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| 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 257 of 713 26 April 2012 at 10:39am | IP Logged | ||||||||
There is no such thing as a stupid question, only stupid answers :-) Normally you get a message from them that you have been registered. It may take a few minutes though - possibly up to 20 . 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Einarr Tetraglot Senior Member United Kingdom einarrslanguagelog.w Joined 4611 days ago 118 posts - 269 votes Speaks: English, Bulgarian*, French, Russian Studies: Swedish | Message 258 of 713 26 April 2012 at 10:56am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Thanks for the quick response! :) The thing is that round here virtually nobody uses twitter, and I was kinda lost when I got there. I now checked, and don't have a message, hmm, probably I messed up something. :D I guess if it doesn't work out with me and twitter, I'll use my blog only for the updates. :D
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| 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 259 of 713 26 April 2012 at 11:05am | IP Logged | ||||||||
I can't find your name on the list, but is is possible that it is still too soon. Try to register again - if you are already registred it will tell you so, and if not I am sure it will work this time. If it does not, then send a copy of the exact message you sent the bot to register to surrealix, and I am sure he will help you :-) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Einarr Tetraglot Senior Member United Kingdom einarrslanguagelog.w Joined 4611 days ago 118 posts - 269 votes Speaks: English, Bulgarian*, French, Russian Studies: Swedish | Message 260 of 713 26 April 2012 at 11:19am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Alright I registered again (though I'm absolutely sure I did something wrong again :D) I'm starting off watching that Finnish movie now(woo-hoo), and check out the progress on my twitter drama afterwards. A good enough hour and a half should have passed until I'm done.
Apart from that provocative thoughts of a half Russian challenge have recently emerged in my mind, but I'm somehow trying to abstain. :D Edited by Einarr on 26 April 2012 at 11:22am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Marikki Tetraglot Senior Member Finland Joined 5493 days ago 130 posts - 210 votes Speaks: Finnish*, English, Spanish, Swedish Studies: German | Message 261 of 713 26 April 2012 at 3:38pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Here it is, the perfect challenge for me!
I hope I’m still qualified for the challenge although I already have read 26 books in Spanish. I was at A1/ A2 (my own evaluation, I’m self-studying) when I begun reading the first book. Now I’m A2/ B1/B2 depending on the area (i.e. listening B1, reading B2, writing A2, conversing A2). I took a couple of private lessons in March when I was in Ecuador but otherwise reading novels and watching some TV is all I’ve done. My experience with the Ecuadorian teacher proved me that having just 26 books under my belt has already brought me to a place where my learning prospects are very bright. I already feel comfortable reading Spanish so reading 100 books more would just be a dream come true! Watching 100 films would be another thing. If I really wanted to benefit from watching Spanish films I should do it without any subtitles (even Spanish). Although my listening comprehension clearly correlates with my ever increasing reading speed and has thus developed a lot too, I’m very disappointed I understand so little of what they say in the Spanish TV series “Cuéntame cómo pasó”. I have been watching “Cuéntame cómo pasó” weekly for a long time, but always with subtitles. The 1st of May 2012 I’m going to turn the subtitles off ! Should my reading skills disqualify me from the challenge, I want anyways thank Solfrid Cristin for the excellent idea and initiative. Edited by Marikki on 26 April 2012 at 5:28pm 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 262 of 713 26 April 2012 at 4:39pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Hi All,
I'd hoped to have a new update out today, but as usual with this kind of thing it's taking longer than I'd hoped. However here's an overview of the upcoming features, and a few answers to your questions:
The next update (or maybe the next-next update, depending on how things go) I'm planning to add a '#unregister' command that will let you go back and try again. This will probably be needed by a few people as the challenge categories are getting optional variations (eg, the half challenge with only books).
You're absolutely right here. The idea behind the titles is to show more detailed statistics/logs for participants. If you click on your name, it could come up with a list of all the books you read, when you read them, and maybe other people who have read the same. (And if you update the page count every day, it could show you how long each book took to read). It's not implemented yet - there are a few more important things to get fixed first. The page/minute counting for films and books works as you said. I'll make the description a bit clearer. The thought behind it is that people who just want to count books they've read (regardless of how long/short they are) kan use the #book keyword, and don't have to worry about pages at all. Those who are concerned about long books and short books can enter their pagecount each time. While the rules say that a short book is 100 page, the twitterbot currently uses 125 - that way it's evenly scaled. While I would have liked to count individual books (ie, according to the rules if someone read three 400 page books it should still count as 3 books - the twitterbot will count it as 4). But this would rely on people using the title tags every single entry so that I could differentiate books - something which obviously doesn't happen, and unfortunately I suspect would cause more confusion than anything else.
The reason you never got a reply is that your twitter was never read by the TwitterBot. This could have several reasons. First check that you prefixed it with "@langchallenge" and that it's spelt correctly. If it was, then I suspect it has to do with the privacy rules, because I notice your account is set to private. I've tweaked the twitterbot rules a bit, so you should now have a request from the bot to follow you. If you accept, it should read your tweets and add you to the list. Let me know how this goes :). Also, thanks for all the support, and for bearing with things as they continually break and get fixed. If you've got features you'd like to see, feel free to shout them out, and if you're interested in what's currently being worked on (and what I'm planning to put in) then check the "TODO" list which I'm keeping up to date on the main page. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Einarr Tetraglot Senior Member United Kingdom einarrslanguagelog.w Joined 4611 days ago 118 posts - 269 votes Speaks: English, Bulgarian*, French, Russian Studies: Swedish | Message 263 of 713 26 April 2012 at 6:52pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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@ surrealix: Thanks mate, it all finally worked out, and I managed to get registered for the challenge, just got the confirmation message (though I got my privacy setting fixed now):) Edited by Einarr on 26 April 2012 at 6:57pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4907 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German | Message 264 of 713 26 April 2012 at 7:56pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Surrealix, I would like to request that you add Hindi to the super challenge bot, please. Also, is it possible to register for two languages? Or do we just have one main language, like the 6wc?
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