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| Luai_lashire Diglot Senior Member United States luai-lashire.deviant Joined 5828 days ago 384 posts - 560 votes  Speaks: English*, Esperanto Studies: Japanese, French | Message 185 of 202 07 September 2011 at 8:38pm | IP Logged | |||||
When I did Pimsleur for French I found it almost nauseatingly boring and eventually it became impossible to force myself to do it. If you're not into it, maybe you should try finding a different course that suits you better? There are a lot of good beginning audio or video courses for Japanese (I assume that's your target language?) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| jdmoncada Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5034 days ago 470 posts - 741 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Finnish Studies: Russian, Japanese | Message 186 of 202 07 September 2011 at 9:36pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Yes, I'm working on Japanese. I'm not ready to give up on Pimsleur completely, but my head feels so full! I am wondering if I really know all the content or not. When I repeat the lessons later in the early evening, I seem to have an easier time doing them.
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| Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4909 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German | Message 187 of 202 07 September 2011 at 10:10pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Am I correct in thinking that we finish at the end of the 11th of September? What timezone will it finish in? German time (which I think is 1 hour ahead of UK)?
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| Abdalan Triglot Senior Member Brazil abdalan.wordpress.co Joined 5046 days ago 120 posts - 194 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, French, English Studies: German | Message 188 of 202 08 September 2011 at 12:15am | IP Logged | |||||
"The challenge starts on August 1st and runs until September 12th, both at midnight your time (the bot has a grace period to accommodate participants coming from different time zones)." 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 189 of 202 12 September 2011 at 5:29pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I see the bot still seems to be going. Does the 6WC finish at midnight tonight (making it 6 weeks plus a
day), or did the cutoff take place last night? 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 190 of 202 12 September 2011 at 7:12pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Right now the bot only knows languages that have a 2-letter ISO code as that's what it
is using internally. I've been trying to fill in the gaps by inventing additional 2- letter ISO codes for e. g. ASL, Cantonese, Ancient Greek, etc. as people let me know. So Hmong was apparently still missing. For the next 6WC I will modify the bot so that it works based on 3-letter codes, then Hmong will be possible too.
No, cut off was at midnight between Sunday and Monday. I had to let the bot run an additional day for the benefit of Americans, because otherwise it would have shut down at 12am German time, which would be 6pm or even just 4pm American time and therefore unfair. However, everyone was told to stop logging at midnight / only log hours that were done before the cutoff point. Edited by Sprachprofi on 12 September 2011 at 7:31pm 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 191 of 202 12 September 2011 at 7:17pm | IP Logged | |||||
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@Sprachprofi I would like to thank you for organizing this and proving the twitter bot. This is the first time I have taken part in such a challenge and it definitely provided extra impetus for me to study more German. The last few days were tough for me to get much studying done, but at the end of the challenge I managed to do 101 hours which works out to an average of 2.4 hrs/day over the 6 weeks. That is twice what I normally do!
I'm looking forward to the next challenge! 1 person has 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 192 of 202 12 September 2011 at 7:57pm | IP Logged | |||||
3:00pm September 12th right now in Brazil. I still have an update to send :). 1 person has voted this message useful |
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