#language challenge

[caramelcuppaccino]

january 25 and 26, • wednesday and thursday

days 2&3 of my language learning challenge:

-> which language/s do you want to learn while doing this challenge?

*sobs* *passes out* *screams* *cries* *through gritted teeth* german

i’m kidding ehehe i’m doing quite fine<3

-> are there any apps you use to learn languages?

duolingo. to be honest with you, the only reason why i asked this question is to respectfully steal the apps you use ;)

🎧 waiting for you by mono and onionn.

#studying #studyblr #studyspo #studystudystudy #study blog #study motivation #studygram #student #studyinspo #languagelearningwithlunlun #langblr #language learning #language #language challenge #german language #german langblr #disclaimer: because i forgot to post for TWO whole days(???? cmon lunlun) i’m posting now

[organised-kitty]

Day 0 - 0/100 hours | Sun 30.07.2023

Hey everyone! I'm going to be doing a 100-hour challenge of German language learning starting from scratch at an A0 level. These are the resources and the study plan I intend to use, it might be adjusted over time to meet my goals.

💡 Resources

Goethe institut A1 online content

Nico’s Weg A1 online content

Quizlet and Anki decks

Chatgpt for quizzes

Duolingo

Netflix language learning chrome extension

YouTube and Spotify

💡 Study Plan

Inspired by Zoe.languages video

💡 Revision

Keep a Duolingo streak to keep in the loop

Spaced repetition with Anki Flashcards

Daily 10 min review through chatgpt designed quizzes about grammar, vocabulary and skill practice.

Talk with a penpal at least once a week about an specific topic.

I think this challenge will be a good way to document progress, stay accountable, and share resources. If you're interested, you're welcome to join me.

#100 days of productivity #100 hours #100 hours of German #german #deutsch lernen #studyblr #study motivation #studyspo #language studying #langblr #language challenge

[snowythestudent]

Greetings, nerds! I have a problem. I've been memorising my Japanese vocab and grammar but I can have my beak in a textbook all I want and it won't mean anything if I don't actually use is. Therefore, I'm making my own immersive challenge. I tried looking up challenges but all of then were way too advanced for me so I made my own more relaxed and beginner friendly one. I'll be trying this for a week starting tomorrow. Here's a list of things I'll be doing every day in Japanese this week:

1) Play an hour of a video game.

2) Read a chapter of a manga.

3) Watch a video on YouTube with no English subtitles.

4) Read a graded reader/book aimed at young children.

5) Make a post on HelloTalk.

This is a minimum goal for me. Maybe I'll be an overachieve one day and I'll read two manga chapters. Anyone else is free to do said challenge and I'll for sure be posting about my progress.

#japanese #japanese language #langblr #language challenge

[life-in-scribbles]

01/10/23 sunday

I have a plan to spend every day of October engaging in my target language. Every single day. 1-2 hours a day would be ideal but I know days may vary. So even if it's a short video or 10 min on app still will be better than nothing. Hope this challenge help me to improve my German. Let's see if I can stay consistent. I will try to post update every other day.

#no zero days #langblr #language challenge #studyblr #deutsch #german #german langblr #language learning

[chaotic-language-journey]

January Master Post

Welcome to my master post! Most of these I’ve been collecting this month but others I’ve known for years. Hope you find something helpful. I miss master posts so I thought I’d make one of my own.

Videos:

Vlogs:

Akane’s Japanese Class

Midsummer Days

Daily Japanese with Naoko

Life of Elina

Writing:

Sho Kobe

Games:

Haruchi Create

せなくまチャネル

くるみ

Grammar:

Game Gengo: Grammar Series - JLPT Grammar with video game examples

日本語の森 - Japanese lessons for grammar in japanese

Websites:

DeepL.com - Really nice translator, cause google sucks. 

JPDB.io - Japanese Learning Data Base, keeps track of the vocab and grammar you know and recommends media based upon your learnt knowledge.

Journaly.com - Practice writing and have others correct you.

