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FelixKatze
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United Kingdom
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Speaks: English*
Studies: German

Message 41 of 195

22 April 2014 at 4:20pm | IP Logged

LANGUAGE: German
CHALLENGE: Full
LEVEL: A2

COMMENTS:
Will aim for 10K pages. Literature is amongst the foremost reasons I'm learning the language, so really looking forward to this, and the improvement it should bring to my reading ability in particular.
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hribecek
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Czech Republic
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Speaks: English*, Czech, Spanish
Studies: Italian, Polish, Slovak, Hungarian, Toki Pona, Russian

Message 42 of 195

22 April 2014 at 6:10pm | IP Logged

LANGUAGE: CZECH
CHALLENGE: FULL
LEVEL: C1

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Serpent
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Russian Federation
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Speaks: Russian*, English, Finnish^C1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish

Message 43 of 195

23 April 2014 at 3:58pm | IP Logged

Serpent wrote:

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 my entry.

It's not that I want to cruise through the English and Polish challenges, I just feel like I need *some* consistent reading but not necessarily a lot of it. For English I won't add up any small articles etc.

Edited by Serpent on 23 April 2014 at 3:59pm
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rewire
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Speaks: English*
Studies: Japanese, Mandarin

Message 44 of 195

23 April 2014 at 9:00pm | IP Logged

LANGUAGE: Japanese

CHALLENGE: Full

CURRENT LEVEL: Somewhere A2/B1 or JLPT N3-ish. Not sure I'm solidly B1 yet, but getting close.

COMMENTS: Well, last time I only managed about 22 books by the new rules, and only 78 films. But I also spent the first half of the challenge even getting to a point where I could
read 2-3 pages of easy manga in less than an hour, so I'm optimistically thinking that I can actually do a full challenge this time, despite my general lack of reading in any language
these days. Ideally I'll get to low B2, though I'd be really surprised if I don't at least feel confident calling myself B1 by the end of the challenge regardless of if I officially win or not. If I
hit even 50 books I'll be pretty pleased with myself. I plan on actually reading some novels this round instead of only manga and short stories, too.

I'm registered as @mythikos_ on the bot, and I'll probably update occasionally on my usual log thread also.
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Kerrie
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Speaks: English*
Studies: Spanish

Message 45 of 195

24 April 2014 at 12:16am | IP Logged

Serpent wrote:

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.

I didn't know we could lump a whole group of languages together!
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Solfrid Cristin
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Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian
Studies: Russian

Message 46 of 195

24 April 2014 at 12:27am | IP Logged

Kerrie wrote:

Serpent wrote:

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.

I didn't know we could lump a whole group of languages together!

You can't. I assume Serpent means that she is doing one full challenge and 11 half challenges here. Which in
my view is absolutely insane, but we are talking bad ass polyglot and queen of multitasking here :-)

There is nothing below half challenge, and you cannot do a multilingual challenge. That totally defeats the
purpose. It took me a looooong time to even go for half challenges.
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Serpent
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Message 47 of 195

24 April 2014 at 2:38am | IP Logged

Nobody can keep me from announcing my real goals though :) I'm going to register with 13 languages, yes. In some I'm aiming for just one star. I'm fine with considering that an incomplete half-challenge, but as far as I'm concerned you can't call that a failure.
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danyal
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United States
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Speaks: English*
Studies: German, Italian

Message 48 of 195

24 April 2014 at 4:24am | IP Logged

LANGUAGE: German
CHALLENGE: FULL
LEVEL: A1

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