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| garyb Triglot Senior Member ScotlandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5205 days ago 1468 posts - 2413 votes  Speaks: English*, Italian, French Studies: Spanish | Message 33 of 42 09 April 2015 at 11:42am | IP Logged | |||||
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I wrote half a fairly tale last month. I should really finish it soon!
I love the idea for this month, I'd like to do a video (probably something music-related, relating to my recent log post about music vocabulary), but 30 minutes seems like an excessive length. I doubt I'd have the time to produce a video that long or find something to talk about for that long and keep it interesting, and I wouldn't expect anyone to watch for that long. I think, say, a 5-minute minimum would be more than enough when you consider the effort involved in preparing, recording, and editing. Then again, I don't expect to complete the audio part of the challenge anyway, I'm realising that 100 hours of recorded audio will never happen for me. So I might just opt out and do my own thing based on the audio challenge ideas. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| rdearman Senior Member United Kingdom rdearman.orgRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5234 days ago 881 posts - 1812 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, French, Mandarin | Message 34 of 42 12 April 2015 at 6:58pm | IP Logged | |||||
Don't worry if you only do 5 minutes. I put 30 minutes to encourage people to rack up the numbers.
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| rdearman Senior Member United Kingdom rdearman.orgRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5234 days ago 881 posts - 1812 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, French, Mandarin | Message 35 of 42 20 April 2015 at 12:05pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Well I finally did it! I managed to complete one of my own challenges!
I've completed a 10 minute video which shows how to make Arancini; stuffed rice balls that are coated with breadcrumbs, and fried. A lovely food which my family love, but is a bit time-consuming to make from scratch. The video took me about 3 days to produce. I found some cool public domain background music on OpSound. Opsound has all kinds of great free music which artists release in the public domain, have a listen. I used subedit to generate the sub-titles, luckily I knew how to use this software because of all the work I have done with subs2srs recently, and EMK's instructions. The single worst part was figuring how to upload sub-titles to YouTube, which doesn't support dual subtitles, e.g. English & Italian on screen at the same time. So had to break up my cool dual sub-station alpha sub-titles and upload separately. You can select either UK English or Italian when you watch it, but I think it defaults to English for some mysterious YouTube setting I couldn't figure out how to change. Lessons learned from this video. Do a script! Learn to pronounce all the words on the script correctly before you start recording, record each sentence separately and finally do more than one take. From these lessons you'll gather that the pronunciation is very bad. I'm disappointed at my own poor pronunciation, but I am happy with doing this mini-challenge. It made me lookup and learn words that I'd never used before (and probably never will again) and it was fun. So if I haven't put you off too much... Here is the video! 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| 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 36 of 42 30 April 2015 at 12:19am | IP Logged | |||||
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I entered a much more busy routine the past months and I don't have the quality time for output I used to have before. I totally left the fable behind, so no need to extend the deadline because of me. I really don't know when (or whether) I will get back on track for writing dialogues and paragraphs again at Georgian or any other target language.
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| rdearman Senior Member United Kingdom rdearman.orgRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5234 days ago 881 posts - 1812 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, French, Mandarin | Message 37 of 42 30 April 2015 at 12:40am | IP Logged | |||||
If you write one, ten word sentence each day, you'll have done 2460 words. :) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| rdearman Senior Member United Kingdom rdearman.orgRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5234 days ago 881 posts - 1812 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, French, Mandarin | Message 38 of 42 01 May 2015 at 6:02pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Hi everyone! It is a new month, and time for a new mini-challenge for you outputters!
A quick reminder of the previous challenges, then the new challenge. Remember you can do as much or as little of these as you like and you can do them in any order, or repeat them constantly, or not bother, as you like. Remember you're trying to get your output up, up, up, so why not have a go? The March Mini-challenge was: Audio Challenge: Find a short fairy tale in your target language and record yourself reading it. Written Challenge: Write a fairy tale, it can be as long or short as you want The April Mini-Challenge was: Audio and/or Written Challenge: Create an instructional video, audio dialogue, or a written manual which gives "How To" instructions. This can be on any subject from how to build a multi-hulled catamaran, to how to change a battery in a remote control. The audio/video should be at least 30 minutes long, and written instructions must be at least 750 words! Here it is the May Mini-challenge and it's all about games. Audio/Video Challenge: Describe the rules of a game, it can be a board game, football, rugby, chess, card, whatever. Written Challenge: Create a crossword puzzle completely in your target language on a 12 by 12 grid. To help you create a crossword puzzle you can use QXW which is an open source free puzzle maker. Works on Linux, Mac, and Windows and you can download it here. Didn't seem to have great support for non-Latin character sets, but you could always do it the old fashioned way with some grid paper and a pen. This is a great way to learn words, and make sentences (clues) for the game. Remember crosswords should always have words of more than three characters. Good luck everyone! 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| rdearman Senior Member United Kingdom rdearman.orgRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5234 days ago 881 posts - 1812 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, French, Mandarin | Message 39 of 42 31 May 2015 at 6:48pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Hi everyone! I'm starting a new job tomorrow, so I thought I would pop this months mini-challenge in a little early!
A quick reminder of the previous challenges, then the new challenge. Remember you can do as much or as little of these as you like and you can do them in any order, or repeat them constantly, or not bother, as you like. Remember you're trying to get your output up, up, up, so why not have a go? The March Mini-challenge was: Audio Challenge: Find a short fairy tale in your target language and record yourself reading it. Written Challenge: Write a fairy tale, it can be as long or short as you want The April Mini-Challenge was: Audio and/or Written Challenge: Create an instructional video, audio dialogue, or a written manual which gives "How To" instructions. This can be on any subject from how to build a multi-hulled catamaran, to how to change a battery in a remote control. The audio/video should be at least 30 minutes long, and written instructions must be at least 750 words! The May Mini-challenge was: Audio/Video Challenge: Describe the rules of a game, it can be a board game, football, rugby, chess, card, whatever. Written Challenge: Create a crossword puzzle completely in your target language on a 12 by 12 grid. Now for the June Mini-challenge. Vlogging / Blogging / Diaries / Journals these are all basically the same thing, a way of tracking what you've done each day, writing about your experiences, feelings, etc. The June Mini-CHallenge: Audio/Video Challenge: Do some vlogging or audio recordings about your day and your life. A quick 5-10 minutes each day would quickly build up into a significant amount of output over the course of the month! So have a go. Written Challenge: Grab a notepad, a diary, or whatever you want to write in, and keep a journal. Perhaps you could do a food diary, or just a list of cool people you met? Doesn’t matter what you write, you don't have to share it. Here are some interesting reasons for keeping a journal from Dr Philip E. Humbert, author, speaker and personal success coach.
And I'll add one more: A journal will increase your output in your target language and help to activate your learning! Good luck everyone! 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Elenia Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom lilyonlife.blog Joined 3854 days ago 239 posts - 327 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: German, Swedish, Esperanto | Message 40 of 42 31 May 2015 at 8:12pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Great challenge! Also a very challenging one. I'm not even good at keeping a journal in
English, much less in Swedish. 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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