HiNative - Similar to Journaly, write and/or ask questions and get responses for natives.

Amazon.co.jp - For cheap kindle books. Gives access to a wonderful library of japanese books. [Use VPN to purchase]

eMinato - Free japanese courses by Japan Foundation

9anime.gs - Watch Anime [Please use add blocker. Opera GX has one built in]

Tokoboto - Dictionary

Jisho -  Dictionary

Epjapanesey.com - Easy Japanese mini comics

Learnnatively.com - Read books/manga etc by level 

Langcorrect - Similar to Journaly

Tadoku.org - More Books

Easy to Understand Anime / Manga:

Nichijou 日常

Sanrio Boys サンリオ男子

Shirokuma Cafe しろくまカフェ

Doraemon ドラエモン

Books:

Kana Word Search

Kanji Word Search

Japanese Folktales for Language Learners - Comes with vocab and questions at the end of every story. Also has audio you can download to listen to the story.

Japanese Stories for Language Learners - Comes with vocab and questions at the end of every story. Also has audio you can download to listen to the story.

#langblr #japanese #studyblr #language learning #my study blog #japan #my studyblr #日本語 #language challenge #language study #日本 #master post #masterpost #Japanese masterpost #Japanese master post #onimai #study #doraemon #shirokuma cafe #study resources #japanese resources #aussie langblr #aussie #australian #australia #anime #アニメ #漫画 #マンガ #manga

[lavenderinoz]

Ewan Mitchell and Steve Toussaint at ccxp23, via hbomaxnordic ig

#ewan mitchell #steve toussaint #ccxp23 #language quiz #language challenge

[amareteur]

Are you learning a language and seeking more exciting ways to improve?

Studying grammar, expanding your vocabulary, and using learning apps all have their benefits, but there comes a point when one gets bored of learning a language in such an isolated context. Language learning should involve merging your personal interests with your language goals, all while interacting with natives and other students of the language.

I'm designing a Summer Language Challenge for those interested in meeting new people and improving their mastery and navigation of their target tongue while simultaneously engaging in topics and hobies that they enjoy. My basic idea is this:

Participants would post some form of content in which they describe (in their target language) some aspect of a topic, hobby, activity, etc. that interests them. Natives would then correct their mistakes, and we'd do the same for their posts.

Examples include:

giving a critical review of some form of media you recently saw/read (multilingual book club??)

giving a cooking tutorial on your favorite recipe

researching a topic that interests you and writing a short research paper about it (or just a paragraph)

watching conspiracy theory videos on Youtube and trying to summarize your favorite theory in your target language

Reply if you're interested or have ideas or want to help design the challenge!! It could be a super fun to learn new things while learning a language and making new connections :)

#langblr #languages #language learning #language challenge #langblr challenge #challange #spanish #italian #french #german #lang #mine #learn italian #learn spanish #language exchange

[wtfcl0ud]

i hv a cool idea for an ask game where you put simple or complex sentences your choice into someone's askbox and they translate it from memory in one sentence trying to make use of all the langs they know/are learning without searching for vocab etc and you can just default to your native langs for words you can't translate

e.g. 💌 - i listen to music while i eat chocolate

answer: mwen écoute la música pendant que mwen manjé schokolade

langs used: patois (french creole) french spanish and german

#langblr #ask game #language challenge #patois #french #spanish #german #deutsch #espanol #francais #french creole #cloud nonsense

[thatrandomblogsays]

