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| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6594 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 9 of 195 19 April 2014 at 7:52pm | IP Logged | ||
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LANGUAGE: Italian
CHALLENGE: full LEVEL: B1-B2 depending on the skill COMMENTS: my understanding of audio also depends on the gender of the speaker. I'll keep track of the gender for each recording, and I'm aiming to listen to female voices for at least 50% of the challenge LANGUAGES: Swedish, Danish CHALLENGE: half+ LEVEL: A2-B1 passively, active skills non-existent COMMENTS: I'll keep track of the Scandinavian duo together, aiming for a half-challenge total, including a quarter-challenge in Danish. Norwegian may also count for my personal challenge but it won't be much, and probably only listening. Eventually I'm hoping to do a proper half-challenge in Swedish. LANGUAGES: Croatian, Belarusian CHALLENGE: half each/full total LEVEL: "I can see many things far off, but many things that are close at hand I cannot see." (that's from LOTR) COMMENTS: aiming for a total full challenge, though to a lesser extent than with my Scandinavian challenge. the rest will be listed in groups too but mostly because the details are similar LANGUAGES: Finnish, English, Portuguese, Polish CHALLENGE: half each LEVEL: fluent or near COMMENTS: aiming to include some old works like the Canterbury Tales and Kalevala; in English and Polish probably aiming just for a quarter-challenge LANGUAGES: Spanish, German CHALLENGE: half each LEVEL: non-fluent and hard to define. priority may be more important and these languages are a lower priority for me than for most folks here LANGUAGES: Romanian, Ukrainian CHALLENGE: half each, but really aiming for just one star (at least in reading) LEVEL: non-fluent but these are more special to me than Spanish and German; I have more internal motivation but less of the external Edited by Serpent on 23 April 2014 at 3:49pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| napoleon Tetraglot Senior Member India Joined 5013 days ago 543 posts - 874 votes Speaks: Bengali*, English, Hindi, Urdu Studies: French, Arabic (Written) | Message 10 of 195 19 April 2014 at 8:31pm | IP Logged | ||
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LANGUAGE: French
CHALLENGE: FULL CURRENT LEVEL: A1(ish) COMMENTS: The last time I participated in a Super Challenge was way back in 2012. I hope to finish the challenge this time. It's been a long time since I read a novel in French. I hope to use this opportunity to jump-start my reading. Best of luck to everyone :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| napoleon Tetraglot Senior Member India Joined 5013 days ago 543 posts - 874 votes Speaks: Bengali*, English, Hindi, Urdu Studies: French, Arabic (Written) | Message 11 of 195 19 April 2014 at 8:45pm | IP Logged | ||
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@Jeffers:
I'm delighted that you're doing Hindi. And I'm very curious to know what books you'll be reading. In case you have trouble finding Hindi material, there's a ton of TV shows on youtube. Chanakya (one of my favourites), Mahabharata, Ramayana, Krishna, Bharat ek Khoj... Best of luck... 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Radioclare Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom timeofftakeoff.com Joined 4580 days ago 689 posts - 1119 votes Speaks: English*, German, Esperanto Studies: Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian | Message 12 of 195 19 April 2014 at 9:08pm | IP Logged | ||
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LANGUAGE: Croatian
CHALLENGE: Full LEVEL: B1 on a good day 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. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Gemuse Senior Member Germany Joined 4079 days ago 818 posts - 1189 votes Speaks: English Studies: German | Message 13 of 195 19 April 2014 at 9:24pm | IP Logged | ||
Many of these shows are terrible though, like Ramayana where half the show is spent showing fireworks in between arrows. Bharat ek Khoj is good, as is Malgudi Days. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Mohave Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Mohave1 Joined 4004 days ago 291 posts - 444 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 14 of 195 19 April 2014 at 9:28pm | IP Logged | ||
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LANGUAGE: French
CHALLENGE: Double CURRENT LEVEL: A2/B1 COMMENTS: I plan to go for a Double. Reading many of the logs from last round, many participants saw an extra benefit around the 8,000 page level. I started a paste.it page to record my Super Challenge activities, and I have a plan of attack for reading for the first two months, as-well-as classics I would like to be able to read later on in the Challenge. I suspect at least during the summer months, most of my listening will come from audiobooks, L/R, or podcasts vs films, which will probably be more fall and winter while my husband watches football! Edited by Mohave on 21 April 2014 at 1:51am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| hanasea Diglot Newbie Korea, South agidark.tistory.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4186 days ago 15 posts - 20 votes Speaks: Korean*, EnglishC1 Studies: Japanese | Message 15 of 195 19 April 2014 at 10:21pm | IP Logged | ||
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LANGUAGE: French
CHALLENGE: Full CURRENT LEVEL: I am doing Assmil's lesson 10 again. I guess it count as 0? COMMENTS: I already bought more than 20 DVD in French, I hope I will watch them for five times. LANGUAGE: Japanese CHALLENGE: Half CURRENT LEVEL: A2 COMMENTS : I am going to watch 50 films and 50 books. I really want to read Japanese novels in Japanese next year. I watched the entire series of Singekino Kyojin, I hope to see it again without subtitles. I also bought a Kindle with Japanese version, I already bought some Japanese books. LANGUAGE: English CHALLENGE: Full CURRENT LEVEL: hard to define. COMMENTS : I can read well, but I am not good with speaking/writing. I can listen, but I need to practice. Reading is my best ability. I hope to improve listening skill. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5163 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian | Message 16 of 195 20 April 2014 at 12:11am | IP Logged | ||
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LANGUAGE: French
CHALLENGE: Full CURRENT LEVEL: B2/C1 COMMENTS: My current activities already allow me to complete the reading part of the challenge (20 pages x 350 workdays = 7000 pages /50 = 140 books). As for the video part, I only do 10 minutes a day, which would give me roughly 39 films. It is going to be a challenge to watch more in French. LANGUAGE: Norwegian CHALLENGE: Half CURRENT LEVEL: B1/B2 COMMENTS: My current activities already allow me to complete half the reading part of the challenge (10 pages x 350 workdays = 3500 pages /50 = 70 books). As for the video part, I do 10 minutes a day, which would give me roughly 78 films, thus allowing me to apply for a half challenge. LANGUAGE: Mandarin Chinese CHALLENGE: Half CURRENT LEVEL: A2/B1 COMMENTS: My current activities already allow me to complete the listening part of the challenge (I watch 10 minutes fixed but I usually find time to watch 20 minutes more from series and I really enjoy it). On the other hand, I haven't started reading at all. So, I'm going for the half challenge with the hope that I will feel comfortable about reading a bit more and just watching a bit less. Overall comments: With a multilingual routine, I think it's much harder to accomplish a video challenge than a reading challenge. That's the reason I'm not applying for German, Russian or Georgian. I'd have to watch about 30 minutes of each to account for a full video challenge (not to mention the difficult in finding Georgian video), while with 10 pages a day I can accomplish a half challenge. And I bet those 10 pages a day don't take me those 30 minutes, not in the beginning, leave alone in the end. So, in the case of reading you will get faster at it throughout the challenge, but that's not going to happen for the video, for obvious reasons. Therefore, as much as I feel I could accomplish a half challenge for Georgian, German and Russian, I'll leave them out of the challenge because I can't find the time to watch enough video on them. 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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