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| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6392 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 1 of 10 14 March 2012 at 10:37pm | IP Logged |
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Would anyone be interested in a short-term challenge next weekend, making up for Europe's switch to Daylight Saving Time?
I got the idea from WriYe where they have a lot of challenges for aspiring writers. I think some of them are worth trying here, with our own tweaks. (For example Full Moon Madness). Over there, it's about writing 10,000 words in 5 hours. Do we need a standard goal or can they be custom? (X hours, Y pages, Z Assimil lessons...) Should there be a minimum of time spent? If we do this challenge, we have about a week to decide the specifics. Edit: Anyone would be welcome to participate, whether you're from Europe and indeed lose an hour or just want to have fun:) We no longer even have daylight saving in Russia - I'll be celebrating being closer to Europe :D (Champions League football starting at 22.45 is SOOOO much better than at 23.45) Edited by Serpent on 14 March 2012 at 10:41pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5129 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 2 of 10 15 March 2012 at 7:33pm | IP Logged |
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Since that will be in the middle of the Tadoku challenge, I am sorry that I will have to pass on this one, but if you ask again in April I may be up for it :-)
Extremely interesting concept though! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6392 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 3 of 10 15 March 2012 at 8:03pm | IP Logged |
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You can set a reading goal and combine it with Tadoku :) I will for sure:)
I was thinking about Full Moon Madness on April 6th. It's a Friday though. The idea is just to study as much as possible over 24h. Would be very motivating if those who are in described their day, showing how exactly they had made the time for studying. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4502 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 4 of 10 16 March 2012 at 1:06pm | IP Logged |
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If I can find a day to do this (some Sunday probably) I will do it maybe. Does FMM require it to be a day on which there is a full moon? (Do I dress up as a werewolf?)
But I won't be blasting Moonspell while doing it... 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6392 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 5 of 10 16 March 2012 at 5:17pm | IP Logged |
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FMM yes, from 00:00 to 23:59 on the day of the full moon. You can just study as much as possible given your circumstances:)
But what about the next weekend, any preferences/ideas? :) Aww Moonspell. Why not? I'll be probably reading Ribeiro's books at full moon :D 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4502 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 6 of 10 16 March 2012 at 6:48pm | IP Logged |
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Because I cannot listen to music and study at the same time, else I would have done it...(and I have yet to learn Portuguese, which is on my list...it's nothing against that great Portuguese band) Edited by tarvos on 16 March 2012 at 6:49pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6392 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 7 of 10 23 March 2012 at 8:29pm | IP Logged |
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So, is anyone up for this?
My goal is: listen to all chapters of Assimil Portuguese over the weekend. I'll also read them because they count for Tadoku, and I might shadow them. There's also the Earth Hour on March 31, 2011 at 8:30pm-9:30pm your time. I'm thinking of doing something suitable, but I can't be bothered to read by candle light :P (BTW would anyone be interested in a dare thread? Suggesting random ideas like "translate this passage into your target language" (not your homework!) or "play this song on lyricstraining" etc etc etc. Also decided to make our team's consistency thread open for all learners of Slavic and Romance languages. Edited by Serpent on 23 March 2012 at 11:13pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6392 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 8 of 10 01 April 2012 at 3:43pm | IP Logged |
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Went ahead and started something like a dare thread :D
So, is anyone interested in Full Moon Madness? :) If not I have another idea :p How about a motivational thread for describing your good days as a learner? (starting too many threads, who?) You choose yourself on what day to do a massive amount of study and you describe it afterwards. Can be a special day like full moon, your birthday, the first&last day of 6WC, Tadoku etc or just any random day. I think many of us will be especially interested in posts describing how exactly you combine work/study with languages. edit: I failed the DST challenge btw. Listened to just 25 Assimil lessons - still more than I ever did at a time though! Edited by Serpent on 01 April 2012 at 4:01pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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