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Re: The 2019 365 Day Language Challenge

Postby lingua » Fri Dec 28, 2018 6:43 am

I'm in for Italian. Starting on January 1st.

I thought vacations would be problematic but as long as I can count reading or conversing (since I plan to go to Italy sometime next year) then I'll be OK.
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Re: The 2019 365 Day Language Challenge

Postby Ani » Fri Dec 28, 2018 11:06 am

I'm in for Spanish, although, knowing myself, I might as well announce failure and withdraw right now. Whatever, I'm still in.
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Re: The 2019 365 Day Language Challenge

Postby PeterMollenburg » Fri Dec 28, 2018 11:23 am

Ani wrote:I'm in for Spanish, although, knowing myself, I might as well announce failure and withdraw right now. Whatever, I'm still in.


Nice to have you here as a part of the team... of competitors! Good luck Ani!
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Re: The 2019 365 Day Language Challenge

Postby rdearman » Fri Dec 28, 2018 1:00 pm

I don't understand the 20 day thing. Can you please explain it for me. I could understand if you had to do double or triple the next day but what is -20 days thing about? Are we talking about a game here with winner has 365 days, but 2nd place person has 345 days?

Because this can't be monitored it would seem exponential growth might be more appropriate. So, miss 1 day 90 minutes next day, miss 2 days 360 minutes required ((90+90)*2), miss 3 days and you owe 900 minutes ((360+90)*2). Missing 3 days means you have to do 15 hours of work on Day 4, so I figure most people would not skip a day. :twisted:
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Re: The 2019 365 Day Language Challenge

Postby IronMike » Fri Dec 28, 2018 3:48 pm

Ditto rdearman's question and question of my own: Can you join with "generic language" as your daily? 30 minutes a day 365 days for me is a great challenge, but I can't commit to a particular language right now. It may be Esperanto or Italian or Russian. Certainly can't do all every day but I can do one every day, just not the same one.

Great idea btw. Good luck all!
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Re: The 2019 365 Day Language Challenge

Postby Asarena » Fri Dec 28, 2018 4:15 pm

I'll join for Korean, and I'll start on January 1st.
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Re: The 2019 365 Day Language Challenge

Postby CarlyD » Fri Dec 28, 2018 5:40 pm

I'm happy to join this thread/challenge for German, while still logging my 365 Day Challenge in my log. I'd announced my own 365 Day Challenge when I was starting to wind up the 175 Day Challenge that I started around last June. It was pretty much the same concept--must to something, anything, every single day. My default minimum was 30 minutes to keep me going on allergy/smoky/blah days that I used to call "vacation"--that would end up lasting 5 days.

I'm not generally one to stick with a long challenge--although I do have a 100% success rate for failing the Super Challenge Every. Single. Time.

But there's something oddly satisfying about this freeform "anything" challenge and the ability to go from programs to books to anything else and still count it as a success rather than failing to finish the book or stick with the program.

One thing I did for my 175-Day Challenge was I made a spreadsheet (actually it was hand-written in my language notebook) with the days across the top and a list down the left side of every kind of activity I might do. Then as I did something, I'd list how many minutes I'd spent. It was really helpful to be able to look at the chart and see what I was doing each day and what was getting forgotten. Plus it was a motivator to keep going. I've already made a spreadsheet (8 pages long) for 2019.

Good luck to everyone for your own year journey. :D
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Re: The 2019 365 Day Language Challenge

Postby jacquemarie » Fri Dec 28, 2018 6:56 pm

I sign up with French!

This was already my goal for the year, plus other things, but a challenge against other people will be definitely helpful <3
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Re: The 2019 365 Day Language Challenge

Postby Skynet » Fri Dec 28, 2018 7:20 pm

Sign me up!

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Re: The 2019 365 Day Language Challenge

Postby tomgosse » Fri Dec 28, 2018 8:52 pm

Please add me to the list. I will be starting French on 1 jan 2019.

All the best,
Tom


EDIT: 07 jan 2019
I will be using French Demystified as my main text. I will also be using these YouTube channels
Learn French with Frencheezi,
Learn French with Vincent, and
Pimsleur French.


EDIT: 18 jan 2019
I finished my second week this last Tuesday. Yeah!
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