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 9 of 141 01 May 2012 at 5:55pm | IP Logged |
While tempting (I'd still love a structured challenge for improving my German), my ability to lie to myself can only go so far, and even if I abandoned my other languages I know I'll never come remotely close to a book and a movie every three days.
I'll stick to my French (sotto voce: and Dutch) challenge, and continue to read German on the side. Good luck to anyone who's giving this a go!
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Sunja Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6085 days ago 2020 posts - 2295 votes 1 sounds Speaks: English*, German Studies: French, Mandarin
| Message 10 of 141 01 May 2012 at 6:04pm | IP Logged |
Hats off from me too, I'd love to do this challenge but I've got three already!
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Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5381 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian
| Message 11 of 141 01 May 2012 at 6:12pm | IP Logged |
Solfrid Cristin wrote:
The Advanced Super Challenge: Most of the rules as for the regular Super Challenge - the main difference being that for this challenge you do:
200 books
200 films in
20 months.
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A book and a movie every three days? That's just nuts. I might do 200 hours of conversation, but no 200 books... Sorry!
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Martinovich Triglot Newbie Netherlands admartinovich.wordpr Joined 5044 days ago 27 posts - 32 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Russian Studies: Turkish, Belarusian, Persian
| Message 12 of 141 01 May 2012 at 8:16pm | IP Logged |
As others have mentioned already, it'll be too much. 200 books in 20 months is insane, I love to read, but reading a book every 3 days, pretty much means I should throw all my other activities. The others might be doable, though...
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clumsy Octoglot Senior Member Poland lang-8.com/6715Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5178 days ago 1116 posts - 1367 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, Japanese, Korean, French, Mandarin, Italian, Vietnamese Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swedish Studies: Danish, Dari, Kirundi
| Message 13 of 141 01 May 2012 at 8:17pm | IP Logged |
Well ,why not... I can try with Korean, but I hope it's ok to see 2 dramas in place of a movie, since I watch a lot of it on KBS.
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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 14 of 141 01 May 2012 at 8:19pm | IP Logged |
Hmm.
cons:
I already have two half challenges to top of my other studies.
Hard to get conversation partners (so only the pasive one is possible).
pros:
I do watch and read a lot in English already and try to do the same for French.
I really want to get to high level with French.
A great excuse for watching more films, series and reading more books.
It will be great even if I don't fulfill it (getting whole 200/200 is quite unlikely)
So, it looks like this:
I am signing up for Advanced Super Challenge for English and French. 200 books and 200
movies :-)
P.S: there is a bot for super challenge?
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maydayayday Pentaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5219 days ago 564 posts - 839 votes Speaks: English*, German, Italian, SpanishB2, FrenchB2 Studies: Arabic (Egyptian), Russian, Swedish, Turkish, Polish, Persian, Vietnamese Studies: Urdu
| Message 15 of 141 01 May 2012 at 9:06pm | IP Logged |
I shoot for the stars and may land on the moon. Sobeit.
I might not make the volume of reading in Spanish but I'm going to have a good try. I have to read proposal papers anyway which are technically challenging but short in terms of a novel.
I have even picked up new vocab from a really basic French reader
- ramasser - to pick up - (used in this book to harvest/gather)
it is all good.
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Kartof Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5066 days ago 391 posts - 550 votes Speaks: English*, Bulgarian*, Spanish Studies: Danish
| Message 16 of 141 01 May 2012 at 9:27pm | IP Logged |
Thank you Solfrid for creating this Challenge :)
I will be doing the Advanced Super Duper Challenge for Bulgarian with the 100 hours conversation simply because
I'll do way more than that anyway. I am a native speaker of the language (you could argue that my English is
better, which it is, but by order of learning, Bulgarian came first!) and I've never really practiced my reading abilities
since I've never had a formal education in Bulgarian. I want to develop my vocabulary further to match that of my
English level and I want to be able to skim texts in Bulgarian, a skill that has eluded me due to lack of practice! I
won't be able to claim lack of practice after this ;)
P.S. One question, how does one keep track of how many books they've read, movies they've watched, etc.? I'm
sorry, I'm still a novice at this whole challenges concept :)
Edited by Kartof on 06 May 2012 at 2:30am
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