Re: 6WC 6 Week Challenge - Nov 2018
Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2018 8:24 pm
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We talk languages
http://forum.language-learners.org/
http://forum.language-learners.org/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=9255
Christi wrote:I just checked my stats and noticed some of my tweets haven't been processed. They do appear on my timeline. Is anyone else having the same problem?
reineke wrote:Christi wrote:I just checked my stats and noticed some of my tweets haven't been processed. They do appear on my timeline. Is anyone else having the same problem?
Bot to Christi
"Sorry, right now I can only score one language per tweet. Please submit your times separately for each language."
Also, avoid posting identical times as it may be picked up a spam.
reineke wrote:reineke wrote:I have registered as well. Last year I registered with Spanish. I got real good at watching cartoons.reineke wrote:I am mostly watching cartoons at night. Mostly.reineke wrote:
While no one apparently noticed, I unregistered from both the SC and here as well. I reregistered here to try to focus more on a single language. I've "competed" with people who were reporting progress in Cat V languages in 10-hour increments. The challenge was also advertised on Reddit and elsewhere without any specific instructions.
TV is allowed as long as one is paying attention.
If you want to make the challenge about intensive study at A1-B1 level label it as such, disallow any tweets that report more than 90 minutes per study session and require that each intensive activity be labeled with a second hashtag. The second column could be reserved for extensive activities.
I am aware of the rules and I remember our prior discussions. I have also mentioned in the past that I always round things down, never up. I apply a further discount to the value I report for the day/part of the day.
reineke wrote:Serpent wrote:I didn't mean it's a hard activity, I meant it's hard to keep going. It's exhausting.smallwhite wrote: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.smallwhite wrote:Serpent wrote:I didn't mean it's a hard activity, I meant it's hard to keep going. It's exhausting.
No idea what difference that makes. Whether an activity is exhausting is also irrelevant.smallwhite wrote:reineke wrote:
I am aware of the rules and I remember our prior discussions. I have also mentioned in the past that I always round things down, never up. I apply a further discount to the value I report for the day/part of the day.
I remember asking, too; that's why I said you seldom answer me. So was that 7 hours at 100% attention or, say, 14 hours at 50% attention?
If I see someone dumping 10+ hours in say, Japanese, I may discount very little. You need to knock it off with this accountant nonsense. I don't count any background listening. I had Spanish on most of the afternoon but I will count it only as about 40 minutes.
I also see some contradictions and lack of objective thinking in these discussions. I missed out on a couple of challenges already. Once you figure this out together with whoever is in charge, please let everyone know.
I missed that. The challenge is limited to "lower intermediate" in your TL based on the premise that an advanced learner can just watch films etc. This doesn't really take into account false beginners or those who do input from day 1.smallwhite wrote:Serpent wrote:I didn't mean it's a hard activity, I meant it's hard to keep going. It's exhausting.
No idea what difference that makes. Whether an activity is exhausting is also irrelevant.
Serpent wrote:I missed that. The challenge is limited to "lower intermediate" in your TL based on the premise that an advanced learner can just watch films etc. This doesn't really take into account false beginners or those who do input from day 1.smallwhite wrote:Serpent wrote:I didn't mean it's a hard activity, I meant it's hard to keep going. It's exhausting.
No idea what difference that makes. Whether an activity is exhausting is also irrelevant.