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We need to talk about LingoHut

I’m supposed to be studying some Italian, but instead, I was googling in my computer how to learn a new language (no, googling how to learn will not teach you shit, you have to sit down and learn your target language not how to do it, I know but I’m lazy.) and I came across LingoHut, and I have to share it.

I don’t know if someone ever talked about this page, but if they did is worth mentioning again.

So basically you go to the website and in the Home Page you have to choose what is your first language and what language are you trying to learn.

Once you choose it’ll take you to another page in which you have tons of lessons, for ex. In Italian, there are 109 lessons.

I haven’t checked every lesson yet but for example, the first one is greetings and such. You click that lesson and you have 16 flashcards that will show you the word in your target language and the translation, at the same time that someone pronounces the words.

Below the flashcards, you have this  ⬇️

And basically is a bunch of game, an easy matching words kind of game, some kind of tic tac toe with words, a memory game do you know the one that kids play in which they have to find the matching pictures? Same but with words and lastly a listening and matching game.

Below the bar of the games, we have the vocabulary list of the words we are taught in that lesson, and you can click the word and listen the pronunciation.

In the end, you have a bunch of the next lessons.

The lessons vary from the content it can be greetings, numbers, health stuff, office words, computer terminology, etc.

The website doesn’t have every language in the world, but it has a lot of them. choose your target language, in my case Italian, and enjoy, is fun and simple if you want to practice or do something related to your target language but you don’t have the willingness that day to study something more consistent like structure.

And the best part is that as far as I went looking around in this page it’s fucking free. Sure, you won’t end the one hundred and something lessons speaking like a native from whatever target language you’re learning, but it can be useful to expand your vocabulary.

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Alternative reasons to learn languages 2.0:

1 You want to be able to know where our language came from (like greek and latin)

2 You want to read at the dark and braille can do that for you

3 Sign language -> you can: 1 talk at noisy places, 2 to talk to people at your own city who doesn’t speak your language

4 Because the grammar is so different from the others (indonesian_with_its_amazing_verbs entered the chat room)

5 Because your crush studies or speaks that language

6 You like crime fictions (so you should consider study nordic languages, there is a Glass Key Award given annually to a crime novel by an author from the Nordic countries, ponder it)

7 You love food and want to try new recipes (maybe italian, japanese, russian, thai or from some Africa’s country?)

8 You want to master some topic

9 You love so much some specific content in a foreign language that you need to understand what the creator really meant to say, so you have to learn the original language to catch the nuances of everything

10 Because you like accentuation (portuguese) -> você sabia que o sabiá é sábio?

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arabic langblrs

as i signed up for two arabic classes this semester, i really want to see more of some arabic langblrs. so if you’re an arabic langblr or studyblr that posts arabic content (bonus points if it’s levantine arabic, as that’s the one my professor is teaching), then please reblog this post!! i’d love to follow you.

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Reblog if you’re an active studyblr/langblr

My dash is so dead that even after five minutes, I don’t have any new posts! Please reblog if you post study tips, language learning tips or generally languages and studying related content!

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Resources for Learning (MS) Arabic - a thread from your local native-speaker ♡

Al Jazeera has a cool "Learn Arabic" program. They've sorted it according to levels (complete beginner to intermediate), so you can just click on whatever level and there will be some lessons there for you. For an upper-intermediate level, there's a news report that you can watch (subtitles are also available, so you can read along if you like) and once you've finished watching it there's a quiz you can take to see how well you understood the material.

Madinah Arabic online and on YouTube is pretty good. I watched a couple of videos (the only thing I would say is the female voice's pronunciation is not the best #sorrynotsorry) and it seems very accurate (compared to some of the other channels I saw. yikes!)

Note: if you're watching YouTube videos to learn MSA, it's always a good idea to read the comments. Sometimes native-speakers might correct something from the video!

Arabic music is a great way to enjoy the language! The history of music in Arabic is closely related to classical Arabic poetry so there are songs in MSA. I found an AMAZING channel on YouTube (MohCoolMan) where Arabic songs are uploaded with their lyrics and an English translation. The great thing about this channel is the creator has also specified in the title what kind of Arabic each song is in, so you can go through it and listen to the ones labelled Arabic, MS Arabic, or Classical Arabic.

