2024/25 Super Challenge Registration Thread

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Re: 2024/25 Super Challenge Registration Thread

Postby cito » Wed May 01, 2024 3:31 am

Language: French
Challenge: Full
Current level: B2+
Comments, links: Not sure where to put my French level. I can pretty comfortably read books and communicate. I am graduating with a minor in French (only 2 classes off from the major!). I think the super challenge will be a good way to maintain my French.

Language: Latin
Challenge: Half
Current level: Intermediate
Comments, links: Trying to read 100 Latin books, but not sure if I care about "watching." If I end up watching/listening 25 'movies' worth of Latin and read 75 books, I'd still consider it complete.

Language: Greek (Modern and Ancient)
Challenge: Half
Current level: Beginner
Comments, links: I'd like to watch 50 modern Greek movies and read 50 ancient Greek books. Not sure how crucial the split is: if one gets favored over the other I won't lose sleep over it.

During the time of the 2024-5 Super Challenge I'd also like to get my Russian and Spanish to the point where I can do them for the next one! Just noting that for the time being.
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Re: 2024/25 Super Challenge Registration Thread

Postby Radioclare » Wed May 01, 2024 6:50 pm

I may come to regret this but...

Language: Russian
Challenge: Full
Current level: Intermediate
Comments, links: I'm struggling to find motivation to listen to Russian in particular now I'm no longer doing the 365-challenge, so hoping this will help!

Language: Croatian
Challenge: Full
Current level: Advanced
Comments, links: I've been doing the Super Challenge in Croatian since 2014/15 I think... My first Croatian SC is how I discovered my love of Twilight :lol: Hoping to read a few more intellectual books this time around.

Language: German
Challenge: Half
Current level: Rusty and regressing
Comments, links: My pile of unread German books reproaches me every day - hoping this will inspire me to make a dent in them!

Language: Esperanto
Challenge: Half
Current level: Passed C1 mock, sitting the real thing soon!
Comments, links: I think I'm correct in remembering that listening to lectures doesn't count towards audio, so planning to do the audio part just with podcasts.
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Re: 2024/25 Super Challenge Registration Thread

Postby petitesouris » Wed May 01, 2024 8:29 pm

Language: French
Challenge: Half (pages only)
Current level: Hard to say. A1 at best for output, but that’s not my current goal. I’ll say B1 in grammar, A2 in vocabulary.
Comments, links: I’ve been chundering away at French for what seems like a lifetime, but I think it’s only been about four years. Our relationship was on and off until very recently, when I sat myself down and blazed through Le Français par la Méthode Nature. I finished that behemoth yesterday and now plan to work my way through the giant pile of graded readers I’ve accumulated. By the end of the challenge, I want to be reading real, for-natives books with a reasonable degree of smoothness. I have five shelves of books for children and adults in French and would like to make a significant dent in it.

N.B.: I’m also studying Swedish and Mandarin Chinese, but at a much slower pace, and I very much doubt I’ll be reading any significant amount in either of them over the next twenty months. Maybe next go-around!
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Re: 2024/25 Super Challenge Registration Thread

Postby kaffesugen get » Thu May 02, 2024 8:24 am

After a long absence from the forum, (not that I ever was much active as a poster - but I've got lot of good advice and inspiration from the forum), it's definitely time to reconnect a bit. The Super Challenge suits me as a challenge, because extensive reading is the most (perhaps only) sustainable method of language learning for me. Perhaps not quite true, taking classes also work, because they provide a gentle pressure to actually do the work. I see that I registered for the SC the first time in 2016, and I didn't complete it. I didn't complete it in 2020 either. Nevertheless it gives inspiration and motivation for reading, which is what counts in the end.

So, I'm registering, with wild ambitions for three languages:

Language: French
Challenge: full
Current level: Some kind of intermediate.
Comments, links: The hardest part of the challenge is going to be the 'films'. I'll probably try to go for some massively long audiobooks, like The Count of Monte Cristo, and some TV-series with many seasons. I've been watching Star Trek NG with the French dub, which is enjoyable, maybe I'll finish it and restart from the beginning. For the reading, I'll go for quantity over quality (in the spirit of the SC), so it will be a lot of crime novels: Simenon (the library has the complete works, so that will maybe even complete the SC reading on its own), Vargas (harder vocabulary than Simenon, but eminently readable), Maurice Leblanc (I like the Arsène Lupin series). Perhaps some Proust when I'm done with the crime.

Language: German
Challenge: full
Current level: Some kind of advanced beginner - lower intermediate
Comments, links: I'll start with some YA material, probably Cornelia Funke, and then perhaps move on to Volker Kutscher. I'm not sure what to watch/listen to though. We'll see.

