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| microsnout TAC 2010 Winner Senior Member Canada microsnout.wordpress Joined 5469 days ago 277 posts - 553 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 281 of 656 19 May 2012 at 2:03pm | IP Logged |
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Update #8
40/100 Films "30 Vies", Season 1 Episodes 41-60 (20 episodes of 22 min each) "30 Vies", Season 1 Episodes 21-40 (20 episodes of 22 min each) "30 Vies", Season 1 Episodes 01-20 (20 episodes of 22 min each) "Toute la vérité", Season 3 Vol 1 (10 episodes of 45 min each) "Toute la vérité", Season 2 (20 episodes of 45 min each) "Toute la vérité", Season 1 (20 episodes of 45 min each) **** Now on to season 2. Reading a book. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| geoffw Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4686 days ago 1134 posts - 1865 votes Speaks: English*, German, Yiddish Studies: Modern Hebrew, French, Dutch, Italian, Russian | Message 282 of 656 20 May 2012 at 2:46pm | IP Logged |
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UPDATE - Added French movie 2
BOOKS (French) 1. Le Petit Prince FILMS, ETC. (French) 1. The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly 2. Despicable Me FILMS, ETC. (Dutch) 1. Naar Het Middlepunt Der Aarde (audiobook) 2. Naar Het Middlepunt Der Aarde (audiobook) 3. Naar Het Middlepunt Der Aarde (audiobook) 4. Naar Het Middlepunt Der Aarde (audiobook) Still working on various HP in Dutch (300 pages into book 4), French (100 pages into book 1), and German (150 pages into book 1, to provide context for reading the French). Also reading A Game of Thrones in German--just because. Maybe eventually I'll reread it in Dutch. Also working through a short Dutch audiobook I plan to finish this week. I've listened to many hours of Dutch podcasts, tv, etc., and a few hours of French, but I'm not counting them here because I'm never paying full attention. I'm counting my time as 50% in the 6WC, and it's been very helpful exposure. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Katze Diglot Newbie Germany Joined 5058 days ago 11 posts - 11 votes Speaks: German*, EnglishC1 Studies: French, Japanese | Message 283 of 656 20 May 2012 at 4:10pm | IP Logged |
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UPDATE
Film: 1. Film: InuYasha the Movie: Affections Touching Across Time (100 min) (1st May) 2. InuYasha, episodes 1 - 4 (95 min) (5th May) 3. InuYasha, episodes 5 - 8 (95 min) (7th May) NEW: 4. InuYasha, episodes 9 - 12 (95 min) (19th May) I am pretty slow, but still here. Especially with reading. At the moment, I am reading short children stories. Since they are very short, I have to read a bunch of them, before I can count them as one book. I still have to look up a lot of vocabulary and grammar, which slows me down. Well, anyway, I hope I'll have read one book by the end of the month. The movies/episodes I watch each of them twice at the moment. Once with German subtitles and after that without, but I only count the one without subtitles for the challenge. I am glad that people around me, like colleagues or internet-friends support me. They sent or gave me books for reading and help me with questions. :D 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 284 of 656 22 May 2012 at 4:57am | IP Logged |
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Update #9
45/100 Films "30 Vies", Season 2 Episodes 01-20 (20 episodes of 22 min each) "30 Vies", Season 1 Episodes 01-60 (60 episodes of 22 min each) "Toute la vérité", Season 3 Vol 1 (10 episodes of 45 min each) "Toute la vérité", Season 2 (20 episodes of 45 min each) "Toute la vérité", Season 1 (20 episodes of 45 min each) **** 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| EmailQueen Newbie Germany Joined 4587 days ago 1 posts - 1 votes | Message 285 of 656 22 May 2012 at 9:47am | IP Logged |
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LANGUAGE: Dutch
CHALLENGE: Full CURRENT LEVEL: Orbiting A1 Sorry, I'm a bit late to the party. Just makes it more challenging! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| wv girl Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5237 days ago 174 posts - 330 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Spanish | Message 286 of 656 23 May 2012 at 1:28am | IP Logged |
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Just finished my 2nd book, No Bajes al Sotano, 121 pages. I think I finished my other book, La Casa en Mango
