Output Challenge 2018 Registration and Discussion

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Re: Output Challenge 2018 Registration and Discussion

Postby Brun Ugle » Tue Jan 02, 2018 6:36 pm

LANGUAGE: Spanish

CHALLENGE: Full Challenge

CURRENT LANGUAGE LEVEL: B-ish

WILLING TO CORRECT LANGUAGE: If I have time and energy. English.

COMMENTS: I will be writing my log in my target language this year, and because misery loves company, I challenge you all to do the same. :twisted: Also, please don't read my log. It's so embarrassing. :oops:
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Re: Output Challenge 2018 Registration and Discussion

Postby CarlyD » Tue Jan 02, 2018 8:26 pm

LANGUAGE: German

CHALLENGE: Writing only

CURRENT LANGUAGE LEVEL: barely A1 on a good day

WILLING TO CORRECT LANGUAGE: Yes, in English

COMMENTS: My level is very low, so this will be a slow start, but I'm game.
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Re: Output Challenge 2018 Registration and Discussion

Postby zatris » Tue Jan 02, 2018 8:34 pm

Just to clarify, is it possible to register for a half hallenge in both areas, i.e., 25k words and 25 hours of audio? I ask because I seem to remember it was allowed some years ago, but I'm not sure it still is.
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Re: Output Challenge 2018 Registration and Discussion

Postby shandra » Tue Jan 02, 2018 8:57 pm

LANGUAGE: English

CHALLENGE: Writing only

CURRENT LANGUAGE LEVEL: B1

WILLING TO CORRECT LANGUAGE: Yes, Italian
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Re: Output Challenge 2018 Registration and Discussion

Postby Sc27 » Tue Jan 02, 2018 9:14 pm

LANGUAGE: Korean

CHALLENGE: Writing only

CURRENT LANGUAGE LEVEL: Probably B1, or so.

WILLING TO CORRECT LANGUAGE: I'm going to say no, just because I did it too many times and I felt like I wasn't being helped on my language learning.

COMMENTS: Hopefully I make some progress throughout the year.
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Re: Output Challenge 2018 Registration and Discussion

Postby Phantom Kat » Wed Jan 03, 2018 2:51 am

LANGUAGE: French

CHALLENGE: Writing Only

CURRENT LANGUAGE LEVEL: A1, if I'm being really generous.

WILLING TO CORRECT LANGUAGE: Yes - Spanish and English

COMMENTS: I'll only be counting actual sentences written and not things like conjugation practice.
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Re: Output Challenge 2018 Registration and Discussion

Postby rdearman » Wed Jan 03, 2018 9:24 am

zatris wrote:Just to clarify, is it possible to register for a half hallenge in both areas, i.e., 25k words and 25 hours of audio? I ask because I seem to remember it was allowed some years ago, but I'm not sure it still is.

Yep, it is allowed.
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Re: Output Challenge 2018 Registration and Discussion

Postby Cavesa » Wed Jan 03, 2018 9:44 am

LANGUAGE: French and Spanish

CHALLENGE: Half and half (25/25 each)

CURRENT LANGUAGE LEVEL: French C2, Spanish B2ish?

WILLING TO CORRECT LANGUAGE: Yes - Czech. The amount of stuff I can correct depends on my free time and I cannot tell you how much I'll have. But when I do, I'll to provide as useful corrections as possible. But there may be no Czech learner joining this challenge anyways.

COMMENTS:
1.French-I need maintenance, Spanish-I need to improve.
2.I don't know whether I'll post stuff anywhere for corrections. Perhaps a bit from time to time, but not constantly. Why: For speaking, I want to record a personal journal. And that is extremely likely to include stuff I don't want to present publicly. For writing, I would like to connect this with something I tried in past but never really had the time and motivation for: creative writing. That means majority of my writing will be short stories, perhaps longer (if I improve). And that implies a lot more self-doubt, so public presentation is not that likely.
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Re: Output Challenge 2018 Registration and Discussion

Postby zatris » Wed Jan 03, 2018 3:52 pm

rdearman wrote:
zatris wrote:Just to clarify, is it possible to register for a half hallenge in both areas, i.e., 25k words and 25 hours of audio? I ask because I seem to remember it was allowed some years ago, but I'm not sure it still is.

Yep, it is allowed.


Ok, then I'm in.

LANGUAGE: English

CHALLENGE: Half/half (25k words, 25 hours of audio)

CURRENT LANGUAGE LEVEL: B1-ish, I guess?

WILLING TO CORRECT LANGUAGE: Portuguese
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Re: Output Challenge 2018 Registration and Discussion

Postby Mista » Wed Jan 03, 2018 7:28 pm

LANGUAGE: French

CHALLENGE: Full, audio and writing

CURRENT LANGUAGE LEVEL: Speaking maybe A2 and writing maybe B1

WILLING TO CORRECT LANGUAGE: Yes, Norwegian

COMMENTS: I would probably have made it last year if I had only put in the same effort throughout the year as I did in January and December :roll: For the audio part, I have been reading aloud from easy readers at B1 level, following the pattern reading-listening-reading for each chapter. I found this very useful, so I'll keep on doing that. It's also useful because I know exacly what I'm supposed to do, which makes it easier to do a little every day. For writing, I'm going to write summaries of what I read for my history and literature courses. If I can pull myself together, I'll do speaking versions of that as well.


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LANGUAGE: Russian

CHALLENGE: Half, audio and writing

CURRENT LANGUAGE LEVEL: Active skills are probably A1

COMMENTS: While I register for French with sincere hopes of completing the challenge, Russian is all about getting started, and we'll see how it goes. I'll start out using my course book, reading the texts aloud and doing the "creative writing" exercises included in each chapter.
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