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| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6281 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 105 of 128 09 December 2011 at 10:31pm | IP Logged | ||
Indeed. And within the "rest" periods, there's the Tadoku challenge, which always lasts one month: January, April etc. This is for people who still need something to do - actually they gave me the idea for the Twitter bot, so I don't want to compete with them. The Tadoku challenge is about reading as much as possible in your target language, to get a blast of comprehensible input. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6408 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 106 of 128 10 December 2011 at 12:23am | IP Logged | ||
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Omg I got a crazy idea. In August I'll do the 6 week challenge for the language of the country that wins Euro 2012! Unless it's Russia, England or France (don't like French). If it's one of them I'll do the language of the runner-up country.
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| H.Computatralis Triglot Senior Member Poland Joined 6115 days ago 130 posts - 210 votes Speaks: Polish*, French, English Studies: German, Spanish, Latin | Message 107 of 128 10 December 2011 at 11:56pm | IP Logged | ||
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I know the challenge is not over yet, but I must say that I really enjoyed the last six weeks. I'm usually not the competitive type so when at the beginning my attitude was "Ah well! Why not?" and I didn't expect much. However, I must say I was utterly, albeit pleasantly, surprised how powerful this motivator has been for me. I really did not expect to study so many hours in six weeks, and certainly not to be among the top contenders.
What I really like is how your progress is measurable and you can track your own and other people's progress almost in real-time. I'm more skeptical towards non-measurable challenges such as the TAC, though, and I think there should be more challenges like the 6WC. 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6408 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 108 of 128 10 December 2011 at 11:59pm | IP Logged | ||
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I agree, more different challenges would be fun!
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| zecchino1991 Senior Member United States facebook.com/amyybur Joined 5069 days ago 778 posts - 885 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, Modern Hebrew, Russian, Arabic (Written), Romanian, Icelandic, Georgian | Message 109 of 128 11 December 2011 at 12:41am | IP Logged | ||
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Sorry if this has already been asked a million times, but when does the challenge end?
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| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6281 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 110 of 128 12 December 2011 at 8:55am | IP Logged | ||
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The challenge ends tonight! Nobody may continue past midnight his time.
H.Computatralis, I am glad you made the same discovery I did. You've been putting in a lot of hours, congratulations! For a different challenge, may I recommend the Tadoku (Read more or die) challenge to you, which also uses a Twitter bot & highscore? It was my inspiration for this actually, and the next one is in January and lasts till the beginning of the next 6 Week Challenge, which is in February. Read about it here. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| pesahson Diglot Senior Member Poland Joined 5539 days ago 448 posts - 840 votes Speaks: Polish*, English Studies: French, Portuguese, Norwegian | Message 111 of 128 12 December 2011 at 5:53pm | IP Logged | ||
I feel very much like H.Computatralis. This challenge really motivated me. I hope I will keep it up at this pace until the next challenge, but I sort of got the hang of it so maybe I won't go back to my unsystematic ways.
I like that idea. I wouldn't do it myself but it's an interesting way of choosing a language! Edited by pesahson on 12 December 2011 at 5:56pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| H.Computatralis Triglot Senior Member Poland Joined 6115 days ago 130 posts - 210 votes Speaks: Polish*, French, English Studies: German, Spanish, Latin | Message 112 of 128 12 December 2011 at 6:31pm | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks for the suggestion Sprachprofi, but I think I'll pass. I'm kind of a slow reader so that challenge would just depress me.
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