Summer Challenge?
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Posted By: soclydeza85
Subject: Summer Challenge?
Date Posted: 18 May 2015 at 2:52am
My language learning goes somewhere from a slow crawl to a complete halt at times during
semesters (I'm a college student), so I like to maximize my learning/practice during
breaks. Since I haven't seen any challenges on here lately (maybe I've been looking in
the wrong place) and since I find them very motivating, I figure maybe I'd initiate one
designated to the Summer for anyone that wants to do a nice and relatively short 3 month
challenge. Would anyone be interested?
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I would be interested! I will probably have a lot of free time this summer, which I was planning to use as study time anyway.
Elenia on 18 May 2015
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There's the 6 week challenge that started on May 1st, one more starting on August 1st, the Tadoku challenge over June and late August. Also the super challenge.
But of course it would be cool to have one more!
Serpent on 18 May 2015
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Serpent wrote:
There's the 6 week challenge that started on May 1st, one more starting on August 1st, the Tadoku challenge over June and late August. Also the super challenge.
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Don't forget the Output Challenge. :)
rdearman on 18 May 2015
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Serpent - where can I find the 2 6week challenges you mentioned?
I'm thinking along the lines of something input and output based, maybe with some formal study involved. I've come to really like sites like italki and sharedtalk, since the languages I'm learning aren't really spoken where I live, so maybe I'll make it communication based to get myself and others reaching out to natives more and maybe encourage those who haven't broken the ice with something like that yet.
I'm still thinking of how I'd go about this. I've never hosted one of the challenges before. Any thoughts/ideas are welcome.
EDIT: Serpent - Nevermind, I found them
soclydeza85 on 19 May 2015
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You forgot to mention the Total Annihilation Challenge.
(and most TAC teams have their own subchallenges as a part of it.)
Cavesa on 19 May 2015
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Try the iTalki challenge in June :)
tarvos on 19 May 2015
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I also didn't bother to mention the http://learnanylanguage.wikia.com/wiki/Music_Challenge_2015 - music challenge but it's still on :)
Serpent on 19 May 2015
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Damn, I looked at the iTalki challenge, which sounds great, but I unfortunately am not in a financial situation at the moment to purchase 12 hour-long lessons over June. There's still some time before it starts though, maybe things will change. I feel like that would lead to tremendous improvements.
soclydeza85 on 19 May 2015
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I'd probably join in the challenge except that summer is suppose to be the time we have a break and relax. On
the other hand, I'm planning to watch a lot of French language videos. It would be nice to do things that are
enjoyable and learn at the same time. Going back to phrase books, audio resources geared to learning isn't
my idea of spending the summer break.
shk00design on 20 May 2015
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shk00design wrote:
I'd probably join in the challenge except that summer is suppose to be the time we have a break and relax. On
the other hand, I'm planning to watch a lot of French language videos. It would be nice to do things that are
enjoyable and learn at the same time. Going back to phrase books, audio resources geared to learning isn't
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That's a good point. Maybe it'll be like a mini-Superchallenge (reading and watching movies/media). Everyone keeps track of pages/hours, whoever has the most will win, clean and simple.
soclydeza85 on 20 May 2015
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Does it have to be in the same language? ;)
Serpent on 20 May 2015
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soclydeza85 wrote:
Damn, I looked at the iTalki challenge, which sounds great, but I
unfortunately am not in a financial situation at the moment to purchase 12 hour-long
lessons over June. There's still some time before it starts though, maybe things will
change. I feel like that would lead to tremendous improvements. |
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I don't know which language you are planning to improve, but if it's French, you can find
Moroccan and Tunisian teachers for very low prices. If it's German... shell out.
tarvos on 20 May 2015
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Serpent - hmmmm... I guess the plus-side of doing multiple languages is that the challenge can encompass all of the languages you are learning but the downside would be that you're missing out on the point of the challenge, being the mass-exposure you would get to a one or two languages (assuming you mean adding up all of the hours across languages). I guess it's up to the participant, I'll only be focusing on German and French (mainly German). What do you guys think?
Tavros - I just looked into it. Unfortunately the cheaper ones (5-6/hr) are for practice and I am nowhere near a point in French where I can practice conversation. However, there are a few for 9-10/hr that do specified lessons so that may be an option. Thanks for the insight, this might be doable!
soclydeza85 on 20 May 2015
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Actually you probably are. Tutors are ideal for practicing at a lower level. If you say you
can't do conversational classes then you are being too harsh on yourself. I have completed
them in pure Tarzan speak. If you know some words and can link sentences you will be good
really fast.
tarvos on 20 May 2015
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