Language: Yiddish
Challenge: half
Current level: Advanced beginner(?)
Comments, links: I'll read some lighter reading, perhaps even some 'shund', but I'll try to fit in some small dose of classics as well. For the film part, I'll go for the audiobooks here as well.

These are listed in decreasing order of likelihood of completion. An estimate of the probability of success would perhaps be 50%, 25% and 10% respectively.

I am, like for the previous SCs, sorely tempted to sign up for a half challenge of Icelandic, but that would have an even lower chance of being completed, so I won't. Maybe I can get some inspiration to get my level up in time for the 2026/2027 SC though.
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Re: 2024/25 Super Challenge Registration Thread

Postby NantokaHito » Sat May 04, 2024 2:42 am

Tentatively going in for two languages.

Language: French
Challenge: full
Current level: intermediate
Comments: I generally test into B2 online, although I don't have active skills anywhere near that level. I can watch many things comfortably, and read a lot of things too. This year I've already read about 1500 pages in French and it's been a been a huge boost to my level. I watch a lot of content in French too, so it'll be nice to have some incentive to track it.

Language: Japanese
Challenge: full
Current level: upper-beginner
Comments: just starting to consume Japanese content more comfortably. I've been tackling my first book, but not much listening to be honest. I've been very discouraged by Japanese lately, so I'm hoping this challenge will give me the boost I've been looking for.
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Re: 2024/25 Super Challenge Registration Thread

Postby eebeejay » Sat May 04, 2024 4:07 am

This is as good a reason as any to jump back into studying French again (again).

Language: French
Challenge: full
Current level: A2-ish
Comments, links: I'm going to actually finish it this time! My goal is to get myself to a point where I'm not reading kids books anymore.
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French Super Challenge:
Books: 348 / 5000
Movies: 5133 / 9000

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Re: 2024/25 Super Challenge Registration Thread

Postby Geduld » Sat May 04, 2024 11:02 am

Language: German
Challenge: double
Current level: B1 (though my passive skills are probably better)
Comments, links: I'm currently concentrating on my active skills as they are lacking, but there will be a point where I'll have more time for passive activities and I'm hoping this challenge will help me get my passive skills to B2/C1
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Re: 2024/25 Super Challenge Registration Thread

Postby Lianne » Sat May 04, 2024 4:53 pm

I just realised it's May and time for another Super Challenge!! Battled with remembering my password to get back on here for this! :lol:

Language: French
Challenge: Full
Current Level: I can read a straightforward novel pretty well. My listening comprehension sucks.
Comments: I've never completed this but I'll never stop trying!

Language: Italian
Challenge: Half
Current Level: Total beginner (with a reading advantage from French).
Comments: I haven't been working on Italian at all lately, but I'll sign up for a half in case I get back into it.
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: 0 / 100 French SC (Books)
: 1 / 100 French SC (Films)
: 0 / 50 Italian Half SC (Books)
: 0 / 50 Italian Half SC (Films)

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Re: 2024/25 Super Challenge Registration Thread

Postby Teango » Mon May 06, 2024 12:18 am

If this is ok with other participants and doesn't bend the rules too much...

Languages:
  • Complete Beginner: Italian, Zulu
  • False Beginner: Irish, Tagalog, Turkish
  • Basic: Hawaiian, Japanese, Spanish
  • Intermediate: French, Jamaican Patois, Russian
  • Advanced: German
Challenge: Full (all together, as one big L2 supergroup).

Comments: Here's a short explanation, taken from the "Super Challenge: questions and discussion" thread...
Teango wrote:I'd really like to join you guys for the Super Challenge this year. And after months of fighting colds and relative inactivity on the forum, it's just what the doctor ordered! 8-)

However, I'm also set to embark on a bit of a language odyssey and grand experimentation over the next 20 months, which will most likely entail a lot of languages. With limited time and energy on my hands, I certainly won't be able to complete a challenge (or even half challenge) for each and every single one, and am far from certain which of the languages I've selected will dominate more than others at this point.

Having noticed in the rules that you can set up Super Challenges for whole "language families", I was wondering if I could register with all of the languages I intend to study en masse, and watch the equivalent of 100 films and read the equivalent of 100 books in total?
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Re: 2024/25 Super Challenge Registration Thread

Postby clay » Wed May 08, 2024 2:12 am

Language: German
Challenge: Full
Current level: Intermediate
Comments: Brand new log to track: https://forum.language-learners.org/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=20278 I've been tempted to go for a double since there are way more than 5,000 pages of German I'd like to read over the next 20 months, but I want to keep it modest and make sure I actually hit the more reasonable goal since this is my first super challenge.
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