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February 6 Week Challenge | ||
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| Lucky Charms Diglot Senior Member Japan lapacifica.net Joined 6756 days ago 752 posts - 1711 votes  Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: German, Spanish | Message 113 of 136 14 March 2012 at 12:46am | IP Logged | ||||||||
Am I the only one who would love to see a 4WC? In the two 6WCs I've participated in, I was super motivated in the first two weeks and the last week, but in weeks 3-5 I felt so burnt out that I couldn't get myself to care anymore. This obviously means I need to work on my pacing, but it would be a lot easier for me if the challenge were shorter. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 6963 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 114 of 136 14 March 2012 at 1:01am | IP Logged | ||||||||
Even though the challenges don't start and end at sensible dates for me, I've been more amenable anyway to working within a calendar month give or take a few days. When I was working through a short course in Inari Saami last July, it worked out quite well that I finished the course in 3.5 weeks (i.e. finished on Aug. 1). By the course's third-last chapter (about 2.5 weeks in) I was starting to get a bit worn out as the material got tougher and the notes on grammar were making less sense/becoming less useful for the assigned exercises. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Hendrek Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 4689 days ago 152 posts - 210 votes Speaks: English*, Italian Studies: Persian | Message 115 of 136 14 March 2012 at 4:38pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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So, this is over now, right? I still see twitter being updated.
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| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6404 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 116 of 136 14 March 2012 at 4:46pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I *think* by now it's ended in all timezones. But the bot might still accept updates today (and i hope those who post them post what they did before midnight their time)
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| Hendrek Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 4689 days ago 152 posts - 210 votes Speaks: English*, Italian Studies: Persian | Message 117 of 136 14 March 2012 at 5:20pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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OK, well if it ended midnight 13 March, then I shouldn't have posted my final 20 minutes there. That means irekjank actually is #12 in total hours and I'm #13. Target hour rank isn't affected. My bad.
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| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6277 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 118 of 136 14 March 2012 at 5:25pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
Yes it ended. Use #undo. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4716 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German | Message 119 of 136 14 March 2012 at 6:42pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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4 weeks is too short for language learning. In some ways, the difference between being able to keep up a challenge for 6 weeks and for 4 weeks is like the difference between being able to keep learning a language and just giving it up (as most of us end up doing!)
If there were changes, I'd like to see a 6 month or a 1 year challenge. That would give you the chance to really nail down a language. Most of us wouldn't be doing 2-3 hours a day then, but that would probably be a better thing. However, I am aware that we would probably get about 4 takers for a 6 month challenge, and 4 of them would drop out of it! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5141 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 120 of 136 14 March 2012 at 7:02pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I am practically straight out wheezing, with swollen eyes, so I do not know if I would have the stamina for a full year - though I guess in principle, that is what the TACs are for :-)
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