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| Anya Pentaglot Senior Member France Joined 5588 days ago 636 posts - 708 votes  Speaks: Russian*, FrenchC1, English, Italian, Spanish Studies: German, Japanese, Hungarian, Sanskrit, Portuguese, Turkish, Mandarin Studies: Ancient Greek, Hindi | Message 425 of 656 02 July 2012 at 6:47pm | IP Logged |
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update: English
Books: 184 pages -“ the book thief “163 pages - scientific journals 21 pages films: 261 minutes -“pride and prejudice “ 100 minutes - conversations 96 minutes - songs 5 minutes - meeting 60 minutes Writing: 348 words -comments 110 words - mails 238 words Edited by Anya on 04 July 2012 at 3:36pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| dbag Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4817 days ago 605 posts - 1046 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 426 of 656 03 July 2012 at 12:56am | IP Logged |
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Update: Spanish
Films: 35 Books: 3 Conversations: 2 Writing: 1 Okay, so this is my first update in this thread. I've not been following along, as I already spend way to much time on the site, I genuinely fear that if I where to try and keep up all the challenge threads that I wouldn't spend enough time on the actual challenge itself. To be honest, I've not spent to much time focusing on the challenge, as I'm preoccupied with getting through fsi, which really is a beast of a course, and completing a couple of Grammar books, something I feel I realy need to do at the moment. I've made good headway on the films front, as listening comprehension practice is a huge priority for me. I would say that roughly half of my film count is made up of learning podcasts, and the other half of native content. I think a great synergy is achieved by combining the two. I have been focusing on extensive rather than intensive listening, I.E getting the jist of a range of material but not repeatedly listening to the same material. I am planning on switching over to an intensive regime soon though, by trying out Ari's Chinesepod method, and using the excellent resources which can be found at Audiria.com I regularly listen to espanol podcast and Spanishpod, both of which are excellent. I have listened to notes in Spanish a bit, which I feel is inferior in many ways to the other 2. I have watched several interesting documentaries on RTVES. I will compose a list of interesting content when I get the chance. I have noticed that there is a big difference between listening to narration, which I find Quite easy, and actual dialog as can be found in films. I have read some of the FSI readings, a basic parallel text and a graded reader. I'm also close to finishing Carlos Casteneda's "viaje a ixtlan". Once I have finished FSI I will put a lot more attention on the challenge, and do a better job of recording what I have read/watched and what I thought about it. Edited by dbag on 03 July 2012 at 12:58am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| hjordis Senior Member United States snapshotsoftheworld. Joined 4981 days ago 209 posts - 264 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 427 of 656 03 July 2012 at 3:45am | IP Logged |
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Japanese Books
1. HunterxHunter treasures vol.1 manga 788 pages=157 pages 2. HunterxHunter treasures vol.2 manga 520 pages=104 pages 3. HunterxHunter treasures vol.3 manga 482 pages=96 pages I finally finished this one. 3 More to go and then I can start working on my other books. Japanese Movies 1. となりのトトロ 2.魔法の宅急便 3.崖の上のポニョ French Books 1. Easy French Reader 100 pages 2. Harry Potter à L'école des Sorciers 305 pages French Movies 1. Le Roi Lion 2. Mon Voisin Totoro 3. Les Chroniques de Narnia : L'Armoire Magique 4. Ponyo sur la Falaise French Writings 1. Présenter Moi-Même (58 words) I have the day off tomorrow and I can't go online even if I want to so I'm hoping I can get a lot done. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Tamise Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom jllrr.wordpress.com/ Joined 5038 days ago 115 posts - 161 votes Speaks: English*, German, Dutch Studies: French, Japanese, Spanish | Message 428 of 656 03 July 2012 at 7:47am | IP Logged |
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3/7/12 Update
JAPANESE FILMS: 9. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets 10. Kindaichi Volumne 1 11. Backdancers All watched in Japanese with no subs. The Kindaichi anime episodes were actually the same story as one of the manga I read recently, so I knew the story. Backdancers is not my normal kind of movie - it's about a group of dancers who are the backing group for a singer and is the story of what they do when she decides to move on. (I thought she went to get married, but a review I read said she wanted to go solo, which doesn't really make much sense, so I'm not sure who was wrong.) Fun, and fairly light. JAPANESE BOOKS: 7. 齋藤孝のゼッタイこれだけ！名作教室 小学１年上 読解力がグングンのびる！ + Manga: 1 Young Kindaichi Case Files, Cowa Another set of short stories. I preferred these to the last set. Think this is partly because these ones (like the first set I read) contain summaries and discussion of the stories within the text. I find this helps to clarify things I didn't understand. 