AI6WC: 2nd run, March 2023

[badger]

Cavesa's excellent idea idea is described here: https://forum.language-learners.org/vie ... 21&t=18700

dates: 15.3.2023-25.4.2023

This is the "follow up" challenge for those, who are not entirely (or not at all) fitting into the wonderful 6WC!

The RULES:

1. participants: Anyone estimating their level at least in some skills as above B1. Strong B1 minimum, sky is the upper limit. You can participate with only one language, at least this time. Please sign up in this thread indicating your language or choice.

Logs are encouraged (no need for new ones for the challenge), and behaviour is to be up to the LLORG standards. This is a friendly competition

2.activities that count, keywords in capital letters:
intensive READING
intensive LISTENING
COURSEBOOK, =textbook (whichever word you are culturally used to), workbook, or a digital equivalent of either
SRS
WRITING practice
SPEAKING practice

3.keeping track
Post daily, or at least from time to time so people can see each other's progress, & then again at the end with your total & I will produce a leaderboard.

Merry learning!
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[badger]

participants:

1. badger - French
2. Mista - English
3. Anya - French
4. Cavesa - German
5. brilliantyears - Japanese

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final results:

1. Mista - 52h18m
2. brilliantyears - 46h30m
3. Anya - 33h03m
4. Cavesa - 9h33m
5. badger - 4h0m

[Mista]

Well, I'm in, at least! I hope we'll see at least a couple of more people in here, but two participants as opposed to one makes all the difference.

I'm going to do something very similar to last time: reading literary theory/criticism and writing, only this time I'll be doing it in English. That means I'll be a lot more productive in terms of pages read and written, but it remains to be seen what it means in terms of hours spent doing it. I'll try to post daily updates, like last time: short ones with the stats here, and a bit more detailed ones in my log.

[Anya]

I am in too, I will participate with French as I need to write a lot for my job applications.

[badger]

thank you both for joining. I'm glad not to be doing it by myself, which would rather have defeated the object.

if anyone else wants to take part, you can still join now, or any time during the six weeks, just post in the thread with which language you'll be studying.

[Cavesa]

I want to join too!!! I wasn't a good organisator (yep, happens), so I am even happier that you want a 2nd run! Thank you!
And I'm happy to join. And already did my first hour.

So, I am signing up with GERMAN!!!!

May the odds be in our favour!

[Cavesa]

the 1st day:

COURSEBOOK 75 min
SRS 4 min

[Mista]

Wed Mar 15:
Reading: 101 min
Writing: 103 min

Total: 204 min = 3h24

[Mista]

Thu Mar 16:
Writing: 154 min

Total: 358 min = 5h58

[jeffers]

I'd like to join with French, but just to be clear that I'm an odd case for this: I consider myself to be "working on B1", but I'm preparing to sit an A2 exam (because the B1 isn't on a day I can sit it). Nevertheless, I think this is a better fit for me than the 6WC.

I like the idea that this challenge focuses on "intensive" activities, so no counting things like listening to music for 8 hours per day while at work (yes, that happened on the 6wc). If possible, I would like womeone to clarify what is meant by "intensive" in regard to reading and listening for this challenge. (Sorry, not sorry, for being "that guy" )

For listening, on this challenge I would not count when I listen to podcasts while driving, because I know that my attention isn't fully on the podcast. However, I would count listening to the news while walking because in that situation I'm better focused on listening than I would be if I was sitting on my sofa with my headphones on listening to the same news. In other words, for listening, intensive essentially means 100% focused. Is that about right?

That leads me to the question of TV series or films. I suppose for me, if I was watching with English subtitles, I wouldn't consider that intensive, but for me, watching with native subtitles is very intensive. (I'm not sure about watching without any subtitles, but for me my attention wanders wometimes when I watch the French news with no French subtitles.) Thoughts?

My final question is about what is meant here by intensive reading. Technically, intensive reading means reading while looking up every single unknown word, digging through the grammar, and probably taking notes and/or putting things into SRS. In the context of this challenge do we simply mean something "reading native level material with full attention" or is it the technical definition?

My gut feeling is that in the context of this challenge, intensive means "direct activity with full focus", but I'm asking because in the case of reading there is a more technical meaning for the word.