Super Challenge 2016-17 DISCUSSION THREAD

[rdearman]

I'm getting this weird thing where when I tweet my book pages, the bot just tells me I'm not registered for Tibetan :/ I can't find anything wrong with the tweets ("I read 25 pages of "miyama" #book" and "read 25 pages #book") but only barebones tweets like "#read 25 pages" work. Is there something about the hashtag #book?

Bthe bot knows it ia a book if you read it. So just do something like

I #read 25 pages of "my book" in #french

[sfuqua]

I hope that everyone is off to a good start.
I have been spending more time on this challenge than I can afford to for the whole 20 months, but I would really love to see what a complete challenge in two languages would do. I registered for half challenges, but I really want my Tagalog to do what my recent personal, "sort of super challenge extensive reading" did for my Spanish...

My reading in both Tagalog and Spanish is too slow, but I guess it will get better as I read more. It still feels very strange to be reading Tagalog. I wish there were more fun things to read. I'll look in Manila for more fun stuff. I'm not sure, but I think I feel the creaking, grinding noise in my ears while I read Tagalog is the sound of my 32 years fossilized Tagalog trying to wake up...

Weird, I can speak Tagalog much better than I can read it, and I can read Spanish much better than I can speak it.

I hope that this Super Challenge can restore some balance.

I love to read, and Frank Underwood sounds even wickeder in Spanish than he does in English.

[sfuqua]

I've been trying to think about the spirit of the challenge and my Tagalog watching. I watch Tagalog often at home. The idea of the challenge is that you do something more than usual, or so it is as I understand it. I've decided that I'm only going to count the time that I spend watching Tagalog closely or shadowing it. I can't shadow all the time; it annoys my wife, who is usually just trying to watch the show...
It's interesting; I've already noticed some new things about Tagalog that I didn't notice before (mostly new ways of saying "get out!").

I'm not saying that is "the" way to do the challenge, but that's how I'm going to try to do something new to unfossilize my 32 year old Tagalog.

[Lorren]

Did the bot change the definition of what a film entails? I logged watching 57 minutes of Russian today and it says that I already completed one film. It seems a little odd.

[Nandemonai]

Did the bot change the definition of what a film entails? I logged watching 57 minutes of Russian today and it says that I already completed one film. It seems a little odd.

57 minutes is more than half a film, so it's probably just a rounding issue/feature on the home page. On your profile it seems to be more accurate.

[rdearman]

The bot rounds up on display, but stores the exact number in the DB and uses the exact number for future calculations.

[NoManches]

I hope this is the right place to ask questions

I was going to use the "bot" but I'm not a big Twitter fan and prefer to just keep track of things on my own.

Do most people keep a language log of their super challenge, of just periodically post their progress on one of the super challenge threads?

I already have a language log and will probably change the title to reflect the super challenge but just wanted to know how people keep track and share their progress.

Right now instead of counting movies I'm just logging in all minutes from TV shows and movies, and once I hit 150 hours I know I have reached my goal. For books I will just read as many as I can and add the pages up at the end (this is a must since I use my Kindle).

I know I mentioned some of these before and got answers but want some clarification on how people who don't use the bot keep track of things. Maybe I can use the "progress bar" on my signature like other people have done, but I don't even know how to do that.

[Luso]

I know I mentioned some of these before and got answers but want some clarification on how people who don't use the bot keep track of things. Maybe I can use the "progress bar" on my signature like other people have done, but I don't even know how to do that.

There's a lot of people better suited to answer your questions, but I'll give it a go:

1. Non-bot tracking:

You may want to set up some kind of spreadsheet or database with your progress and update it as you go. At least one member did this last time, and he seemed satisfied with the results.

IMHO you need a reasonable level of discipline to do this (and it takes most of the group experience motivation away). Expugnator (the person I recall doing this) has one of the best logs in this forum and he's a tough act to follow anyway. But, hey: if it tickles your fancy...

2. Progress bars:

2.1. Go to the top right-hand corner of any page in the forum and click on your username

2.2. Select "User Control Panel"

2.3. Click on the "Profile" tab (second from left)

2.4. Click on "Edit Signature"

2.5. Fill the empty box with the following text (without the spaces inside the brackets*):

[ progress=SC Spanish books ]0/100[/ progress ]
[ progress=SC Spanish films ]0/100[/ progress ]

2.6. Click on "Submit" (right-hand side button under the box)

2.7. Repeat to update (0/100 » 1/100 » ...)

N.B.: You may use other descriptions, a different ratio, etc. I use pages (5000) and minutes (9000) instead of books (100) and films (100), as I find it to be a more accurate measure of my progress.

Have fun!


* Whenever I wrote without the spaces on this post, it would just draw the boxes

[NoManches]

Have fun!

Thanks for your help. You rock!!

[JohannaNYC]

For the book part, can I use Assimil if I manually count each word per lesson? Or maybe if five lessons equal one page?

For comic books, was it four or five comic book pages equal one book page?

I missed this challenge the last few months. I've felt my Croatian slipping away even though I've been keeping contact with the language every single day in 2016. Hooray for the Super Challenge! Super Challenge je jako super!