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| kanewai Triglot Senior Member United States justpaste.it/kanewai Joined 4679 days ago 1386 posts - 3054 votes  Speaks: English*, French, Marshallese Studies: Italian, Spanish | Message 401 of 766 11 June 2014 at 1:01am | IP Logged | ||
It's kind of jaw dropping. Though I have to keep reminding myself that books are cut in half this round. Even so, that's some fast progress! A big (and nice) difference I noticed this year is that people are logging their actual books. Last time I remember their being too many of vague "I read 1000 pages last week" posts in the beginning. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| sctroyenne Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5181 days ago 739 posts - 1312 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Spanish, Irish | Message 402 of 766 11 June 2014 at 8:49am | IP Logged | ||
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So far I think marking the little victories is helping. It gives you something to chase after - a reason to read just three more pages or to watch just one more video. I'm currently chasing after my third star* but earlier I celebrated getting my first book recorded for Irish which I was just as psyched about. In a gamified system, there's a risk of it being too easy and turning into a sort of Skinner box (which became my experience with Duolingo Spanish), but since I'd be reading/watching/listening anyway and I'm genuinely interested in what I'm being exposed to, I should be fine.
*Actually, I deliberately chased after my second star - today I just happened to have quite a few podcasts queued up that I was interested in and it was also the day after the busy period of the month at work so I could concentrate more on what I was listening to. By the end of the day I realized how close I'm getting so now I'm focusing on that star. But I have to say that after a long day of concentrating on French audio I'm pretty exhausted so I won't be keeping that pace up forever. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| BAnna Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4412 days ago 409 posts - 616 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Turkish | Message 403 of 766 11 June 2014 at 5:18pm | IP Logged | ||
In addition to the page count, the other big change from last time is that the 100-100 Super Challenge was for B1 and below, while the Advanced Super Challenge 200-200 was for B2 and over. I'm making steady progress on books and movies in my B2+ languages, but the going is much slower in my A1 language. I suspect that may be true for others as well. Just another reason not to compare yourself to others, but to focus instead on your own progress and be pleased with the improvements you see there. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| druckfehler Triglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4658 days ago 1181 posts - 1912 votes Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Korean Studies: Persian | Message 404 of 766 11 June 2014 at 9:25pm | IP Logged | ||
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I just saw that I missed surrealix' comment on bronze/silver/gold stars, which I think is a really good
system. I thought we all had to get 8 blue stars, which could get a bit messy. I agree that it's motivating to have some stars between the big level changes. I guess for anyone at a C1 level and above completing 100/100 will be comfortably achievable... While I'd be surprised if anyone starting at A1 makes it. It would be cool if there was an option to sort people by their estimated starting level. Maybe that's something to consider next time the Super Challenge starts. Although level estimations are always tricky, a rough sorting by Beginner/Intermediate/Advanced would be a great feature. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| rdearman Senior Member United Kingdom rdearman.orgRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5026 days ago 881 posts - 1812 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, French, Mandarin | Message 405 of 766 11 June 2014 at 11:00pm | IP Logged | ||
It would be a bit of a nightmare to sort people doing multiple languages. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| druckfehler Triglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4658 days ago 1181 posts - 1912 votes Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Korean Studies: Persian | Message 406 of 766 12 June 2014 at 2:35pm | IP Logged | ||
Why? Right now it's possibe to sort all of their languages seperately, too. Starting level could simply be anothercolumn, just like it's possible to sort people by study language now. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6387 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 407 of 766 12 June 2014 at 4:24pm | IP Logged | ||
That's because in the very beginning the titles wouldn't be displayed. I love the new features and the shiny ranking page. And the World Cup is about to start ;P A few things, though... -I think we need a more or less official rule about underreporting. I sure hope nobody cares enough about the badges to do that, but we've had mentions of "saving [items] for a rainy day" and I really think this should be officially considered cheating. I'm not saying we need more pressure for daily or weekly reporting, just for reporting everything you've completed. I definitely understand that there are various "legitimate" reasons not to report as you go, however. -no matter how you look at it, something is off with the star formatting. the blank stars are neither here nor there - given that nobody gets bronze/silver in one go, i don't think it makes sense for them to be so large. or if they are large, they need to be aligned in the same way as the non-blank stars (i think they take the same space as two blue stars?). another option could be separate columns for stars earned by books/movies, in order to display 50 differently from 25/25. there are tons of possibilities but some sort of small adjustment is needed. -speaking of that, we still have no rules for giving ribbons at the end of the challenge, other than for the full 100/100 challenge. don't know about others, but I wouldn't mind if you needed to do at least two half challenges to get a ribbon. Edited by Serpent on 12 June 2014 at 4:30pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Kerrie Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Kerrie2 Joined 5185 days ago 1232 posts - 1740 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 408 of 766 12 June 2014 at 11:53pm | IP Logged | ||
Wow. I suppose me saving 700 pages, read over the course of five weeks, until I have finished the book, would be considered cheating then. If someone is doing the SC, I would certainly hope they are doing it for themselves, and no one else. And they can report what they do, whenever they like. I think the badges and stars are a neat little addition, but if anyone is doing it just to earn stars or badges, then they might need to re-think their priorities. 3 persons have voted this message useful |
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