#language challenge
- 1 Month 1 Language
- 1 Month Kanji Challenge
- 14 Day Langblr Challenge
- 30 Day Langblr Challenge
- 34 Hour Langblr Challenge
- 55 Days of Vocabulary Challenge
- 90 Day Vocab Challenge
- 100 Days Challenge For Langblrs
- 100 Hour 40 Day Language Challenge
- A Question A Day Challenge
- Build Your Vocab Challenge
- Composition Challenge
- Fiction Writing Challenge
- Langblr Accent Tag
- Langblr Culture Challenge
- Langblr Music Challenge
- Langblr Vocab List Challenge
- Langblr Diary Challenge
- Langblr News Challenge
- Original Langblr Content Challenge
- Linguistic Diversity Challenge
- Indigenous Language Awareness Challenge
- Vocabulary Challenge
- SpeakingIn20 Langblr Challenge
- A Book In Target Language Challenge
- Brick-By-Brick Language Learning Challenge
- Review Challenge
- Subtitles Challenge
- Summer Language Challenge
- Translating Challenge
Challenges for certain months:
- February Polyglot Challenge
- March Polyglot Challenge
- April Polyglot Challenge
- May Polyglot Challenge
- May Polyglot Challenge
- August Polyglot Challenge
- September Polyglot Challenge
- September: 30 Day Langblr Resource Photo Challenge
- October Polyglot Challenge
- November Polyglot Challenge
- December Polyglot Challenge
- December Polyglot Challenge
- 10 Polyglot Things to Do This September
- 10 Polyglot Things to Do This October
- Langblr NaNoWriMo
i think i might try the monthly challenges. some of them sound quite fun.
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If anyone has finished the challenge, please tag me so I can give you props.
I have an idea for the langblr community! I’m going to start a challenge
(it’s acutally not a challenge but how else can I call it)where I get a question a day from you guys, and I have to answer in my target language(s). This way I get to practise writing everyday and the goal is to keep this up for as long as I can. For now I will only make this “challenge” in Dutch, since it is the only language I’m learning at the moment, but I’ll then add Italian too once I start learning it :) If you reblog this post and tell me that you want to join this idea I will send you a question as well so you can start! (I can only correct your answer if it is in Spanish or Enligsh, but if you’re learning any other language anybody can correct you! The idea is to have something that makes us practice our writing skills)For me, I would prefer to receive the questions in my ask box since I sometimes don’t see when sombody adds a comment to a post of mine after reblogging it if they don’t actually mention me, so it will be more simple this way :) And I would be really grateful if you could ask me things that don’t involve answering with future tenses or conditionals, since I still haven’t learnt them in Dutch. You guys adapt your questions/answers to your own current skills!
I will later add a section on my blog where you can find all the questions of this challenge, and I’ll be answering one per day but you can send as many as you want.
Feel free to ask me for questions even though I might not be able to correct your answers! And let me know if there are any topics you can’t use yet so I’m aware :) If you join me with this idea use the hashtag #aquestionaday in your answers, or let me know, I would love to see the questions you get (and hopefully understand the answers) but mostly to see you practising and working hard! It would be awesome to see this idea spreading over the langblr community and involving all kind of different languages! After all we’re all here for the same thing :)
Good luck to anyone who tries this and keep up the hard work, I know you can do this!
I WANT TO DO THIS !! Would anyone help me practice Norwegian over the upcoming month by asking me anything in the comments or in my inbox ? Thank you so much !!
Let me know if you have any interesting language learning challenge to do over a month and/or if you would like to suggest any prompt !!
Ok guys! This post might get long so I apologise! This is also kind of a work in progress, so I’m gonna use December as a kind of ‘test’ to figure out some things and make it great so that in 2018 this can be a real working thing!
SO the idea is a langblr book club. Each month there will be a different book to focus on. The books will be by non-English authors originally written in a non-English language - do you follow so far? Anyone who wants to participate can read the book in the original language, English, or any other language you know/are learning! Still following? Good. Then at the end of the month (or before if you’re a fast reader) you can write a post or film a video in your target language, English, or the books original language giving your thoughts and feelings about the book. It doesn’t have to be a really long or super detailed review or anything, just a few points about what you liked or didn’t like will be more than enough! Did this all make sense?
I’m going to try to find and share a pdf/audio book/kindle version of each months book in the original language and English, so if you want to take part and read it in a different language I ask that you look for it yourself and share it with other readers if you can! I just won’t be able to find and share the books in every language ya feel? It might be a challenge to find some of the books in certain formats in certain languages, but I really hope it’s doable!
The point of this is to basically expose yourself to your target language or a new language and the culture/literature of that country. This is purely for fun, so there is no pressure to read every book or make a post about all of them. I just thought this would be a nice way to get some of the community together and be a fun way to learn.
The book for December is going to be ‘Norwegian Wood’ by Haruki Murakami. I did some googling and managed to find the English PDF but could only find the Japanese version on Amazon (it’s only like £5). You can also find the English copy and Kindle version on Amazon. You can also get a months free trial to listen to the audio book for free with Audible (might be worth it this month while things get smoothed over, sorry this is a mess).
