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| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5129 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes  Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 313 of 656 01 June 2012 at 9:45pm | IP Logged | ||
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RUSSIAN UPDATE
FILMS 1. Robin Hood (May 1st)(Russian, no subs) 2. The Jungle Book (May 1st)(Russian, no subs) 3. The Jungle Book 3 (May 5th)(Russian, no subs) 4. Love and other impossible pursuits (Russian, no subs)(May 10th) 5. Letters to Juliet (May 10th)(with Russian subtitles). 6. Water for Elephants (May 12th) (Russian, no subs) 7. The Lincoln Advocate (May 13th) Russian - no subs 8. When in Rome (May 17th) (Russian, no subs) CONVERSATION 1. Conversation (May 1st) 2. Conversation (May 1st). 3. Conversation (May 24th)Week end plans 4. Conversation (May 24th)Plans birthday 5. Conversation (May 26th) Travel plans 6. Conversation (May 26th) Visit from Russia 7. Conversation (May 29th) The place I live 8. Conversation (May 29th) My hobbies 9. Conversation (May 29th) Me 10.Conversation (May 29th) My family 11.Conversation (May 29th) Don't remember, but I had a fantastic time. (A really good bottle of wine and two Russians involved) 12.Conversation (May 30th)Language studies 13.Conversation (May 30th) Spain READING 1. Appointment with death (AC) May 8th) (280 pages) NEWEST ITEM - FILM 9. Keinohrhasen June 1st (no subs) Now I have seen a few weird films in my life, but this is, without a doubt, the weirdest I have seen ever. I looked it up and found to my immense surprise, that it was a box office hit, and was the sixth most succesful film ever in Germany. I can only say one thing: I obviously do not have a German sense of humour. I am not much in favour of slap stick humour with too much bodily functions involved, and when the only scene which really made me laugh, was one where a woman vomits all over the guy she just had sex with, it says a lot about the film... It got slightly better towards the end, but the first half hour was awful. It almost made me long for the none to bright American series we have been watching in French. And I really did not think anything could make me say that... 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5129 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 314 of 656 01 June 2012 at 11:20pm | IP Logged | ||
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I have written a periodical update for the top contestants of The Super Challenge, you are welcome to take a look!
PERIODICAL UPDATE It would also be great to have your 1 month's status. Have you begun, what do you like the best, what has frustrated you the most, what is the strategy for the rest of the challenge? Edit: EmailQueen, Blackdahlia and Cartouche - you have been added to the list of participants. Welcome to the party! Go Super Challengers - old and new! Edited by Solfrid Cristin on 01 June 2012 at 11:39pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Kerrie Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Kerrie2 Joined 5190 days ago 1232 posts - 1740 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 315 of 656 02 June 2012 at 1:23am | IP Logged | ||
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Well, I have my updated list over here, but as of June 1, this is what I've accomplished.
Spanish Super Duper Challenge movies, tv shows 1. La Sirenita (The Little Mermaid), film, finished May 17, 2012 2. Harry Potter y la Piedra Filosofal, film, finished May 19, 2012 3. Stargate SG1, (The Torment of Tantalus) (The Nox), subs & dubs, finished May 27, 2012 4. Stargate SG1, (Fire and Water) (Hathor), subs & dubs, finished May 27, 2012 5. Stargate SG1, (Cor-Ai) (Singularity), subs & dubs, finished May 28, 2012 books: 1. (3 more chapters left of Harry Potter y la Piedra Filosofal) writings: 1. Assimil Using Spanish (Advanced) Lesson 1, copied, May 31, 2012 2. Assimil Using Spanish (Advanced) Lesson 2, copied, June 1, 201 French Super Duper Challenge audiobooks, movies, TV shows: 1. Harry Potter à L'École des Sorciers, audiobook, finished May 8, 2012 6. Harry Potter à L'École des Sorciers, film, finished May 10, 2012 7. Harry Potter à L'École des Sorciers, film, finished May 16, 2012 8. Harry Potter et la Chambre des Secrets, film subs, finished May 19, 2012 9. Harry Potter et la Chambre des Secrets, film audio, finished May 19, 2012 10. Stargate SG1 Children of the Gods, TV subs, finished May 20, 2012 11 Stargate SG1 (Emancipation), FR subs, then FR audio & subs, finished May 21, 2012 12. Harry Potter et le Prisionnier d'Azkaban, film subs, finished May 23, 2012 writings: 1. Assimil French with Ease Lesson 75, copied, May 30, 2012 2. Assimil French with Ease Lesson 76, copied, May 30, 2012 3. Assimil French with Ease Lesson 78, copied May 31, 2012 4. Assimil French with Ease Lesson 79, copied May 31, 2012 5. Assimil French with Ease Lesson 80, copied June 1, 2012 6. Assimil French with Ease Lesson 81, copied June 1, 2012 German Super Duper Challenge writings: 1. Assimil German with Ease Lesson 44, copied, May 31, 2012 Right now, I am finishing Assimil French with Ease and working through German with Ease, so most of my writing will be from that, since I copy each lesson by hand. I find that I learn better through writing and copying things, anyways. I already have a notebook full of French and two from Spanish, but most of that is from before. Also, I will stop counting Assimil as my writing once I get to 50. At that point, I will only count writings that I have produced myself. I also got my Harry Potter Bluray Disc Set in the mail this week from the UK. It has 10-15 audio tracks per movie, and 25-30 subtitle tracks. I anticipate I will be having a lot of fun with it. They have audio and subs in Dutch, Swedish and Catalan for most of the movies - all three of which are on my long-term hit list.. Speaking of Harry, my friend's daughter (the one I am learning German with this summer) is over for the night, and all the girls are insisting I come watch the movie with them. The first one, which I have watched four times in the past month. haha Hopefully June will be even more productive for me. This challenge has really motivated me a lot! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5129 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 316 of 656 02 June 2012 at 1:30am | IP Logged | ||
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Wow! That is some impressive work you have done there!
