The Super Challenge - discussion thread 2018/2019

Ongoing language-learning challenges, and team challenge logs (but not individual logs)
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 5179
Contact:

Re: The Super Challenge - discussion thread 2018/2019

Postby Serpent » Fri May 11, 2018 9:55 pm

#mo is the tag for #Moldovan. It's not really necessary because nowadays even Moldova considers Romanian to be its national language.
0 x
LyricsTraining now has Finnish and Polish :)
Corrections welcome

User avatar
Ani
Brown Belt
Posts: 1433
Joined: Mon Mar 14, 2016 8:58 am
Location: Alaska
Languages: English (N), speaks French, Russian & Icelandic (beginner)
x 3840
Contact:

Re: The Super Challenge - discussion thread 2018/2019

Postby Ani » Fri May 11, 2018 10:55 pm

How do we link our Twitter account to our forum name? I think I will try and use the bot. I got successfully registered but the challenge website, of course, doesn't know I'm me :). It's @anniestahlie if this is done manually. If not and someone can point me in the direction of how to edit it, I'd be glad to do it.
1 x
But there's no sense crying over every mistake. You just keep on trying till you run out of cake.

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 5179
Contact:

Re: The Super Challenge - discussion thread 2018/2019

Postby Serpent » Sat May 12, 2018 1:42 am

Serpent wrote:
demri wrote:I've created a twitter account, but how does the bot know how to match my twitter and forum accounts?
It doesn't need to. The bot knows you by your twitter username. If it's different from the one you use here just indicate that in the sign-up thread. (or it's fine to stay anonymous :lol:)
:)
As for the Russian book, I would say 1/3rd. Maybe 1/4 if you ignore the questions.
0 x
LyricsTraining now has Finnish and Polish :)
Corrections welcome

User avatar
Brun Ugle
Black Belt - 2nd Dan
Posts: 2273
Joined: Mon Jul 27, 2015 12:48 pm
Location: Steinkjer, Norway
Languages: English (N), Norwegian (~C1/C2), Spanish (B1/B2), German (A2/B1?), Japanese (very rusty)
Language Log: https://forum.language-learners.org/vie ... 15&t=11484
x 5821
Contact:

Re: The Super Challenge - discussion thread 2018/2019

Postby Brun Ugle » Sat May 12, 2018 5:53 am

Ani wrote:How do we link our Twitter account to our forum name? I think I will try and use the bot. I got successfully registered but the challenge website, of course, doesn't know I'm me :). It's @anniestahlie if this is done manually. If not and someone can point me in the direction of how to edit it, I'd be glad to do it.

In the top right corner of this forum, click your name, then “user control panel”. Then click the tab marked “profile” and add your Twitter handle without the @.
1 x

User avatar
Ani
Brown Belt
Posts: 1433
Joined: Mon Mar 14, 2016 8:58 am
Location: Alaska
Languages: English (N), speaks French, Russian & Icelandic (beginner)
x 3840
Contact:

Re: The Super Challenge - discussion thread 2018/2019

Postby Ani » Sat May 12, 2018 6:00 am

Brun Ugle wrote:
Ani wrote:How do we link our Twitter account to our forum name? I think I will try and use the bot. I got successfully registered but the challenge website, of course, doesn't know I'm me :). It's @anniestahlie if this is done manually. If not and someone can point me in the direction of how to edit it, I'd be glad to do it.

In the top right corner of this forum, click your name, then “user control panel”. Then click the tab marked “profile” and add your Twitter handle without the @.

Thanks !
0 x
But there's no sense crying over every mistake. You just keep on trying till you run out of cake.

Monox D. I-Fly
Blue Belt
Posts: 640
Joined: Sat Oct 10, 2015 5:22 pm
x 307

Re: The Super Challenge - discussion thread 2018/2019

Postby Monox D. I-Fly » Sat May 12, 2018 12:21 pm

Does the bot count a number written in letters without hashtag? It counts that I have watched 2 books in Arabic even though I am actually only at 27 pages by the rule (135 manga pages). For clarification, this is exactly what I wrote on my Twitter:
@langchallenge #read the first chapter of Akame ga Kill in #arabic. Total eighty five pages, but according to the rules it only counts as 17 pages.

