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| g-bod Diglot Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5983 days ago 1485 posts - 2002 votes  Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French, German | Message 633 of 713 14 July 2012 at 8:02pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I have decided to downgrade my Japanese Super Challenge to a half one. I'm not sure if I'm supposed to record that here or in the Registration and Updates thread. After four years of being focussed on just one language I'm suddenly finding myself reconsidering my goals. Linguistically (and possibly physically too) I am looking more towards the European mainland again. I'm not sure if this is just temporary wanderlust or not. I still want some space in my life for Japanese, which is why I will still give the half challenge a good attempt, but right now I want some time to try something else as well.
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| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5335 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 634 of 713 14 July 2012 at 11:09pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
No, I will not be running two at the same time, because that would be too messy. In order to let people join inn later, I was however thinking of having a system where you need to read less for each month that passes, so that if you started on May 1st, a full challenge would be 100 books/film, in June 95, in July 90 etc. I do not know whether that can be fitted in with the bot, but it will in any event record the material covered, and then those who start later will just have to keep tabs on when they will have reached their goal. I will look at the experience from the first Super Challenge before defining a new one, so I can't say much about when it will start, but it will not be until the first one is over. Everyone are however welcome to start new part-challenges as the time passes.
Which challenge and witch language? :-)
I appreciate it if you update in the Registration and Update thread, and on the Twitter bot. Good luck with any new and exciting languages you start on .-) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| prz_ Tetraglot Senior Member Poland last.fm/user/prz_rul Joined 4860 days ago 890 posts - 1190 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, Bulgarian, Croatian Studies: Slovenian, Macedonian, Persian, Russian, Turkish, Ukrainian, Dutch, Swedish, German, Italian, Armenian, Kurdish | Message 635 of 713 15 July 2012 at 12:03am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I'd like to ask, just out of curiosity - what's your attitude towards writing down the words from the movies in your target languages? I mean, do you note a lot of words and phrases, rarely or not at all?
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| patrickwilken Senior Member Germany radiant-flux.net Joined 4534 days ago 1546 posts - 3200 votes Studies: German | Message 636 of 713 15 July 2012 at 12:55am | IP Logged | ||||||||
I regularly do it for movies. I am not fanatical about; I just note down phrases that grab my attention for some reason or words that people seem to be using a lot. I usually get about 20 words/phrases per movie, which I then add to Anki so I don't forget them later. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6598 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 637 of 713 17 July 2012 at 4:33pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I don't write them down. Not surprising given most of my "movies" are football matches;)
I might tweet when the commentator says something funny, though :D What about dialects? My dad went to Switzerland recently and he bought me two books in Swiss German <3 (one in the Bern dialect, the other in the Zürich one) Can I just count them for German? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5335 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 638 of 713 17 July 2012 at 5:11pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
Sure you can! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| kujichagulia Senior Member Japan Joined 4848 days ago 1031 posts - 1571 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Portuguese | Message 639 of 713 19 July 2012 at 7:16am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Solfrid (and others), let me get this straight.
So all I need to do is, for example with the Half Challenge, watch some films and/or read some books. I don't have to understand all of it, just do what I would normally do (with books, look up unknown words and learn them, and with films/dramas, just jot down any new words that grab my attention), and I get credit for that? Sounds too good to be true. What's the catch? Edited by kujichagulia on 19 July 2012 at 7:16am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| ZombieKing Bilingual Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 4528 days ago 247 posts - 324 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin* | Message 640 of 713 19 July 2012 at 7:23am | IP Logged | ||||||||
There is no catch! The end goal is to read 50 books and watch 50 movies (for the half challenge), but the real point I'd say, is the progress that you make in just trying to complete the challenge. I think that's the real value of this challenge, and is what Solfrid Cristin had in mind when she came up with this (awesome) idea :D Edited by ZombieKing on 19 July 2012 at 7:24am 3 persons have voted this message useful |
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