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| Mohave Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Mohave1 Joined 4006 days ago 291 posts - 444 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 745 of 766 23 November 2015 at 9:44am | IP Logged |
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I am getting close to finishing a double challenge in French. I am currently at 199 films and 188 books (or
about 16 pages/day). Barring anything unforeseen, I expect to finish just under the wire. I am most proud of my consistency in doing something every week for this challenge, as I have posted for the Super Cahllenge for 82 consecutive weeks. Congrats to all those who have already finished! PS I have really enjoyed this challenge and have definitely seen improvements as a result. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| WingSuet Triglot Senior Member Sweden Joined 5350 days ago 169 posts - 211 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, German Studies: Cantonese | Message 746 of 766 28 November 2015 at 7:03pm | IP Logged |
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I haven't been working on the super challenge for ages, but now that I recently moved to
Berlin I got access to German netflix so I can watch movies dubbed I got into the spirit again. So I will do my best this last month, and we'll see if it's enough to finish the half challenge (50/50) in German. So far I'm only at 20 films and 15 books though. But every extra book/film is a win ;) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| evilado Diglot Groupie United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4005 days ago 64 posts - 82 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Mandarin | Message 747 of 766 29 November 2015 at 12:05am | IP Logged |
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I hadn't updated in months, but I log everything I read on goodreads anyway, so after
getting current, I'm 300 pages shy of a full challenge in Spanish and 175 pages short of my half-challenge in French. I've got a little over 300 pages left in 2666, and reading an 1100 page book is a nice capstone for the Super Challenge. The best thing about doing the full challenge in Spanish is that it pushed me to explore new authors and countries and get more familiar with regionalisms and idioms, especially within Mexico and Chile. Mexico has lots of words that don't get used elsewhere, while I find that Chilean words often don't mean the same thing in Argentina and Bolivia, not to mention the rest of the world, so I got to used to scrolling in the RAE dictionary for alternate definitions. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| surrealix Diglot Groupie New Zealand languagechallenge.su Joined 4603 days ago 66 posts - 152 votes Speaks: English*, Swedish Studies: French | Message 748 of 766 10 December 2015 at 9:26pm | IP Logged |
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Hi All!
So we're coming up to the end of the 2014-2015 challenge, having read a combined 379,986 pages and watched 1,440,764 minutes of foreign language material since we started! I've been pretty quiet on the forums for a while, ironically because I moved to a new country and have been busy juggling language learning with work. This means however that I haven't been able to put the time into maintaining the Twitter Bot that it really deserves. Unfortunately this isn't going to change soon, and with the next round of the super challenge hopefully looming next year, I'm now looking at the future of the bot. So this is an appeal to the language learning programmers out there: Is there anyone who would like to take over running the twitter bot? On the technical side it's PHP/SQL, and should run on pretty much any server. I'm happy to do a complete handover, or to turn it into an open source project somewhere. If there's any interest we can start talking about details. (For everyone else, don't fret! The bot isn't going to disappear overnight. Nothing's going to change in the remaining 3 weeks left for the challenge. I'm just starting this conversation now because it might take a while to organise everything.) Edited by surrealix on 10 December 2015 at 9:31pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6596 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 749 of 766 15 December 2015 at 12:43pm | IP Logged |
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is the challenge site unavailable?..
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| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6596 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 750 of 766 15 December 2015 at 4:45pm | IP Logged |
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up again :-)
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| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5333 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 751 of 766 18 December 2015 at 9:42am | IP Logged |
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Dear all,
I hope someone with the technical know-how is able to take over. Unfortunately I am the most untechnical person to walk the surface of the earth, so it will not be me, but I know there are many other skilled persons out there. Also: Surrealix: You are at least 50% of the reason why this challenge took off, and I cannot thank you enough. What you did is nothing short of amazing. And everyone else: The clock is ticking. :-) You have 13 days left to finish this challenge, before the year is over, and then you have 4 months to enjoy other challenges before we start a new Super Challenge on May 1st 2016. Make the rest of the year count!!! 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6596 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 752 of 766 18 December 2015 at 11:42am | IP Logged |
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How is everyone doing?
Early in the month I thought of giving up on the Belarusian challenge, but then I realized I could complete it with 1 movie per day and some time to spare. Now I'm a bit behind again though (15 movies left), but starting from next week there's very little football on, for obvious reasons. It also looks like Finnish and Ukrainian might be the only languages in which I don't earn a star :D Yesterday I finished reading what was probably my best book of the year, The Old Man and the Sea. Edited by Serpent on 18 December 2015 at 11:44am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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