6 Week Challenge Winners (2011-2021)

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6WC WINNERS: TARGET LANGUAGE HOURS

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Date	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2020-11	PMollenburg (no)	alaart4 (zh)	carlyd734 (de)
2020-08	AnyaPop (it)	alaart4 (ko)	languagewitch_ (ru)
2020-05	vhFreya (ja)	languagewitch_ (ru)	alaart4 (ko)
2020-02	BrunUgle (tr)	dicentra8 (fi)	languagewitch_ (ru)
2019-11	carlyd734 (de)	arizakai (ja)	pamelasm (ru)
2019-08	xbrilliantyears (ar)	knitguy (fr)	xgaelicwitch (ru)
2019-05	-	-	-
2019-02	znmnky (he)	tokyo_slacker (ja)	Radioclare (ru)
2018-11	IanHiett (pt)	carlyd734 (de)	lingua2016 (it)
2018-08	veskrnap (ja)	Bunnychuuuu (ko)	xbrilliantyears (ru)
2018-05	smallwhite_hk (tr)	carlyd734 (de)	lingua2016 (la)
2018-02	marianilsen11 (ru)	veskrnap (it)	JvS_ESP (es)
2017-11	reineke111 (ru)	breaktheparadox (ja)	JohiNYC (hr)
2017-08	smallwhite_hk (el)	reineke111 (es)	lizlemonzy (hu)
2017-05	reineke111 (fr)	JohiNYC (fr)	smallwhite_hk (el)
2017-02	reineke111 (es)	blaurebell (ru)	teango (nzs)
2016-11	reineke111 (pt)	JohiNYC (fr)	IanHiett (az)
2016-08	Ketutar (fr)	knitguy (sv)	smallwhite_hk (nl)
2016-05	teango (ru)	JohiNYC (el)	smallwhite_hk (sv)
2016-02	reineke111 (es)	JohiNYC (ar)	BrunUgle (de)
2015-11	112114S2 (zh)	janiinedelleen (de)	AnAutumnRose (ko)
2015-08	AnAutumnRose (ko)	JohiNYC (hr)	112114s2 (zh)
2015-05	teango (haw)	smallwhite_hk (it)	janiinedelleen (de)
2015-02	csidler (fr)	harunohoshii (fr)	MeightHughwot (pl)
2014-11	harunohoshii (fr)	JGSokomato (zh)	MLuvs2Travel (fr)
2014-08	harunohoshii (fr)	viadiva9 (de)	CristinaNorway (ru)
2014-05	jefflehman68 (fr)	PandoraSieben (ru)	harunohoshii (fr)
2014-02	crazypuce (ja)	JohiNYC (hr)	jefflehman68 (fr)
2013-11	serpent849 (it)	JohiNYC (ar)	maurelio1234 (zh)
2013-08	jefflehman68 (fr)	maurelio1234 (zh)	tobefluent (es)
2013-05	JohiNYC (hr)	crazypuce (ja)	Michelle_CA2 (fr)
2013-02	BabyThylakoid (it)	BrunUgle (ja)	crazypuce (ja)
2012-11	Woodsei (ja)	Athallia (hr)	jefflehman68 (fr)
2012-08	Woodsei (ja)	satsuki_055 (ja)	jefflehman68 (fr)
2012-05	Woodsei (ja)	JNatAlkhimia (ar)	serpent849 (pl)
2012-02	Woodsei (ja)	JPP4 (el)	CristinaNorway (ru)
2011-11	JPP4 (ja)	HComputatralis (de)	Ketutar (fr)
2011-08	Abdalan (fr)	AnyaPop (ja)	Ally_kk (es)
2011-05	amy_burr (ar)	JNatAlkhimia (th)	AnyaPop (de)

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6WC WINNERS: TOTAL LANGUAGE HOURS

