groupie United States Joined 3521 days ago 85 posts - 107 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish	Message 76 of 87 29 April 2015 at 9:44pm \| IP Logged
	Thanks for the tip, 1e4e6! It sounds like a hoot. I love me some good melodrama! 1 person has voted this message useful
Stelle Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Canada tobefluent.com Joined 4143 days ago 949 posts - 1686 votes Speaks: French, English, Spanish Studies: Tagalog	Message 77 of 87 30 April 2015 at 1:24pm \| IP Logged
	Thanks for the suggestion, 1e4e6! That sounds fun! Book Talk I finished reading El Asesino de la Vía Láctea. It was a very easy read, and a lot of fun! In the end, it was ridiculously predictable - so much so that I eliminated the murderer as a suspect early on because it was much too obvious. Still, it was an enjoyable book, and lots of fun to revisit the places that I was walking almost exactly a year earlier. My next book will be the fourth Harry Potter, I think. Books - 2015 Spanish Sinsajo (young adult novel) Días pasados - Walking Dead tomo 1 (comic/graphic novel) Guía para un perro feliz (non-fiction book) El Sótano (novel) El Asesino de la Vía Láctea (novel) English Walking Dead Volume 20 (comic/graphic novel) Walking Dead Volume 21 (comic/graphic novel) The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (novel) French Chambre 426 (novel) Le Quartier des oubliés (novel) 1 person has voted this message useful
Clarity Groupie United States Joined 3521 days ago 85 posts - 107 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish	Message 78 of 87 12 May 2015 at 2:38am \| IP Logged
	Stelle, I recently watched a documentary on the Camino de Santiago. I'm even more impressed that you completed the whole trip from France! It looked really tough! 1 person has voted this message useful
Stelle Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Canada tobefluent.com Joined 4143 days ago 949 posts - 1686 votes Speaks: French, English, Spanish Studies: Tagalog	Message 79 of 87 11 July 2015 at 11:22pm \| IP Logged
	Errrr...hello? I'm back. No big story to my absence...I just got busy and let my languages slide. Over the past few months, I've done very little related to languages. I've kept up with 3-4 Skype sessions per month in Spanish and read about 175 pages of the fourth Harry Potter book, but that's pretty much it. I watched lots of science fiction movies and binge-read a few young adult novels in English. That was fun. I also thought very briefly about trying the Esperanto course on Duolingo, but quickly decided against it. Anyway, I'm back. If I want to win the Super Challenge, I have exactly 25 weeks to read 1465 pages and watch 3987 minutes in Spanish. Time to get to work! Books - 2015 Spanish Sinsajo (young adult novel) Días pasados - Walking Dead tomo 1 (comic/graphic novel) Guía para un perro feliz (non-fiction book) El Sótano (novel) El Asesino de la Vía Láctea (novel) English Walking Dead Volume 20 (comic/graphic novel) Walking Dead Volume 21 (comic/graphic novel) The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (novel) The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up (non-fiction / self-help) Anna Dressed in Blood (young adult novel) Girl of Nightmares (young adult novel) Lost in the Jungle (travel / adventure / disaster memoir) The Walled City (young adult novel) Undertow (young adult novel) French Chambre 426 (novel) Le Quartier des oubliés (novel) Edited by Stelle on 11 July 2015 at 11:24pm 1 person has voted this message useful
James29 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5374 days ago 1265 posts - 2113 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French	Message 80 of 87 12 July 2015 at 12:12am \| IP Logged
	Welcome back. Has your Spanish suffered much due to limited use over the past few months? 1 person has voted this message useful

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Stelle Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Canada tobefluent.com Joined 4143 days ago 949 posts - 1686 votes Speaks: French, English, Spanish Studies: Tagalog	Message 73 of 87 25 April 2015 at 5:08pm \| IP Logged
	Spanish I watched 2 episodes of El Internado this week (3x09 and 4x01) - and it's getting SOOOOO good! The twists and turns, while a bit silly at times, keep catching me by surprise. I really wish that I didn't have to work so that I could just binge watch the whole series in a few weeks. I walked to work four days this week, which meant lots of time for listening to podcasts: Fallo de Sistema - Conexo: all about alternate realities, with clips from movies and video games, and an interview with a Spanish young adult author. I've put his book (Conexo) on my to-read list. Nómadas - Kioto: travel documentary about Kyoto, Japan. Very interesting! Fallo de Sistema - Miedos y aquilarres: all horror, nightmares and blood in this episode! Another interview with a Spanish author about his novel El libro de Ivo, but I don't really like gory books, so I don't expect that I'll ever read it. Futuro abierto - Ucrania: report on what's going on right now in the Ukraine. Radio ambulante - El otro, el mismo: entertaining and amusing story about two men with the same name, and many other things in common. Catástrofe ultravioleta - Morgan: fascinating episode about orcas. I really love this podcast! This is the most listening that I've done in one week in a very, very long time! I'm not quite at the halfway point for films in the Super Challenge, since I'm only counting movies or TV shows, but I know that if I'd counted all of my radio shows as films, I'd be far past 100 by now. I also read a chapter or two from El asesino de la Vía Láctea every day. I'm really enjoying it! I'm about 40 pages from done, and will post an updated list of books for 2015 when I finish. I also had my weekly hour-long chat with Auri on Sunday morning. I've decided to put all other tutoring on hold for now. I'm going to decide this summer whether or not I really want to sit the C1 exam. I'm actually pretty confident that I could succeed, but I'm not sure that I really care enough to do it. We'll see! Tagalog I let Tagalog slide this week. I only worked on it last weekend - I didn't even spend 5 minutes on it during the week! Oops! In six days, I'm going to hit the one-year point of studying Tagalog. I'm nowhere near where I expected to be by this point. I'm going to carry on with my slow, unstressful approach to Tagalog, doing it whenever the mood strikes. The truth is that this language is less important to me than other things. I've decided that it's ok to admit that, and just keep learning it unhurriedly. 3 persons have voted this message useful