Whale Masterpost 🐳

In honor of the second email, (and the fact Herman put the wrong word for whale) I propose we circulate a post and add on each language’s word for whale. Reblog and add the word for a language you speak or are learning. There’s over 7,100 languages! Let’s see how many we can get!

~~~~~~

Whale - English 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Baleine - Français 🇫🇷

Кит - Українська 🇺🇦

#whale weekly #moby dick #language #master list #masterpost #whale translation masterpost #language challenge #French #français #english #ukrainian #langblr #mine

[rigelmejo]

Found a possible challenge!

Read a game script! I am planning to read in Microsoft Edge (phone app since I'm often on my phone), since the Read Aloud text to speech function in Edge sounds the best out of other free TTS and I have Google Translate set up to translate anything I hold down to highlight so I can quickly translate words, phrases, or sentences roughly. (Note that many alternative ways to read would work, all internet browsers allow for some kind of click or highlight translation with various translators and various TTS tools).

Game gengo links some game scripts: https://game-gengo.com/pages/scripts

In addition, if you're studying Japanese there are a lot of scripts posted online for various games if you search the game plus "script" in japanese on a search engine.

This challenge above would work on reading skills, learning new vocabulary by intensively reading (if you look words up), and some listening skill if you use TTS.

I found the Mother script linked on that page, and that script has english and japanese on the same page so I can compare my attempt to understand and parse word meanings with the official english translation. I know there's also Final Fantasy X and Nier Automata scripts online that show both japanese and english.

Alternative challenge: watch a full lets play of a game in your target language!

(To find a lets play on youtube search the game title and lets play words IN the target language. For japanese 実況 jikkyo is the word used for lets plays).

This challenge may work better if you want something you can potentially multitask while doing, would prefer to watch/listen more than read (but you can still get reading practice with subtitles), something that will force you to progress since the video will keep going if you don't pause it. Also if you would like to extensively immerse, where you look up few words or no words. You could intensively immerse with a lets play video, and look up every unknown word, but its not going to be as easy as clicking for translations when reading a script or ebook would be.

Options:

Watch a lets play of a game you've played before, so your prior knowledge of the plot gives you context clues to guess the meanings of more words. (For me, this would be watching say a lets play of Final Fantasy X or a Kingdom Hearts game). A game you really like, in particular, may help with keeping you interested in watching the lets play. (Until Dawn has a japanese dub, i've seen some lets plays of it on youtube, story games like that may be a good option since a lot of the story will be familiar to you but enough new stuff will happen that you'll need to pay extra attention to and put in effort to figure out).

Watch a lets play of a game completely new to you. While it will be more difficult to guess new words, because the game is new to you it may drive you to pay more attention and push you to WANT to understand what's going on. Since you won't know what's going on in the story unless you make an effort to understand the lets play. A completely new game may help with interest and motivation?

A note on lets plays on youtube: some languages have auto captions on videos. Japanese lets plays often have auto captions, which while they arent perfect, they can still provide you with text to follow along with if you're struggling to follow what the lets player is saying. Some lets plays, generally, have the lets player reading aloud all text boxes. These can be good videos to pick for languages where you don't know how the text should be pronounced or would like listening AND reading practice.

Right now for me attempting to do the challenge... I've got Mother script in english and japanese open to read, and Xenogears and Until Dawn lets plays saved to watch. I am still debating if I'd like to watch a different lets play (like persona 2 etc).

#rant #studyblr #language challenge #study plan

[caramelcuppaccino]

24.01.2023 • tuesday

day one of my language learning challenge:

-> which languages can you speak besides your native language?

my native language is turkish, and i can speak english.

maybe two years has passed since i purchased it, but today i finally started studying the german a2 course i bought on udemy. then i started watching a youtube channel. i think i’ll keep watching both because it’s more fun! apparently german a2 level starts with modalverben, so today i studied them and wrote down some new words. and then, of course, i did my daily duolingo.