2 more manga - Kindaichi again, and also Cowa. Cowa I would really recommend - it's the story of a half were-koala half vampire boy, his ghost friend and the monster village they live in. FRENCH FILMS: 2. NYPD Blue S1 E3-4 3. M*A*S*H S1 E1-4 4. M*A*S*H S1 E5-8 5. La cage aux folles 6. M*A*S*H S1 E9-11 7. M*A*S*H S1 E12-16 8. Petits meurtres en famille episode 1 I discovered I'm not that keen on NYPD Blue and that my M*A*S*H DVDs have a French dub on them! Also watched La cage aux folles - prefer the American version, but this one has it's moments. Petits meurtres en famille is a modern French adaptation of Hercule Poirot's Christmas, with the action moved to France and no Poirot. So far, so good, though a little slow as it's 4 x 90-minute telemovies for the whole story. This set was followed by several more (think still ongoing) with one 90 minute episode per story. After having watched the first episode of this set, I'll definitely get the others at some point. FRENCH BOOKS: 2. Le meurtre de Roger Ackroyd I really like this book. It's a while since I read it, and it was fun to give it a go in French. GENERAL Happy with my progress so far, though need to do some more reading. Having busted an already fragile shoulder recently, I'm not able to do as much uni study as normal, so reading and watching stuff in Japanese and French has gained some time from that. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Brun Ugle Diglot Senior Member Norway brunugle.wordpress.c Joined 6415 days ago 1292 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English*, NorwegianC1 Studies: Japanese, Esperanto, Spanish, Finnish | Message 429 of 656 03 July 2012 at 8:02am | IP Logged |
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UPDATE
Movies: 1. となりのトトロ (Tonari no Totoro) «My Neighbor Totoro» (w/o sub) 2. 魔女の宅急便 (Majo no Takkyūbin), “Kiki’s Delivery Service” (w/ norwegian sub) + (w/o sub) 3. 歩いても歩いても (Aruitemo Aruitemo) “Still Walking” (w/o sub) + (w/norwegian sub) + (w/o sub) 4. 雨月物語 (Ugetsu Monogatari）”Tales of Moonlight and Rain” (w/o sub) + (w/english sub) + (w/o sub) *5. Tokyo Sonata (w/o subs) I had been intending to watch this in my usual way -- w/o subs, w/subs, w/o subs, but life got in the way and I only managed to see it once before having to return it to the library. It’s from a library in another town, so I only borrow movies from there if I know I’m going back within a week and can return them, so it will be a while before I can borrow it again. Anyway, here is my guess as to what it was about. It’s from 2008 when the economic crisis hit. It’s about a guy who loses his apparently very good job. He’s ashamed of being out of work, so every day he puts on his suit and acts like he’s going to work when he’s actually going to the employment office. Meanwhile a burglar breaks into his house and finding that there is no money, kidnaps his wife instead. She has several opportunities to escape, but chooses not to. I got the impression that she was trying to get away from her life and start fresh. Anyway, the man and his wife both die. Before dying they both say, “I want to do it over.” A little while later, they get up and eat dinner. Some other people died too, but they didn’t get up to eat dinner afterwards (presumably they weren’t all that hungry). If I get the chance to watch it over, I might actually figure out what it’s about and will be able to give it a proper review. Books: 1. ハリー・ポッターとアズカバンの囚人 (HP 3) (639 pg) 2. ハリー・ポッターと炎のゴブレット (HP 4) (1005 pg) Writing: 1. 自己紹介 (75 words) 2. 大挑戦 (114 words) 3. 新しい仕事を引き受けるか今の仕事を続ける か ―― 私の両刀論法 (313 words) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| kanewai Triglot Senior Member United States justpaste.it/kanewai Joined 4684 days ago 1386 posts - 3054 votes Speaks: English*, French, Marshallese Studies: Italian, Spanish | Message 430 of 656 03 July 2012 at 8:05am | IP Logged |
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Tamise - if you still have La Cage aux Folles, it's the only French flic I've watched recently that also has
subtitles in French. It really helped catch more of the humor. I wish more movies did this. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| dbag Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4817 days ago 605 posts - 1046 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 431 of 656 03 July 2012 at 11:16am | IP Logged |
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What has frustrated me the most? The lack of English DVDs that come with Spanish
subtitles. I'm truly surprised by this, I would of thought they would all have Spanish Subtitles, being such an important language. Has anyone else found this? I went through a box that must of had near to 50 DVDs in, and there where maybe 2 that had Spanish subtitles! Crazy. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Anya Pentaglot Senior Member France Joined 5588 days ago 636 posts - 708 votes Speaks: Russian*, FrenchC1, English, Italian, Spanish Studies: German, Japanese, Hungarian, Sanskrit, Portuguese, Turkish, Mandarin Studies: Ancient Greek, Hindi | Message 432 of 656 03 July 2012 at 11:39am | IP Logged |
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Sorry, I put my English update to the wrong thread, it shoud be in "Advanced Challenge".
And now: Update: Spanish Books: 32 pages -“Ines del alma mia “ films: 91 minutes -audiobook V.Woolf 16 minutes - songs (Julio Iglesias, 2 albums 1978) 75 minutes 1 person has voted this message useful |
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