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Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6589 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, Finnish^C1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish	Message 1 of 284 02 January 2014 at 6:57am \| IP Logged
	This is inspired by the consistency threads at WriYe. From there: Consistency is the key: pick a goal and try to reach it as many days as you can. Every day that you manage to reach your goal, add a number to the count. If you miss a day, go back to 0 and start again the next day. Consistency is also important in language learning, so set a goal and aim to achieve it! As long as your goal is something you can measure, it doesn't matter how exactly! You can count minutes, pages read, pages written, Assimil or GLOSS lessons, book2 pages... Anything will do! Flexible goals like "study for 30 minutes" are allowed. See the next post for some examples of completed goals. You can set your goal only for weekdays, only for the weekends, for every other day etc. (Ask if you're not sure) When you really need to, you can also substitute your goal for something comparable, for no more than three days at a time. This needs to be planned in advance. This is not meant to be an extremely long-term challenge. Goals change and that's fine! This means you're making progress. Inactive goals will be listed as completed unless you consider your goal dropped/failed. Now on to the technical details. Starting from the third post in this thread, all posts should contain a list of goals. When updating your goals, please use the quote function - don't copy, or the bolding will be lost. Erase everything that's not between the two lines of tildes - ~~~~~~~ You can also write anything you want after these lines - announcing your new goal, describing what exactly you did, congratulating other members on their achievements etc. If you have a question, are dropping a goal etc, you still need to quote the latest post, even if you aren't adding anything new. Don't worry about making more than one post in a row. Please avoid editing, as someone else may quote your original post. If you keep the thread open for a long time, please refresh before posting. If you drop a goal, please do others a favour and come here to remove yourself from the list. You will be removed after about a week of not updating - if you are taking a break, please announce it and reset your number to zero. I also reserve the right to fix your typos. It's up to you how to count the days. from 00:00 till 23:59, or from when you wake up to when you go to bed. Just don't switch from one way to the other :D Be sure to keep track of your goals as you complete them; they will be listed below, including those from the old consistency thread. Have a look if you don't understand how this works, by the way. Last but not least, please use a recognizable version of your username. Minor differences concerning small/capital letters, spaces, numbers and punctuation marks are okay if you're not making all these changes at once. It's never too late to join! You don't have to be a participant of TAC or any other challenge. Not to be confused with the Russian consistency thread. It's a cool thread for learning the vocabulary together. In turn, it inspired the Scandinavian and French word of the day thread. Let me know if you start such a thread in a different language. I'll add a shout-out :) Edited by Serpent on 01 March 2014 at 1:02am 1 person has voted this message useful
Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6589 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, Finnish^C1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish	Message 2 of 284 02 January 2014 at 6:58am \| IP Logged
	Defeat is not when you fall down, it is when you refuse to get up. Completed goals: 1+2+5+3+1+10=22 days - Serpent, Spanish, one episode of Destinos on weekdays 3+9+2+4=18 days - Serpent, Danish, one item for the Super Challenge 6+1+1+1+2+2=13 days - Serpent, Portuguese, adding cards focusing on verb forms, 14 cards, later 10 mins 07 days - Serpent, Polish, L2 audio+L2 text, 15 mins 6+4+3+2+1+3=18 days - Serpent, Polish, shadowing, 5 mins 3+2+3=8 days - Serpent, Polish, tongue twisters, 5 mins 1+2+4+3+12+3+18=43 days - Serpent, Polish, Reading (min 4 pages) - finished the 12/13 Super Challenge 14 days - Serpent, Polish, Reading (min 1 poem) 3+1+8+9+1+2+4+1+3+3+1+13=49 days - Serpent, Italian, Reading (min 7 pages) - completed the 12/13 Super Challenge 4+6+9+1+6+2=28 days - Serpent, Spanish, reading, 4 pages 11+1+10=22 days - Serpent, Portuguese, reading 1 story from this book to honour Eusébio's memory (details in my log) 9+9=18 days - Kerrie, one Spanish Assimil lesson 69 days - Bakunin, Thai, 1 article from SST 14+3+31=48 days - Othar, Norwegian, Listening (min. 20 mn) 9+39=48 days - Othar, Norwegian, Studying (min. 20 mn) 40 days - emk, Middle Egyptian, learn 3 hieroglyphs and do Anki reviews 30 days - emk, Middle Egyptian, one Assimil lesson & Anki reviews 32 days - Teango, Latin, 10 minutes of reading "Lingua Latina" a day 10 days - g-bod, German, one Assimil lesson 50 days - Montmorency, Danish, 1 hr of and/or 10 words from TYCD a day 17 days - Montmorency, Danish, consolidate grammar 1 unit (of 18) TYCD each day 16 days - Tsopivo, Esperanto, Reading (min. 30 mn) 11 days - espejismo, Spanish, Reading (min 10 pages) - finished HP1 ~~~~~~~ As you can see, providing a tiny summary is encouraged. I'll also be happy to add a link to a post from your log. ա Edited by Serpent on 08 April 2014 at 4:45am 1 person has voted this message useful
Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6589 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, Finnish^C1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish	Message 3 of 284 02 January 2014 at 6:58am \| IP Logged
	~~~~~~~ 01 days - Serpent, Spanish, reading, 4 pages *Remember to quote the latest post and erase the quote tags* ~~~~~~ Edited by Serpent on 02 January 2014 at 7:18am 1 person has voted this message useful
Othar Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6201 days ago 185 posts - 205 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: Norwegian, Turkish	Message 4 of 284 02 January 2014 at 12:48pm \| IP Logged
	~~~~~~~ 01 days - Serpent, Spanish, reading, 4 pages 01 days - Othar, English, 1 lesson EPiU 01 days - Othar, English, 1 topic Babbel *Remember to quote the latest post and erase the quote tags* ~~~~~~ Goals for English: English Pronunciation in Use (EPiU) - 1 lesson/day Babbel.com - 1 topic/day 1 person has voted this message useful
corjine Groupie United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4012 days ago 55 posts - 74 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian	Message 5 of 284 02 January 2014 at 1:14pm \| IP Logged
	~~~~~~~ 01 days - Serpent, Spanish, reading, 4 pages 01 days - Othar, English, 1 lesson EPiU 01 days - Othar, English, 1 topic Babbel 01 days-Corjine, Italian, 3 Lessons of Duolingo 01 days-Corjine, Italian, 1 page Il Piccolo Principe 01 days-Corjine, Italian, 10 minutes/day Italian radio 00 days-Corjine, Italian, Verbling/iTalki once per week *Remember to quote the latest post and erase the quote tags* ~~~~~~ Goals for Italian: Read one page of "Il Piccolo Principe" per day. Complete three lessons of Duolingo daily. Listen to at least 10 minutes of Italian music per day. Speak with others on Verbling/iTalki once a week. Edited by corjine on 02 January 2014 at 1:15pm 1 person has voted this message useful
Othar Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6201 days ago 185 posts - 205 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: Norwegian, Turkish	Message 6 of 284 03 January 2014 at 10:02pm \| IP Logged
	~~~~~~~ 01 days - Serpent, Spanish, reading, 4 pages 02 days - Othar, English, 1 lesson EPiU 02 days - Othar, English, 1 topic Babbel 01 days - Corjine, Italian, 3 Lessons of Duolingo 01 days - Corjine, Italian, 1 page Il Piccolo Principe 01 days - Corjine, Italian, 10 minutes/day Italian radio 00 days - Corjine, Italian, Verbling/iTalki once per week *Remember to quote the latest post and erase the quote tags* ~~~~~~ Welcome on board, corjine! If you hit the 'quote' button instead of copying the previous posting we can keep the counter in bold. Edited by Othar on 03 January 2014 at 10:03pm 1 person has voted this message useful
Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6589 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, Finnish^C1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish	Message 7 of 284 04 January 2014 at 4:17am \| IP Logged
	~~~~~~~ 03 days - Serpent, Spanish, reading, 4 pages 02 days - Othar, English, 1 lesson EPiU 02 days - Othar, English, 1 topic Babbel 01 days - Corjine, Italian, 3 Lessons of Duolingo 01 days - Corjine, Italian, 1 page Il Piccolo Principe 01 days - Corjine, Italian, 10 minutes/day Italian radio 00 days - Corjine, Italian, Verbling/iTalki once per week *Remember to quote the latest post and erase the quote tags* ~~~~~~ Corjine, how are you going to keep track of the weekly goal? And yeah please keep the bolding. 1 person has voted this message useful
Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6589 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, Finnish^C1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish	Message 8 of 284 04 January 2014 at 6:06pm \| IP Logged
	~~~~~~~ 04 days - Serpent, Spanish, reading, 4 pages 02 days - Othar, English, 1 lesson EPiU 02 days - Othar, English, 1 topic Babbel 01 days - Corjine, Italian, 3 Lessons of Duolingo 01 days - Corjine, Italian, 1 page Il Piccolo Principe 01 days - Corjine, Italian, 10 minutes/day Italian radio 00 days - Corjine, Italian, Verbling/iTalki once per week *Remember to quote the latest post and erase the quote tags* ~~~~~~ 1 person has voted this message useful

