2022/23 Super Challenge Registration Thread

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2022/23 Super Challenge Registration Thread

Postby rdearman » Tue Apr 26, 2022 7:26 pm

Welcome to the Super Challenge 2022/2023!!!

The challenge is on between May 1st 2022 and December 31st 2023. It begins and ends at midnight your local time.

As before, the 2022/2023 challenge entails:
- 100 films (90 minutes each)
- 100 books (50 pages each)
- in 20 months

- You can do a half challenge which would entail 50 books, 50 films
- You can sign up with multiple languages (regardless of challenge type). You can also choose to do language families.
- Registering with your native language is not allowed (apart from tracking the items symbolically as "1 page" or "1 minute")
Feel free use a social tracking website or your log. You can also join an external challenge.

To register, you state:
Language:
Challenge: (full, half, double)
Current level:
Comments, links: Any comments you feel like adding as to your reasons for the choice of language, type of challenge or material or your expectations for the outcome. Feel free to post a link to your Twitter account and/or log.
(The Twitter bot is available at https://twitter.com/langchallenge)

Scoring show on the URL: https://anki-tv.co.uk/

The template is repeated in this thread's second post. For simplicity you can just CLICK HERE - remember to remove the {quote} tags!

NB: PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS IS THE THREAD ONLY FOR REGISTRATION, UPDATING YOUR ACHIEVEMENTS AND FOR GIVING ENCOURAGEMENT TO YOUR FELLOW SUPER CHALLENGERS.
For discussions about the rules or the interpretations of them, please go to the Super Challenge discussion thread.

Infographic for the films part (by jeffers). Green represents the original idea, yellow and orange are allowed, red is not allowed.



Quick reminders:
- If you just have 5 books and 5 films then you read them 20 times. Though my guess is that by the time you have read/seen them 5 times, you WILL get other films or books.
- A film counts even if you see it with subtitles in your native language or vice versa (in your own language but with TL subtitles). If both subtitles and audio is in a non-native language you have to choose which language you want to count. The same goes for the LR method (Listening-Reading).
- If it lasts approximately 45 minutes (a show/series) it counts as half a film. If it lasts more than three hours it counts as two films. The bot counts 90 minutes for a film.
- You can do fiction or any other material – a documentary on whales, or a book about gardening works just as well as a novel.
- With parallel texts, remember not to count your native language. Usually this means counting 50% of the total text, or a bit less if there are explanations in your L1. If the text is in two non-native languages, you can count it as a half for each.
- A manga counts as 5 manga pages = 1 book page.
- Poetry/librettos count as 1/3 of a page
- For a children's book with large letters, pictures and few words on every page you count 5 pages as one page. When in doubt, use your best judgement.
- You can be at any level when the challenge starts.
- The material covered for this challenge can be counted and done in parallel with any other challenge.
- Podcasts and YouTube videos must have a minimum length of 10 minutes to count.
- If you want to join later than May 1st 2022 you are welcome to do so.
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Re: 2022/23 Super Challenge Registration Thread

Postby rdearman » Tue Apr 26, 2022 7:29 pm

:!:
Language:
Challenge: (full, half, double)
Current level:
Comments, links:
(Any comments you feel like adding as to your reasons for the choice of language, type of challenge or material or your expectations for the outcome. Feel free to post a link to your Twitter account and/or log)
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Re: 2022/23 Super Challenge Registration Thread

Postby CarlyD » Tue Apr 26, 2022 7:36 pm

Language: German
Challenge: (full, half, double) Full
Current level: A1+ (close to A2)
Comments, links: My primary goal is to meet the book challenge. The film challenge would be restricted to what I can find on YouTube, so I'll of course try, but my level and access don't bode well for finding a lot of appropriate content. But I will absolutely attempt to read at least 100 books.
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Re: 2022/23 Super Challenge Registration Thread

Postby Suzie » Tue Apr 26, 2022 8:47 pm

Language: French
Challenge: full
Current level: weak B2
Comments, links: My past two Super Challenges (still at HTLAL; it's been a while...) have been super fun and done a great job improving my French. Hoping this one will push my passive skills to C1. Huge thanks to rdearman for setting this up once again!
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100 books: 100 / 100 complete
100 films: 100 / 100 complete

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Re: 2022/23 Super Challenge Registration Thread

Postby IronMike » Tue Apr 26, 2022 9:20 pm

Language: Slavic family
Challenge: Full
Current level: C1 (Russian), A2? (BCS)
Comments: I'm moving toward two major DLPTs/OPIs per year, in Russian and Serbian/Croatian (as USG calls it). Thus, I'll do a family this time around. Thanks Rick!

Language: Esperanto
Challenge: Half
Current level: C1 (writing, reading); B2? (listening); B1? (speaking)
Comments: I already read books every two months for the Esperanto Sumoo, so might as well "count" it. Also, more and more Esperanto videos are out there, as well as subtitles sometimes...
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Re: 2022/23 Super Challenge Registration Thread

Postby german2k01 » Tue Apr 26, 2022 9:26 pm

Language: German
Challenge: (full, half, double) Full
Current level: B1
Comments, links: My primary goal is to meet the book challenge but I would go for doing 100 films as well. I feel like my reading is lagging behind and joining this sort of challenge is the kind of fuel that I need to start my car. :D Fingers crossed!
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Re: 2022/23 Super Challenge Registration Thread

Postby Cavesa » Tue Apr 26, 2022 9:50 pm

log: https://forum.language-learners.org/vie ... 15&t=17903

The goals: overall improvement and/or maintanance. I don't like German books or tv, so this and also some % of allowed translations in the other languages will help me avoid English media as much as possible.

Language: German
Challenge: full
Current level:B2
Comments, links: fiction (mostly translated) and medical books (mostly original), movies/series will be mostly or only dubs.

Language:French
Challenge: full
Current level:C2
Comments, links: mainly fiction (100% originals), medical books still count (mostly originals), watching mostly original stuff (aiming for 10% dubs max)

Language:Spanish
Challenge: full
Current level: very rusty B2, comprehension rusty C1/C2
Comments, links: fiction books (hopefully mostly originals), movies/series mostly originals (20% dubs max)

Language:Italian
Challenge: full
Current level: B1ish?, comprehension B2/C1
Comments, links: fiction books (hopefully mostly originals), movies/series mostly originals (40% dubs max)

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Re: 2022/23 Super Challenge Registration Thread

Postby philomath » Tue Apr 26, 2022 11:34 pm

Language: French
Challenge: Full
Current level: A2/B1
Comments: Main resources: Podcasts, Netflix shows, fiction books
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Re: 2022/23 Super Challenge Registration Thread

Postby badger » Tue Apr 26, 2022 11:57 pm

Language:French
Challenge: full
Current level:A2 (active) B2 (passive)
Comments, links: lots of books in French on my shelf waiting to be read; most of an X-Files box-set to watch.
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Super Challenge progress French (double):
reading: 5000 / 5000 reading: 5000 / 5000
watching: 150 / 150 watching: 150 / 150

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Re: 2022/23 Super Challenge Registration Thread

Postby Aozora » Wed Apr 27, 2022 1:15 am

Language: Japanese
Challenge: full
Current level: N2
Comments, links: I'm hoping to read a lot of novels primarily. If I reach a 100 books early on enough, I'll go for a double challenge.
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Super Challenge Books: 14 / 100
Super Challenge Films: 63 / 100


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