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| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5009 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes  Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 161 of 202 19 August 2011 at 11:08am | IP Logged | ||
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I'm really sorry for creating chaos but I will change my account for the bot.
I have lost my password for Twitter account Cavesa1 (yes, I tried to get the password back by having it sent to my email. Didn't work, I probably used different email or I just don't know what happens). So, my new account will be called Cavesa2 and I'll add all the info from Cavesa1 to it. Please, if you have time, Sprachprofi, remove Cavesa1 from the bot if it is possible. Thanks a lot 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6470 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 162 of 202 24 August 2011 at 5:47pm | IP Logged | ||
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The bot and website have been updated!
The bot can now undo erroneous updates. Use the syntax @6wcbot #undo - to quickly undo the last of your log entries @6wcbot #undo #Arabic 30min - to undo the log entry where you studied 30 minutes of Arabic The webpage has more detailed user statistics, such as study time by date. Also, there is a neat pie graph to show your distribution of study time across languages. I spent way too much time today trying to figure out the HighCharts library for Javascript in order to generate that pie graph. Can anyone help me figure out the code for other graphs, to visualize all the new numbers? 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Abdalan Triglot Senior Member Brazil abdalan.wordpress.co Joined 5046 days ago 120 posts - 194 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, French, English Studies: German | Message 163 of 202 24 August 2011 at 7:49pm | IP Logged | ||
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Nice updates, Sprachprofi.
When I sorted the study time by date I got shocked by the quantity of minutes I spent in one of the days: more than 11 hours! Nah! I had to check that. In fact that was the sessions of 2 days added in one update... The first day of the 6wc I got my highest time of study (more than 9 hours) - I think I'm completely unable to do more than that: I had so set apart more than 16 hours to achieve such a time in the first day. My little experience says that to spend 5 hours in language learning you have to dedicate 8-10 hours of your whole day. As I said before, I decided to count the time by minutes this way: If I go to the toilets, I stop the time; if my wife starts a little chat, I stop the time; If my cell phone calls, I stop again; when the narrator stops speaking I stop my chronometer once more… …so the margin of error of the time I’m counting is < 1 minute for sure. I’m very impressed how some of us are able to do much more… like conversation during 4 hours (how manage to stop exactly there?) and listening more 6 and yet 1 hour writing and reading. Great! Congratulations! I’m very happy I already had much progress. I listened Le Petit Prince today and I understood more than 95% (I had not listened before, so could I call it “natural listening”, even though I read it in Portuguese a long time ago?). I tested myself listening during 2 hours the audiobooks I’m using for my 6wc (most of Verne) and I’m able to understand almost everything, so all effort with LR work is paying off. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Elsinore13 Groupie United States Joined 4976 days ago 41 posts - 53 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Mandarin | Message 164 of 202 25 August 2011 at 12:16am | IP Logged | ||
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I'm having difficulty access Twitter on my computer here in China. I will have to wait until I come back to update everything.
One thing I can say about this 6WC is that has definitely helped me keep motivated. Now I spend tons of time listening to native speakers - which I never thought I could ever follow and writing down characters as my doodles. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| dleewo Groupie United States Joined 5818 days ago 95 posts - 131 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Mandarin | Message 165 of 202 25 August 2011 at 12:45am | IP Logged | ||
I just noticed that too. I logged time today for two different sessions about an hour apart and one was logged under today's date and the second one under Aug 25th. I guess the app is using Germany's time as it just crossed midnight there. Derek 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| smallwhite Pentaglot Senior Member Australia Joined 5308 days ago 537 posts - 1045 votes Speaks: Cantonese*, English, Mandarin, French, Spanish | Message 166 of 202 25 August 2011 at 1:18am | IP Logged | ||
That's great, thank you! I've actually tried undoing before, by entering a negative number, but it didn't work. That was one of the things causing me stress, as it seems I have to spell tags consistently including capitalisation, that "oral" and "Oral" are counted as two different tags, I think. Anyway. I had said I would withdraw from the Challenge, but I ended up coming back :) I really enjoyed being part of it, so I decided to follow other members' advice regarding timing, and to take it easy - if I sometimes forget to time myself, I'll just leave it. In particular, I liked Sprachprofi's advice of keeping Twitter open in the browser as a tab. When I wander off from my studies, usually it's to do some surfing on the Net, and seeing that tab reminds me to stop or start the stopwatch. (Or to stop surfing because I'm supposed to be studying). And yes, for me also, to accumulate 5 hours of study time I need to dedicate 8-10 hours. Probably depends on how heavy or how boring the work you do is, and how strict or how lenient you are with discounting. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 songlines Pro Member Canada flickr.com/photos/cp Joined 5209 days ago 729 posts - 1056 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French Personal Language Map | Message 167 of 202 25 August 2011 at 8:42am | IP Logged | ||
Thanks for your work, Sprachprofi. The "undo" function will come in useful for one of my duplicated tweets. (Unfortunately, that'll bring my hours/ranking down a tad, but c'est la vie...) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6470 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 168 of 202 25 August 2011 at 11:37am | IP Logged | ||
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There are more statistics graphs now! Shiny!
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