Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6597 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 33 of 195 21 April 2014 at 3:13pm | IP Logged |
Radioclare wrote:
COMMENTS: I have a big pile of Croatian books that I've deliberately not allowed myself to touch this year so I could save them for the challenge. Think I may struggle with the films though as I don't watch them even in English. |
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The Deutsche Welle stuff you watch definitely counts for films! I'm also going to struggle completing the audio part in Croatian though...
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BOLIO Senior Member United States Joined 4658 days ago 253 posts - 366 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish
| Message 34 of 195 21 April 2014 at 3:47pm | IP Logged |
LANGUAGE: Spanish
CHALLENGE: Full
CURRENT LEVEL: A1
Wow. 100 books/ 100 films. Even if I were to fall just short of the challenge...I still win. This will be a massive amount of very good exposure for me. Thanks for letting me play.
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Bao Diglot Senior Member Germany tinyurl.com/pe4kqe5 Joined 5766 days ago 2256 posts - 4046 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Spanish, Japanese, Mandarin
| Message 35 of 195 21 April 2014 at 8:17pm | IP Logged |
LANGUAGE: French
CHALLENGE: HALF
CURRENT LEVEL: around B1
LANGUAGE: Spanish
CHALLENGE: HALF
CURRENT LEVEL: around B1
LANGUAGE: Japanese
CHALLENGE: HALF
CURRENT LEVEL: I wish I knew
Yup. I'll try.
ETA: As I started watching stuff in Chinese again yesterday I realized it's better to count it than let it demotivate me. Reading's going to be a pain though. Maybe I'll read the first Harry Potter a dozen times.
LANGUAGE: Mandarin Chinese
CHALLENGE: HALF
CURRENT LEVEL: super low
Edited by Bao on 01 May 2014 at 5:22pm
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Ninibo Diglot Groupie Germany Joined 4016 days ago 88 posts - 116 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: Mandarin
| Message 36 of 195 21 April 2014 at 8:25pm | IP Logged |
LANGUAGE: Chinese
CHALLENGE: Full
CURRENT LEVEL: B something, more B1
COMMENTS: Really looking forward to this!
[edit] I forgot French, sorry:
LANGUAGE: French
CHALLENGE: Half
CURRENT LEVEL: A something
[edit2] My twitter handle is @Goldfishfactory
Edited by Ninibo on 01 May 2014 at 12:29pm
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dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4665 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English*, Italian*, French Studies: Japanese
| Message 37 of 195 21 April 2014 at 10:25pm | IP Logged |
LANGUAGE: Japanese
CHALLENGE: Full
LEVEL: JLPT N4. Listening around A1. Reading around A2.
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Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5009 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian
| Message 38 of 195 22 April 2014 at 1:14pm | IP Logged |
LANGUAGE: Spanish
CHALLENGE:Full
LEVEL: passive B1/B2, active A1
COMMENTS: Shrinking "books" to just 50 pages is comfortable and it will be a nice piece of motivation when I'll have completed the reading part. But it is not enough. I'll be aiming for twice as much, like the original 10 000 pages ideally. And after, I may turn it into another ASCR (advanced super challenge residual, basically getting it slowly to the 200 movies and 20 000 pages after the real SC is finished). I'll start with watching to get my listening up and ready for my internship in Spain (where I hope my active skills will go up fast so that I can spend my time in the lab without bothering anyone with English).
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LANGUAGE: German
CHALLENGE: Full
LEVEL:A1 or something like that. Perhaps less, now that I am focusing on Spanish.
COMMENTS: I'll aim higher again but German is much more difficult. I don't have the huge comprehension advantage of knowing a similar language. And I'll start when I am ready, that means further with Spanish and after review and progress in German as well. I think first half of the 20 months is likely to be Spanish SC, second German SC.
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geoffw Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4688 days ago 1134 posts - 1865 votes Speaks: English*, German, Yiddish Studies: Modern Hebrew, French, Dutch, Italian, Russian
| Message 39 of 195 22 April 2014 at 2:09pm | IP Logged |
Last time, I completed the equivalent of over 2 full challenges (according to 2014-2015 rules). I also improved my
reading speed in several languages a great deal. So 3 total challenges likely is a stretch, but might not be
impossible.
Challenges:
LANGUAGE: Russian
CHALLENGE: Full
CURRENT READING/LISTENING LEVEL: A1/A2
LANGUAGE: Italian
CHALLENGE: Half
CURRENT READING/LISTENING LEVEL: B1
In keeping with the spirit of Cristina's challenge, I am declaring Russian to be my focus, and Italian a secondary
focus.
Also rans/maintenance:
LANGUAGE: French
CHALLENGE: Half
CURRENT READING/LISTENING LEVEL: B1/B2
LANGUAGE: Dutch
CHALLENGE: Half
CURRENT READING/LISTENING LEVEL: B2
LANGUAGE: German
CHALLENGE: Half
CURRENT READING/LISTENING LEVEL: C1
I want to keep reading in French, Dutch and German for maintenance and for fun, and I know I will feel discouraged
from doing so if I can't log my results, but I want to pay more attention to finishing Russian, which will be a big
challenge, and also Italian.
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tristano Tetraglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 4047 days ago 905 posts - 1262 votes Speaks: Italian*, Spanish, French, English Studies: Dutch
| Message 40 of 195 22 April 2014 at 3:47pm | IP Logged |
LANGUAGE: Dutch
CHALLENGE: Half
LEVEL: A1
LANGUAGE: German
CHALLENGE: Half
LEVEL: < A1
LANGUAGE: Norwegian
CHALLENGE: Half
LEVEL: From scratch
LANGUAGE: Swedish
CHALLENGE: Half
LEVEL: From scratch
It is likely that I will do a quarter challenge for each language; in the opposite
case, I will try to the the half challenge with one between German and Dutch, I will
make my considerations if this turns out to be the case.
For Norwegian and Swedish I actually decided that I will study before Norwegian and
after Swedish. It is very likely that if I reach a B1 level in Norwegian I'll have at
least a A2 level of passive skill in Swedish, and while studying Swedish I will also
improve my skills in Norwegian. If I can manage to go through both the quarter
challenge for Norwegian and Swedish is it possible I will rather start with Danish
instead of continue with Norwegian or Swedish.
My goal is to reach a passive skill around B2/C1 for the 4 languages in these two
years.
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