Since I am still fine tuning this, if anyone has any suggestions to make this system better please let me know! Also if you want to recommend a book feel free to send me a message ^^
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I’ve developed this “language maintenance” challenge for languages I’ve neglected in my own studies but still wish to practice. It consists of a variety of activities, designed to not be intrusive in daily life but keep you thinking about your TL. It’s also designed to broad and fit a wide variety of situations including heritage languages, intermediate-level languages, languages that you’ve finished a course and don’t know what’s next, or languages that you’ve otherwise put on the back-burner. Hopefully, someone out there will find it useful! If you need help finding a resource to complete one of these activities, let me know! If you make any posts relating to this, please use #upkeepchallenge so I can see it :D
- Write down all of the reasons why you want to learn your target language, or why you want to make sure you maintain it. Think about them, then stick this list into your notebook.
- Write out an introduction. If you met a native speaker right now, what would you say? Your name, your interests, where you’re from?
- Listen to a video. Try to follow what’s going on, but mostly let it wash over you, listen to the sounds. You can go through my sample playlists for a starting point.
- Go into wherever you keep your resources, whether a folder on your computer, a tag on Tumblr or a physical textbook. Open to a random page and try to translate the first sentence you see in your target language. Try to do it on your own without resources, before checking with a dictionary or grammar book. How did you do?
- Pick a random verb and write out by hand all of the conjugations you know of for that verb. In other words, write the same sentence over and over again but with different conjugations. Ex: eu sou Americana, tu és Americano, ele é americano, nós somos Americanos… etc. I have some mini-printables for this!
- Watch a show/youtube video meant for children in your target language.
- Make a vocabulary list for your major/favorite subject/job.
- Create a set of flashcards that you can carry around with you. This can be done either digitally (tinycards or quizlet apps on your phone) or physically (cut down index cards to size.) Include vocab from a variety of sources if you can.
- Put together a playlist of ONLY 20 songs. Evaluate them and rank them. It might take several listens (that’s the point!)
- Look for magazines in your target language. Read (or skim) at least one.
- Learn some filler words or sounds and practice speaking with them in a natural cadence/rhythm.
- Go back to your playlist (Day 9) and learn the entire lyrics to one of your favorite songs. Practice until you can sing it acapella.
- Whip out your set of flashcards (Day 8) and set a goal for the number of cards memorized by the end of the day. For example, “I’m going to have at least ¾ths of my cards in the ‘know’ pile by 10pm tonight.”
- Have a full conversation with yourself in the mirror today. Imagine you just met yourself in a cafe or a class and just make small talk. Use your introduction from earlier (Day 2)!
- Listen to radio in your target language as you do some chores.
- Look for a discord group, forum, or other community of people who are learning/speaking your target language. Post at least one thing. Even if you’re shy, ask a question or just introduce yourself then bounce!
- Watch a movie in your target language.
- Do a little research about into the folklore of the culture of your language. Pick one creature/location/story and try to see if you can find any info about it in your target language. An easy way to do this is to find the wikipedia page in your native language and then click on the equivalent article in your target language (it’s on the left side).
- Find a passage in your target language that interests you, then record yourself saying it. Evaluate it yourself or post it on langblr or /r/JudgeMyAccent for feedback. What are the elements you got down? What can you improve on?
- UseIPA to sharpen your pronunciation. If necessary, record yourself speaking first to pinpoint what sounds off. Focus on sounds that aren’t found in your native language. Practice in front of a mirror and exaggerate them.
- What is your favorite aspect of the culture of your target language (ex: food, dance, traditions, festivals)? Find a youtube video or mini-documentary about it. And try to find it in your target language!
- Pick something in your room and talk about it. Be as specific as possible in describing it and how you feel about it. Use a dictionary without shame.
- Find a poem you like and copy it into your notebook.
- Write up a quiz complete with answer key. Think carefully about the things you think are important for you do know from your target language. Use your textbook or online resources as a guide, but try to make up your own questions too. These can range from conjugating verbs to translating sentences to matching vocab to short answer questions.
- Translate the poem (Day 23) and try to keep as much of the poetic language as possible.
- What do you have strong opinions about? Politics? Media? Relationship drama? Outline an essay about this topic, complete with thesis and supporting points. Use a dictionary without shame. The goal here is to think deeply in your target language, not criticize your grammar!
- Watch one Oscar-nominated or otherwise critically acclaimed movie in your target language. You can go through my letterboxd lists for a place to start.
- Take the quiz that you wrote (Day 24). Grade yourself with brutal honesty to identify the areas you are weak in.
- What did you find is your biggest difficulty so far? Today is the day to work on that! Pull up your textbook, look back on your notes, or ask some native speakers online. There’s no shame in asking questions! Act as if you are studying for a test and you just have to understand this one particular point. No more putting it off!
- Make a post with everything you’ve learn this month (include all your new vocabulary and grammar points). Reflect on and celebrate your progress! What media did you consume? What resources did you use? What was the most helpful? What were your challenges?
- Take a break!
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