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November 6 Week Challenge | ||
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| JohannaNYC Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4452 days ago 251 posts - 361 votes  Speaks: Spanish*, English*, Italian Studies: Croatian, Serbian, Arabic (Egyptian) | Message 65 of 80 19 November 2012 at 6:03pm | IP Logged | ||
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For those of us logging 2-3 days' progress at one time, should we include the dates of
when we did what? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6470 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 66 of 80 19 November 2012 at 6:14pm | IP Logged | ||
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The bot won't recognize the dates, but it may calm those who think you're superman
studying 23 hours a day ;-) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| JPP4 Hexaglot Newbie Portugal Joined 4731 days ago 8 posts - 9 votes Speaks: French, German, English, Dutch, Portuguese, Russian Studies: Japanese, Greek | Message 67 of 80 19 November 2012 at 7:56pm | IP Logged | ||
That's just it, she did clearly specify her dates (from November 15 to 18). And I wasn't referring to the total of 55 hours she recorded for those 4 days, only for the 23 hours and 53 minutes yesterday, November 18. Which had nothing to do with time zone, nor with being without internet access, but with very strange logging. P.S. It looks like she recorded those hours on November 19, but that is only because of the fact that the bot doesn't care about time-zones. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6597 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 68 of 80 21 November 2012 at 12:30am | IP Logged | ||
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Is Old English on the list?
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| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6470 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 69 of 80 21 November 2012 at 2:11pm | IP Logged | ||
No, please log it as #English. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Jinx Triglot Senior Member Germany reverbnation.co Joined 5693 days ago 1085 posts - 1879 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Catalan, Dutch, Esperanto, Croatian, Serbian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Italian, Spanish, Yiddish | Message 70 of 80 21 November 2012 at 2:44pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hi folks, sorry for my delayed answer! A couple of days ago I got a direct message from a fellow Twitterer asking me "How's the Catalan coming?" and I had no idea what that was referring to... until I suddenly remembered that I'd apparently signed up for the 6-week-challenge! I was quite embarrassed – I've never before signed up for something like this and instantly forgotten about it. I guess that's the problem with signing up for two things at once (also the Assimil Experiment). So, as you can see by the insanity on my Twitter page, I quickly tried to catch up by tweeting all the study hours I'd been logging in my usual offline document. But it appears there were a few problems.
1) Logging study that took place before the challenge started. My bad, sorry about this. I didn't actually remember when the challenge was supposed to start, so I just glanced through my Twitter until I found the confirmation message from the 6WC-bot telling me I'd registered, and I started logging everything after that, assuming that that had been the beginning. Obviously a bit more digging would have quickly revealed the truth, sorry about that. Superfluous data has now been deleted! 2) Adding up to insane amounts. In response to those who find it amusing that I tweeted almost 24 hours of study in one day: heh, true, that does make me sound rather superhuman. Unfortunately I haven't reached such epic levels of study dedication yet! I know it looks unpleasant to have such a big spam of activity on Twitter, but I must say it was actually all accurate. (I've been keeping a meticulous offline record of the study I do every day for the past three years.) If you look at the tweets in question, you'll see that I specified the day when each study session took place. Believe me, I'm not that awesome – I rarely manage more than three hours a day, even on Sundays. ;) Now that I've been reminded of the existence of this challenge – and the fact that I'm signed up for it, haha – I'll be tweeting my study more regularly and therefore not spamming Twitter. I may still not tweet daily (I never really use Twitter, so it's a hard habit to get into), so apologies in advance to any who are disturbed by this! But in this situation, I will continue noting when study took place. Anyway, thanks for setting me straight on the start date, everybody! And believe me, I may be a big fan of learning languages, but not to such a degree that I would knowingly cheat at a casual forum challenge. I've never "won" one yet and don't intend to now, but it's awfully fun to take part for the mutual motivation. :) 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| JohannaNYC Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4452 days ago 251 posts - 361 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English*, Italian Studies: Croatian, Serbian, Arabic (Egyptian) | Message 71 of 80 13 December 2012 at 1:28am | IP Logged | ||
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Speaking of days that seem to have more than 24 hours, how can someone who's been logging
his time everyday somehow manage to do 52 hours between yesterday and today? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6597 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 72 of 80 13 December 2012 at 1:56am | IP Logged | ||
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It helps to specify whom you mean, maybe in a DM to Sprachprofi...
I registered far less than 52h, but still a lot, considering that I also log my hours every day. The thing is that for example I don't bother to log everything I do. if it's a proper session, sure. but if i'm just using twitter all day and reading random stuff online, it should either be 2 hours #multilingual #net or a breakdown by language. I prefer the latter because it's not very meaningful to have "multilingual" as your most studied "language". and besides, most of my multilingual time is Spanish, Italian, Portuguese. so instead of tweeting short intervals every day, i just wait and tweet, say, "2 hours #portuguese #net" when i've accumulated them. i tend to tweet this when i'm not so productive so perhaps this makes it unnoticeable. Edited by Serpent on 13 December 2012 at 1:58am 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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