#lunlunstudies #languagelearningwithlunlun #studying #studyblr #studyspo #studystudystudy #study blog #study motivation #studygram #student #studyinspo #langbr #language challenge #german language #langblr #language learning #study area #university student #study space #study hard

[organised-kitty]

Day 2 - 4/100 hours | 01/08/23

⭐️ Kapitel 1.3-2.1 Goethe Institut A1 online content -> grammar, vocabulary, listening, speaking, and writing exercises.

⭐️ 50 Goethe Institut A1 flashcards

⭐️ Small conversation with a native speaker through Hellotalk

So, turns out that the Goethe Institut course includes predetermined flashcards. It was very useful and it saved me a lot of time. However I think I need to have an Anki deck eventually cause I need to get reminders for spaced repetition. Everything is going well so far, I’m in the first couple of lessons but I haven’t found it to be that difficult yet. But I’m aware that eventually more challenges are yet to come. Bis Morgen!

Join the challenge:

100 hours of studying German from scratch

#studyblr #studyspo #study motivation #100 days of productivity #langblr #language learning #deutsch lernen #languages #german #100 hours of German #studying tips #language challenge #language studying #language tips

[snowythestudent]

The first day of my personalised week long Japanese language challenge is done.

1) Play an hour of a video game.

I may have played more than just an an hour of Stardew Valley. I couldn't help it, man. It's one of those games that when you start you can't stop and the next thing you know it's five days later, your wife's left you and you can't even remember your name anymore. 

2) Read a chapter of a manga.

Read a few chapters of Chi's Sweet Home and it is by far one of the better manga out there to read for beginners. It's centered around a kitten and her family and the every day shenanigans they get up to. It's very easy to fellow and there aren't massive walls of text every other page like some series. I plan on reading more and making a more in depth post on it. 

3) Watch a video on YouTube with no English subtitles.

I may have just watched a bunch of nursery rhyme videos. Honestly, not a bad way to learn. They're catchy and simple. 

4) Read a graded reader/book aimed at young children.

One of my favourite graded reader sites is tadoku.org. They go from level zero to five with zero being the easiest. Today  I decided to upgrade from zero to one and read a short story called Boku no Kazoku. It's about a teddy bear and his family and it was hecking adorable. 

5) Make a post on HelloTalk. 

Made a simple post saying I had school tomorrow and about how old I am (I'm a  thirty year old student help) and no one has corrected it yet so I'm assuming it was right. People on HelloTalk are usually pretty quick about correcting mistakes. It's why I like it so much.

#japanese #japanese language #language challenge #langblr

[life-in-scribbles]

October German Challenge-No Zero Days

18/10/23 wednesday 🍂

duolingo 15

memrise 15

19/10/23 thursday 🍁

duolingo 15

Dachfenster workbook (ch1 L1,2,3,4) 40

listening easy podcast 15

20/10/23 friday 🍂

duolingo 15

translate song lyric 30

listening easy stories 20

#german langblr #learning german #study german #language challenge #learning languages #studyblr #no zero days

[chaotic-language-journey]

More Chinese study

Anyone have any self study tips for mandarin? Would really appreciate it💖

#language challenge #chinese #langblr #studyblr #language learning #language lover #language study #my study blog #langblog #my study space #my studyblr #study #study challenge #china #language #study blog #langbr

[amourdeslangues]

Day 1 - What is the "birthday song" of your TL? (Part 1/2 - svenska)

30 day language blog challenge by @moltre-s

Det finns fler olika födelsedagssånger som används i Sverige, men sången som sjungs huvudsakligen när någon fyller år heter "Ja, må han leva". Här är sångens text:

Ja, må han leva! Ja, må han leva! Ja, må han leva uti hundrade år! Javisst ska han leva! Javisst ska han leva! Javisst ska han leva uti hundrade år!

Naturligtvis kan man också byta ut ordet "han" mot rätt pronomen för personen som sången sjungs till - till exempel "Ja, må hon leva" eller "Ja, må du leva" - eller "Ja, må ni leva" om man sjunger låten till fler människor.

Det var intressant för mig att lära mig det här eftersom det finns en födelsedagssång med samma melodi på tyska (mitt modersmål). Oftast använder vi bara en tysk version av "Happy Birthday", men man kan också sjunga "Hoch soll er leben". Därför var melodin i den svenska låten förvånansvärt känd för mig.

Och här är en video för att ni kan höra födelsedagssångens melodi:

#feel free to correct any mistakes! #language learning #langblr #swedish #swedish songs #studyblr #language challenge #moltres langblr challenge #svenska #learning swedish #Youtube