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Cavesa
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 Message 81 of 713
13 April 2012 at 12:53am | IP Logged 
This sounds wonderful but I cannot participate now as I am already too busy. However, if
late comers are still welcome, I will join sometime during the summer :-)

Good luck everyone, have fun.
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 Message 82 of 713
13 April 2012 at 2:19am | IP Logged 
Necronos wrote:
Does anyone have any suggestions for books for someone who is at such a beginner level?
try graded readers:)
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Serpent
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 Message 83 of 713
13 April 2012 at 2:23am | IP Logged 
Cavesa wrote:
This sounds wonderful but I cannot participate now as I am already too busy. However, if
late comers are still welcome, I will join sometime during the summer :-)

Good luck everyone, have fun.
Why not join from the beginning? Even if you won't do much before the summer, sure you'll do at least something that counts?
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Serpent
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 Message 84 of 713
13 April 2012 at 2:44am | IP Logged 
Solfrid Cristin wrote:
We now have
- the 6 weeks' challenge
- the small challenges thread
- the Tadoku challenge
There's also the consistency thread :)
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 Message 85 of 713
13 April 2012 at 5:11am | IP Logged 
I will try this challenge but I also find the 100 book target unrealistic especially since I have been purposely
neglecting reading lately in favour of speaking/listening in order to avoid adopting literary vocab and grammar
when speaking.   Now is a good time to resume reading I think.

Several years ago I did try to reach a goal of reading 100 childrens books by sitting in the library with a stack of 10-
20 at a time (I didn't want to buy them). I remember being surprised at the number of verb tenses and advanced
grammar in books for 6-8 year olds. I stopped after about 85 - just had enough of dragons, friendly monsters and
talking forest animals for a while.

I like emk's idea of 100 film + 25 books, one book per month plus 5 extra and if I do better thats great.

Edited by microsnout on 13 April 2012 at 5:12am

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 Message 86 of 713
13 April 2012 at 6:55am | IP Logged 
I'm planning on working on just as much as I can get.

As a relative beginner, i'm unlikely to get through 100 books or whatever, especially if we're only counting
100pages or over/joining them together. I'm just basically going to treat a book as a book, just like in the MS-
Read-A-Thon where I stupidly read whatever harry potter book was out that month (5 I think) and one of the lord of
the rings books. As I'm still new at french, getting through any book, no matter the size, is a giant challenge so I'm
going to count anything I read. Obviously, within reason. This being said, if I were to manage to get through the
first Harry Potter (doubtful as it is probably much above my level) I'm going to count it as one. That and books are
hard to come by here.

25 books may be more realistic for me. But yeah, I'm going to get as far through it as I can.
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Cavesa
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 Message 87 of 713
13 April 2012 at 10:16am | IP Logged 
Serpent wrote:
Cavesa wrote:
This sounds wonderful but I cannot participate now as
I am already too busy. However, if
late comers are still welcome, I will join sometime during the summer :-)

Good luck everyone, have fun.
Why not join from the beginning? Even if you
won't do much before the summer, sure you'll do at least something that counts?


You are putting me back before a hard choice :-D :

1.I won't participate now so I will have less excuses for procrastination (which is a
huge trouble of mine)

2. I will have excuse for the films and tv series I watch at least with foreign
subtitles

And the last question is: Which language?

"Obvious" choice seems to be Spanish. French is surely above B1. Other options are
somewhere between A0-A2 (German, Italian, Swedish). Does anyone choose that beginner-
phase languages for te challenge?
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Sunja
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 Message 88 of 713
13 April 2012 at 10:42am | IP Logged 
Cavesa wrote:
Does anyone choose that beginner-phase languages for te challenge?


I'm starting at zero! I can't exactly "read" in my beginnner language but I can already pick the language apart -- as long as it's not too complicated. I'm starting with children's books. There's not that many children's books available so I also plan to read each book twice -- but I'll give it a week or so between reads

It's all a bit too advanced for me but I figure this will be a fun and interesting experiment. If this actually works I'll do this for the next language. If it doesn't work I'll still pick up a mass of vocabulary and idioms/phrases to help me towards fluency and I haven't lost anything.

edit: typos

Edited by Sunja on 13 April 2012 at 10:43am



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