reineke wrote:TV is allowed as long as one is paying attention. It's not hard to find speakers of Romance languages who can't score higher than A2-B1 on Dialang in another Romance language they had previously studied.
What is your Dialang score in Spanish listening? (How many hours of Spanish have you had altogether, btw?)
TV is indeed allowed, 100% when attention is 100%. How do you count and discount your TV time wrt attention and simultaneous activities?
Serpent wrote:Also, there's no rule about the challenge having to involve what you call "actual study". Have you ever spent hours watching or listening in a B1- language? it's hard
Indeed activities don't have to be traditional study activities. But whether they are hard or not is irrelevant as well.
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I do 2 types of listening activities:
1. listening while reading transcript or translation - I count all that time.
2. listening while facebooking etc, while walking, while taking public transport - I count 30% of the time or less. I'm actually paying full attention during some of that time, but since I'm doing 2 activities (walking and listening), I feel that each should only count 50% to start with.
My other activities are traditional study activities - textbooks, flashcards, reading, etc.