As I mentioned in my last post, I will be conducting an “experimental” 2-week tadoku since so many of you begged asked for it.
Contest Runtime:
March 18th – March 31st
The usual rules and instructions apply so be sure to check the 多読 manual.
[note: Zero's will be cut on 3/24]
[note 2: Pages read in experimental rounds will not be added to master rank scores.]
- LordSilent Reading: jp goal: 1000
- Junesun Reading: fr zh goal: 0
- 1ceCreammm Reading: jp goal: 750
- ACEfanatic02 Reading: jp goal: 700
- TMJake Reading: jp goal: 2000
- glitteringloke Reading: jp goal: 50
- LawlCarl Reading: es fr sv goal: 275
- tummai Reading: jp goal: 200
- Landorien Reading: jp goal: 0
- luna_moonsilver Reading: de goal: 0
- lavinia_dinu Reading: de eo goal: 0
- diogovk Reading: jp es goal: 0
- hyrulehippie Reading: jp goal: 800
- SimHuman Reading: jp goal: 0
- kanjilovah Reading: jp goal: 0
- revenantkioku Reading: jp goal: 0
- KSaiydT Reading: jp goal: 1000
- aiorral Reading: jp goal: 0
- gboschen Reading: jp goal: 0
- jsj2003 Reading: jp goal: 0
- HanaYanaa Reading: jp goal: 0
- songlines_north Reading: fr goal: 0
- Cush1979 Reading: jp goal: 0
- sursiques Reading: fr pt goal: 0
- sloppier_r Reading: fr goal: 200
- melitu Reading: jp zh goal: 200
- f_splendor Reading: en goal: 500
- mochidzuki Reading: jp goal: 200
- RiverOverrun Reading: es de zh goal: 1000
- sarajaksa Reading: jp goal: 0
- Seizar86 Reading: ko fr jp goal: 0
- jimjamjeniko Reading: jp goal: 0
- aqualuna Reading: En goal: 0
- Kentarosu1 Reading: jp goal: 111
- peterjcarroll Reading: es eo goal: 0
- KanmuriAramaki Reading: jp goal: 100
- bri_thought Reading: jp goal: 0
- Harukogirl Reading: jp goal: 750
- ararara_ Reading: jp goal: 100
- serpent849 Reading: pt pl de goal: 149
- Bluemchenblatt Reading: jp pl es goal: 100
- CultureQuirk Reading: jp goal: 0
- AnyaPop Reading: it de jp goal: 0
- tamtott Reading: jp goal: 200
- drsarvo Reading: ru de fr goal: 0
- CristinaNorway Reading: de ru it goal: 1200
- lisambosco Reading: es jp goal: 0
- kkgtokyo Reading: jp goal: 200
- gabreeb Reading: es goal: 0
- chmijo Reading: jp goal: 0
- JapanNewbie Reading: jp goal: 0
- RichardMedh Reading: jp goal: 0
- konayaakira Reading: jp goal: 200
- Little_strokes Reading: jp jp goal: 0
- maryag Reading: jp goal: 0
- algaav Reading: jp goal: 350
- HolySt4r Reading: jp goal: 0
- NotDarkYet_ Reading: jp goal: 0
- CornerPoem Reading: fr nl goal: 0
- fabriciocarraro Reading: ru nl it goal: 0
- hanikamiya Reading: jp en fr goal: 0
- Woodsei Reading: jp goal: 0
- greenisgo Reading: jp goal: 150
- mikotoneko Reading: jp goal: 0
- satsuki_055 Reading: jp goal: 0
- __Lulu__ Reading: jp goal: 0
- Ultimaga Reading: jp goal: 0
- Cheftom123 Reading: fr goal: 30
- xatlasm Reading: jp goal: 200
- Amasugiya Reading: en goal: 50
- lhiemenz Reading: es fr goal: 0
- rockmor_jp Reading: jp goal: 0
- blackbrich Reading: jp goal: 200
Mar 11, 2012 @ 17:24:20
yay!!! but what’s..experimental about it?
Mar 11, 2012 @ 17:28:06
The length
Mar 12, 2012 @ 23:38:09
What does it mean, about zeroes being cut? That you have to read at least one page on the first day in order to stay in the game?
Mar 13, 2012 @ 00:55:26
Meant for the date to be the 24th, thanks for pointing that out.
