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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 265 of 656 17 May 2012 at 1:53pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Update #2
1. Books: The Little Prince Japanese version. I read it through 3 times, so I'm sure it's over 100 pages. I'm still slow with reading in Japanese, but hopefully, the challenge will fix all that! 2. Films/Drama: This where I've been spending most of my time! 1. Doctors 最強の名医 (Seikyou no Meii): A great medical drama about how sometimes medical care can focus more on financial figures, the conveniences of physicians, and hospital bureaucracy rather than the patients' well-being, which is sadly very true, and how one newly-hired physician is getting around all of that through smart and gutsy tactics. A really gripping show, and not corny or over-rated at all. It's got it's funny, sad, and hardcore moments, as well as a great cast, so, for Japanese learners out there, a must see. I've watched 3 episodes around 50 minutes each. 2. Saikou no Jinsei no Owarikata ~Ending Planner~ (最高の人生の終り方～エンディングプラン � �ー ～): This is such an awesome drama! It's both heart-wrenching and heart-warming. This drama revolves around a young man who quits his job and takes over his father's family business after he suddenly dies, a funeral parlor responsible for burying the dead. He hated his father's job so much, and left home after he graduated college, then after a number of experiences he decides to take over. It's not your typical detective story, because it shows a whole new angle to mysteries surrounding the death of the individual, the individual in question, and his relatives, friends, and contacts. It really gives an entirely human aspect to the cases, as well as a major focus on the main character's life and his family, unlike other detective dramas which focus more on the case rather than the victim. There's so much to the drama in terms of teaching one to appreciate life and the little things in it. It is really acted out perfectly by the cast, and their is comedy, and of course, heartbreaking moments since the main theme of the story is death. I've watched 5 episodes so far, around 50 minutes each. 3. Nodame Cantabille: Hilarious, sweet, and moving is how I would describe it. A troubled college student musician who wants to be a conductor, and a ditzy, but genius, gril pianist, his colleague at college, and neighbor, who falls in love with him at first site. Very funny and moving. It triggered my love for piano again! Revolves around music, their story, as well as their music friends, endeavors in both music and relationships. I loved it so much :) Watched all 10 episodes, I think 56 minutes each, and still have to watch the movie. So I think it counts like this: Doctors: 1 film and a half. Saikyou: 2 films and a half Nodame Cantabille: 5 films I guess a total of 9 films. And 1 book. I didn't use subs, for most of it, and I was able to follow at a much better rate than before. LR really helped me with that. So that's it for now. I will finish the above, and probably re-watch them again because they're so good, then come back and post newer dramas and films that I have on my queue. I will also update my paste it sheet soon. EDIT: I edited the names above. Edited by Woodsei on 21 May 2012 at 5:00am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| microsnout TAC 2010 Winner Senior Member Canada microsnout.wordpress Joined 5265 days ago 277 posts - 553 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 266 of 656 17 May 2012 at 2:36pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Update #7
35/100 Films "30 Vies", Season 1 Episodes 21-40 (20 episodes of 22 min each) "30 Vies", Season 1 Episodes 01-20 (20 episodes of 22 min each) "Toute la vérité", Season 3 Vol 1 (10 episodes of 45 min each) "Toute la vérité", Season 2 (20 episodes of 45 min each) "Toute la vérité", Season 1 (20 episodes of 45 min each) **** I'm sure I will slow down after I get through these TV series and switch to the 35 movies I have waiting - and the reading. 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 267 of 656 17 May 2012 at 2:38pm | IP Logged | |||||
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In case someone has missed it, I just wanted you to know that we have made a slight modification to the rules. Every 100 pages counts as a book.
This means that if you read a 495 page book it will count as 4 books in stead of 1. And if you read 5 of the pages twice it will count as 5 :-) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4703 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German | Message 268 of 656 17 May 2012 at 6:14pm | IP Logged | |||||
Does this mean that for children's books, comics, and mange, we simply divide the page count by 5? It would probably simplify things for people. Certainly the page counting will simplify counting for those who are reading articles and such. Has the bot been updated to reflect the change in rules? 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Brun Ugle Diglot Senior Member Norway brunugle.wordpress.c Joined 6414 days ago 1292 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English*, NorwegianC1 Studies: Japanese, Esperanto, Spanish, Finnish | Message 269 of 656 17 May 2012 at 8:32pm | IP Logged | |||||
The bot has been updated. I agree that the easiest way to count things like manga would be to divide the page count by 5 since we had agreed earlier that 5 manga count as one book. I have so far avoided manga because of my uncertainty about how to count the pages. I prefer to count pages rather than books, so if we could all agree to just divide by 5, I think that would be great. What does everyone else think? Does that sound fair? 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| kanewai Triglot Senior Member United States justpaste.it/kanewai Joined 4683 days ago 1386 posts - 3054 votes Speaks: English*, French, Marshallese Studies: Italian, Spanish | Message 270 of 656 17 May 2012 at 9:34pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I don't think I've read a manga, but I have a couple graphic novels. If they're the
same, then "Divide by Five" seems fair. I see a couple people listing coursebooks like Assimil. I'm torn about whether to include that on my count, since I don't 'read' it in the same way that I read a novel. Do we have any standard protocol for that? 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 271 of 656 17 May 2012 at 10:13pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Dividing manga by 5 is fine, and I have said previously that it is ok. to count a textbook as a book, provided
you have started or redone the reading after May 1st, and there is at least 100 pages of actual text in your target language. In a book like Assimil that can be a bit tricky to count, since there are so many notes and parallel texts, that it can be difficult to know when you reach a 100 actual pages of text. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Luna Moonsilver Diglot Groupie Germany lunaslanglog.wordpreRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4872 days ago 77 posts - 99 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Russian, Mandarin, Korean | Message 272 of 656 17 May 2012 at 10:20pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Update 01
German Books: I finished the last 70 something pages of Harry Potter und der Stein der Weisen; with the first 40 pages of Harry Potter und die Kammer des Schreckens, that's one book under the new bot rules. (Wooh!)So: 01/50. Films: I watched Der König der Löwen, but accidentally registered it as 90 minutes instead of 80, so I'm going to adjust the next film to fix that. (Also, I need to make sure I read the rules properly next time -_-). Total: 01/50. Chinese Books: I'm reading a children's book, 《吹牛大战》but I don't think I'm even 5 pages through, so nothing's been registered! Books are hard for Chinese; I need to get some more vocabulary under my belt and it's more or less what I'm going to spend the summer working on. Total: 000/100. Films: I'm watching a TV series, 《宫-鎖心玉》and I've watched the equivalent of 9 films - nearly 14 hours! I count each episode as 45 minutes, so by the time I'm done with the series I should have watched almost 18 films. Total: 009/100. Writing: I've written one piece on lang-8, describing the Super Challenge -《超级挑战》. I'm really glad I decided to do this part of the challenge; I'm writing my entries out by hand before I type them up so that I practice the characters and have time to think about what I'm doing. It's fun! Total: 001/100. Whew, that seems like a lot more than I thought. I'm going to finish the children's book and work my way through the rest of the Harry Potter series in German - I need to find some more German films though; I only really have the ones I've used for school or university and they're not always my cup of tea :/ Edited by Luna Moonsilver on 17 May 2012 at 10:21pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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