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| BOLIO Senior Member United States Joined 4655 days ago 253 posts - 366 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 9 of 198 02 May 2014 at 7:48pm | IP Logged | ||
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2.5 hrs film/TV; Gremlins dubbed in Spanish and one episode of Stargate SG1. 18 Pages of reading Right now I am doing Intensive reading until I finish the Movie portion of the challlenge and then I will conquer the extensive reading. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| 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 10 of 198 03 May 2014 at 5:50am | IP Logged | ||
I totally read that as a nudge to post something too :D Well, today (already yesterday) I was supposed to see Finntroll live, that's a Finnish band singing in Swedish. It was a festival and their gig was cancelled :'( But since the rest of it wasn't, I couldn't get a refund for my ticket. But I also wasn't particularly interested in any other bands. So I did go there, with my e-book :D Reading and breathing fresh air totally made it more acceptable :D And most of the music wasn't so bad - it was just in Russian. I thought of how many Russian learners from HTLAL would swap gladly :D Edited by Serpent on 03 May 2014 at 5:52am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Bao Diglot Senior Member Germany tinyurl.com/pe4kqe5 Joined 5763 days ago 2256 posts - 4046 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Spanish, Japanese, Mandarin | Message 11 of 198 03 May 2014 at 6:02am | IP Logged | ||
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Sadface. Finntroll are so awesome! I feel with you.
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| Mrs. Dalloway Triglot Groupie Italy Joined 4966 days ago 70 posts - 95 votes Speaks: Italian*, EnglishC2, Russian Studies: GermanA2, French, Danish | Message 12 of 198 03 May 2014 at 7:39am | IP Logged | ||
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Couldn't sleep, so I started watching old Soviet cartoons
Трое из Простоквашино Каникулы в Простоквашино Зима в Простоквашино Бобик в гостях у Барбоса Приключения Васи Куролесова The Prostokvashino three are so cute! But anyways, in total it amounted to 0.9 of a film, apparently :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| milesaway Triglot Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 4328 days ago 134 posts - 181 votes Speaks: French, English*, Russian Studies: Finnish, Sign Language | Message 13 of 198 03 May 2014 at 9:46pm | IP Logged | ||
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I've been slogging through a Russian book for the past 3 weeks, whereas most books are
done within a week, but I finally finished it this morning, so I'm glad for that. Books 1 and 2. Сумеречный Взгляд (Дин Кунц) Twilight Eyes, Dean Koontz. Pages 472-572 (I read up to 472 in April, then from May 1st to today, finished it.) Books 3 and 4. Робинсон Крусо (Robinson Crusoe) Pages 5-108. It's a slightly simplified version I believe, in a series called "Школьная Библиотека". It's certainly not super easy, but it's also not that difficult. I had a lot of time to read today, as I took a day trip to Novgorod, which was a 3.5 hour train ride there (on an elektrichka...my bum is still numb), and a 3.5 hour bus ride back. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5331 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 14 of 198 05 May 2014 at 12:51am | IP Logged | ||
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1. Robin Hood (Disney) New material 2. The Jungle book 3. The Jungle book 2 4. Garfield 5. The Little Mermaid 6 - The little Mermaid 2 I have not seen as many Disney movies in such a short time in my life, but they are absolutely brilliant for learning, since the language is very clear. I enjoyed Garfield, but it was extremely hard to follow. Some of them have a type of dubbing which I loathe, though: a man reading the entire dialogue in Russian, while you can hear part of the English dialogue underneath. BOOKS 1. Agatha Christie: Appointment with death - first 50 pages. New material 2. Agatha Christie: Appointment with death - next 50 pages. I really like the book, and it is nice to see how many more new words I learn when I read this much :-) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5331 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 15 of 198 05 May 2014 at 1:02am | IP Logged | ||
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By the way I am having increasing trouble downloading pages, and since I am afraid that we may have
another incident, I have opened an update thread also at the polydog forum. Super Challenge updates Polydog forum This is an option for those who would rather be safe than sorry. If you prefer to use a personal log elsewhere, that is fine, and if there is a demand for it I can open up an update thread at Fluent in 3 months too. I do not care where you have the back up, but I do recommend that you have one. I absolutely adore HTLAL and as long as it functions it will be my primary forum, but I would hate to lose my updates. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| kanewai Triglot Senior Member United States justpaste.it/kanewai Joined 4886 days ago 1386 posts - 3054 votes Speaks: English*, French, Marshallese Studies: Italian, Spanish | Message 16 of 198 07 May 2014 at 4:04am | IP Logged | ||
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I'm so glad we've started!
I just came back from 2+ weeks in Italy and France, and I have to let you all know: the Super Challenge works wonders. I got a lot of nice comments on my French, and most of my "studying" the last couple years has been Super Challenge I related. I was worried that this wouldn't cross over into real-world skills, but it does. It really does. I also had a lot of time to read on the plane, and spent a couple real lazy days in Provence sitting in cafes and reading my books. French Pre-challenge reading Michel Tournier. Vendredi ou les limbes du pacifique. 1967. This is a re- imagining of the Robinson Crusoe story. It's a great mix of adventure and philosophy, and was surprisingly poignant and haunting at the end. Difficulty = medium. The writing isn't complicated, but you should be comfortable with the subjunctive and simple past to enjoy it. Highly recommended. Marcel Proust. À l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs. 1919. The narrator hits puberty in the second book of À la recherche du temps perdu. There's more of a story here than in the first book, but a bit less of the ecstatically beautiful writing too. I'd recommend that everyone try Proust at some point in the challenge, but not at the beginning,and be warned: He is a challenge, and possibly a bit insane. I think he spent five pages describing a ride in an elevator. Hergé. L'Île Noire (Les aventures de Tintin). 1938. Tintin is great. Definitely try to read some for the Challenge! Challenge Reading. Current: 4.1 books Jean Giono. Colline. 1929. A wonderful short novel about the inhabitants of an isolated Provence village of four houses. The eldest resident lays dying, and the others start noticing strange and disturbing omens in the land. Highly recommended, withsimple and beautiful writing. Would be great for a beginner. Émile Zola. L'Œuvre. 1886. I'm currently 1/3 of the way through this story about Bohemian artists in Paris and their rebellion against the bourgeois status quo. The lead is based on Cézanne, who was so angry at the book that he broke off his friendship with Zola. I'm enjoying it so far, though it's Zola, so I know that horrible things are bound to happen before the novel is finished. Italian I'm not ready to read independently yet in Italian. I'm at lesson 40 with Assimil, and I think in a few more weeks I might be ready for my first independent book. In the meantime, I picked up a copy of Italo Calvino's Le città invisibili. It's a novel / prose poem where Marco Polo tells Kublai Khan about all the wonderful and fantastic cities in his empire. I loved this book in English, and still have my beat up copy. I'll be reading this "Assimil style" - reading an English paragraph, then the Italian, and so on. After a few more weeks with Assimil I think I'll be ready for some easy reading, maybe Percy Jackson, or one of Hugo Pratt's graphic novels. French Recommendations BAnna - great work on the wiki page! I tried to add some of my favorite books and films there, but I'm a novice at wiki writing and was just mucking it all up. In the meantime, here are my favorites from SC-I. These were the easier authors, so would be good ones to start with: Alain-Fournier. Le Grand Meaulnes. A nice coming of age story. André Gide's novellas. Explorations of freedom, sensuality, and morality. Guy de Maupassant's short stories Fred Vargas mysteries Boris Vian. L'écume des jours. Love, jazz, and sadness in post-war Paris. Edited by kanewai on 07 May 2014 at 4:06am 4 persons have voted this message useful |
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