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Marikki
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Speaks: Finnish*, English, Spanish, Swedish
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 Message 625 of 713
05 July 2012 at 3:14pm | IP Logged 
What comes to reading, I believe that many SC participants are still in a phase where reading is exhausting
and slow, so it's been amazing to see how the number of books is growing so steadily for so many of them! It
is very obvious that there are many dark horses waiting to get unleashed. The early bloomers should be
prepared to wipe the smug smiles off their faces ;) we aren't even close to the finishing line yet.

Seriously speaking, although I still read slowly, to me reading Spanish isn't exhausting any more. It is a
pleasure not an effort to read several hours at a time so I've already got a big big reward.
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patrickwilken
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 Message 626 of 713
09 July 2012 at 1:47pm | IP Logged 
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My reading took a big, weird jump about a month ago. The first sign was that Tintin
became "clear", thanks to some half-baked grammar study and work at lang-8, and I could
finally explain all the verb endings, partitive articles, and whatnot. But it was still
slow. A couple of weeks after that, my speed jumped.


My reading is insanely slow. I am concentrating more on watching TV/movies at the moment (without subtitles), which I find much easier. I am slowly reading a graphic novel, but my low vocabulary really makes it slow.

Knowing that my speed might suddenly improve is very encouraging.
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patrickwilken
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 Message 627 of 713
09 July 2012 at 2:09pm | IP Logged 
Solfrid I wanted to thank you for organising the challenge. It fits perfectly with my study goals at the moment (well the 100 books is a bit of stretch, but a good one I think).

Is it OK for me to not join the Twitter feed? I like doing the challenge as part of a community, and sharing (and keeping track of) my progress with others, but have no real interest in the more competitive aspects of scoring, and being in some league table with others.

I like the idea of keeping this reasonably simple. I think it makes sense if I read a +300 page book this counts for more than one book, but if I read something that's 155 pages, personally I am only going to round down and count this once, rather than as a 1.55 book, as this spoils the simplicity and beauty of the challenge for me.
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Brun Ugle
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 Message 628 of 713
09 July 2012 at 3:46pm | IP Logged 
patrickwilken wrote:
Solfrid I wanted to thank you for organising the challenge. It fits perfectly with my study goals at the moment (well the 100 books is a bit of stretch, but a good one I think).

Is it OK for me to not join the Twitter feed? I like doing the challenge as part of a community, and sharing (and keeping track of) my progress with others, but have no real interest in the more competitive aspects of scoring, and being in some league table with others.

I like the idea of keeping this reasonably simple. I think it makes sense if I read a +300 page book this counts for more than one book, but if I read something that's 155 pages, personally I am only going to round down and count this once, rather than as a 1.55 book, as this spoils the simplicity and beauty of the challenge for me.


You don't have to be on Twitter, but you should keep track of your progress somewhere. Most of us are putting our updates here. You should also mention where you are recording your updates in
this thread so everyone knows where to look to track your progress.

By the way, I'm using Twitter, but I'm also doing like you and trying to read 100 books according to the original rules. So I let Twitter count the way it wants to, but I also use my blog to keep track of the number of books according to the old rules.


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Solfrid Cristin
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 Message 629 of 713
09 July 2012 at 4:31pm | IP Logged 
I love that people answer when I am not able to!

I am in St. Petersburg and loving it!

Edited by Solfrid Cristin on 09 July 2012 at 4:33pm

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Random review
Diglot
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United Kingdom
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 Message 630 of 713
12 July 2012 at 12:26am | IP Logged 
Are you going to start one of these off every year (I know that means you'd have two
running at the same time)? I'm about to put my Spanish on ice for a while, but I'd love
to try this next year!
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dr sam gyup sal
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 Message 631 of 713
14 July 2012 at 2:41am | IP Logged 
I'm a bit late but I am in for the Super Challenge. I will be reading childrens books and watching all types of movies
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Brun Ugle
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 Message 632 of 713
14 July 2012 at 2:47pm | IP Logged 
Random review wrote:
Are you going to start one of these off every year (I know that means you'd have two
running at the same time)? I'm about to put my Spanish on ice for a while, but I'd love
to try this next year!


I can't say, but I sure hope so. It would give people who show up late a chance to join that one instead of joining this one and trying to do the challenge in half the time.

I'm considering doing Spanish too, but I know I will have to wait at least until next year to start, so a new challenge beginning then would be great for me too.


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