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| jdmoncada Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5034 days ago 470 posts - 741 votes  Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Finnish Studies: Russian, Japanese | Message 65 of 136 09 February 2012 at 7:47am | IP Logged | ||
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I had an interesting experience today. I've been using the Pimsleur French short course (8 lessons) as supplementary material. While I usually don't put many comments into my tweets to the bots, I wrote that one of the lessons was completely missing from the Playaway that I had been using.
I wasn't expecting anything of it, though in my professional capacity I called the company and let them know a lesson was missing. I didn't know if it was something omitted in the digital transfer or if it really was just our copy. An hour ago, I noticed I had tweets from both the Playaway and Pimsleur companies. In fact, Pimsleur has been following the #Pimsleur tag on twitter and gave a shout out tweet to the 6WC! https://twitter.com/#!/Pimsleur/status/167354871656353792 Giving a shout out to everyone who's using #Pimsleur to do the #6 Week Language-Learning Challenge! http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?T ID=26240&PN=1&TPN=1 The link goes back to the original challenge thread for last May. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6597 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 66 of 136 09 February 2012 at 10:45am | IP Logged | ||
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Any chance of improving the look of charts for people who have many tags, like me and SolfridCristin for example?
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| Budz Octoglot Senior Member Australia languagepump.com Joined 6373 days ago 118 posts - 171 votes Speaks: German*, English, Russian, Esperanto, Ukrainian, Mandarin, Cantonese, French Studies: Italian, Spanish, Korean, Portuguese, Bulgarian, Persian, Hungarian, Kazakh, Swahili, Vietnamese, Polish | Message 67 of 136 10 February 2012 at 12:37am | IP Logged | ||
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If you spend an hour writing up a language to use in some spaced repetition software... does that count as part of your hours?
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| Asiafeverr Diglot Senior Member Hong Kong Joined 6342 days ago 346 posts - 431 votes 1 sounds Speaks: French*, English Studies: Mandarin, Cantonese, Shanghainese, German | Message 68 of 136 13 February 2012 at 12:09am | IP Logged | ||
I think it's all up to you and whether you think it counts or not. The challenge is all about giving you motivation to learn the language and you are your own judge. I try to be really strick when it comes to counting time since in the end it's all about how much I learn and nobody else will judge you on the time you put in the language. 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 69 of 136 13 February 2012 at 12:15am | IP Logged | ||
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Budz, I'd say yes, because it's similar to scriptorium: you're writing a language (well,
typing) and meanwhile you may notice a lot of details that weren't apparent before. Certainly happens to me a lot.
Sorry, I'm too busy with work and the Accelerated Challenge at the moment. However, it's all Javascript, so if any forum member wants to have a go at improving this, I'll be glad to update the site with the changes. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| zenmonkey Bilingual Tetraglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6552 days ago 803 posts - 1119 votes 1 sounds Speaks: EnglishC2*, Spanish*, French, German Studies: Italian, Modern Hebrew | Message 70 of 136 15 February 2012 at 10:00am | IP Logged | ||
No major coding is needed for the tags chart - In the highcharts reference I saw that xAxis.labels.rotation option sets the label to an angle. try -45, 45 or 90 - an example is given here Edited by zenmonkey on 15 February 2012 at 10:02am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5334 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 71 of 136 15 February 2012 at 11:30am | IP Logged | ||
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How do we count films and series with both audio and subtitles in the target language again? I ask because we seem to count it differently. Some count it 100% and some count it only 50%. And perhaps some count something in between? What would you reccomend, Sprachprofi?
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| aloysius Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6240 days ago 226 posts - 291 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, German Studies: French, Greek, Italian, Russian | Message 72 of 136 15 February 2012 at 4:46pm | IP Logged | ||
Films are less dense in language than news or audiobooks so that's another reason for reducing the time. //aloysius Edited by aloysius on 15 February 2012 at 4:48pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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