@langchallenge #read the second chapter of Akame ga Kill in #arabic. Total fifty two pages, but according to the rules it only counts as 10 pages.
0 x
Read 5,000 pages of Arabic books: 5 / 5000
Watch 9,000 minutes of Arabic videos: 19 / 9000

Read 5,000 pages of Japanese books: 1 / 5000
Watch 9,000 minutes of Japanese videos: 297 / 9000

User avatar
Jim
Orange Belt
Posts: 142
Joined: Sat Apr 22, 2017 3:18 pm
Languages: English (N), French (intermediate), Spanish (frosty intermediate), Russian (beginner)
Language Log: viewtopic.php?f=15&t=5766
x 254

Re: The Super Challenge - discussion thread 2018/2019

Postby Jim » Sat May 12, 2018 1:02 pm

Monox D. I-Fly wrote:Does the bot count a number written in letters without hashtag? It counts that I have watched 2 books in Arabic even though I am actually only at 27 pages by the rule (135 manga pages). ...


It hasn’t picked up any number of pages (otherwise it would state the number of pages next to the book on the site). My guess is that it parsed the first reference to "pages" but since there was no associated number, it got ignored. So each tweet was recorded as you having read a book instead. I think you need to delete the tweets and just say something like "Total is eighty five, but according to the rules it only counts as 17 pages. "
2 x
La hora más oscura es la que viene antes del nacimiento del sol

Merci de corriger mes erreurs !

User avatar
CarlyD
Blue Belt
Posts: 608
Joined: Sat Jul 18, 2015 5:44 pm
Location: California, USA
Languages: English (N), Spanish--A2, German--now studying, A2
x 1320

Re: The Super Challenge - discussion thread 2018/2019

Postby CarlyD » Sat May 12, 2018 4:47 pm

So I'm still seeing some back and forth--it's working, it's not working.

At the moment, I'm seeing my stats from the last challenge only, and it's not updating my current tweets.

So until someone posts that everything is absolutely fine, I'll keep logging in my Language Notebook and I'll update my progress bar here.

So don't be surprised when you see that sudden 5,000 pages posted for me.

Ok, maybe 50. :P
1 x
2024 15,000 pages Reading Challenge--pages: 1180 / 15000

jeffers
Blue Belt
Posts: 848
Joined: Sat Aug 22, 2015 4:12 pm
Location: UK
Languages: Speaks: English (N), Hindi (A2-B1)

Learning: The above, plus French (A2-B1), German (A1), Ancient Greek (?), Sanskrit (beginner)
Language Log: https://forum.language-learners.org/vie ... 15&t=19785
x 2774
Contact:

Re: The Super Challenge - discussion thread 2018/2019

Postby jeffers » Sat May 12, 2018 5:57 pm

I've had mixed results. It's picking up some hashtags and not others. For films, #film is working fine. An example which worked:
@langchallenge #fr #film "L'art du Crime, s1e1" 50 mins

But #book does not seem to work, as in this example:
@langchallenge #fr #book "Le Petit Nicolas et les copains" 134 pages

I tweeted again using #reading, and it worked fine:
@langchallenge #fr #reading "Le Petit Nicolas et les copains" 134 pages
0 x
Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien (roughly, the perfect is the enemy of the good)

French SC Books: 0 / 5000 (0/5000 pp)
French SC Films: 0 / 9000 (0/9000 mins)

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 5179
Contact:

Re: The Super Challenge - discussion thread 2018/2019

Postby Serpent » Sat May 12, 2018 7:45 pm

#bo is the tag for Tibetan. #book no longer works and should be removed from the list
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 2 guests