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| appelduvide Triglot Newbie United Kingdom Joined 4758 days ago 17 posts - 24 votes Speaks: English*, French, Latin Studies: Ancient Greek, Hungarian, German Studies: Sámi | Message 145 of 713 16 April 2012 at 9:26pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I think I will finally emerge from my silent lurking to take part in this challenge (in Hungarian.) The 100 films should be relatively easy for me as some of my favourite directors are Hungarian, and I know at least a few famous Hungarian authors so hopefully I can find some books. Luckily, I have another week off school now so I can use the time to brush up on my Hungarian! I may start a log, but I've never really been into blogging, although I suspect there are people on here who would take interest in reading about someone learning Hungarian...
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| mashmusic11235 Groupie United States Joined 5497 days ago 85 posts - 122 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Cantonese | Message 146 of 713 16 April 2012 at 9:38pm | IP Logged | |||||
I saw "May" and read it as "March." Just goes to show that one's native language isn't always reliable, all the time -.- 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6907 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 147 of 713 16 April 2012 at 11:51pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I believe I have access to 100 films for Mandarin and Cantonese (in my own collection!), but think it's quite impossible to find 100 books that I can "read" (unless I'd limit myself to children's books in the vein of Cat in the Hat). For, say, Russian - it's quite the opposite. A lot of books at the library (for children and adults) and online, but where am I going to find 100 films (that I don't have to watch on the computer)? Or even ten (that I will watch ten times each?). It's still a very interesting challenge, though! Edited by jeff_lindqvist on 17 April 2012 at 10:25am 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| dandt Senior Member Australia regarderetlire.wordp Joined 4622 days ago 134 posts - 174 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, French | Message 148 of 713 17 April 2012 at 1:06am | IP Logged | |||||
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I was just thinking about the reading portion tonight and, while I knew I would struggle, I really started to realise
how difficult it will be. Ahh! I don't read fiction much in my native language, although as a law student who is also studying English literature I do a TON of reading, just without realising! It's not uncommon to be set 700 pages reading a week. IF ONLY MY FRENCH WAS GOOD ENOUGH TO READ MY LAW TEXTBOOKS. although i doubt they'd be available in french. Not only do I doubt it, I know it. I've pretty much decided on taking the shakespeare subject if I do an English literature one next semester, so perhaps I'll work through some parts of french versions. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| piksea Newbie United States navarreslanguagelog. Joined 5067 days ago 2 posts - 3 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Turkish | Message 149 of 713 17 April 2012 at 1:06am | IP Logged | |||||
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I too have been inspired to emerge. I will be doing Turkish.
Like many others, I set up a blog. The link is on my profile. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
 Yashinka Diglot Pro Member SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5207 days ago 29 posts - 37 votes Speaks: Swedish*, EnglishC2 Studies: Japanese, German, Italian Personal Language Map | Message 150 of 713 17 April 2012 at 10:50am | IP Logged | |||||
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I'm also going to take part of this exciting challenge. I'm hoping that it will serve as that final determined push for me to break through that intermediate wall I'm facing in Japanese. I'm going to try to constantly have a book at hand to make use of the momentum in the best possible way! Thank you for suggesting this motivational challenge, you have my respect!
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| Einarr Tetraglot Senior Member United Kingdom einarrslanguagelog.w Joined 4611 days ago 118 posts - 269 votes Speaks: English, Bulgarian*, French, Russian Studies: Swedish | Message 151 of 713 17 April 2012 at 1:59pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I couldn't resist the challenge too, and picked up Danish after I spent some hard time wo(a)ndering if it should be it or Russian.
So like many of the fellow-members I also set up my own blog: http://einarrslanguagelog.wordpress.com/ (for some reason I cannot make i clickable -> there's the clickable version in my profile anyway) Hope it's fine, it's my first ever blog expirience whatsoever. :) I really hope that book wise everything should be fine in the Nordic library, so I won't need to mark down to the smaller version of the challenge. :D Edited by Einarr on 17 April 2012 at 2:01pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| geoffw Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4686 days ago 1134 posts - 1865 votes Speaks: English*, German, Yiddish Studies: Modern Hebrew, French, Dutch, Italian, Russian | Message 152 of 713 17 April 2012 at 2:03pm | IP Logged | |||||
While EBooks might not be ideal, remember that gutenberg.org has, for free, a decent number of non-english works, including 42(?) Danish books. 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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