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| Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4907 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German | Message 225 of 713 23 April 2012 at 8:05pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Hi Solfrid, you left off my 1/2 challenge in Hindi from the list in the registration log.
Also, I was thinking it would be helpful to put a link to the registration log at the end of your first post on this log, for people who haven't been following the thread. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| PillowRock Groupie United States Joined 4732 days ago 87 posts - 151 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 226 of 713 23 April 2012 at 8:21pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
I expect that you'll find that you can choose French and Japanese movies if you prefer them to movies that have had a dub track added to a DVD. Those two languages happen to be two of the best represented "foreign languages" in the American DVD market. Not coincidentally, France and Japan have historically had two of the best (and most prolific) movie industries in the world, so there are a lot of movies available that are *very* good (on the level of "classics of world cinema"). Due to my cinephile side, those are probably the only two languages (other than my native English) in which I have over 50 movies in my home already (smaller numbers of movies in a bunch of other languages). Of course, for language learning purposes I know that there can be a fair amount of value in watching a dub of a movie that you already know. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Brun Ugle Diglot Senior Member Norway brunugle.wordpress.c Joined 6618 days ago 1292 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English*, NorwegianC1 Studies: Japanese, Esperanto, Spanish, Finnish | Message 227 of 713 23 April 2012 at 9:41pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
I'm doing the same thing! I've already set up a lang-8 account and have started correcting others since I think one should try to correct as many as one writes. I think we should have a name for this kind of challenge too, since there is already both a Super Challenge and a Super Duper Challenge, but I don't know what we'd call it. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| g-bod Diglot Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5980 days ago 1485 posts - 2002 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French, German | Message 228 of 713 23 April 2012 at 10:10pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I think the 100 brief stories/essays idea is a great one that would complement the other activities of the challenge very nicely indeed so I am giving it a go too!
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| hjordis Senior Member United States snapshotsoftheworld. Joined 5184 days ago 209 posts - 264 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 229 of 713 24 April 2012 at 10:12pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
I wasn't registered for my 1/2 SD in French. This is most likely because I filled out separate forms for both my languages, but put them in the same post.
I think I'll log my writing too, but whether I make it official as part of the challenge I'm not sure. Edited by hjordis on 24 April 2012 at 10:13pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5332 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 230 of 713 24 April 2012 at 10:25pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
I will amend that as soon as I can! As for your other idea it is briliant, but unfortunately the system will not allow me to edit the first post anymore :-( Edited by Solfrid Cristin on 24 April 2012 at 10:25pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| surrealix Diglot Groupie New Zealand languagechallenge.su Joined 4602 days ago 66 posts - 152 votes Speaks: English*, Swedish Studies: French | Message 231 of 713 24 April 2012 at 11:16pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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The Super Challenge sounds like a wonderful and fun (and crazy) idea, which coincided
perfectly with my own plans to continue studying Swedish. I've been reading this forum for over two years, just quitely lurking in the background. This thread is the first that's drawn me to comment! In particular, the discussion about a twitter-bot got me thinking ...
I'm not particularly enthusiastic about twitter, but I think the idea of some kind of tracking/participation boards would be really neat. I've done a couple of 6WCs, and enjoyed how well that system works - seeing the other participants and all the updates gave me the impetus to keep studying. While Cristina's registration thread is a good alternative, it also seems like a lot of manual work that could be used as study time instead. So I broke out my laptop, read the twitter API cover-to-cover, and got a basic super- challenge-twitter-bot up and running. For those of you who were interested in a twitter-bot, you can now check it out at: Super Challenge TwitterBot http://www.languagechallenge.surrealix .com/. (don't forget to remove the spaces the forum software puts in) If there's enough interest, I'll keep developing it and make sure it's fully functional before the kick-off next week. Note that this is still the first version; it's not following all the rules correctly; and I'm sure it's possible to break it, somehow. But if you have ideas, suggestions, or run into bugs, I'd love to hear. For those people without twitter accounts, or those already posting in their logs/blogs, it might be possible to automatically gather the info from other sources so that you don't have to update everything multiple times in multiple places. I'd also be interested to hear thoughts on that.
It took me around 22 hours to get this first version up and running. It'll be interesting to compare that with the 6WC bot - I dare say in the long run it's going to take the same amount of time to get this bot running with similar features. Hmm - does it count as 50 hours of language study if I write the code comments in Swedish? Edited by surrealix on 24 April 2012 at 11:18pm 5 persons have 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 232 of 713 24 April 2012 at 11:22pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
Well, how about that, less than a day after posting this, they were released! Now I can be concerned about the fact that Pottermore no longer claims that "many other languages are coming soon," but in the meantime, I'm off to the races looking up vocabulary for Harry Potter in French with my integrated e-reader dictionary. Yay! 1 person has voted this message useful |
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