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The Advanced Super Challenge! B2-C2 | ||
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| Ringer3333 Newbie United States Joined 5598 days ago 1 posts - 1 votes Studies: Spanish | Message 73 of 141 27 June 2012 at 8:10pm | IP Logged | ||
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LANGUAGE: Spanish
CHALLENGE: Advanced Super Duper (Conversation) CURRENT LEVEL: I shamefully quit studying Spanish about 6 months ago, but at my highest level I was able to understand ~95% of a regular newscast, ~95% of most telenovelas, and probably ~80% of most Mexican films, including more difficult ones like Amores Perros. I've never taken the DELE but I have looked at some of the practice tests and would estimate myself at around a B2 level. COMMENTS: I have CineLatino and Venemovies plus I watch a ton of Spanish tv, so the film portion should be no problem. Reading 200 books is going to be insane, though. I don't use twitter so I'm going to have to figure out what this twitter "bot" is all about. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| PMartin Diglot Newbie United States Joined 4585 days ago 25 posts - 29 votes Speaks: English*, Russian | Message 74 of 141 27 June 2012 at 9:53pm | IP Logged | ||
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UPDATE(I updated to Twitter but forgot that titles need to be enclosed in "" or it will show up as "unknown."): Just finished Harry Potter book 2, 473 pages! Also, listened to Voice of Russia and watched news for a total of 2 hrs (ok, I admit. As far as films go that's not a huge posting for a week) Also did some writing on Lang-8 for 354 words. Not sure, though, how long I will be able to keep up this pace, especially the reading.
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| Marikki Tetraglot Senior Member Finland Joined 5493 days ago 130 posts - 210 votes  Speaks: Finnish*, English, Spanish, Swedish Studies: German | Message 75 of 141 27 June 2012 at 10:03pm | IP Logged | ||
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LANGUAGE: English
CHALLENGE: Advanced Mega Challenge Only Writing CURRENT LEVEL: B2-C1 LANGUAGE: Swedish CHALLENGE: Advanced Super Challenge CURRENT LEVEL: B2 -C1 COMMENTS: The two months of reading Spanish books for the Super Challenge have helped me to rediscover the joys of reading so I was very happy to finally realise that the new page counting rule (100 pages = 1 book) has also made the Advanced Challenge feasible to me. The only thing I'm a little bit worried about is how I'll be able to find enough interesting films to watch in Swedish. I'll probably lower the standard there and count also films with Swedish subtitles if the audio language is Norwegian or Danish. Edited by Marikki on 28 June 2012 at 11:23am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Mani Diglot Senior Member Germany imsprachendickicht.b Joined 4903 days ago 258 posts - 323 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Swedish, Portuguese, Latin, Welsh, Luxembourgish | Message 76 of 141 28 June 2012 at 9:38am | IP Logged | ||
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Okay, so I'm in the challenge, too.
LANGUAGE: English CHALLENGE: Advanced Super Challenge CURRENT LEVEL: C1 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| LangWanderer Diglot Pro Member Australia digintoenglish.com Joined 4536 days ago 74 posts - 97 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: Korean, French, Mandarin Personal Language Map | Message 77 of 141 29 June 2012 at 9:30am | IP Logged | ||
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Update: Japanese
I started the Advanced Mega Challenge on the 22nd of this month. My first week has been very productive, thanks to a lot of reading for my thesis, but I'm looking forward to some more enjoyable reading soon! Books: 351 pages - one chapter of 読むだけですっきり分かる日本史 [Read and Easily Understand Japanese History] (32 pages) - all of 検証 日朝交渉 [Examination of Japan-North Korea Negotiations] (214 pages) - two chapters of 拉致問題を考え直す [Rethinking the Abduction Issue] (57 pages) - two chapters of 日朝関係と六者協議 [Japan-North Korea Relations and the Six-Party Talks] (36 pages) - 12 pages of other academic articles Films: 230 minutes - 新参者 [Shinzanmono, a police drama] episodes 1-5 (230 minutes) Writing: 344 words - one post on Lang-8 (861 characters. I looked at some word limits for graduate school application essays they are generally calculated at 2.5 characters per English word. That sounds reasonable.) Conversations: 0 - I totally forgot about my weekly conversation group this week! However, I don't think the 100 hours of conversation will be the killer for this challenge. EDIT: I put in the English translations of books and TV shows. Edited by LangWanderer on 29 June 2012 at 9:41am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| prz_ Tetraglot Senior Member Poland last.fm/user/prz_rul Joined 4857 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 78 of 141 29 June 2012 at 9:37am | IP Logged | ||
There are plenty of films in Swedish! 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 79 of 141 29 June 2012 at 6:19pm | IP Logged | ||
I would like to keep the date of December 31st, 2013, but I was thinking more in line of reducing the amount you would have to read proportionally. I doubt that the Twitter bot could handle that, but if you knew that you could stop at 180 or 190 instead of 200, that might make it more feasible. I have added those new entrants I have seen, and made the neccesary changes byt the way. Please let me know if I have overlooked something. Edited by Solfrid Cristin on 29 June 2012 at 6:20pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| vowelharmony Triglot Newbie United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5637 days ago 6 posts - 7 votes Speaks: English, Portuguese*, French Studies: German, Swedish | Message 80 of 141 29 June 2012 at 6:22pm | IP Logged | ||
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Great! Thanks!
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