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| numerodix Trilingual Hexaglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 6783 days ago 856 posts - 1226 votes  Speaks: EnglishC2*, Norwegian*, Polish*, Italian, Dutch, French Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin | Message 73 of 713 12 April 2012 at 8:47pm | IP Logged | ||
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Already did this :P
89 books, close enough. 100+ movies. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Necronos Newbie United States Joined 4629 days ago 37 posts - 41 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 74 of 713 12 April 2012 at 9:10pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'm very interested in joining in with the challenge. I'm currently working on my second
language and I'm still below an A1 level. Since Spanish is my TL, watching movies and shows won't be hard. Destinos alone is 52 episodes long and will count as 26 movies. I'm wondering if Pimsleur counts as audio books. If it does I think that 3 lessons should count as 1 movie since the lessons are only 30 minutes long. Destinos might be counted as 3 per 1 movie rather than 2 per 1 movies since they seem to be 30 minutes long. Does anyone have any suggestions for books for someone who is at such a beginner level? I have looked over the books at Project Gutenberg and I have no idea what ones are more accessible. Any direction would be greatly appreciated! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6909 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 75 of 713 12 April 2012 at 9:36pm | IP Logged | ||
One of the languages I'd really want to make progress in is Chinese, and my reading speed there is just not good enough. In fact it's so low I can't even make a decent estimate. What about other languages? As long as I understand the content: two pages per minute (Swedish/English), up to three pages per minute if it's an "easy" text. At least one page per minute in German and Spanish (where I'm possibly around B1), slightly slower for French and Russian (passive A2/B2). Even "unknown" vocabulary allows me to keep reading, something that can't be done to the same extent in Chinese. All this being said, I really want to participate in this challenge. :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Necronos Newbie United States Joined 4629 days ago 37 posts - 41 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 76 of 713 12 April 2012 at 10:27pm | IP Logged | ||
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I just gave my movie collection a brief run through and it seems that most of them are
also dubbed into different languages. Spanish and French are the most common. Since Spanish is my TL then this is great news! I have all the episodes of Seinfeld on DVD, and there are all dubbed in Spanish. I can easily sit through hours upon hours of Seinfeld. So now I have at least 100 movies/TV episodes, I'm just lacking books. I'll have to go check out the collection at the local library. Hopefully they have Dr. Seuss in Spanish since that is where I'm at currently. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| kenny Newbie United States Joined 4854 days ago 6 posts - 7 votes Studies: Spanish | Message 77 of 713 12 April 2012 at 11:06pm | IP Logged | ||
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@Necronos, Where did you find the dubbed DVD's of Seinfeld in Spanish? Spanish is my TL and I've been looking for some good shows to watch.
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| Necronos Newbie United States Joined 4629 days ago 37 posts - 41 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 78 of 713 12 April 2012 at 11:13pm | IP Logged | ||
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@kenny, the regular DVD's of Seinfeld have the option to change the language to Spanish,
and also to put on English subtitles. Looking over my movies I found that at least Hot Fuzz, Land of the Lost, The Muppets, Shaun of the Dead, and Willow all have the option for Spanish dub. All the seasons of Dexter also have the option for Spanish dub. I'm guessing most everything else has similar options. I'd be surprised if some DVD didn't come with the option to dub in Spanish/French at the least. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| markdtmj Newbie United States neprenezpasmonj Joined 4663 days ago 15 posts - 24 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 79 of 713 12 April 2012 at 11:25pm | IP Logged | ||
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I've been wanting to get in on one of these challenges since I started lurking here...
This one looks right up my alley. At least, for the movie portion... The books, on the other hand... I doubt I'll have time to read 100 books. But definitely count me in for 100 French movies and at least 2 books :) And I promise to find more books in French. There. With that promise I won't feel like I'm slacking. Because I'd have watched the movies anyways. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| dandt Senior Member Australia regarderetlire.wordp Joined 4624 days ago 134 posts - 174 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, French | Message 80 of 713 13 April 2012 at 12:15am | IP Logged | ||
Buffy is known for being amazing in French. I believe joss himself endorsed it at some point. It is the only language other than English that recorded the songs for once more with feeling, the musical episode. Alternatively you could use the English box set if you have it and choose French. That is what I am doing as I cannot justify buying them in French, especially as they won't work in my DVD player or computer. In fact, buying the English box set was difficult to justify. This time last year I had never seen buffy, save an episode when I was very young and could not sleep. I'm watching the first episode of Buffy right now in French with English subtitles. As a fairly low level learner, it's a bit of a futile exercise, especially as it is really for nothing more than listening to the language. I suspect watching the news in French could be better for just listening. I mean, I can't understand either. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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