La Manada: Intermediate / Advanced Spanish TAC 2016

[reineke]

Converted to rugs? I've just launched a challenge to TAC participants to complete the Super Challenge by the end of the year. I hope they won't find it too... challenging.

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[Stelle]

Converted to rugs? I've just launched a challenge to TAC participants to complete the Super Challenge by the end of the year. I hope they won't find it too... challenging.

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Are you calling us fakes? Ha!

OK, OK, you're both right. Time to get back on track.

I don't know about finishing the Super Challenge this year. An interesting thought, though, and an appropriate challenge for someone aiming for total annihilation...

My main focus for the next 8ish weeks is Italian, because we're going to Italy in July. But in the month of May, I also want to:

* FINISH El tiempo entre costuras. Finish it, I say! I'm currently on page 319 of 592.
* watch at least five episodes of El Internado (which will count as a little over 4 SC "films")

So, what say you lob@s? What are you working on this month?

[Cavesa]

This month, I plan to read one book (a historical novel) in Spanish, continue watching Aguila Roja, and complete some of those progress bars haunting my log. Other than that, I've been writting some posts to a forum in Spanish and plan to continue, that is pretty much all for this month. I don't wanna decorate Reineke's home.

[Spoonary]

I haven't decided exactly what I will be doing this month in Spanish. I'll basically be trying to read and watch as much as possible.

[Yuurei]

Ah, the wolves have awoken from hibernation. XD

Converted to rugs? I've just launched a challenge to TAC participants to complete the Super Challenge by the end of the year. I hope they won't find it too... challenging.

Hah, I'd be very tempted to take you up on that challenge, but ~4.3 hours (or ~6.5 40-minute episodes) per week seems a bit much on the watching side - especially considering that I'd still want to watch at least a minimum in my other languages each week.
If it was a reading-only thing, I'd probably be game. How about it? Anyone want to read 5000 pages of Spanish till the end of the year?

As for the month of May, I'll be doing more of the usual: watching some TV episodes and reading. I just started a new book on the weekend (El imperio final), which I'm enjoying a lot.

[evilado]

Signed up for the Super again, reading should be easy to complete in 20 months, unpleasant to complete by the end of the year . I'm sticking to TV & movies only this time, no audiobooks or podcasts, so I may end up watching lots of dubbed Buffy.

[reineke]

TAC is flexible, but it's supposed to be challenging. How about a 10K TAC Challenge - the equivalent of 10,000 pages spread across up to 4 of your languages? Input and output count. 50 hours of audio = 1000 pages. That's a few minutes over 2 hours each day if you're only watching soaps or one hour of reading per day. Super Challenge participation counts, of course.

An FSI Category I course is conducted over 23-24 weeks for a total of 575-600 hours. Ideally I would like to hit this number by the end of the year.

[reineke]

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[Stelle]

¡Hola lob@s! ¿Qué tal todos? Hace mucho tiempo que no nos hablamos. Es culpa mía. La verdad es que hago muy mal mi trabajo de líder de manada.

¿Qué estáis haciendo en español? Sigo leyendo, pero eso es todo. No he visto o escuchado nada desde hace muchas semanas. Terminé dos libros desde la última vez que escribí aquí: El Tiempo entre costuras, y Harry Potter y la Orden del Fénix. Pues, El Tiempo entre costuras no me gustó tanto, pero ¡estoy contentísima de haber terminado! Empecé a leer esta bestia con @Spoonary, hace muchos meses. El quinto Harry Potter me gustó mucho más.

Fui de camping la semana pasada. Ví una manada de lobos a la reserva forestal. Había seis adultos y dos críos. Eran muy preciosos. Pensí en vosotr@s. ¡jaja! Tambiém ví un oso cerca de mi tienda, pero por suerte decidió marcharse sin molestarnos. Dormí un poco mal esa noche.

Habladme del verano hasta ahora. ¿Está todo bien? (O si estáis al otro lado del mundo, podéis hablar del invierno en lugar. ¡Ja!)

[Spoonary]

¡Buenas! No te culpes, Stelle. Cualquiera podría haber escrito algo aquí para reanimar al grupo a participar pero creo que la llegada del verano nos ha disuadido a todos de estudiar.

Lo único que estoy haciendo yo últimamente es leer La casa de los espíritus (que volví a abrir ayer después de un tiempo en el que lo tenía un poco abandonado) y ver la segunda temporada de Vis a vis (con toda la calma del mundo porque no quiero que acabe nunca).