#langblrchallenge

[nordic-language-love]

After receiving so much positive feedback from people saying they’d love to join me in my latest quest to improve my speaking, I’ve decided to create an official langblr challenge: #SpeakingIn20

Background: I’ve always neglected my speaking skills in Norwegian, and I decided that for the remainder of the year I want to try to do 10 minutes dedicated speaking practice 6 days a week, clocking a total of an hour a week, and thus have 20 hours under my belt by the end of the year. I recorded an intro with the intention of rerecording a similar intro at the end of the year and seeing how much I’ve improved in that time.

Because this was born from the goal of using the last 20 weeks of 2019 to do 20 hours of dedicated speaking practice, so that in 2020 I’ll actually feel like I can speak Norwegian to some (small) degree, I felt like #SpeakingIn20 worked!

The goal of this challenge is to get in a set amount of speaking practice every week, and see how much you’ve improved by the end of the year.

The Rules Guidelines Of This Challenge Are:

Start by picking a challenge level:

Chill - do the challenge 1-2 days a week

Medium - do the challenge 3-4 days a week

Hardcore - do the challenge 5-7 days a week

Pick a time goal for each day. (Eg 2 mins, 5 mins, 10 mins etc - this is totally up to you!)). You’re going to try to speak for that amount of time every day you do the challenge! Note: you don’t have to do it all in one go - if you can’t talk for 5 minutes straight, it’s okay to break it down into 5x1 minute sessions.

Record a little introduction. You don’t have to share it with tumblr if you’re too self-conscious; you just want to have a record of your starting point, so you have something to compare to at the end of the year. It can be as long or as short as you like!

You can talk about whatever you want, however I will be posting prompts at the start of every week and will keep a masterpost with all the previous prompts, so if you get stuck you can look to that for inspiration. [Update: I only ended up posting up to week 12, but feel free to go back and reuse prompts you previously skipped over or found difficult!]

You can use notes if you want (eg vocab lists, things you want to mention, other visual prompts), but try to avoid just reading out something you’ve pre-written if possible. (It’s totally okay to write something out to start with so you can get an idea of holes in your vocab, just condense it down to notes before you try speaking!) Do what you want! If you want to read aloud or have a script, then do that! Just make a note so that you know for future reference and can make a fair comparison of your skills now vs in a few weeks/months.

You can also do pronunciation drills such as repeating words you find difficult, practising tongue twisters, reciting the alphabet etc.

Record yourself speaking if possible. Again, you don’t have to upload anything if you don’t want to - you can just post about how you’re getting on - but you can if that helps to keep you accountable! Once you’re done, make sure you listen back to your recording and make a note of what you did well and what you need to work on still.

Use the hashtag #SpeakingIn20 so we can find each other. You can also hashtag with the level you’re doing and the language you’re learning like so: eg #SpeakingIn20Chill #SpeakingIn20German etc

If you want to do multiple languages, go for it! Just try to be consistent with what you do (ie don’t start skipping out on one language)

Anyone can join at any time! So if you miss the start now, or if you fall off the wagon, you can still (re)join later

Please reblog and spread the word! Speaking’s so difficult, it’d be awesome to have as many of us as possible cheering each other on!

[study-to-rule-the-world]

What's in my backpack (langblr challenge)

English | German | Chinese | Italian | Friulian

A blue umbrella | ein blauer Regenschirm | 一把蓝伞 (Yī bǎ lán sǎn) | un ombrello blu | une ombrene blu

A light blue wallet | 一个蓝色的钱包 (Yīgè lán sè de qiánbāo) | eine hellblaue Brieftasche | un portafoglio azzurro | un tacuìn blu

A water bottle | eine Wasserflasche | 一瓶水壶 ( Yī píng shuǐ hú) | una borraccia | une buračhe

An orange case with three masks inside (a light blue one, an orange one, a black one) | 一个内有三只口罩😷的橘色箱子（一只浅蓝色，一只橘色和一只黑色）| Eine orange Hülle / Ein oranger Behälter mit drei Masken drinnen (eine hellblaue, eine orange und eine schwarze) | Un astuccio arancione con tre mascherine all'interno (una azzurra, una arancione ed una nera) | une buste arancion cun tres mascherinis (une blu, une arancion, une neere)

Earphones | 耳机 (Ěrjī) | Kopfhörer | cuffie |

Phone | 手机 (Shǒujī) | Handy | cellulare | telefon

Tag: whoever reads this, feel free to do the challenge yourself

[mirkostudy]

1 month 1 language: start

(4th April, 3 day of the challenge ) So, I’m gonna do the #1month1language challenge and learn German. I’ve been studying for 3 days in a row now but wanted to get more serious about it. The sources I’ll be/have been using are: Netflix movies and tv shows, escuelaalemanonline.com, Babbel, online translators and pdfs of school like books (the ones with activities, I’ll maybe post them here to help anyone else who wants them).

I’m gonna commit to learning for at least an hour a day, taking notes, listen to the language for at least half an hour and just have fun!

Of course I want to learn but this is mainly meant to be fun, whenever it starts to feel like a burden  I’ll shorten the time of study, or stop using one of the sources if I find them unhelpful. I’ll update weekly, and since it’s been 3 days already, I’ll do my next post on 8th April. Update: In these days I’ve leearned basic greetings and presentation phrases.