2020 366-day challenge! Rules, sign-up, discussion

[Jeling]

Count me in! It should be nice!

Totally new language for me - Hungarian. Starting from January 1.

[Cenwalh]

I've been considering joining for a while, but wasn't sure if ever missing a day would demotivate me. I guess I might as well throw my hat in the ring and see if I can do it.

My entry (for ease of copying):
Cenwalh - Spanish - Specific - Beginning January 1, 2020

[wsit]

Hi !

I'm new here, and thanks for the great forum.
I'm interested in this challenge, please sign me up.
My languages are Russian and English-specific.

Thank you.

[wsit]

Hi ! Me again.
Sorry, I forgot to precise the date : starting from 1st january 2020, (Russian and English). Please sign me up.
Thank you.

[Kalokagathia]

Count me in!

Hebrew -- staring 1. January 2020
generic (Hebrew, could be some dabbling in other languages) -- also starting 1. January 2020

[EmGeeFab]

I have a question about how to count language activities...

I'm pretty advanced in German - I can understand any TV show / radio show / etc that I hear, and I can read books, albeit slowly. I'm working on improving my German, though, because I want to speak it with my children at home. I actually used to speak German at home until we encountered some problems (extreme stutter included in one child) and the questions got too hard.

Could I count time spent speaking German and doing German activities with my kids towards my total? While I am working on improving my German generally, I am focusing on things that enable me to speak it daily at home, and to finally answer those hard questions in my second language!

Emily

[Nogon]

I'd like to join too. My main language will be French, but I might very well dabble in other languages too, so:

Nogon - French - Generic - Beginning January 1, 2020

[Sedge]

I have a question about how to count language activities...

I'm pretty advanced in German - I can understand any TV show / radio show / etc that I hear, and I can read books, albeit slowly. I'm working on improving my German, though, because I want to speak it with my children at home. I actually used to speak German at home until we encountered some problems (extreme stutter included in one child) and the questions got too hard.

Could I count time spent speaking German and doing German activities with my kids towards my total? While I am working on improving my German generally, I am focusing on things that enable me to speak it daily at home, and to finally answer those hard questions in my second language!

Emily

I'm going to go with "use your best judgement" on this one. Is the activity that you are doing something which is actively improving/expanding your knowledge of the language? Then it fits the spirit of the challenge and would count.

[fleafreethree]

I need to do this - I've spent far, far too long stopping and starting. I'm going for a double challenge:

Specific: Sanskrit. I'm a semi-beginner in this. I've done Egenes but my plan for 2020 is to work through Maurer at a rate of approximately a unit a week - there are 40 units so give or take, that's probably about right but it'll probably take more than 30 minutes a day to do this, though...all those declensions to memorize and test yourself on.
Specific: Thai. My listening and reading are pretty decent but my productive skills lag a long way behind so 2020 is going to be the year of speaking and writing for Thai - I think I'll aim for something along the lines of the output challenge.

Both starting on January 1, 2020.

[GC1998]

I'd like to try this to keep up regular study habits. Starting on the 1st January i'd like to do one generic block of 30 minutes of study. My main focus will be Chinese, but I know I'll do French/Spanish/Russian as well, and I don't think I'll be able to do all for 30 minutes a day. So that's why I chose generic.