I now seem to have lots of people interested in exchanging emails... although I'm sure most will give up pretty quickly.
I have made a written answers only deck in Anki. I took all the past tense sentences from Glossika level 1 and created a deck with 241 cards.
Two trial lessons booked on italki, although one teacher is insisting on working through a book, we shall see how it goes...both are this week
I was looking at the Output Challenge which has 50,000 words and 50 hours of recorded speech as it's targets over a year. Since there is only 2 months left I thought I might set myself a mini challenge of 8000 words and 8 hours of speaking on italki, since I will probably only speak for 50% of the time I will double this to 16 hours of italki lessons.
So my challenge for the rest of 2017 is....
ITalki - 16 hours speaking practice
Glossika - finish level 1
again but really drill it, no moving on until all sentences mostly correct, I am currently on lesson 59.
Writing - 8000 words, hopefully mostly emails with my lovely new penpals.
Anki - 241 sentences mastered. I shall start at 10 new cards a day a see how I get on.
So that's it, all set up and ready to go. I have a feeling I may have set my bar a bit high but what's the point of a challenge if it's not a challenge?
Now I just need to update my progress bars