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Inspired somewhat by Tom's post, here's one I'm toying with for next year Larry Send a noteboard - 15/12/2010 04:46:05 AM
Reading a prose work, a play, and an epic-length poem or poetry collection in Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French, and either Latin or German. Some of those by necessity would be re-reads; some of which I've been meaning to do for a while.

For example, I could read Petronius or Cicero, Terence, and maybe Juvenal, Ovid, or Vergil for the Latin, re-read/review something by Gabo or Vargas Llosa, Calderón de la Barca or Vega, and Darío or El Cid for the Spanish, then Camus, Moliere, and Chrétien de Troyes for French, Eco, Buzzati, or Calvino, Benelli, and either Ariosto or Boiardo for the Italian and then Pessoa, Saramago, and Camões for Portuguese.

Hrmm...that might actually be worthy of a challenge, as it would force me to insure that my fluency improves in each of those languages, even if I've read roughly half of the authors named in their native tongues.
Illusions fall like the husk of a fruit, one after another, and the fruit is experience. - Narrator, Sylvie

Je suis méchant.
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2011: a year of RAFO challenges. - 13/12/2010 10:45:30 PM 2804 Views
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Competition with yourself, then. - 15/12/2010 03:52:13 AM 1671 Views
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Name one. *NM* - 14/12/2010 05:07:36 AM 909 Views
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Also Big Fish. - 14/12/2010 08:02:07 PM 1790 Views
I prefer the book version of that, by the way - 14/12/2010 10:45:54 PM 1724 Views
Weird. *NM* - 15/12/2010 05:47:21 AM 939 Views
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Question: Can books count for multiple challenges? *NM* - 14/12/2010 09:34:28 PM 1008 Views
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So... - 15/12/2010 04:13:27 PM 1866 Views
A single book can count for many things... - 15/12/2010 04:17:59 PM 1732 Views
Oooh. This sounds great, count me in! - 15/12/2010 12:38:39 AM 2050 Views
A challenge I'm toying with for 2011: - 15/12/2010 04:00:36 AM 1766 Views
Inspired somewhat by Tom's post, here's one I'm toying with for next year - 15/12/2010 04:46:05 AM 1682 Views
I'm in. *NM* - 15/12/2010 05:20:04 AM 933 Views
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I think you should try to do one challenge now issued by myself - 16/12/2010 01:07:18 PM 1659 Views
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As always, I won't succeed at the 50 book challenge, but the others... - 20/12/2010 07:05:30 AM 1610 Views
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I think you missed a trick here. - 30/12/2010 09:19:20 AM 1746 Views
I think that one is always understood. *NM* - 30/12/2010 09:36:38 AM 1074 Views
I don't think it is. - 30/12/2010 04:20:41 PM 1565 Views
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Hmmm. Maybe. *NM* - 16/01/2011 09:11:25 PM 1790 Views
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Nice try. *NM* - 18/01/2011 06:19:48 PM 821 Views
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