Jinx Triglot Senior Member Germany reverbnation.co Joined 5694 days ago 1085 posts - 1879 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Catalan, Dutch, Esperanto, Croatian, Serbian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Italian, Spanish, Yiddish
| Message 17 of 35 01 April 2011 at 1:49am | IP Logged |
This sounds so cool! I just signed up (and followed both of you, doviende and Sprachprofi). I am absurdly excited about this – it sounds like exactly what I need to motivate myself to get reading.
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Li Fei Pro Member United States Joined 5124 days ago 147 posts - 182 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Mandarin Personal Language Map
| Message 18 of 35 01 April 2011 at 2:45am | IP Logged |
@Sprachprofi: thanks for all the great tips! I am looking at some of the easy-reading sites and also ordering the
Anna's Summer book. I went ahead and signed up even though I am not sure I'm at the 800 character level. I have
probably learned that many characters but I keep forgetting them! But that's why I think this challenge will be good
for me. It's the words and characters I encounter often that I remember so . . . it'll be good to set myself up for
multiple encounters!
I have some kids' books that I'm going to read--they're graded readers so shouldn't have too many odd "bow-wow"
type words in them. I think I'll count them the same as mangas, i.e. 5 pages = one "real" page. The amount of text
on a page is roughly the same as mangas I've seen.
@Jinx: glad you're joining in too. I enjoy reading your log.
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schoenewaelder Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5561 days ago 759 posts - 1197 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: German, Spanish, Dutch
| Message 19 of 35 01 April 2011 at 3:18pm | IP Logged |
It would be great to join in, but unfortunately I'm still in the middle of the Dutch 6WC...
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josht Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6447 days ago 635 posts - 857 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: French, Spanish, Russian, Dutch
| Message 20 of 35 01 April 2011 at 3:29pm | IP Logged |
schoenewaelder wrote:
It would be great to join in, but unfortunately I'm still in the middle of the Dutch 6WC... |
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Could you perhaps combine the two, focusing your reading during April on Dutch?
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schoenewaelder Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5561 days ago 759 posts - 1197 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: German, Spanish, Dutch
| Message 21 of 35 01 April 2011 at 3:55pm | IP Logged |
That hadn't even occurred to me, because I'm not really at the book stage, and I was hoping that any reading I did would be accompanied by audio. But funnily enough, I did read a Dutch children`s book this morning (it was 45 pages, but had a fairly low word density.) Maybe it's a sign.
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Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6471 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 22 of 35 01 April 2011 at 7:35pm | IP Logged |
schoenewaelder wrote:
That hadn't even occurred to me, because I'm not really at the
book stage, and I was hoping that any reading I did would be accompanied by audio. But
funnily enough, I did read a Dutch children`s book this morning (it was 45 pages, but had
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It definitely is a sign. Besides, you could start with parallel texts. Come join us!
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hjordis Senior Member United States snapshotsoftheworld. Joined 5187 days ago 209 posts - 264 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, German, Spanish, Japanese
| Message 23 of 35 01 April 2011 at 7:58pm | IP Logged |
And it begins. Have fun everyone!
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Li Fei Pro Member United States Joined 5124 days ago 147 posts - 182 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Mandarin Personal Language Map
| Message 24 of 35 02 April 2011 at 4:20am | IP Logged |
So the good news is, I read 5 pages today that I wouldn't have read otherwise, and it was really great to do. The bad
news is, I don't think it is registering on the site. Here's what I tweeted:
SizzleWriter Lee McClain
@TadokuBot 5 #cn #book
11 minutes ago
Can any of you experienced twitterites tell me what I'm doing wrong?
Happy reading to all.
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