The idea of the Output Challenge is output both writing and/or speech in your target language. The hope is by increasing the amount of output you produce, you'll be able to identify gaps in your knowledge of grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation or other problematic areas of output.
The challenge entails:
- 50,000 words or 1 nanowrimo novel
- 50 hours of recorded speech (only minutes where you are speaking count) *NOTE: 50% less that the 2015 challenge.
- You can only sign-up for one language at a time.
Because of the difficulty of doing 100 hours of speech, I've dropped the challenge by 50%. So now the challange is basically 50k words and 50 hours of audio.
To register, please state:
LANGUAGE:
CHALLENGE: (Audio only, Writing only, Full Challenge)
CURRENT LANGUAGE LEVEL: (A1, A2, B1, B2, C1, C2)
WILLING TO CORRECT LANGUAGE: (Yes/No "Your native language")
COMMENTS: Any comments you feel like adding as to your reasons for choice of language, type of challenge or material you want to produce or your expectations for the outcome.
The rules are straightforward, but are open to questioning. In the normal course of the challenge if you feel that what you are doing is in the spirit of the challenge, e.g. producing copious amounts of output in your target language, and it is helping you improve, then it is probably OK. If you don't know, just ask. Generally, if you wrote it, pen, paper, keyboard, blog, poem, traffic ticket, then it counts. Audio is slightly more difficult, but if you are talking, singing, whatever and being recorded it counts. If you're not recording it, then it doesn't count. The reason is that we're only counting output that could be shared. You don't have to share, but the potential has to exist. So chatting with your neighbour over the fence doesn't count, unless you get permission and record it.
If you're uncomfortable with the audio then feel free to just signup for written output only.
Some other points are:
- You can be at any level when the challenge starts.
- Any work or material completed in this challenge can be used on any other challenge.
- You can join the challenge at any point while the challenge is running.
- You can only sign-up with one language, but you can do other languages after you complete the first, or change mid-challenge if you want.
- You are welcome to link to your other logs in this thread.
We don't have a cool Bot like all the other challenges, so you have to do it the hard way. Save your writing and use the word count tool in your software. Count the minutes in your audio. Save it all on a pen and paper or spreadsheet. You can also use the very cool progress bars available on this forum, and instructions in this thread: http://forum.language-learners.org/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=856
If anyone wants to create a mega-cool bot then please step forward!