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| surrealix Diglot Groupie New Zealand languagechallenge.su Joined 4384 days ago 66 posts - 152 votes  Speaks: English*, Swedish Studies: French | Message 193 of 432 09 April 2014 at 1:32am | IP Logged | ||
Sometime in the next 2 weeks! I know I've been saying that for a while ;), but things have been very hectic for the last few months. Luckily it's all starting to calm down, so I'll be able to find a day or two to make the changes and get it all tested. It'll be ready before the challenge kicks off in May, I promise :). 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| rlnv Senior Member United States Joined 3731 days ago 126 posts - 233 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 194 of 432 09 April 2014 at 2:10am | IP Logged | ||
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Forgive me for not having read this entire thread. Is there a list of finalized rules, start and end date, and how to sign up? Seeing as how I'm crazy enough to do a huge April Challenge, why not push hard for an entire year!
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| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6377 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 195 of 432 09 April 2014 at 2:38am | IP Logged | ||
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Yay about the bot!
Have you been following the discussion? How are you going to handle the "3 books per week" thing? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| csidler Diglot Pro Member Australia chadsidler.com Joined 4603 days ago 51 posts - 59 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Italian, French Personal Language Map | Message 196 of 432 09 April 2014 at 2:46am | IP Logged | ||
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Where do we currently stand on the rules etc for the up-coming Super Challenge?
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| surrealix Diglot Groupie New Zealand languagechallenge.su Joined 4384 days ago 66 posts - 152 votes Speaks: English*, Swedish Studies: French | Message 197 of 432 09 April 2014 at 2:48am | IP Logged | ||
I've been following the major points, but haven't really been taking notes. I'll do a proper read-through soon and sort out exactly how the bot is going to work this time around. It took me a while to figure out what you meant by the "3 books per week thing"! But I do like your suggestion - that the required rate is calculated based on the next star, and not the total goal. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| kanewai Triglot Senior Member United States justpaste.it/kanewai Joined 4669 days ago 1386 posts - 3054 votes Speaks: English*, French, Marshallese Studies: Italian, Spanish | Message 198 of 432 09 April 2014 at 4:27am | IP Logged | ||
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csidler - I think the final decision was a single challenge of 100 books & 100 movies
where: 90 minutes = 1 movie 50 pages = 1 book (correct me if I'm wrong!) Edited by kanewai on 09 April 2014 at 10:35am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5114 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 199 of 432 09 April 2014 at 6:44am | IP Logged | ||
You are absolutely right :-) I am abroad right now, but when I come home I will write a revised version of the Super Challenge rules, so that also the newbies are up to speed. The one you mentioned above is the main change though. I have however been thinking and rethinking about my recommendation to do only one language or two at the most, and have decided to just let everyone see what is best for them. Given that the chances of success are a lot greater if you focus, I would still recommend that you have one focus language, at least, because as experience has shown, it is tough enough to complete just that, but since we all work in different ways, everyone can register the amount of languages they want without any frowning from me :-) I was in any event not going to refuse having several languages, as I know that this would make Serpent and Kerrie profoundly unhappy :-). People could register all their reading and watching in all their languages if they like, and if they manage to complete one challenge, they have the basis for finishing a second one in the reading they have already done. And I have decided that we can continue having half challenges. I wanted to make the challenge more in line with the simplicity of my first idea, but since there appear to be people who will be genuinely unhappy if there are no half challenges, and Surrealix is ok with it, let's go for that. But please: Do pick one focus language. My biggest fear is that particularly the newbies will look at some of the Super Learners :-) we have around, and think "Oh yeah, I can do five Super Challenges" and then 20 months later will think " Oh great, I have five Super Failures". Focus. Please. But feel free to register with more than one if you are up for it, just remember that one Super Challenge is already a huge achievement, so whatever you do, do not feel like a failure if you complete one but not several. And if you find that you are inspired to read and watch more than what is needed for a Super Challenge you can always aim for a double Super Challenge - just wait to complete the normal one before signing up for a double one :-) Also do take advantage of the " Learning based challenge" now in April. I am working furiously on grammar, and I am looking up words in one of the books I will read for the Super Challenge. Remember you can start reading now if you like, to prepare, but you have to read it again in May in order to make it count. It is however easier to read a book again, that you have already read and looked up some of the vocabulary. Think of it as warming up before a marathon :-) Edited by Solfrid Cristin on 09 April 2014 at 6:49am 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| YnEoS Senior Member United States Joined 4034 days ago 472 posts - 893 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Russian, Cantonese, Japanese, French, Hungarian, Czech, Swedish, Mandarin, Italian, Spanish | Message 200 of 432 09 April 2014 at 3:05pm | IP Logged | ||
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Sorry to have a billion newbie questions about this challenge but...
Is Reading-Listening (reverse L-R) a valid method to use in this challenge, and would pages be counted the same as with regular reading? And is there any sort of standard for how we should go about counting pages when reading off a kindle or from websites? 1 person has voted this message useful |
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