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| dandt Senior Member Australia regarderetlire.wordp Joined 4411 days ago 134 posts - 174 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, French | Message 121 of 713 15 April 2012 at 6:11pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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zomg songlines you're like my saviour! I would never have thought to look at other international sites... just
assumed delivery was pricey with all of them!!!! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5343 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 122 of 713 15 April 2012 at 6:34pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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An ambitious and exciting plan, Cristina - you can count me in too! I can't promise to get through anywhere close to 100 books over the next 20 months (even in my own native language) but I'll certainly give the film goal a good shot. I've already ploughed through at least 76 hours of films and tv this year in Russian (can I already add this to the running total or do we only start counting from May 1st?).
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| Gatsby42 Groupie United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4428 days ago 55 posts - 72 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 123 of 713 15 April 2012 at 7:13pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
Yeah, I was gonna say that the whole 100 books thing seems crazy outlandish. I'd consider myself a more active reader than the vast majority of people my age and even I could probably only do 50-60 within twenty months. If I only read Spanish books from now until next December I'd probably get like 5 or 6 done max. I'm somewhat interested in the video requirement, though I'd really need to do a lot of homework to even find that many Spanish films worth watching. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Brun Ugle Diglot Senior Member Norway brunugle.wordpress.c Joined 6407 days ago 1292 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English*, NorwegianC1 Studies: Japanese, Esperanto, Spanish, Finnish | Message 124 of 713 15 April 2012 at 7:53pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
I agree. That's an average of 5 books per month or slightly more than one book a week. That would be hard in English or Norwegian and pretty much impossible in Japanese, but I'm going to give it a go anyway. The movie part shouldn't be too hard though. It's easy to watch a movie or two every weekend. Maybe next time we can start on 1 January and have two whole years instead of twenty months. It'd still be hard though. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| camdo2 Newbie United States Joined 4462 days ago 26 posts - 32 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 125 of 713 15 April 2012 at 9:53pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
Assuming you're doing Japanese, the amount of manga out there is really huge. It's at a much simpler level (basing off of the English and Spanish translations I read) and it should be MUCH easier than reading full on literature. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 4796 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 126 of 713 15 April 2012 at 10:44pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I'd like to be in but still unsure which language to choose.
Spanish-easier choice, access to cervantes library, already have passive skills at low B1 German-I have barely scratched the surface here, but once I dive in, there is the Goethe Institut library Swedish- I want to get back to this so much and I'd love it the most for the challenge but there is no big swedish library around here. I could read the books in bookshelves in IKEA. And hopefully find some films in swedish at the internet but the only scandinavian library around here is quite poor. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5121 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 127 of 713 16 April 2012 at 12:20am | IP Logged | ||||||||
We only start counting on May 1st :-). I do not know whether I will make it either, but I figure that I will have lost absolutely nothing trying. I know that I am competitive enough to want to do as much as possible. If I reach my goal, I'll be overjoyed - and if I do not quite reach it then I will still have read and seen more than I would have done without the challenge. Either way I win:-) 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Woodsei Bilingual Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Woodsei Joined 4584 days ago 614 posts - 782 votes Speaks: English*, Arabic (Egyptian)* Studies: Russian, Japanese, Hungarian | Message 128 of 713 16 April 2012 at 1:00am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I'm in for Japanese. It's an awesome opportunity to jump start my reading and listening
skills in it, thanks a ton Christina. I really was debating Russian, and even though I won't use it for the Super Challenge, it's still in for TAC 2012, and my original goals still hold, not to mention L-Ring it. I was just shopping for Japanese books and manga to add to my existing collection before stumbling upon this thread. That and collecting films, TV, and podcasts should have me covered.I'm all fired up and ready to go come May 1st. Can't wait! I agree that even if the goals are huge, the rewards simultaneously are, too. And we win whether we make it or not. So let's do our best! 1 person has voted this message useful |
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