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6 Week Challenge: August 2013 edition | ||
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| Emily96 Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 4426 days ago 270 posts - 342 votes  Speaks: English*, French Studies: Spanish, Finnish, Latin | Message 65 of 72 12 September 2013 at 8:12am | IP Logged | |||||
That's funny, my first 6WC was also right after i had found the forum and i also finished 4th! Just goes to show how motivating it can be. (Let's not mention the fact that i barely made top 50 this round...) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Lorren Senior Member United States brookelorren.com/blo Joined 4249 days ago 286 posts - 324 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Danish, Irish Studies: Russian | Message 66 of 72 12 September 2013 at 8:41am | IP Logged | |||||
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You didn't do so bad in the overall score...
My first few weeks of the challenge were not that great, but I spent the first couple of those weeks away from home, and then the next week after coming back was pretty chaotic as well. It looks like I'll end up 42, which is okay, I suppose. I definitely made progress over the last 6 weeks, which is the whole purpose of the challenge. When the challenge began, it would take a lot of work for me to read one paragraph in a magazine; yesterday, I was able to read more than three pages in only a little bit more time. I will be switching target languages for the next challenge. I don't know if that will help because it is going to be more motivating, or if it will hurt, because I'm still going to be working with Spanish, but not in the same way. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Stelle Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Canada tobefluent.com Joined 4142 days ago 949 posts - 1686 votes Speaks: French*, English*, Spanish Studies: Tagalog | Message 67 of 72 12 September 2013 at 1:20pm | IP Logged | |||||
Me too! My Spanish is now a solid intermediate, so I'll have to focus on something else - but I definitely want to participate in the next challenge! I already have my materials ready for Tagalog... That said, there's no way that I'll be putting in as many hours in Tagalog as I did in Spanish this time around, since my main learning focus will be Spanish right up until next Spring. Still, I'm looking forward to learning something different! 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Fuenf_Katzen Diglot Senior Member United States notjustajd.wordpress Joined 4367 days ago 337 posts - 476 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Polish, Ukrainian, Afrikaans | Message 68 of 72 14 September 2013 at 5:16am | IP Logged | |||||
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My first time participating was great! I'm shocked to be at #8 and amazed at some of the hours others were able to accomplish--you guys really made me want to keep studying more. I might end up participating in this again.
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| Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4907 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German | Message 69 of 72 14 September 2013 at 5:06pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I was shocked when I realized I had a shot at the number one spot this time. Of course, it's partly because a few hardcore competitors didn't take place. But I clocked many more hours than in any previous competition, and I think quite effective hours. I faded out the final two days because my school was getting inspected.
Thanks to maurelio1234 for keeping me motivated by your long hours of work, and congratulations for coming in second place! As always, big thanks to Sprachprofi for running this! I think I would not have made half the progress I have made in the past couple years if it wasn't for these challenges. 4 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6468 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 70 of 72 15 September 2013 at 11:51am | IP Logged | |||||
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I am so glad the challenge helped people!!
Congratulations to everyone who regularly studied their target language in the past 6 weeks, but especially to: 1. Jeffers (> 170 hours of French) 2. maurelio1234 (> 160 hours of Chinese) 3. Stelle (> 105 hours of Spanish) And for overall language study: 1. BabyThylakoid (> 355 hours) 2. cendrillonhee (> 220 hours) 3. ifthebirdswere (> 200 hours) My hat goes off to you! Here's an awesome blog post by Stelle about the lessons from this 6 Week Challenge: http://www.tobefluent.com/2013/09/11/another-day-another-cha llenge/ See you in November! 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4907 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German | Message 71 of 72 15 September 2013 at 2:22pm | IP Logged | |||||
Yes indeed! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| prz_ Tetraglot Senior Member Poland last.fm/user/prz_rul Joined 4857 days ago 890 posts - 1190 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, Bulgarian, Croatian Studies: Slovenian, Macedonian, Persian, Russian, Turkish, Ukrainian, Dutch, Swedish, German, Italian, Armenian, Kurdish | Message 72 of 72 18 September 2013 at 11:40pm | IP Logged | |||||
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This time I HAVE to take part! No other way.
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