TV shows and movies are pretty much 99% in a dialect of Arabic. The 1% are Historical Dramas but that's usually an older version of Arabic and although it actually is not that different from Modern Standard Arabic, there will definitely be words that no one would use nowadays. Instead, I would HIGHLY recommend watching kids' TV shows. As a kid, I remember watching a lot of Arabic-dubbed Anime on a channel called Spacetoon. Nowadays, you can stream it live online or find their shows on an app called Spacetoon Go. Most of the shows are free (with ads) but I think it also depends on your region (different shows for different regions, maybe?). The ones I would recommend (from what was available in my region):

-الحديقة السرية

-دروب ريمي

-تاما والاصدقاء

-ماوكلي فتى الأدغال

-المحقق كونان*

*(this was my favorite show, it's the Arabic version of Case Closed. I couldn't find it on the app but I think in certain regions it may be available)

You can stream Spongebob in Arabic. (also Nickolodeon Arabia on YouTube)

Another TV show I watched (عدنان ولينا)

Arabian Nights (A Thousand and One Nights) in Arabic from an Egyptian broadcast (it is MSA but the narrator is Egyptian so there is a hint of an Egyptian accent, but it's nothing to worry about)

Arabian Nights, female narrator (1) (2)

More cartoons (Heidi, Babar etc.)

Finally, I honestly would just recommend getting to know other people who are learning Arabic or native-speakers who learned MSA in school (hi!)

بالتوفيق! !Good Luck

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Pocoyo is a Spanish-British pre-school animated television series. It is about Pocoyo, a 4-year-old boy, interacting with his friends Pato (a duck), Elly (an elephant) and Loula (a dog). Viewers are encouraged to recognize situations that Pocoyo is in, and things that are going on with or around him.

Spanish

English

French

Swedish

German

Norwegian

Russian

Portuguese

Italian

Turkish

Indonesian

Danish

Finnish

Hungarian

Japanese

Korean

Chinese

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Langblr Follow Train (April 2020)

Let’s start a langblr follow train to find new langblrs/lingblrs to follow and befriend! 🚂 1. Only langblrs (blogs about languages) and lingblrs (blogs about linguistics), please! 2. Reblog this post before 30.4.2020! 3. Follow some blogs that have reblogged this post! 4. Make new friends!

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How to learn a language fast

1. Learn a sizable vocabulary, there is a good list of 625 words you should know in your target language. Spend time building this up and be sure to practice your pronunciation that is vital. To learn vocabulary there are many methods: flashcards, lists, apps, mindmaps etc. I personally use the app Quizlet as it has many learning tools and flashcards so you can practice on the go.

2. Learn basic grammar, for this you can use a book or there are plenty of websites online that will have resources. You just need to have master a section at a time so you have the basic learnt.

3. Listen to the spoken language, if you are in the country awesome but chances you are not so some ways to this are: listening to audio files, using apps (I know Duolingo has a aspect that reads stories), watch YouTube videos in that language, watch films and listen to the radio (there are lots of streams online).

4. Practice speaking, pronunciation is vital plus saying things over and over again can help move it to the long term memory. It will make you feel much more confident in your abilities. To practice speaking it would be ideal to find someone who is fluent in your target language but if not there are speaking exercises online, you could try read a book out loud or even learn a song.

5. Stick to it, this is probably the most important part if you don’t keep practicing regularly you will forget it all. Even if it is just something small it is better than nothing and will be worth it when you can speak a whole new language.

Good Websites

BBC Languages

Duolingo

Dictionaries

Quizlet

Memrise

Babbel

Fluent Forever

Feel free to add more helpful tips, tricks etc below.

I’m going to learn Spanish.

