Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5289 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian
| Message 1 of 766 01 May 2014 at 8:18pm | IP Logged |
Here you can discuss anything you need regarding how to interpret rules, or give advice on carrying out the
Super Challenge.
If you want to read the rules or need to register please go to the
SUPER
CHALLENGE RULES AND REGISTRATION
And any updates once you have started reading and watching movies can be added in the
SUPER
CHALLENGE UPDATE THREAD
Edited by Solfrid Cristin on 01 May 2014 at 8:29pm
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Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5121 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian
| Message 2 of 766 01 May 2014 at 8:41pm | IP Logged |
I need a characters-to-page conversion rate =D
I'm going to read Chinese mostly online, using Pera Pera, and I need to know how many
pages I will have read each time.
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Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5289 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian
| Message 3 of 766 01 May 2014 at 8:43pm | IP Logged |
I can't help you there. Does anyone know a reasonable conversion system?
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Komma Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4014 days ago 107 posts - 134 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Spanish
| Message 4 of 766 01 May 2014 at 8:55pm | IP Logged |
I'm wondering whether reading through the forum can be counted as reading for my English
SC.. However, I probably won't count it anyway, because then I would not be that
motivated to read a BOOK :D
But maybe someone also wondered about that, so I'm just curious..
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Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5289 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian
| Message 5 of 766 01 May 2014 at 9:02pm | IP Logged |
Komma wrote:
I'm wondering whether reading through the forum can be counted as reading for my
English
SC.. However, I probably won't count it anyway, because then I would not be that
motivated to read a BOOK :D
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I would recommend a proper book :-)
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milesaway Triglot Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 4286 days ago 134 posts - 181 votes Speaks: French, English*, Russian Studies: Finnish, Sign Language
| Message 6 of 766 01 May 2014 at 9:15pm | IP Logged |
I think someone already asked this in the previous thread, but I can't remember the
answer. Do monolingual textbooks count? All my Russian exam prep and grammar books are in
Russian. I've also got 2 Finnish textbooks with everything in Finnish. Can those count
for reading? It's not quite as exciting as a novel, but it's also quite useful.
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Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6552 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 7 of 766 01 May 2014 at 9:58pm | IP Logged |
Monolingual textbooks count. I remember Cristina saying that many of them are harder than easy novels.
I also see no reason not to count the texts from a coursebook the way you'd count articles etc. That could amount to, like, 40-50 pages out of 200-300.
(BTW in case you're interested in Russian-based textbooks for Finnish, I recommend Opi puhumaan suomea by Муллонен and simply "Учебник финского языка" by Чернявская. They take it for granted that you know what cases and conjugations are)
Edited by Serpent on 01 May 2014 at 9:59pm
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Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4864 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German
| Message 8 of 766 01 May 2014 at 11:05pm | IP Logged |
I remember being allowed to count text from coursebooks, and I used NFWE last time. It can be a very helpful way to get yourself up to speed, like a graded reader. But I would still recommend going to some non-didactic native material soon as well.
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