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| fiziwig Senior Member United States Joined 4662 days ago 297 posts - 618 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 305 of 656 29 May 2012 at 7:41am | IP Logged | ||
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Update: 8 books, 8 pieces of writing and 26 films in Spanish.
I'm reading a fascinating book of interviews by Jorge Ramos called "Detras de la Máscara". I'm logging each 100 pages as I complete them so I can see some progress on my Twitter log page. The first 100 pages took me 4 days. I have two more books by him and the three total 1,000 pages, so that will keep me busy for a while. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| geoffw Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4485 days ago 1134 posts - 1865 votes Speaks: English*, German, Yiddish Studies: Modern Hebrew, French, Dutch, Italian, Russian | Message 306 of 656 29 May 2012 at 3:22pm | IP Logged | ||
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UPDATE - Added Dutch Book Entries 1-5
BOOKS (French) 1. Le Petit Prince FILMS, ETC. (French) 1. The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly 2. Despicable Me BOOKS (Dutch) 1. Harry Potter en de Vuurbeker 2. Harry Potter en de Vuurbeker 3. Harry Potter en de Vuurbeker 4. Harry Potter en de Vuurbeker 5. Harry Potter en de Vuurbeker FILMS, ETC. (Dutch) 1. Naar Het Middlepunt Der Aarde (audiobook) 2. Naar Het Middlepunt Der Aarde (audiobook) 3. Naar Het Middlepunt Der Aarde (audiobook) 4. Naar Het Middlepunt Der Aarde (audiobook) Finished HP and the Goblet of Fire in Dutch at long last, which weighs in at 547 pages. I have the first and sixth HP books in Dutch at the ready, but may try something else for a while. Too much HP for too long is really making me focus on the shortcomings of J. K. Rowling's writing when I should just be enjoying the imaginative aspects of her stories () while improving my language skills. To this end, I downloaded an eBook of Dean Koontz' Odd Thomas (De Gave) from bol.com and got started with that. Still working on HP in French and reading A Game of Thrones in German. I am not entered in any Super Challenge for German, but I can also report for my log: BOOKS (German) 1-3. Harry Potter und der Stein der Weisen 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Marikki Tetraglot Senior Member Finland Joined 5292 days ago 130 posts - 210 votes Speaks: Finnish*, English, Spanish, Swedish Studies: German | Message 307 of 656 29 May 2012 at 3:49pm | IP Logged | ||
Thank you for sharing this! I've been hoping to find some interesting Spanish non-fiction and Ramos' books seem to be very interesting. I've now downloaded the audio version of his "La ola latina" from iTunes. I don't normally like listening to audiobooks but his journalistic writing style works well even in audio. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| sekard Newbie England Joined 4491 days ago 10 posts - 13 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian | Message 308 of 656 29 May 2012 at 5:23pm | IP Logged | ||
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Update #2 weeks 3 & 4
Books Harry potter 1 -Read 127 pages Film 1.La piovra - Season 4 -episodes 1-6:Watched around 480 minutes. 2.Harry Potter 1-Listened to 240 minutes of Audiobook. 3.Cantieri d'italia- Episodes 1-6:Watched around 168 minutes of content. 4.L'italiano in famiglia-Episodes 1-3:watched around 57 minutes of content. 5.Italian RAI News-Watched around 95 minutes of news content. La piovra is a really good series and i found i could understand a fair bit of the Italian that was obviously helped by the use of subtitles.The other films on my list i watched without subtitles.The news i can only understand about 30-50% depending on the content whilst i could understand a fair amount of the L'italiano & cantieri because they are geared towards newly arrived foreigners in italy,so hence the reason for the higher comprehension.I'm still a work in progress.Hovering around the A2 level. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| xees Newbie Joined 4849 days ago 28 posts - 64 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Vietnamese | Message 309 of 656 31 May 2012 at 7:24pm | IP Logged | ||
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i finished my first novel in vietnamese...220 pages and god it was boring. So much happened in the first 30 pages, but so little happened in the last 100 pages...
But it made me realise how much i could understand, despite not knowing so many words - they were mainly adverbs or unimportant adjs to add mood - i stopped worrying and read to understand the gist of things. When i did that I was able to enjoy (or at least enjoy as much as i could - the book sucked) it much more. I managed to read about 120 pages in about 5 or 6 hours....i guess that's good progress? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5131 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 310 of 656 31 May 2012 at 8:12pm | 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). READING 1. Appointment with death (AC) May 8th) (280 pages) NEWEST ITEM - CONVERSATIONS GALORE 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 So - no Russian films lately, and no finished books - but lots of conversations. I have gone to a lot of language classes lately, and I insist that we speak for at least an hour each time. When I meet real live (patient) Russians I do the same. I have started on The Little Prince, but where I in French could fly through it like the wind, and finished it in little over an hour, in Russian it takes ages. Argh. Focusing very hard on New Year's Eve 2013. I WILL have read the 10 000 pages(100 books) by then. I will. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Cartouche Newbie United States Joined 6465 days ago 25 posts - 26 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, Spanish, Japanese | Message 311 of 656 01 June 2012 at 1:14am | IP Logged | ||
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I know I'm late to the party, but that's fashionable, isn't it?
LANGUAGE: French CHALLENGE: HALF CURRENT LEVEL: B1 COMMENTS: I've been floundering around at this intermediate level for a few years. It's time to make some gains! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| kanewai Triglot Senior Member United States justpaste.it/kanewai Joined 4686 days ago 1386 posts - 3054 votes Speaks: English*, French, Marshallese Studies: Italian, Spanish | Message 312 of 656 01 June 2012 at 1:25am | IP Logged | ||
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Just had another movie fail. I tried to watch De battre mon coeur s'est arrêté
(The Beat that My Heart Skipped). Romain Duris is a pretty little thug who discovers his soft sensitive side with the help of a beautiful Chinese pianist, who helps him pursue his own dreams of being a concert pianist. Or so I read. I only made it through the first twenty minutes. The movie got rave reviews, but I had zero interest in any of the characters. It didn't work as a studying tool either - the dialogue was full of slang, but the subtitles were only in English. I would've kept going if there were French subtitles; it would've been at least interesting to decipher what the characters were saying. Still at 6 films, and I'm 1/3 of the way through Madame Bovary. I'll need to pick up my reading speed if I'm going to make even a half-challenge. That, or pick an easier book next time. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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