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Date	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2020-11	serpent849	lingua2016	languagewitch_
2020-08	serpent849	ifthebirdswere	languagewitch_
2020-05	serpent849	alaart4	languagewitch_
2020-02	languagewitch_	BrunUgle	dicentra8
2019-11	serpent849	xgaelicwitch	alaart4
2019-08	serpent849	xbrilliantyears	AnyaPop
2019-05	-	-	-
2019-02	serpent849	BrunUgle	aloysius___
2018-11	marianilsen11	veskrnap	IanHiett
2018-08	BrunUgle	marianilsen11	ifthebirdswere
2018-05	smallwhite_hk	ifthebirdswere	marianilsen11
2018-02	smallwhite_hk	marianilsen11	ifthebirdswere
2017-11	reineke111	XmmmXmmmXmmm	BrunUgle
2017-08	reineke111	smallwhite_hk	serpent849
2017-05	reineke111	blaurebell	JohiNYC
2017-02	reineke111	BrunUgle	blaurebell
2016-11	reineke111	serpent849	JohiNYC
2016-08	smallwhite_hk	aloysius___	BrunUgle
2016-05	serpent849	JohiNYC	ifthebirdswere
2016-02	reineke111	serpent849	BrunUgle
2015-11	serpent849	112114S2	smallwhite_hk
2015-08	112114s2	JohiNYC	AnAutumnRose
2015-05	teango	serpent849	viadiva9
2015-02	csidler	serpent849	harunohoshii
2014-11	SadSvin	serpent849	harunohoshii
2014-08	serpent849	harunohoshii	smallwhite_hk
2014-05	serpent849	LangEmme	PandoraSieben
2014-02	serpent849	crazypuce	JohiNYC
2013-11	serpent849	RiverOverrun	JohiNYC
2013-08	BabyThylakoid	cendrillonhee	ifthebirdswere
2013-05	serpent849	BabyThylakoid	JohiNYC
2013-02	IdiomasdMundo	BabyThylakoid	JulieLanguages
2012-11	serpent849	JulieLanguages	AnyaPop
2012-08	serpent849	JPP4	Woodsei
2012-05	Woodsei	serpent849	JNatAlkhimia
2012-02	Woodsei	CristinaNorway	JPP4
2011-11	JPP4	smallwhite_hk	Ketutar
2011-08	Abdalan	smallwhite_hk	JPP4
2011-05	JNatAlkhimia	amy_burr	MultiMae

[Teango]

Notice board

Apr-Aug, 2019: 6WC web pages and Twitter bot were unfortunately down or unavailable throughout much of this period, but have since been kindly fixed by Judith (@Sprachprofi, HTLAL).

Feb, 2019: Interesting cultural images (some with links) for winning target hours languages (often custom-designed or modified by yours truly to make them a little more personal and unique).

Oct, 2017: Pronunciation links (Forvo) added to target language winners' "Congratulations!" images in follow-up summary posts.
Update: I've since moved this over to the body of the text, and will omit the Forvo link for longer sentences.

Mar, 2017: Upon request, I've included ISO codes for all past target language medalists in the first post.

Oct, 2016: I just thought I'd add a thread to our forum that gives credit to all the past winners and runners-up of the 6 Week Challenge, and I'll try to keep this updated. Congratulations to everyone who has worked hard to progress in their languages during each one of these challenges, and I hope the 6WC tradition continues to inspire and help language learners achieve their goals in the years to come!

Past milestones

Apr, 2011: Twitter bot and web pages created by @Sprachprofi for the 6WC, including a platform for tracking and sharing hours spent on language learning, individual and group statistics for past challenges, and information on how to register and take part.

Apr, 2007: The thread that started it all: Learning a language for 6 weeks! (@Sprachprofi, HTLAL; name of challenge provided by @Patuco).

Mar, 2007: Inspiration for this challenge (@Awake - scroll to point #10, expanded on by @MeshGearFox and @Sprachprofi, HTLAL; see also @Junesun's [@Sprachprofi's] "Unilang Language Learning Month" challenges dating back to Jul 2005 - example thread for Dutch).

[Teango]

source: sindivista.com.br

Big congratulations to reineke111 for winning the 2016-11 6 Week Challenge for both target language hours and total hours!

A big shout out to JohiNYC and IanHiett as well for coming in second and third place for target language hours, and to serpent849 and JohiNYC for coming in second and third place for total language hours!

And of course, well done to all who participated and made progress during this challenge - great job everyone!!

[Teango]

source: lanzaderasdeempleo.es

Kudos to reineke111 for coming in first place for both target language hours and total language hours and scoring his first golden hat trick in both categories. Is there no stopping this indomitable fox?

Blaurebell's stalwart efforts earned her both a silver medal for target language hours and a bronze for total language hours in what I believe may be her first 6WC! And BrunUgle flew off with the silver for total language hours to wing back to her nest of previous medals, and Teango (me) scraped a bronze by the the skin of his teeth (props to Hundetier for making the final dash an uphill sprint)!

