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| hjordis Senior Member United States snapshotsoftheworld. Joined 4964 days ago 209 posts - 264 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: French, German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 185 of 713 20 April 2012 at 10:04pm | IP Logged | ||
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| Bao Diglot Senior Member Germany tinyurl.com/pe4kqe5 Joined 5544 days ago 2256 posts - 4046 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Spanish, Japanese, Mandarin | Message 186 of 713 21 April 2012 at 12:36am | IP Logged | ||
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Being honest to myself, I don't have the time for such a challenge. But I feel like reviving my blog and including short book/movie reviews, so I guess getting hyped up wasn't all in vain.
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| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5112 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 187 of 713 21 April 2012 at 8:44am | IP Logged | ||
Getting hyped up is never in vain:-) This is a steep challenge, I have every respect for those who see that it is not for them. I do not even know if I will make it myself, but if several of us manage to do more than we otherwise would have, and even just a few of us break the finishing line within New Year's Eve 2013 I will still cry success. And here we do not get one winner. We might possibly get someone who reaches the goal first, but every single person who completes a full or a half Super challenge is truly a winner. Edited by Solfrid Cristin on 21 April 2012 at 8:46am 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Tamise Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom jllrr.wordpress.com/ Joined 5021 days ago 115 posts - 161 votes Speaks: English*, German, Dutch Studies: French, Japanese, Spanish | Message 188 of 713 21 April 2012 at 12:07pm | IP Logged | ||
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Yes, absolutely - this isn't the kind of competition where you're up against the other participants. Kind of like a marathon where you want every one else to get through (at least, that's what it's like for those of us who run somewhere near the back in these things!) rather than a short fast race where you want to win.
I got a gift voucher for Grant & Cutler - fabulous language book shop in London - for my birthday last week, so I'm really looking forward to a trip to London to use it on books for the challenge - that way I'll get to see how difficult they are rather than just guessing on online sites. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6248 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 189 of 713 21 April 2012 at 3:55pm | IP Logged | ||
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Alright... against my better judgement I shall do a mixed Half Challenge for Chinese.
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| GRagazzo Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 4739 days ago 115 posts - 168 votes Speaks: Italian, English* Studies: Spanish, Swedish, French | Message 190 of 713 21 April 2012 at 6:08pm | IP Logged | ||
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You know what, I'm going to be honest with myself because I will not be able to complete
a full super challenge. So I am now changing to half challenge for Italian. Edited by GRagazzo on 21 April 2012 at 9:14pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4687 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German | Message 191 of 713 21 April 2012 at 8:01pm | IP Logged | ||
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I've been in two minds about whether to continue my current study of French, or to turn back to Hindi for the super challenge. I have just started taking a class on Hinduism (well, it starts Monday), and I have loads of books and DVD's in Hindi. On the other hand, I started learning French about a year ago, am about halfway through Assimil, and will be in France and Belgium for two weeks this summer. I don't want to lose my momentum with French. I think I will be settling on doing two 50/50 challenges. I doubt I'll hit the target with either language, but I'll enjoy the fun of trying!
I'm planning to count 4 episodes of French in Action as 1 film. Is that about the right ratio? EDIT: I have another question. I have a bilingual (French/English) copy of The Little Prince, which is 103 pages. However, my German-only copy is 111 pages. I think the reason is that the bilingual copy is large format. So do I count the bilingual copy as a half book or a full book? Edited by Jeffers on 21 April 2012 at 8:13pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| sabotai Senior Member United States Joined 5660 days ago 391 posts - 489 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Japanese, Korean, French | Message 192 of 713 22 April 2012 at 12:05am | IP Logged | ||
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This is coming along at the perfect time for me. I was planning on picking my German back up on May 1st. Although, I'm a really slow reader in English, let alone another language, so I'll be opting for the half Super Challenge of watching 100 German films.
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