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| Woodsei Bilingual Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Woodsei Joined 4591 days ago 614 posts - 782 votes  Speaks: English*, Arabic (Egyptian)* Studies: Russian, Japanese, Hungarian | Message 161 of 656 04 May 2012 at 1:28pm | IP Logged | |||||
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First Update:
1. Books: Japanese Graded Readers Levels 1 and 2. Each level has 3 volumes, and each volume has 5 books, so, I'm not sure how to count exactly. I guess I'll just count each volume as a book, since these were relatively short, even though they were longer than children's books, definitely. So, two books until now. 2. Film: 2 episodes of the TV show JIN. Each was about 55 minutes, so that should count as 1 film. Also, here's a link to my just paste it sheet where I'll be noting down all the materials covered to keep a tab on things and have an exhaustive list at the end of the challenge. Woodsei I've also posted the link to my profile. Good luck all! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| maydayayday Pentaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5013 days ago 564 posts - 839 votes Speaks: English*, German, Italian, SpanishB2, FrenchB2 Studies: Arabic (Egyptian), Russian, Swedish, Turkish, Polish, Persian, Vietnamese Studies: Urdu | Message 162 of 656 04 May 2012 at 3:06pm | IP Logged | |||||
I've checked my supplier - [makes it sound sinister doesn't it?] - and from what I've seen on the shelves the most common language options to have on a disc in the UK seem to be English/Sign with Hungarian and Polish. Must get myself a new dealer! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| becks Newbie United States Joined 4508 days ago 5 posts - 11 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Russian | Message 163 of 656 04 May 2012 at 10:56pm | IP Logged | |||||
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LANGUAGE: Spanish
CHALLENGE:100/100 (Full) CURRENT LEVEL: Somewhere in the A2 range Exams finish as of next week so I'll begin after next weekend! When I have a moment I'll register with the bot as well. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| fiziwig Senior Member United States Joined 4659 days ago 297 posts - 618 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 164 of 656 05 May 2012 at 12:18am | IP Logged | |||||
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Well I'm in big trouble now!
I've been meaning to read "Hunger Games" in my native English, but I also need to do my daily Spanish reading for the challenge. So instead of reading my graded readers in Spanish, and Hunger Games in English, I got the Kindle edition of Hunger Games in Spanish. That's 384 pages! Way more than I intended to tackle this early on, but I'm a dozen pages into it so far, and It's going pretty well! But still, 384 pages! That's a lot to bite off. I hope I can chew it. :) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5128 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 165 of 656 05 May 2012 at 12:38am | IP Logged | |||||
I am confident you can! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5128 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 166 of 656 05 May 2012 at 8:55am | IP Logged | |||||
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UPDATE
FILMS 1. Robin Hood (May 1st) 2. The Jungle Book (May 1st) 3. The Jungle Book 3 May 5th. At first I just screamed when I found out that the dubbing was not done properly - it was one of those typical Russian dubbings where you hear the English in between - or first - or under - or whatever. However after a little while I managed to use it to my advantage, so that when I heard something in English I could check it up against the Russian, and how much I understood. Unlike the two previous ones, I had never seen this one before - in fact I did not even realize there was a sequel, but it was o.k. as these things go. And it may be delusion on my part, but it felt like I understood so much more than before. I am starting out nicely with the children's films, and will evantually go on to the ones for adults which have a more advanced vocabulary. Still: learning so much already! CONVERSATION 1. Conversation May 1st 2. Conversation May 1st. I cannot list anything in the reading department yet. I am such a slow reader in Russian, it makes me crazy. If I just push on without looking anything up I can manage to do 10 pages in an hour now, but when I yesterday started looking words up, I was down to 4 pages an hour. Had I looked up everything I guess I would have been down to half a page per hour. Still, I have managed to read over a 100 pages of the book already, so I have made some progress this week :-) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Tamise Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom jllrr.wordpress.com/ Joined 5037 days ago 115 posts - 161 votes Speaks: English*, German, Dutch Studies: French, Japanese, Spanish | Message 167 of 656 05 May 2012 at 10:42am | IP Logged | |||||
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Week 1 Update
FILMS: 1. Ozamu Tezuka's Metropolis 2. Babylon 5 Season 1 Episodes 1-2 3. Babylon 3 Season 1 Episodes 3-4 First time I'd seen Metropolis, so was approaching that fresh - I understood enough to really enjoy it. Watched with no subs. I've watched Babylon 5 often enough to know the story, which is a sort of advantage (not too sure, as it gives a false sense of how much I've understood). BOOKS: 1. 齋藤孝のイッキによめる！名作選 小学1年生 Found this more difficult that I was expecting, but then again, it is the first Japanese book I've read that's not manga. Overall, I didn't get as much reading done this week as I had hoped, mainly due to having lots of study to do (I work full-time and study part-time). I did get more watched that I had planned though, so it sort of evens out. I'll probably update here every Friday evening/Saturday morning with the week's progress - my study week with uni starts on Saturdays, so I use that for my language study too. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Tamise Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom jllrr.wordpress.com/ Joined 5037 days ago 115 posts - 161 votes Speaks: English*, German, Dutch Studies: French, Japanese, Spanish | Message 168 of 656 05 May 2012 at 10:45am | IP Logged | |||||
That's a fair chunk - and you'll definitely get quicker. My Japanese reading speed was abysmal until I decided to concentrate on getting the sounds for a while and not concentrate on the meaning too - that way I got familiar enough with hiragana (and to a lesser extent katakana) that it doesn't phase me now. (We'll not mention kanji...) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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