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| Lianne Senior Member Canada thetoweringpile.blog Joined 4905 days ago 284 posts - 410 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Esperanto, Toki Pona, German, French | Message 25 of 33 31 January 2012 at 4:30am | IP Logged | ||
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January 22 - January 28:
French: 3:30 Not that good, considering most of that was my class... But this is the rest time leading up to the 6 week challenge. Yes, that's it... 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Lianne Senior Member Canada thetoweringpile.blog Joined 4905 days ago 284 posts - 410 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Esperanto, Toki Pona, German, French | Message 26 of 33 01 February 2012 at 6:55pm | IP Logged | ||
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The 6 week challenge has begun! It started almost 12 hours ago here, but I was sleeping and now I'm at work. Tonight, though, I'll be starting FSI. I didn't quite finish Michel Thomas French Language Booster, but that's ok. I'll get back to it after the challenge. I could use a change of pace, anyway.
30 people have already reported time in the challenge! I'm comforting myself with the thought that most of the world (everyone not in the Americas) has already had some or all of an evening. But I'm still very impressed by people's times... a couple people have already clocked over 3 hours! So, for the next 6 weeks, it'll be lots of FSI, plus studying the material from my class. (Sidenote: I had my second class yesterday, and found I already understood more of what the teacher was saying. Yay immersion!) Good luck to all the 6wc participants! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5171 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 27 of 33 01 February 2012 at 8:18pm | IP Logged | ||
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The goal of the 6-Week Challenge is to push yourself; you obviously can't compare yourself to someone who circumstantially happens to have more free time than you. Not that you are implying otherwise... but there's no reason to get yourself down over it. I work full-time, teach part-time and I've a wife and 2 kids... There's no way I can get anywhere near the scores of some other participants, but the challenge helps me push myself a bit. Edited by Arekkusu on 01 February 2012 at 8:19pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6260 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 28 of 33 01 February 2012 at 8:35pm | IP Logged | ||
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What Arekkusu said. Don't compare yourself to someone with way more time on their hands.
Either find someone who is in a similar situation as you are, or just try to beat whoever is 1-2 ranks above you at that moment. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Lianne Senior Member Canada thetoweringpile.blog Joined 4905 days ago 284 posts - 410 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Esperanto, Toki Pona, German, French | Message 29 of 33 01 February 2012 at 8:39pm | IP Logged | ||
Yeah, I know, but I'm fairly competitive so I can't help but compare myself to the people who are winning. :) Hopefully it will motivate me instead of getting me down! I work full time, run two blogs, and have more than a reasonable number of hobbies, so my chances of winning aren't very high either, but a girl's gotta try! I'll consider it a success if I just study a lot more than I normally would. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| dearwanderlust Newbie United States youtube.com/dearwandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5061 days ago 38 posts - 39 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, French | Message 30 of 33 01 February 2012 at 9:39pm | IP Logged | ||
I'm also on the "Romantics" team and participating in the Feb. 2012 6wc. I'm studying Spanish but hope to start my French studies this year. Good luck with your studies and French class. I look forward to reading about it. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Lianne Senior Member Canada thetoweringpile.blog Joined 4905 days ago 284 posts - 410 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Esperanto, Toki Pona, German, French | Message 31 of 33 08 February 2012 at 12:45am | IP Logged | ||
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January 29 - February 4:
French: 6:44 Wow, is that 6 Week Challenge ever motivating! I haven't missed a day since the challenge started! :) I'm currently sitting at 39th place, which is about where I usually am each day before logging any study time. After studying I'm usually in the 30ish zone. So not too bad! I'm still amazed by some of the times on that high score table... how on earth do you study for like 6 hours a day?! Wow. For the 6WC, I've been doing exclusively FSI (plus my weekly class). It's been an interesting change of pace. I can usually manage to do about an hour and a half of FSI before my brain gets very sore. I definitely don't find it boring, though, like people often say. I just find it quite intense. It sometimes feels like they're trying to teach me French by making me say every possible sentence in the language... "We have a nice room on the second floor. I have a nice room on the second floor. They have a nice room on the second floor..." Haha. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| kanewai Triglot Senior Member United States justpaste.it/kanewai Joined 4679 days ago 1386 posts - 3054 votes Speaks: English*, French, Marshallese Studies: Italian, Spanish | Message 32 of 33 08 February 2012 at 4:29am | IP Logged | ||
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I'm with you - my brain gets tired after an hour with a new language, and I need to take
a break. I don't know how people do six hours of language study a day. It's too much to take in! 1 person has voted this message useful |
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