Mar 13, 2012 @ 02:40:47
So I was wondering… I wanted to do my usual Japanese tadoku, but I’d like to add another language to be able to change when I’m too tired or simply fed up or whatever… I considered Polish, but it feels like cheating: Actually it is my mother tongue. We moved to Germany when I was 2. German feels more like my mother tongue, because that’s what I used most of my life. So I never perfectly learnt Polish, but I don’t want to do any “unfair” competition.
What do you think?
Mar 13, 2012 @ 10:26:52
I think doing polish would be fine
Mar 14, 2012 @ 13:12:21
I’m a native speaker of Russian and I signed up with Polish without any previous study of it (I’ll mostly read what I have recordings of)… I don’t think either of us is doing anything unfair;)
Mar 14, 2012 @ 13:40:56
Is there any specific reason you have chosen to learn Polish?
Mar 14, 2012 @ 16:55:02
Oh, a lot of reasons.♥
Well, it’s one of the languages of my family heritage, my dad is from Belarus and my grandma speaks a little Polish. I also just love Slavic languages and have a bit of experience with some – Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian. And I like the country a lot. It’s kinda sad and I’ve now admitted this to myself for the first time, I suppose to have a nice experience travelling there I need to speak at least some Polish. BTW I’m hopefully going to Prague in May and will also spend a couple of days in Warsaw. That’s the reason I picked it for Tadoku – I need to get comfortable with the spelling.
I’m also super-excited about Euro-2012 and I’ll do a 6 week challenge in Polish in May.
Mar 14, 2012 @ 07:19:36
Is it still possible to change one of my chosen languages (French) for Spanish? If yes, then how do I do it?
Mar 14, 2012 @ 13:09:49
I can change it for you, who are you?
Mar 14, 2012 @ 15:29:58
Thanks! I’m ‘sursiques’, #24 on the list.
Mar 14, 2012 @ 18:19:41
changed it for you
Mar 17, 2012 @ 14:27:50
There’s a bug while switching from a specific language to All. and there’s a typo, Portuguese not Portugese.
And I’m guessing I’m not supposed to see my January stats when I click my username – or is it because experimental doesn’t count for the master ranks?
These are very minor issues though… YAY TADOKU!
Mar 17, 2012 @ 15:30:57
Fixed the things and removed ALL since it has never worked. Thanks for the bug reports.
Mar 17, 2012 @ 17:28:57
i’ve read only tweets for now..and it says sentences are 194.12% of total looool.
Mar 18, 2012 @ 00:57:02
Im not seeing that.
Mar 18, 2012 @ 07:16:26
http://digitalartificer.com/railed/breakdownex.php?name=serpent849 i’ve read a bit of other stuff and now the total is just 113.96% lol.
Mar 18, 2012 @ 07:30:07
In fact the stats for Portuguese say I’ve read almost 7 pages, but my score is 19.06 despite having read 15 book pages in Polish.
something’s wrong with the sentences counting thing… can’t find the link to the january stats but if there were errors with the percentage, they weren’t obvious like 78%+31%+5%.
Mar 18, 2012 @ 12:14:20
Oh right, yeah the ranking is still set up for single language use so the numbers will be slighty off when it comes to sentences. But the bot does calculate all of it correctly so no need to worry, I would fix that if this wasn’t the last time I was using this bot/ranking but I’ll be scrapping them after this round.
Mar 18, 2012 @ 13:26:54
my count is displayed incorrectly on the ranking page though, and the bot gives me incorrect info with each update:(
new bot/ranking sounds exciting
Mar 18, 2012 @ 13:29:08
Or is the count on the Portuguese page incorrect and does what i’ve read count as fewer sentences than it says?
Mar 18, 2012 @ 13:32:54
The counts on the individual language and breakdown pages are incorrect. It treats all sentences as worth 1/17th of a point when this is not true for any language but Japanese. The bot knows the difference but the site does not.
Mar 22, 2012 @ 09:22:37
Hey, I was registered, then lost a few days due to family commitments, but now I’m back in the game. I want to set a goal of 1000 pages read by the end of the challenge. In what format can I submit the goal? Thanks! がんばってね、みんな！
Mar 22, 2012 @ 09:26:22
I’m sorry, my username is also @Woodsei on twitter.
Mar 22, 2012 @ 09:37:59
I finally located the manual, and figured out how to set a reading goal. Thanks for the trouble!