Super Challenge registration thread (18/19)

Ongoing language-learning challenges, and team challenge logs (but not individual logs)
User avatar
lingua
Blue Belt
Posts: 951
Joined: Sun Mar 13, 2016 11:23 pm
Languages: English (N)
Maintaining: italiano (B2/C1ish)
Studying: português, Latina
Dabbling: siciliano, Deutsch, français, piemontèis
Abandoned: ไทย, español
Language Log: https://forum.language-learners.org/vie ... 15&t=12257
x 2024

Re: Super Challenge registration thread

Postby lingua » Mon Jan 21, 2019 3:12 am

I've never understood the color schemes. I finally got one of the bigger stars after hitting > 50 books.
1 x
Super Challenge 2022-23:
DE: books: 0 / 2500 film: 1654 / 4500
IT: books: 3065 / 5000 film: 5031 / 9000
PT: books: 2921 / 5000 film: 5010 / 9000

Output Challenge 2023:
IT: write: 0 / 50000 record: 84 / 3000
PT: write: 0 / 50000 record: 0 / 3000

PT: Read 100 books: 28 / 100

User avatar
Serpent
Black Belt - 3rd Dan
Posts: 3657
Joined: Sat Jul 18, 2015 10:54 am
Location: Moskova
Languages: heritage
Russian (native); Belarusian, Polish

fluent or close: Finnish (certified C1), English; Portuguese, Spanish, German, Italian
learning: Croatian+, Ukrainian; Romanian, Galician; Danish, Swedish; Estonian
exploring: Latin, Karelian, Catalan, Dutch, Czech, Latvian
x 5178
Contact:

Re: Super Challenge registration thread

Postby Serpent » Mon Jan 21, 2019 4:12 pm

I'm sure surrealix summed it up somewhere but I can't find it.
The badges are for sprints and streaks. On a computer you can hover a badge and see what it means. A sprint is 1 book AND 1 film (bronze), two (silver) or five (gold), all completed in the last two weeks.
For streaks, you get a bronze badge for 5 weeks, silver badge for 10 weeks and golden badge for 20 weeks.
The badge with the ribbon above the circle/medal is for sprints (it's on the left if there are two badges). The badge with the ribbons below the circle is for streaks.
(I thought my post explained most of this :oops:)

As for the stars, again, you get larger stars for completing books AND movies. You get a bronze star for 50, silver star for 100, gold star for 200, platinum (?) star for 400. You can see that in the summary of the previous challenge http://www.languagechallenge.surrealix.com
3 x
LyricsTraining now has Finnish and Polish :)
Corrections welcome

User avatar
Serpent
Black Belt - 3rd Dan
Posts: 3657
Joined: Sat Jul 18, 2015 10:54 am
Location: Moskova
Languages: heritage
Russian (native); Belarusian, Polish

fluent or close: Finnish (certified C1), English; Portuguese, Spanish, German, Italian
learning: Croatian+, Ukrainian; Romanian, Galician; Danish, Swedish; Estonian
exploring: Latin, Karelian, Catalan, Dutch, Czech, Latvian
x 5178
Contact:

Re: Super Challenge registration thread

Postby Serpent » Mon Jan 21, 2019 11:13 pm

Found an explanation by surrealix too http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/fo ... =49#504504
1 x
LyricsTraining now has Finnish and Polish :)
Corrections welcome

Ren_Lei123
Posts: 9
Joined: Sun Mar 10, 2019 8:10 pm
Languages: Chinese (N), English (B2?), Japanese (N1?), French (A2), German(beginner)
x 16

Re: Super Challenge registration thread

Postby Ren_Lei123 » Sun Mar 10, 2019 8:41 pm

Language: French
Challenge: (full, half, double) half
Current level: A2?

Language: Japanese
Challenge: (full, half, double) half
Current level: JLPT N1

Language: English
Challenge: (full, half, double) full
Current level: B2

Comments, links:https://twitter.com/Ren_Li123
0 x
Fr: Read : 1 / 50 Watched : 10 / 50
LNT 3 : 22 / 135
En: Wrote : 873 / 25000 Read : 0 / 50
Watched : 7 / 50
Ja: Wrote : 655 / 25000 Read : 5 / 50
Watched : 17 / 50

ayos
Posts: 1
Joined: Sat Mar 16, 2019 12:43 am
Languages: Spanish (N), English (intermediate)
x 2

Re: Super Challenge registration thread

Postby ayos » Mon Mar 18, 2019 1:07 am

Language: English
Challenge: Full
Current level: B2
Comments, links: I'm not expecting to get into big trouble completing the films, but sitting for reading will be a real challenge.
Books: I intend to use a mix of classics and some technical books.
Films: I'm using mostly podcasts with some actual movies here and there.
I'm also doing some pronunciation work on the side and would focus on output later.
I hope this effort will help my understanding of English to get smoother.
2 x
: 0 / 100 English Super Challenge '19 100 Books
: 36 / 100 English Super Challenge '19 100 Films

RMM
White Belt
Posts: 11
Joined: Thu Jan 05, 2017 5:25 pm
Location: USA
Languages: English (N), German, Spanish, Italian, French (low intermediate), Japanese (beginner), Russian (beginner), Swedish (on hold)
x 24

Re: Super Challenge registration thread

Postby RMM » Tue May 14, 2019 8:20 pm

Language: Russian
Challenge: Half
Current level: sub-A1
Comments: I know this is late in the day, but I thought I would give Russian a try in addition to my Romance Languages and German challenges. I don't know enough Russian yet to feel comfortable extensively reading and watching in the language, so I'm going to focus primarily on using the L-R method to get through books and audiobooks. I've already done some test runs to make sure I can L-R Russian (fortunately, I spent a few hours with Russian when I was a kid and learned the alphabet then, but really I started L-R'ing Russian pretty much from scratch). I will of course count all that I've already done, since the challenge was ongoing.

