6WC 6 Week Challenge - Nov 2017

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Re: 6WC 6 Week Challenge - Nov 2017

Postby Serpent » Sun Nov 12, 2017 9:49 am

Go to your mentions/notifications and click settings :) That's where the quality filter is.
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Re: 6WC 6 Week Challenge - Nov 2017

Postby peter » Sun Nov 12, 2017 1:11 pm

Serpent wrote:Go to your mentions/notifications and click settings :) That's where the quality filter is.


Thanks Serpent. Yes, I did try this, but have not been to alter what I can see.

(It's clearly something with Twitter on my end which I am finding mysterious. Messages show in the "Home" page, but not in "Profile" - they show in Profile before 6th November. If I click on my tweet, there's a number for the reply, but no rely shown. I hadn't changed anything in between, but Twitter seems to be changing things - the character counter recently changed to a graphic, for instance. This is my first "serious" use of Twitter so I'm probably missing something.)

Everything's working in terms of the challenge website.
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Re: 6WC 6 Week Challenge - Nov 2017

Postby smallwhite » Wed Nov 22, 2017 9:46 am

We've passed the halfway line of 21 days. Is everyone on track? Are you happy with your scores? If not there's still plenty of time to catch up!
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Re: 6WC 6 Week Challenge - Nov 2017

Postby smallwhite » Thu Nov 23, 2017 4:08 am

I've probably never had a Distribution by Language so even. The power of procrastination (of the Target Language Greek).

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I finished a (French) novel, though, which I rarely manage to. And I'm finally practising German speaking as part of my New Year's Resolution, having procrastinated it for 10.5/12 of the year.

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So, everything except TL Greek. I'll go wash the windows now.

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Re: 6WC 6 Week Challenge - Nov 2017

Postby smallwhite » Tue Dec 05, 2017 3:36 am

We're now in the last week of the 6WC!
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Re: 6WC 6 Week Challenge - Nov 2017

Postby smallwhite » Thu Dec 14, 2017 9:29 am

smallwhite wrote:
Starts: Wednesday, 1st Nov 2017 00h00m01s your time
Ends: Tuesday, 12th Dec 2017 23h59m59s your time

Is everyone aware that the 6WC has ended?
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Re: 6WC 6 Week Challenge - Nov 2017

Postby peter » Thu Dec 14, 2017 10:21 am

smallwhite wrote:
smallwhite wrote:
Starts: Wednesday, 1st Nov 2017 00h00m01s your time
Ends: Tuesday, 12th Dec 2017 23h59m59s your time

Is everyone aware that the 6WC has ended?

I noticed! :D

I found the challenge very helpful, and there was the extra pressure to "keep up" and reach my aims which saw me through. I definitely spent more time on language studies than I would otherwise have done. (Yesterday though I opened Anki and then, rather too gleefully, closed it again, as I decided I wanted a day off!)

I wrote the summary below on my log:

peter wrote:The 6 week challenge comes to an end, and I seem to have logged around 70 hours in Bengali, so 11-12 hours a week.

My three aims were:

  1. Fully understand and practise all the grammar of Part II
  2. Learn at least a further 500 words from the glossary (then I'll have learnt 1000 words in total by the end of the year, which seems a good target)
  3. Become practised at conjugating different verbs - I should not have to "work out" the vowel mutation, stem and ending in popular cases.
I managed to complete all three:

  1. I finished part II of my TY book, and am putting together a summary along with revising what I have learnt (as described two posts ago)
  2. I just completed the extra 500 words. A combination of words from some useful Memrise courses and the book dialogues brought up my total.
  3. I'm fairly confident with my verb conjugations, thanks in part to a Memrise course, but also the logic became clear at one point. Apart from some irregular verb stems, the whole system is pretty regular.
In addition I started to listen to Bengali audio: radio programmes from BBC Bangla and some programmes from Youtube aimed at children.
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Re: 6WC 6 Week Challenge - Nov 2017

Postby smallwhite » Thu Dec 14, 2017 11:31 am

Guess what, we studied for a total of 146103 minutes or 2435 hours in this 6WC. Congratulations to everyone!

I averaged 4:16 hours a day, less than usual because of stupid real life stuff. My distribution-by-language chart below shows a lot of procrastination. The 2 largest slices are me finally starting to work on my 2017 New Year's Resolutions, German and Swedish. And while I was supposed to work on my Target Language Greek both for this 6WC and for rdearman's study, I kept doing other things, namely Procrastination 1 through 7.

I got a lot of speaking and writing practice done though, so I'm actually very pleased overall.

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Re: 6WC 6 Week Challenge - Nov 2017

Postby Spoonary » Fri Dec 15, 2017 7:06 pm

Yeah, my 6 week challenge ended 2 days after it started. :lol: I studied German for a total of 15 minutes :oops:

Maybe next time :roll:
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Re: 6WC 6 Week Challenge - Nov 2017

Postby Ольга » Fri Dec 29, 2017 8:53 am

I have failed my first November challenge with German.
But maybe there are some challenges in January?
I would like to sign up with English.
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