I also recall several people were flying high earlier in the challenge, but succumbed to illness or other difficulties and had to slow down or duck out altogether, and I'd like to give these guys a generic shout-out and round of applause (you know who you are).

Finally, well done to everyone who participated in this first 6WC of 2017. I hope you all made progress in your target language and other languages, and are one step closer your goals for this year.

[Teango]

source: fotolia.fr

Chapeaux and berets off to everyone who took part in the May 2017 6 Week Challenge! A respectful round of applause for reineke111 for winning both in terms of target and total language hours, and also for our juggernaut of runners-up (JohiNYC, smallwhite_hk, blaurebell) who powered ahead and put in some serious mileage.

This marks the 6WC's 10th anniversary since Sprachprofi got the ball rolling back in 2007, and the 6th year (and 25th run) since we started logging and adding up hours via the 6WC Twitterbot every few months. Taking just the stats on our leader board, I can see that a total of 1,445 people (577 unique members) have actively taken part and invested in excess of 50,933 hours into language learning (including 77 unique target languages, and many more all together). That's an impressive achievement in our all too often "here today, gone tomorrow" online world, and all the more so for maintaining stalwart supporters over all these years, as well as pushing through forum upheavals and rockier times to continue to attract new competitors from around the world.

Bien joué (well played) everyone, vive le 6WC!

[Teango]

source: orafok.gr

Congratulations to smallwhite_hk for winning a gold for Greek in target language hours, and to reineke111 and lizlemonzy for crossing the finish line in 2nd and 3rd position with Spanish and Hungarian respectively. The final furlong for first position was extremely close, requiring a figurative photo finish, and this challenge marks our first medal for Hungarian in the 6WC.

Well done also to reineke111, smallwhite_hk, and serpent849 for garnering gold, securing silver, and bagging bronze for total hours, each medalist averaging around 5 hours a day over these 6 committed weeks!

Finally, thumbs up to everyone who took part in the challenge, and here's a quick list to give you some idea of the sheer diversity of languages studied this time:

Albanian, American Sign Language, Ancient Greek, Arabic, Basque, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Cantonese, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Ewe, Finnish, French, Gaelic, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Maori, Norwegian, Occitan, Polish, Portuguese, Quechua, Romanian, Russian, Sami, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Tibetan, Ukrainian.

[reineke]

Congratulations to smallwhite_hk for winning a gold for Greek in target language hours, and to reineke111 and lizlemonzy for crossing the finish line in 2nd and 3rd position with Spanish and Hungarian respectively. The final furlong for first position was extremely close, requiring a figurative photo finish, and this challenge marks our first medal for Hungarian in the 6WC.

Well done also to reineke111, smallwhite_hk, and serpent849 for garnering gold, securing silver, and bagging bronze for total hours, each medalist averaging around 5 hours a day over these 6 committed weeks!

Finally, thumbs up to everyone who took part in the challenge, and here's a quick list to give you some idea of the sheer diversity of languages studied this time:

Albanian, American Sign Language, Ancient Greek, Arabic, Basque, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Cantonese, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Ewe, Finnish, French, Gaelic, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Maori, Norwegian, Occitan, Polish, Portuguese, Quechua, Romanian, Russian, Sami, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Tibetan, Ukrainian.

I am glad to see you back, Teango.

[Teango]

I am glad to see you back, Teango.

Mahalo, e Mī ʻAlopeke! (Thanks, Mr Fox!) I look forward to catching up here and dusting off my language resources back home in time for the next challenge.

[Teango]

source: nesvizh-news.by

I've been absent from the forum for a little while dealing with health issues, so I've sadly missed out on the more interesting maneuverings and highlights during the last couple of 6 Week Challenges to comment in any detail. So let me instead just uncork a belated virtual bottle of champagne for all our winners and runners-up and mention them here before the next challenge is upon us...

First of all, congratulations to our winners in the target language hours category for the last two challenges (marianilsen11 and reineke111, who both stepped up to the challenge with Russian), as well as to our runners-up (veskrnap, breaktheparadox, JvS_ESP, and JohiNYC).

Secondly, a big cheer goes out to our winners in the total language hours category (smallwhite_hk and reineke111), along with our runners-up (marianilsen11, XmmmXmmmXmmm, ifthebirdswere, and BrunUgle).

And finally, well done to everyone who took part ~~~ *Mexican wave* ~~~ with a respectful nod to those who held pole position but ducked out graciously at the very end.