2024/25 Super Challenge Registration Thread

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fenkoli
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Re: 2024/25 Super Challenge Registration Thread

Postby fenkoli » Thu Apr 25, 2024 10:47 pm

Language: Swedish
Challenge: full
Current level: B1 reading, A2 listening
Comments, links: my reading isn't too bad, but my listening is absolutely atrocious, haha. I'll be using mainly YouTube videos, I think, as I'm not really into watching TV - anything that holds my attention is fair game, really. As for books, I'll be reading largely nonfiction and am aiming to keep it to books originally written in Swedish, though I'm not averse to reading translations if something catches my eye. I still use a textbook (Rivstart B1+B2) but am aiming to complete that by the summer, and will be reading/listening in tandem.

Language: Finnish
Challenge: half
Current level: A1, barely
Comments, links: this... is going to be difficult. My level right now is such that I can barely read or listen to anything beyond the very basics, but I'm hoping this challenge will kickstart some progress. I'll be reading and watching/listening in tandem with my textbook (Sun Suomi) here, too.

Good luck everyone!!
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Re: 2024/25 Super Challenge Registration Thread

Postby nathancrow77 » Fri Apr 26, 2024 3:11 pm

Language: Spanish
Challenge: full
Current level: B1 listening and reading (very loose estimate)
Comments, links: I've (mostly) been following the Dreaming Spanish methodology and am a couple months from the point where reading is recommended (600 hours of CI). I average about 3 hours of listening/watching a day, but for the purposes of this challenge I'm going to try to only count actual TV shows/movies (rather than DS or youtube content). Reading likely won't start until June/July.
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Querneus
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Re: 2024/25 Super Challenge Registration Thread

Postby Querneus » Sat Apr 27, 2024 4:31 pm

Language: Latin
Challenge: "full", 100 books only, so really half
Current level: B1
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Language: French
Challenge: half (50 books and 50 films)
Current level: B2
Comments, links:
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Re: 2024/25 Super Challenge Registration Thread

Postby Nogon » Sat Apr 27, 2024 5:48 pm

Language: Yiddish
Challenge: half
Current level: ?
Comments, links: Will probably only (try to) do the reading part due to lack of listening resources

Language: Afrikaans
Challenge: half
Current level: ?
Comments, links: Will probably only (try to) do the reading part due to lack of listening resources
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Re: 2024/25 Super Challenge Registration Thread

Postby reverie » Sat Apr 27, 2024 6:04 pm

Language: German
Challenge: Double
Current level: A1.5
Comments: I've really stagnated in my German study and this is a wonderful opportunity to get the ball rolling again. So far I have not read anything other than graded readers. I hope I'll be able to transition to native content soon enough.
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Re: 2024/25 Super Challenge Registration Thread

Postby mothercondor » Sun Apr 28, 2024 1:15 am

Language: Turkish
Challenge: double
Current level: Perhaps B1?
Comments, links: I have read approximately 2500 pages in Turkish, mostly in the last 6 months. Currently reading ya fiction and detective/mystery novels, but I would like to be reading Turkish literature in a year's time or so.
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Allison
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Re: 2024/25 Super Challenge Registration Thread

Postby Allison » Sun Apr 28, 2024 8:08 pm

Language: Spanish
Challenge: Full
Current level: Ah, who knows. Five or so years ago, I was pretty comfy reading and watching, but I've gotten rusty, so...
Comments, links: Excited for it to start!
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Re: 2024/25 Super Challenge Registration Thread

Postby bails0 » Sun Apr 28, 2024 9:16 pm

Hello! Arriving just in time!

Language: Mandarin Chinese
Challenge: Full
Current level: High intermediate
Comments, links: I'm aiming to take the HSK 6 exam some time in the next year (hopefully), but my listening has really declined since I started doing translation work. I also very rarely get to read anything creative, which I want to do more of! I'm not counting any reading I do for work.

Being... the kind of person I am, I spent way too long making a nice Notion page for my resources and progress trackers.
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Re: 2024/25 Super Challenge Registration Thread

Postby jahnke » Tue Apr 30, 2024 12:55 pm

Hallo! Wie geht's?

Language: German
Challenge: double
Current level: A2/B1. I have passive knowledge for now, acquired through self-study. Maybe I'll join some speaking/writing classes once I feel like I understand the spoken language "well enough".
Comments, links: I'm living in Germany and if everything goes well I should stay here for a few more years. The listening part of the challenge should be easy to achieve due to the fact that I was able to switch all my TV programs to German audio and subtitles. I have been rewatching some series that I watched in the past in German. I understand enough to have fun. I learned a lot of English this way, it will certainly help me a lot with German, right? The reading part must be the real challenge, given that even in English I lost the habit of reading for pleasure. However, I have been reading adapted books in German and I intend to use reading as the main source of vocabulary and grammar training. Wish me luck!
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Re: 2024/25 Super Challenge Registration Thread

Postby Anya » Tue Apr 30, 2024 8:54 pm

Language: Chinese
Challenge: (half)
Current level: A1/A2?
Comments, links: https://forum.language-learners.org/vie ... 19&t=2940/

Language: Turkish
Challenge: (half)
Current level: A1/A2?
Comments, links : https://forum.language-learners.org/vie ... =21&t=743/
https://forum.language-learners.org/vie ... 2&start=10

Language: Family German
Challenge: (full)
Current level: advanced
Comments, links: https://forum.language-learners.org/vie ... 19&t=2910/

Language: Family Greek
Challenge: (half)
Current level: A0
Comments, links:

Language: Family Romance
Challenge: (full)
Current level: advanced
Comments, links:

Language: Japanese
Challenge: (half)
Current level: A0-A1
Comments, links:

Language: Family Semitic
Challenge: (half)
Current level: A0
Comments, links:

Language: Family Indo-Aryan
Challenge: (half)
Current level: A0
Comments, links:

Language: Family Slavic
Challenge: (half)
Current level: A0
Comments, links:
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