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| piksea Newbie United States navarreslanguagelog. Joined 5067 days ago 2 posts - 3 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Turkish | Message 17 of 656 23 April 2012 at 1:31am | IP Logged |
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LANGUAGE: Turkish
CHALLENGE: Full LEVEL: B1 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Necronos Newbie United States Joined 4627 days ago 37 posts - 41 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 18 of 656 23 April 2012 at 1:35am | IP Logged |
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LANGUAGE: Spanish
CHALLENGE: Full CURRENT LEVEL: Sub A1, I've only been at this for less than a month, with only 22 hours logged COMMENTS: I'll be honest, the books that I'll be reading are going to be children's books at first, but I'm going to count every 100 pages of text as one book, I don't know how else to count them. Frankly my reading ability isn't much, and I fully expect the children's books to be difficult to begin with. I do have 'Spanish for Reading' so hopefully I'll progress fast to a more respectful level! My library has the complete Harry Potter series in Spanish, and I fully intend to read them all one day. I've also found Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, and a few others that I won't mind reading. I just need to hit that level. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| GRagazzo Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 4959 days ago 115 posts - 168 votes  Speaks: Italian, English* Studies: Spanish, Swedish, French | Message 19 of 656 23 April 2012 at 2:04am | IP Logged |
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Language: Italian
Challenge:half Current level: somewhere between B1/B2 Comments: can't wait! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| fiziwig Senior Member United States Joined 4863 days ago 297 posts - 618 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 20 of 656 23 April 2012 at 2:09am | IP Logged |
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LANGUAGE: Spanish
CHALLENGE: Full 100 + 100 LEVEL: I don't know. COMMENTS: for level, I've been studying for about a year and I guess I'm somewhere around low intermediate. I'm pretty good at reading, as long as I have a dictionary handy, I can understand maybe 25%-50% of spoken Spanish, but I'm not able to converse at all beyond parroting some memorized phrase book sentences. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| luke Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 7203 days ago 3133 posts - 4351 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Esperanto, French | Message 21 of 656 23 April 2012 at 3:00am | IP Logged |
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LANGUAGE: Spanish
CHALLENGE: Super Duper CURRENT LEVEL: Solid B1 I guess. The CEFR wikipedia web page says that's like the FSI 2+ level, which seems reasonable. I've not been tested and don't plan to be. COMMENTS: SPEAKING: I have not been practicing conversation for some time, but hope to find someone to talk to (The Duper part of the challenge). READING: A self-help book like http://www.amazon.com/Los-pasos-para-feliz-preocupaciones/dp /0307276570/ is pretty comprehensible. I've been SRSing the unknown words from it and that probably averages about 1 or 2 per page. Cien años de soledad is very challenging as are novels with older language. Caballo de Troya has a lot of unknown words, but I can get the gist of it pretty well it seems. Don't know if it's my cup of tea though. I've read about 35 pages into it. (I know the challenge hasn't started yet). LISTENING: Skills vary with source. Some educational TV is pretty comprehensible. A program like "perfiles" with non-professional speakers or a "Jerry Springer" like show is challenging to get what they actually are saying. Understanding in general which could be done with the sound off or by someone who just hears the inflections is of course there. That sort of show doesn't really interest me though, although it would be nice to be able to understand most of the things on TV. News depends on the source. Democracynow.org has a very fast speaker. With transcript and multiple listenings I can get a good idea of what they are talking about, especially if I read the English ;) WRITING: Is not part of the challenge, but tracking my progress in written Spanish with help from http://lang-8.com would be wise. GOALS: READING: I'd really like to be able to read most things by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and other top authors with good comprehension and enjoyment. LISTENING: Understand educational TV, interviews, news, etc very well. SPEAKING: Be able to speak my mind to a friendly listener with ease and correctness. WRITING: Not so challenging for Spanish, but I'd like to write naturally and correctly. On the CEFR scale, I'd like to be a solid C1 by the time the challenge completes. LOG May 6, 2012: I'm sure I will need to note this somewhere else later, but for now: Children's Books: One about Preita y Joaquin. ¡Gol de Federico! ¡No te rindas, Josefina! ¡Qué desastre! ¿Dónde está el oso? (read about 10 times - pictures and animals) El Principito Audiobooks: El Principito - counts as 1 movie. Counts: 2 books 1 movie Actual 5 children's books 1 book. 1 audiobook. For what it's worth, I'm reading more challenging stuff as well (Cien años de soledad), but will put those counts in as they are completed. Children's books have some new vocabulary, are pleasant to read, and get me on the scoreboard so I don't become overwhelmed and quit the task as "impossible". Log 5/8/12 1 more children's book. El nino sin nombre. Audiobook - La Casa de Mango Street. Counts: 2 books 2 movies Actual 6 children's books 1 regular book. 2 audiobooks. Log 5/14/12 Listened to 12 hours of 100 Years of Solitude. = 8 movies Counts: 2 books 10 movies Actual 6 children's books 1 regular book. 3 audiobooks. Log 5/14/12 Listened to 6 hours of 100 Years of Solitude. = 4 movies Watched episode of Redes and HBO Latino = 1 movie. Counts: 2 books 15 movies Actual 6 children's books 1 regular book. 3 audiobooks. 1 "movie" 6/16/12 I've been averaging about 4.5 hours of podcasts or audiobooks per week. Edited by luke on 17 June 2012 at 2:17am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| microsnout TAC 2010 Winner Senior Member Canada microsnout.wordpress Joined 5469 days ago 277 posts - 553 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 22 of 656 23 April 2012 at 3:07am | IP Logged |
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LANGUAGE: French
CHALLENGE: Full 100 + 100 + 1000 LEVEL: B1/B2 (no recent evaluation) COMMENTS: 100 films, 100 books and 1000 hours of audio listening practice. I would like to watch 100 different movies but usually watch movies multiple times so I will consider repeated watching as just listening practice along with podcasts and other audio sources. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| silverpolyglot Diglot Groupie Canada silverchallanges.wor Joined 4912 days ago 42 posts - 72 votes Speaks: English*, Somali Studies: French, Swedish, Mandarin | Message 23 of 656 23 April 2012 at 3:14am | IP Logged |
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LANGUAGES: Swedish and French
CHALLENGE: Full Challenge for French (100/100), Half Challenge (50/50) for Swedish. CURRENT LEVEL: A1 in French, Below A1 in Swedish. COMMENTS: I'm excited to start!! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
 emk Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5530 days ago 2615 posts - 8806 votes Speaks: English*, FrenchB2 Studies: Spanish, Ancient Egyptian Personal Language Map | Message 24 of 656 23 April 2012 at 4:00am | IP Logged |
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LANGUAGE: French
CHALLENGE: SUPER DUPER, but I'll personally count books as a success if I reach 25 or 50. CURRENT LEVEL: B1, according to a DELF tutor. Optimistically aiming for DELF B2 by mid- June. COMMENTS: - Films: I plan to start with season 2 and 3 of Engrenages, and the French version of Buffy. Maybe some Caillou with the kids, too, plus some podcasts and Internet news radio. French audio, French subtitles as needed. - Books: My personal goal here is actually 25 or 50 books, depending on difficulty, but I don't want to mess up Solfrid's bookkeeping with any 62.5% nonsense. ;-) I tend to pick hard books, and I want this part of the challenge to be a fun stretch, not a grim duty that eats my life. - Conversation: I speak French at home, so there's no point in tracking the hours. We'll reach 100 hours in a month or two. Before the end of the challenge, I would like to be able to pass either DELF B2 or DALF C1. Thank you to Solfrid for organizing this Super Challenge! 1 person has voted this message useful |
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