L-R'ing Russian is a lot harder than L-R'ing another Romance/Germanic language, but it's certainly doable, although I've noticed interlinear and dual language books provide a much bigger benefit here than they ever did when L-R'ing my easier languages. I'm not going to make Russian my main focus, but I am trying to get a foundation down for the language, which I can build on more later. I'm hoping that this half challenge will help get me to a level where I can just sit down and read a book or watch a show or movie in Russian and understand enough to know what's going on and to learn from context. Then I can really use extensive reading/listening as my main learning method (while looking up some grammar and vocab along the way--Russian grammar is definitely not intuitive).
2 x

User avatar
Cèid Donn
Blue Belt
Posts: 513
Joined: Thu Nov 15, 2018 10:48 pm
Languages: en-us (n); français, gàidhlig, gaeilge, cymraeg, brezhoneg, español
x 1877

Re: Super Challenge registration thread

Postby Cèid Donn » Thu Jul 04, 2019 2:26 pm

Adding a half challenge for Spanish to my current two full challenges for French and Gaelic

Language: Spanish
Challenge: Half
Level: B1(?)

Comments: Even though it's pretty late in the challenge, I didn't want to wait until next April for when the next challenge starts to do something like this with Spanish. My video content will mostly be movies and TV shows from Netflix and local Spanish-language TV stations, and my reading will be mostly e-books or books from my local library.
3 x
Note from an educator and former ESL/test skills tutor: Any learner, including self-learners, can use the CEFR for self-assessment. The CEFR is for helping learners progress and not for gatekeeping and bullying.

Tamarind
Posts: 4
Joined: Fri May 06, 2016 6:01 pm
Languages: English (N), Czech (beginner)
x 7

Re: Super Challenge registration thread

Postby Tamarind » Sun Aug 11, 2019 7:05 am

Is it possible to do a double challenge for watching and half a challenge for reading? Or do the watching and reading challenges have to match up? And can I change that now?
0 x

User avatar
IronMike
Black Belt - 2nd Dan
Posts: 2554
Joined: Thu May 12, 2016 6:13 am
Location: Northern Virginia
Languages: Studying: Esperanto
Maintaining: nada
Tested:
BCS, 1+L/1+R (DLPT5, 2022)
Russian, 3/3 (DLPT5, 2022) 2+ (OPI, 2022)
German, 2L/1+R (DLPT5, 2021)
Italian, 1L/2R (DLPT IV, 2019)
Esperanto, C1 (KER skriba ekzameno, 2017)
Slovene, 2+L/3R (DLPT II in, yes, 1999)
Language Log: viewtopic.php?f=15&t=5189
x 7264
Contact:

Re: Super Challenge registration thread

Postby IronMike » Mon Aug 26, 2019 10:44 pm

Since I'll be working on Italian for the remainder of the year, change to my Challenge.

Language: Esperanto
Challenge: Half
Current level: C1
Comments:

Language: Russian
Challenge: Half
Current level: C1
Comments: 2+L/2+R in August 2019. Just took OPI today and praying for a 2 but think maybe I got a 1+. Too rusty!

Language: Italian
Challenge: Quarter
Current level: B1
Comments: 1L/2R in Italian in May; aiming for 1+L/2R/1S in December
2 x
You're not a C1 (or B1 or whatever) if you haven't tested.
CEFR --> ILR/DLPT equivalencies
My swimming life.
My reading life.

User avatar
Serpent
Black Belt - 3rd Dan
Posts: 3657
Joined: Sat Jul 18, 2015 10:54 am
Location: Moskova
Languages: heritage
Russian (native); Belarusian, Polish

fluent or close: Finnish (certified C1), English; Portuguese, Spanish, German, Italian
learning: Croatian+, Ukrainian; Romanian, Galician; Danish, Swedish; Estonian
exploring: Latin, Karelian, Catalan, Dutch, Czech, Latvian
x 5178
Contact:

Re: Super Challenge registration thread

Postby Serpent » Tue Aug 27, 2019 2:18 am

Tamarind wrote:Is it possible to do a double challenge for watching and half a challenge for reading? Or do the watching and reading challenges have to match up? And can I change that now?
Sorry I missed this. The bot can't handle combinations like those you mentioned (but you get a bronze star for completing a half challenge in both, and some extra stars for the movies).
To change your challenge just post your updated info like IronMike did on the previous page. You can list your actual goals in the Comments: line.
1 x
LyricsTraining now has Finnish and Polish :)
Corrections welcome


Return to “Language Challenges”

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 1 guest