Clarity Groupie United States Joined 3521 days ago 85 posts - 107 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish	Message 74 of 87 28 April 2015 at 11:52pm \| IP Logged
	Another addictive Spanish TV series! Where have they been all my life. I'll keep El Internado on my radar. You haven't steered me wrong on any of these shows. 1 person has voted this message useful
1e4e6 Octoglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4289 days ago 1013 posts - 1588 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Norwegian, Dutch, Swedish, Italian Studies: German, Danish, Russian, Catalan	Message 75 of 87 29 April 2015 at 12:18am \| IP Logged
	If you want a fun series, more like funny because it is ridiculous, I recommend sometihng that I found this week: Pesadilla en la cocina (Alberto Chicote) It is basically one of Spain's best chefs going to messed up restaurants and fixing them, very similar to Gordon Ramsey style. It is also comical because his caracter is like Ramsey's, cussing a lot, and overexaggerating and is very animated. It has already 4 seasons. 5 persons have voted this message useful
Clarity Groupie United States Joined 3521 days ago 85 posts - 107 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish	Message 76 of 87 29 April 2015 at 9:44pm \| IP Logged
	Thanks for the tip, 1e4e6! It sounds like a hoot. I love me some good melodrama! 1 person has voted this message useful
Stelle Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Canada tobefluent.com Joined 4143 days ago 949 posts - 1686 votes Speaks: French, English, Spanish Studies: Tagalog	Message 77 of 87 30 April 2015 at 1:24pm \| IP Logged
	Thanks for the suggestion, 1e4e6! That sounds fun! Book Talk I finished reading El Asesino de la Vía Láctea. It was a very easy read, and a lot of fun! In the end, it was ridiculously predictable - so much so that I eliminated the murderer as a suspect early on because it was much too obvious. Still, it was an enjoyable book, and lots of fun to revisit the places that I was walking almost exactly a year earlier. My next book will be the fourth Harry Potter, I think. Books - 2015 Spanish Sinsajo (young adult novel) Días pasados - Walking Dead tomo 1 (comic/graphic novel) Guía para un perro feliz (non-fiction book) El Sótano (novel) El Asesino de la Vía Láctea (novel) English Walking Dead Volume 20 (comic/graphic novel) Walking Dead Volume 21 (comic/graphic novel) The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (novel) French Chambre 426 (novel) Le Quartier des oubliés (novel) 1 person has voted this message useful
Clarity Groupie United States Joined 3521 days ago 85 posts - 107 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish	Message 78 of 87 12 May 2015 at 2:38am \| IP Logged
	Stelle, I recently watched a documentary on the Camino de Santiago. I'm even more impressed that you completed the whole trip from France! It looked really tough! 1 person has voted this message useful
Stelle Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Canada tobefluent.com Joined 4143 days ago 949 posts - 1686 votes Speaks: French, English, Spanish Studies: Tagalog	Message 79 of 87 11 July 2015 at 11:22pm \| IP Logged
	Errrr...hello? I'm back. No big story to my absence...I just got busy and let my languages slide. Over the past few months, I've done very little related to languages. I've kept up with 3-4 Skype sessions per month in Spanish and read about 175 pages of the fourth Harry Potter book, but that's pretty much it. I watched lots of science fiction movies and binge-read a few young adult novels in English. That was fun. I also thought very briefly about trying the Esperanto course on Duolingo, but quickly decided against it. Anyway, I'm back. If I want to win the Super Challenge, I have exactly 25 weeks to read 1465 pages and watch 3987 minutes in Spanish. Time to get to work! Books - 2015 Spanish Sinsajo (young adult novel) Días pasados - Walking Dead tomo 1 (comic/graphic novel) Guía para un perro feliz (non-fiction book) El Sótano (novel) El Asesino de la Vía Láctea (novel) English Walking Dead Volume 20 (comic/graphic novel) Walking Dead Volume 21 (comic/graphic novel) The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (novel) The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up (non-fiction / self-help) Anna Dressed in Blood (young adult novel) Girl of Nightmares (young adult novel) Lost in the Jungle (travel / adventure / disaster memoir) The Walled City (young adult novel) Undertow (young adult novel) French Chambre 426 (novel) Le Quartier des oubliés (novel) Edited by Stelle on 11 July 2015 at 11:24pm 1 person has voted this message useful
James29 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5374 days ago 1265 posts - 2113 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French	Message 80 of 87 12 July 2015 at 12:12am \| IP Logged
	Welcome back. Has your Spanish suffered much due to limited use over the past few months? 1 person has voted this message useful