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Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6589 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, Finnish^C1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish	Message 1 of 284 02 January 2014 at 6:57am \| IP Logged
	This is inspired by the consistency threads at WriYe. From there: Consistency is the key: pick a goal and try to reach it as many days as you can. Every day that you manage to reach your goal, add a number to the count. If you miss a day, go back to 0 and start again the next day. Consistency is also important in language learning, so set a goal and aim to achieve it! As long as your goal is something you can measure, it doesn't matter how exactly! You can count minutes, pages read, pages written, Assimil or GLOSS lessons, book2 pages... Anything will do! Flexible goals like "study for 30 minutes" are allowed. See the next post for some examples of completed goals. You can set your goal only for weekdays, only for the weekends, for every other day etc. (Ask if you're not sure) When you really need to, you can also substitute your goal for something comparable, for no more than three days at a time. This needs to be planned in advance. This is not meant to be an extremely long-term challenge. Goals change and that's fine! This means you're making progress. Inactive goals will be listed as completed unless you consider your goal dropped/failed. Now on to the technical details. Starting from the third post in this thread, all posts should contain a list of goals. When updating your goals, please use the quote function - don't copy, or the bolding will be lost. Erase everything that's not between the two lines of tildes - ~~~~~~~ You can also write anything you want after these lines - announcing your new goal, describing what exactly you did, congratulating other members on their achievements etc. If you have a question, are dropping a goal etc, you still need to quote the latest post, even if you aren't adding anything new. Don't worry about making more than one post in a row. Please avoid editing, as someone else may quote your original post. If you keep the thread open for a long time, please refresh before posting. If you drop a goal, please do others a favour and come here to remove yourself from the list. You will be removed after about a week of not updating - if you are taking a break, please announce it and reset your number to zero. I also reserve the right to fix your typos. It's up to you how to count the days. from 00:00 till 23:59, or from when you wake up to when you go to bed. Just don't switch from one way to the other :D Be sure to keep track of your goals as you complete them; they will be listed below, including those from the old consistency thread. Have a look if you don't understand how this works, by the way. Last but not least, please use a recognizable version of your username. Minor differences concerning small/capital letters, spaces, numbers and punctuation marks are okay if you're not making all these changes at once. It's never too late to join! You don't have to be a participant of TAC or any other challenge. Not to be confused with the Russian consistency thread. It's a cool thread for learning the vocabulary together. In turn, it inspired the Scandinavian and French word of the day thread. Let me know if you start such a thread in a different language. I'll add a shout-out :) Edited by Serpent on 01 March 2014 at 1:02am 1 person has voted this message useful
Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6589 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, Finnish^C1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish	Message 2 of 284 02 January 2014 at 6:58am \| IP Logged
	Defeat is not when you fall down, it is when you refuse to get up. Completed goals: 1+2+5+3+1+10=22 days - Serpent, Spanish, one episode of Destinos on weekdays 3+9+2+4=18 days - Serpent, Danish, one item for the Super Challenge 6+1+1+1+2+2=13 days - Serpent, Portuguese, adding cards focusing on verb forms, 14 cards, later 10 mins 07 days - Serpent, Polish, L2 audio+L2 text, 15 mins 6+4+3+2+1+3=18 days - Serpent, Polish, shadowing, 5 mins 3+2+3=8 days - Serpent, Polish, tongue twisters, 5 mins 1+2+4+3+12+3+18=43 days - Serpent, Polish, Reading (min 4 pages) - finished the 12/13 Super Challenge 14 days - Serpent, Polish, Reading (min 1 poem) 3+1+8+9+1+2+4+1+3+3+1+13=49 days - Serpent, Italian, Reading (min 7 pages) - completed the 12/13 Super Challenge 4+6+9+1+6+2=28 days - Serpent, Spanish, reading, 4 pages 11+1+10=22 days - Serpent, Portuguese, reading 1 story from this book to honour Eusébio's memory (details in my log) 9+9=18 days - Kerrie, one Spanish Assimil lesson 69 days - Bakunin, Thai, 1 article from SST 14+3+31=48 days - Othar, Norwegian, Listening (min. 20 mn) 9+39=48 days - Othar, Norwegian, Studying (min. 20 mn) 40 days - emk, Middle Egyptian, learn 3 hieroglyphs and do Anki reviews 30 days - emk, Middle Egyptian, one Assimil lesson & Anki reviews 32 days - Teango, Latin, 10 minutes of reading "Lingua Latina" a day 10 days - g-bod, German, one Assimil lesson 50 days - Montmorency, Danish, 1 hr of and/or 10 words from TYCD a day 17 days - Montmorency, Danish, consolidate grammar 1 unit (of 18) TYCD each day 16 days - Tsopivo, Esperanto, Reading (min. 30 mn) 11 days - espejismo, Spanish, Reading (min 10 pages) - finished HP1 ~~~~~~~ As you can see, providing a tiny summary is encouraged. I'll also be happy to add a link to a post from your log. ա Edited by Serpent on 08 April 2014 at 4:45am 1 person has voted this message useful
Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6589 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, Finnish^C1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish	Message 3 of 284 02 January 2014 at 6:58am \| IP Logged
	~~~~~~~ 01 days - Serpent, Spanish, reading, 4 pages *Remember to quote the latest post and erase the quote tags* ~~~~~~ Edited by Serpent on 02 January 2014 at 7:18am 1 person has voted this message useful
Othar Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6201 days ago 185 posts - 205 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: Norwegian, Turkish	Message 4 of 284 02 January 2014 at 12:48pm \| IP Logged
	~~~~~~~ 01 days - Serpent, Spanish, reading, 4 pages 01 days - Othar, English, 1 lesson EPiU 01 days - Othar, English, 1 topic Babbel *Remember to quote the latest post and erase the quote tags* ~~~~~~ Goals for English: English Pronunciation in Use (EPiU) - 1 lesson/day Babbel.com - 1 topic/day 1 person has voted this message useful
corjine Groupie United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4012 days ago 55 posts - 74 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian	Message 5 of 284 02 January 2014 at 1:14pm \| IP Logged
	~~~~~~~ 01 days - Serpent, Spanish, reading, 4 pages 01 days - Othar, English, 1 lesson EPiU 01 days - Othar, English, 1 topic Babbel 01 days-Corjine, Italian, 3 Lessons of Duolingo 01 days-Corjine, Italian, 1 page Il Piccolo Principe 01 days-Corjine, Italian, 10 minutes/day Italian radio 00 days-Corjine, Italian, Verbling/iTalki once per week *Remember to quote the latest post and erase the quote tags* ~~~~~~ Goals for Italian: Read one page of "Il Piccolo Principe" per day. Complete three lessons of Duolingo daily. Listen to at least 10 minutes of Italian music per day. Speak with others on Verbling/iTalki once a week. Edited by corjine on 02 January 2014 at 1:15pm 1 person has voted this message useful
Othar Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6201 days ago 185 posts - 205 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: Norwegian, Turkish	Message 6 of 284 03 January 2014 at 10:02pm \| IP Logged
	~~~~~~~ 01 days - Serpent, Spanish, reading, 4 pages 02 days - Othar, English, 1 lesson EPiU 02 days - Othar, English, 1 topic Babbel 01 days - Corjine, Italian, 3 Lessons of Duolingo 01 days - Corjine, Italian, 1 page Il Piccolo Principe 01 days - Corjine, Italian, 10 minutes/day Italian radio 00 days - Corjine, Italian, Verbling/iTalki once per week *Remember to quote the latest post and erase the quote tags* ~~~~~~ Welcome on board, corjine! If you hit the 'quote' button instead of copying the previous posting we can keep the counter in bold. Edited by Othar on 03 January 2014 at 10:03pm 1 person has voted this message useful
Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6589 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, Finnish^C1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish	Message 7 of 284 04 January 2014 at 4:17am \| IP Logged
	~~~~~~~ 03 days - Serpent, Spanish, reading, 4 pages 02 days - Othar, English, 1 lesson EPiU 02 days - Othar, English, 1 topic Babbel 01 days - Corjine, Italian, 3 Lessons of Duolingo 01 days - Corjine, Italian, 1 page Il Piccolo Principe 01 days - Corjine, Italian, 10 minutes/day Italian radio 00 days - Corjine, Italian, Verbling/iTalki once per week *Remember to quote the latest post and erase the quote tags* ~~~~~~ Corjine, how are you going to keep track of the weekly goal? And yeah please keep the bolding. 1 person has voted this message useful
Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6589 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, Finnish^C1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish	Message 8 of 284 04 January 2014 at 6:06pm \| IP Logged
	~~~~~~~ 04 days - Serpent, Spanish, reading, 4 pages 02 days - Othar, English, 1 lesson EPiU 02 days - Othar, English, 1 topic Babbel 01 days - Corjine, Italian, 3 Lessons of Duolingo 01 days - Corjine, Italian, 1 page Il Piccolo Principe 01 days - Corjine, Italian, 10 minutes/day Italian radio 00 days - Corjine, Italian, Verbling/iTalki once per week *Remember to quote the latest post and erase the quote tags* ~~~~~~ 1 person has voted this message useful