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| Tamise Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom jllrr.wordpress.com/ Joined 5029 days ago 115 posts - 161 votes  Speaks: English*, German, Dutch Studies: French, Japanese, Spanish | Message 17 of 713 11 April 2012 at 6:43pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Uitzendinggemist is fantastic for TV. I'm sure it includes some films, but I mainly use it to watch detective shows.
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| drsarvo Diglot Senior Member Mexico Joined 4498 days ago 143 posts - 149 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: Russian | Message 18 of 713 11 April 2012 at 6:48pm | IP Logged | |||||
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It's a great idea. I am in with Russian. I hope that by the end of the challenge I will master it, once and for all.
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| geoffw Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4474 days ago 1134 posts - 1865 votes Speaks: English*, German, Yiddish Studies: Modern Hebrew, French, Dutch, Italian, Russian | Message 19 of 713 11 April 2012 at 6:48pm | IP Logged | |||||
Well, I'll wait and see what we decide about podcasts before making a final decision on language. If we're counting podcasts under films, it might not be that hard to find free materials for Yiddish. I'm not sure podcasts are really comparable, though. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5120 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 20 of 713 11 April 2012 at 6:50pm | IP Logged | |||||
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WOW! You guys are the best! Here I was happy that one person wanted to join me, and before I get home from work we were a whole bunch!
I want to make this as accessible as possible, so yes, if someone wants to read non fiction, that is fine. A book is a book. I would think a textbook would be more trouble to get through than a novel, but we all have different tastes. With paralell texts you just have to see how many pages are in your target language. Less than 100 pages = half a book. More than 100 pages counts as a full book. More than 500 counts as two books. As for manga I am totally out of my depth. How many mangas would those of you who know manga be able to read in the same time as you read a book which had between 100-500 pages? 4,5,10? For TV shows, anything under 45 minutes counts as half a film. As for podcasts and audiobooks I would suggest that we count them as films - they are both listening practise. A normal film is around 1 hour and a half, so the equivalent in podcasts would qualify. I'll amend the rules :-) I am going to Spain tomorrow, and will be away for a week, and I do not know if I will have any internet access. Therefore I pray for your indulgence if questions come up while I am away that I do answer until next Thursday. I thought I might get two or three willing souls within the first week of suggesting this! Perhaps I could ask ReneeMona to use her best judgement and answer for me if anyone gets impatient? Edited by Solfrid Cristin on 11 April 2012 at 6:54pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Martinovich Triglot Newbie Netherlands admartinovich.wordpr Joined 4830 days ago 27 posts - 32 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Russian Studies: Turkish, Belarusian, Persian | Message 21 of 713 11 April 2012 at 7:02pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Excellent idea! It'll at least force me to do some actual reading/watching movies. Probably I'll go with Belarusian (although finding 100 movies might be difficult)
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| ReneeMona Diglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 5121 days ago 864 posts - 1274 votes Speaks: Dutch*, EnglishC2 Studies: French | Message 22 of 713 11 April 2012 at 7:03pm | IP Logged | |||||
Wow, I feel honored. :) Edited by ReneeMona on 11 April 2012 at 7:03pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5120 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 23 of 713 11 April 2012 at 7:10pm | IP Logged | |||||
Old team mates and soon birthday girls :-) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| drsarvo Diglot Senior Member Mexico Joined 4498 days ago 143 posts - 149 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: Russian | Message 24 of 713 11 April 2012 at 7:23pm | IP Logged | |||||
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By the way, are we going to use a twitter bot in order to register our progress?
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