Street, 112 pages, before the 100 page rule came into effect. Not much over 100, though. In another thread related to the Super Challenge, someone mentioned reading aloud as being helpful. I do this, too. I think it improves my pronunciation & helps get my mouth more used to speaking, which is something I need to work on. So what's next? I have another Escalofrios & 2 other books, both on an adult reading level, that I will eventually get to. The library has nothing in Spanish, except some self-learning materials. Will need to check out the recommendations on another thread for other ideas. I have been resistant to Harry Potter, but with a vacation coming up, I need something big to keep me occupied during the hot afternoons when I will NOT be on the beach. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| bluejay390 Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6276 days ago 227 posts - 259 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Mandarin, Japanese, Malay, Italian | Message 287 of 656 23 May 2012 at 5:06am | IP Logged |
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Spanish Super Challenge
2/100 films (214 minutes) 1/100 books (160 pages) Películas 1. La Isla Interior (94 minutes) 2. Girls (HBO series) (4 episodes) (120 minutes) Libros 1. Deudas De Deseo (160 pages) This challenge has been so helpful for my Spanish so far. I've been reading a little Spanish almost everyday so I'm touching the language almost everyday. :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| RMM Diglot Groupie United States Joined 5225 days ago 91 posts - 215 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Italian, Spanish, Ancient Greek, French, Swedish, Japanese | Message 288 of 656 23 May 2012 at 5:31am | IP Logged |
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UPDATE
In keeping with my attempt to learn history and languages at the same time, I watched some more documentaries, as well as did some historical reading. I watched several short documentaries from the series 100 Jahre der Countdown: Die großen Bilder des 20. Jahrhunderts that covered the years 1920-1939. All together they ran for a little under 2 hours, which I’ll count as one movie (since this is a single block of clips on YouTube.) These are great 9 minute documentaries that each focus on one single year and show film footage and interviews about one key event of that year. This is a great way to get a quick overview of the twentieth century. In addition, I watched two longer documentaries (around 45 min. each). The documentary on Eva Braun was informative and included clips from her “home movies.” The other documentary, Der Bunker: Hitlers Ende, was an excellent documentary for anyone who likes the German movie Der Untergang (Downfall). It covers the exact same subject matter and includes interviews with Traudl Junge and historian Joachim Fest, whose books served as the basis for the movie. I also read some of the Nuremberg Trial transcripts. I didn’t know quite how to deal with this material since I didn’t want to read the entire transcripts (22 volumes) or even entire volumes (usually 500-600 pages each), so I decided to divide the transcripts up by day. I read the transcripts for March 25, 1946 this time around (which dealt with Rudolf Hess’s case). I’ve been reading them for free online at: Der Nürnberger Prozeß. Fortunately, the page numbers from the actual print volumes are included at the end of each transcripts page online, so it’s easy for me to keep track of how many pages I’ve read. Since this historical material is too advanced for my German, I’ve been reading the English version first and then the German. (The English version is also online: The International Military Tribunal for Germany.) I’m very close to finishing my first 100 pages in Spanish too. RUNNING TOTAL: German (Half) Books: [“Official” book count is listed on Twitter] 1. Die Chroniken von Narnia: Das Wunder von Narnia (The Chronicles of Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew) – C.S. Lewis [172 pp] 2. Die Chroniken von Narnia: Der Ritt nach Narnia (The Chronicles of Narnia: The Horse and His Boy) – C.S. Lewis [172 pp] 3. Der Prozeß gegen die Hauptkriegsverbrecher vor dem Internationalen Gerichtshof Nürnberg – Band 10 (The Trial of German Major War Criminals: Proceedings of the International Military Tribunal Sitting in Nuremberg Germany – Part 10: 23rd March to 3rd April, 1946) – Transcripts for March 25, 1946 [82 pp] Films: 1. Die Feuerzangenbowle (1944) 2. Nazi-Diplomatie Intern: Das Auswärtige Amt in der Ära Ribbentrop / Hitlers Helfer: Joseph Goebbels - Der Brandstifter 3. Herr Lehmann (2003) 4. Der Amerikanische Freund (1977) (+ trailer and deleted scenes) 5. The Sound of Music (1965) (dubbed in German) 6. Der Untergang des alten Europa / Erster Weltkrieg: Der moderne Krieg 7. Hitlers Frauen: Eva Braun - Die Freundin / Der Bunker: Hitlers Ende 8. 100 Jahre der Countdown Teil 2 (1920 - 1939) - Die großen Bilder des 20. Jahrhunderts Italian (Half) Books: Partial book Films: 1. Correva l’anno: Processo di Norimberga - Joachim von Ribbentrop / Correva l'anno: La Seconda Guerra Mondiale - I medici del Reich Spanish (Half) Books: Partial book Films: 1. Las Quatro Plumas (1939) (The Four Feathers dubbed in Spanish) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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