Hallo, Leute! So we’re mid-holiday season over here and for me, that means it’s time to look forward to the year ahead. In terms of language learning, 2016 was a little all over the place and despite getting onto my master’s course, where I do use a lot of German, I don’t feel like I achieved that much, language-wise.
However, 2017 is coming and I’ve been thinking a lot about what I’d like to do in a fresh new year. I have (as ever) lots of ridiculously ambitious goals, many of which will probably fall to the wayside within the first week, but I also have one key concept, one word to keep in mind the whole year.
Consistency.
It’s something a lot of people struggle with in a lot of different aspects of their lives (myself included, obviously) and I know that for myself at least, one of the difficulties with remaining consistent is that thinking about doing the same thing every day is, well, boring.
So I’ve come up with something a little different…
For 2017, then, I invite you to join me in the #365daysoflanglearning “challenge.” My plan is simple: to post a task here every day for the entire of 2017 that you can work on to progress in whatever language you’re learning.
You may not want to do all of them, you may not be able to do all of them, but the point is to attempt to be as consistent as possible with your efforts. You may look at the task and hate it, but it might inspire you to do something else.
Some of the tasks will be organised into levels, so that if you’re at a higher level in your TL you’re not just learning greetings, for example, and there’s nothing saying you have to stick to one language throughout–if you’re learning more than one, mix and match if you’d like.
It’s all up to you.
If you are interested in taking part in the challenge, at any point, let me know! I already have the tasks planned out for January and February so there’s plenty of language-learning goodness ahead.
(Oh, and if you want to share, we’ve got a hashtag: #365daysoflanglearning 😉 )
I’ll see you back here on the 1st January–in the meantime, have a Happy New Year! 😀
Great idea! I think to learn Esperanto. It will be a good motivation to join your challenge.
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Ooh, awesome! Let me know how it goes learning Esperanto, it’s such an interesting language! 😀
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This is a great idea! I’ll definitely be following along with learning German.
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Yay, awesome! I might end up doing some of the prompts with German, too, so let me know how it goes for you! 😀
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I’ll be following along with Japanese 🙂
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Yay! Good luck with Japanese, too–it’s such a cool language! 😀
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This sounds fantastic! I’d love to join and follow along with my Korean and French ^^ one big thing for me in the new year will be consistency as well!
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Awesome! Let me know how you get in, glad to see people are interested in doing this with me! 😀
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Will you be posting them daily or monthly? 😊
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Daily, I was going to try and post a monthly calendar type thing but it didn’t really work out…
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As really? I’m bad at stuff like that so I would totally have trouble haha I’ll have to make sure to check daily ^^
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I usually am haha which is why I’ve prepared them in advance 😉 the first prompt will be up at 12pm (UK time) tomorrow 👍🏻
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Yay thanks for the heads up! I think that is nice and early my time, although who am i kidding, I’ll probably sleep in. 😂😂
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Late to the party, but I will be trying my best to participate!
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Haha, don’t worry, I don’t think you can be considered really late until the 31st December! 😉 Hope you enjoy it!
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What a fantastic idea!
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