Fri Mar 17:
Writing: 151 min
Reading: 165 min
Total: 674 min = 11h14
badger wrote:jeffers wrote: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"
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intensive means not extensive.
I've always been a bit vague on the exact definition of this (if there even is one), but I generally take it to mean that if you're skipping over words when listening/reading then it's extensive. if you're stopping to re-listen to bits you didn't catch, to look up the words, etc. then it's likely intensive - listening while driving, walking, etc. is almost certainly not going to be intensive as you aren't going to be stopping to look things up.
I think there should be room for individual variation in this question. I know that for my own part, I evaluate that differently depending on the language. This time around, I'm doing English, which I have spoken fluently and read regularly since I was 11 years old, and that means I'm very restrictive with what I count for a challenge like this. Basically, I'm doing academic writing, and I also count reading to the extent that the reading is connected to my writing. Last time, I did pretty much the same thing with German, mostly because I treated it as a specific project, but with a language like German or French, I would count any reading that involved something more than just reading - for example, something that I often do, underlining words in the text that I don't know (then I can look them up in the dictionary later, which I sometimes do and sometimes not, but I always plan to, of course). In an even weaker language, like Russian, I would probably count any reading as intensive regardless, because reading is always going to be intensive if you can't read fluently at all (on the other hand, I wouldn't join this challenge with Russian, because I've been doing it for the regular 6WC).
So as far as I'm concerned - if you judge your activity to be intensive, based on whatever subjective or objective criteria you have, that's fine with me.