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 emk Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5327 days ago 2615 posts - 8806 votes Speaks: English*, FrenchB2 Studies: Spanish, Ancient Egyptian Personal Language Map | Message 317 of 656 02 June 2012 at 1:54pm | IP Logged | ||
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Movies:
5. Buffy contre les vampires, 1.05 & 1.06 6. Buffy contre les vampires, 1.07 & 1.08 7. Buffy contre les vampires, 1.09 & 1.10 8. Buffy contre les vampires, 1.11 & 1.12 9. Buffy contre les vampires, 2.01 & 2.02 Yay! I can finally understand enough of Buffy to just veg out and watch it, with an occasional question for my wife or quick glance at a transcript. So I'm going plow through the entire box set pretty aggressively. I really like the actor who plays Giles in the French version. He's just so… pendantic. Books: 1. Five bandes dessinées: Siegfried Siegfried : La Walkyrie Astérix Le Gaulois Astérix : La Serpe d'or Tin Tin : Coke en Stock My reading spead took a big jump in the last week or two. Tin Tin tends to be very text-heavy. Siegfried is excellent, but there's less text than Asterix. I have several other half-finished books which I need to work on soon. Conversation: Non-stop use at home. Lots of DELF B2 productions orales. Several more language exchanges on Skype. A short conversation with some friendly French speakers at a wedding. Edited by emk on 02 June 2012 at 2:59pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6392 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 318 of 656 02 June 2012 at 2:44pm | IP Logged | ||
2. uninterrupted reading for hours. 3. that my total goal is 300 "books" but i've read just 8. not a huge frustration really... 4. no real "strategy" but i'll slow down with Polish after Euro-2012. In fact I wouldn't want to complete almost anything before December 2013, so I'll happily do one book and film per month after my sprint :) Will probably complete the Italian "films" part already this year though, but Italian is so thoroughly embedded in my daily life that I don't think it'll be a problem. I'll also try to do 6WC/Tadoku mostly/only in my super challenge languages. I hope to improve my "books" score significantly during Tadoku and just off-6WC. I'll do a lot of AJATT reading. also, i can't imagine doing it all if i wasn't in harmony with my monthly cycle. 2a. if you meant the specific materials i liked, that would be: -wszystko czerwone in Polish -Russia-Italy 3:0 yesterday ;) -selective rereading of HP here's the full list btw... Also thank you for the nice words in the periodical summary ♥ Funny but I really admire the one who did the same amount of stuff but in just one language. I've been focused on Polish the way I hadn't been on any language since I was a beginner in Finnish. Edited by Serpent on 02 June 2012 at 2:50pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4704 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German | Message 319 of 656 02 June 2012 at 8:32pm | IP Logged | ||
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UPDATE #8
Haven't updated for a while, so I have several things to add: 4 French films and another Hindi film. I also read a short French book, so it counts as a third of a book; I'll be reading it again after I study some of the vocab I marked in the book. FRENCH FILMS 1. French in Action Lessons 2-4. 2. TV5 shows (1 hour 40 mins total). 3. On choisit pas ses parents. 4. French in Action lessons 5-7. 5. Cartoons on TV5 (about 2 hours in total). 6. French in Action lessons 8-10. 7. French in Action lessons 11-13 8. French in Action lessons 14-16 9. French in Action lessons 17-19 10. État de manque An enjoyable if shallow comedy. FRENCH BOOKS 1. Assimil New French with Ease. 2. Max et Mathilde en vacances. 31 page book: Rémi et le mystère de Saint-Péray. Listened to the audio on its own at least 4 times. HINDI FILMS 1. Dhobhi Ghat (Mumbai Diaries). 2. Coolie A classic Amitabh Bachchan film from the 80s. I think it was only really a hit because the big A nearly died during the filming of it. The film pauses and a title comes on telling you the exact moment he was punched and sent to the hospital. HINDI BOOKS 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Vārds Bilingual Diglot Newbie Latvia Joined 4705 days ago 24 posts - 41 votes Speaks: Russian*, Latvian* Studies: German | Message 320 of 656 02 June 2012 at 10:05pm | IP Logged | ||
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Just finished my first book - "Die Tribute von Panem 1. Tödliche Spiele". It took a whole month to get through 322 pages (according to Kindle page count).
Although I was reading extensively and didn't use a dictionary a lot (I still haven't found a good German dictionary for Kindle, all that I had tried don't handle an inflected forms very well) I feel that my ability to understand German text, especially usage of separable verbs, has tremendously improved (even without understanding every single word). Well, it's 9678 pages to go :) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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