6WC 6 Week Challenge - February 2016

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6WC 6 Week Challenge - February 2016

Postby smallwhite » Wed Jan 27, 2016 3:05 am

Challenge XX - February 2016

Starts: Monday, 1st February 2016 00h00m01s your time
Ends: Sunday, 13th March 2016 23h59m59s your time


The bot is already taking registrations, and we already have 3 enthusiastic participants. Come challenge them!

The 6 Week Challenge is a challenge to upgrade your language skills in one language from beginner to something more worthwhile, and to see if you can find more time to study languages when competing with other participants in a global highscore. 6 Week Challenges start on February 1st, May 1st, August 1st and November 1st every year, so there is a rough 6 weeks on / 6 weeks off pattern. Note that you can only do the 6 Week Challenge with a language that you're a beginner at or lower-intermediate at most. This allows for a more just comparison between participants.

More about the Challenge here

Sprachprofi wrote
The bot only knows ISO-639-1 languages.

ISO 639-1 codes here

The three tags #ie #multilingual #linguistics which are all grouped together as "Multilingual" on the scoreboard can be used if you don't want to differentiate between several languages.

Also available are: Nahuatl, Ancient Greek, #ASL, #Cantonese. I don't know what the tags are for the first two.

Link to last Challenge, November 2015

What language are you participating with? How many hours do you expect to study? Let us know!
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Re: 6WC 6 Week Challenge - February 2016

Postby Radioclare » Wed Jan 27, 2016 7:06 am

I've just registered with Russian. I'm not expecting to have a lot of free time for the challenge this time around but hoping it will give me extra motivation to make use of the time I do have :)
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Re: 6WC 6 Week Challenge - February 2016

Postby Mohave » Wed Jan 27, 2016 2:55 pm

I'm signed up with Spanish - looking forward to starting this journey!
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Re: 6WC 6 Week Challenge - February 2016

Postby Brun Ugle » Wed Jan 27, 2016 4:03 pm

German again for me. Last time I did equal amounts of German and Spanish, and it will probably be similar this time. Or I might do even more Spanish now that it's getting easier to do fun stuff like watch TV and read.

I registered with the HTLAL tag. Too bad there isn't an ALLF tag.
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Re: 6WC 6 Week Challenge - February 2016

Postby Nandemonai » Wed Jan 27, 2016 5:02 pm

Signed up with Korean. Hopefully I can read basic stuff by the end of it.
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Re: 6WC 6 Week Challenge - February 2016

Postby MCK74 » Wed Jan 27, 2016 11:44 pm

I registered with French
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Re: 6WC 6 Week Challenge - February 2016

Postby BAnna » Thu Jan 28, 2016 4:05 am

Sounds like a perfect opportunity to restart my long-neglected study of Turkish.
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Re: 6WC 6 Week Challenge - February 2016

Postby Cavesa » Sat Jan 30, 2016 2:20 pm

Awesome, thanks to everyone preparing it!

I am in. With Italian!
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Re: 6WC 6 Week Challenge - February 2016

Postby eginhard » Sat Jan 30, 2016 4:59 pm

I've just signed up for Russian. I'm going to Latvia next month, so it makes sense to put a bit more effort into it (and while I'd like to learn more Latvian at some point, Russian is more useful for me in general and I have more materials for it as well).
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Re: 6WC 6 Week Challenge - February 2016

Postby smallwhite » Sun Jan 31, 2016 9:08 am

Less than 24 hours to go. There are 15 of us so far. Come study with us!
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