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| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6595 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 361 of 713 01 May 2012 at 3:57am | IP Logged | ||
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If there are subtitles in BCSM, this also counts :-)))
Just did 1.5 h LR. poor Dobby.... 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| vlish Newbie United States Joined 5691 days ago 2 posts - 3 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Esperanto, French | Message 362 of 713 01 May 2012 at 4:06am | IP Logged | ||
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What an interesting and fun challenge! I was kind of hemming and hawing about participating, but I have to say, the mood in here is absolutely infectious! I will join my fellow lurkers and come out of the shadows to give it a try. Maybe this is the kick in the pants I need to get going on my French studies.
Next I get to figure out Twitter! Whoo-hoo, it's 2 challenges in 1! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| sabotai Senior Member United States Joined 5880 days ago 391 posts - 489 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Japanese, Korean, French | Message 363 of 713 01 May 2012 at 6:06am | IP Logged | ||
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*Looks at clock* 12:06 AM
Crap, I'm already 6 minutes behind! Time to pop "Lola Rennt" into the DVD player! Edited by sabotai on 01 May 2012 at 6:07am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5554 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 364 of 713 01 May 2012 at 6:51am | IP Logged | ||
Snap! Although it's not my target language for this challenge, I decided to watch Lola rennt this morning too. Fun film. :) 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 365 of 713 01 May 2012 at 7:34am | IP Logged | ||
I have all 7 books in Japanese. I've already read the first two, so the third one is starting off this challenge for me. How lucky you are to have the films! How did you manage that? I would've liked to order them and others from Japan, but they usually aren't very cheap to begin with and by the time you add 25% VAT at import, it is pretty ridiculous. There's no VAT on books, so they're OK though. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| dandt Senior Member Australia regarderetlire.wordp Joined 4622 days ago 134 posts - 174 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, French | Message 366 of 713 01 May 2012 at 7:51am | IP Logged | ||
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Do the DVDs have subs on them? Or dubbing? My problem is my extensive DVD collection is 6 hours away,
so I'm stuck with whatever my housemates have, which is mainly stuff I have no interest in, or TV shows. That said, at this stage of my learning process, a tv show is beter for me as I struggle to hold on for the full length of a movie. I'm going to hit up a few 30min epsiodes of things tonight I think... Sex and the City and How I met your mother. My housemates are being really supportive and putting french subs on whenever I come and watch a movie with them, but i've been so busy lately that I haven't been able to do so. When I get my dvds down (won't be able to bring cases though) I'm going to sit down and load them all, find out hte languages and write it in pen on the disks so when I flick through I'll know immediately. Or I might just do it for french. Another language is a while away for me. People have said not to forget your libraries for books, and I suggest looking to video rental stores for DVDs too. I'm planning on joining one soon, once i find one with a good foreign language section. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Tamise Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom jllrr.wordpress.com/ Joined 5241 days ago 115 posts - 161 votes Speaks: English*, German, Dutch Studies: French, Japanese, Spanish | Message 367 of 713 01 May 2012 at 7:56am | IP Logged | ||
I got them from Amazon.co.jp when they were all offer at various points, so Y1000 or so each. We don't always get hit with the VAT in the UK - if your parcel is low value you don't have to pay import duty and sometimes get away with the VAT too, especially if a lot of the parcel is books, which aren't liable for VAT here either. The main problem with Amazon is the huge shipping costs, so I've moved to bk1.jp for books and will probably try to get Japanese films from Amazon.co.uk for most of the challenge. If you'd like to watch them, I could probably lend them to you at some point. If you're interested, let me know, and I'll give you a shout when I've finished watching them (probably by the end of next month). 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 368 of 713 01 May 2012 at 9:49am | IP Logged | ||
This challenge is for those of us who can barely read their languages, so you would not really qualify. Tell you what, you start noting down what you read and which films you see, and I'll see if I can come up with something. Just give me few days to think about it. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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