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Language learning and langblr tips from me

What to learn first when learning a new language

How to stay motivated when learning languages

How to learn a language with a different script

How to learn kanji

Vocabulary list topics

How to make vocabulary lists

How to expand your vocabulary

How to learn vocabulary and verb endings

How to improve your listening skills

How to practice speaking your target language

How to go from intermediate to advanced in your target language

How to learn two (or more) languages at once

How to learn all the languages you want

How to avoid mixing up languages

How to study languages with depression

How to practice speaking when you have social anxiety

How to study with a language exchange partner and what to talk about with them

How to study with Duolingo

How to make a language notebook

How to divide your language notebook/what to write in your language notebook

How to use bullet journal in language learning

How to find native speakers to practice with

How to know what level you are in your languages

How to start a langblr

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Language Resources Masterpost

chiara-klara-claire :

🌷 I made this for myself and will be updating it from time to time, feel free to reblog 🍀 big thanks to: @lovelybluepanda, @wonderful-language-sounds   🍀my langstagram

brilliant directory by @thelanguagecommunity​

vocab masterpost by @portiastudies​

mylanguages.org (grammar, vocab, phrases, quizzes)

loecsen.com (vocab, phrases, you can listen to it)

vocabulary 📖 

http://langoland.free.fr/ (vocab, has minority languages!!)

polymath (vocab)

Babadada (vocab)

Babadum (vocab game)

my Pinterest Language board (vocab, idioms)

tests & listening  📝 🎧

vocabulary TEST,  multiple choice tests

Goethe verlag tests

listen to a radio anywhere in the world

http://listeningpractice.org/ thanks @sweet-child-of-mine11​

listening tests

librivox (audiobooks)

lyrikline.org (listen to poems!!!)

reading📚

gutenberg.org

readlang.com

manybooks.net

childrenbooksforever | childrenslibrary

The Little Prince | Alice | Harry Potter

BILINGUIS (has Alice in Wonderland) 

Grimm fairytales

Germanic languages

Dutch-Frisian-Afrikaans-Limburgish masterpost

🇳🇱DUTCH #nl

PDFs

vocab masterpost by @hotairballoon221​

linking words by @join-the-dutch-clan​

when to use DE/HET 

irregular verbs 

file of knowledge

watch rundfunk (10-20mins yt comedy series)

🇧🇪 Belgian comic with voice over

FRISIAN

vocab

funwithfrisian FB

🇬🇧ADVANCED ENGLISH: 60 cool words

🇩🇪GERMAN #de

exercise at schubert-verlag

exercise at deutschakademie

movies by @themessyjournals​ more movies by @thegirlfromthelibrary

downloadable books to read

north Germanic  

false friends SE-DK  | false friends SE-NO

project Runeberg (classic nordic literature!!!)

masterpost

🇩🇰DANISH #dk

masterpost by @mit-danske-eventyr​ | by thelanguagecommunity

useful grammar tips (til or for etc)

PDF: colloquial Danish | Teach Yourself | essential grammar

assimil (french)

unilang

listen to poems

nordic langs discord i don’t even have discord myself but just dropping this here you never know

🇮🇸ICELANDIC #is 

PDF textbooks 

masterpost by @icelandicreverie-blog​

children tv thanks @sprachtraeume​

200 words by @islenskafyriralla​

https://islenskafyriralla.tumblr.com/laera

beautiful Icelandic words

🇫🇴FAROESE #fo 

downloadable resources

masterpost

vocab

PDFs

🇸🇪SWEDISH #se

PDFs

Astrid Lindgren etc. books 

watch Pippi

masterpost by @langsandculture​ (textbooks, websites..)

lär dig svenska - useful expressions/grammar

verb list

some less common verbs

adverbs list by @svensklangblr​less 

anki decks (C1 lvl too!!)

writers recommendations by @svensklangblr​.

freudian slip productions (comedy videos)

slang by @midvinterfrost​

vocab list masterposts: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 by @languagemoose​

(movie recs wanted, i might make on myself) I also should make a vocab list including vocab lists by @polyglotswede​ who made a lot!!

🇳🇴NORWEGIAN #no

Textbooks post; PDF Textbooks

assimil (french)

grammatikk.com

85 irregular verbs by @language-princess​

norskprøven

exercises: infonorwegian ; exploringnorwegiangrammar

masterpost by @languagecollector​

masterpost by @treasuredthings​

watch moomin!!

read Norwegian folktales

i/på by @an-american-in-norway​

common mistakes by @letslearnnorwegian​

Celtic languages  #celtic  

masterpost by @travellingual​  masterpost by @a-second-soul​

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿WELSH #welsh 

masterpost

BBC grammar PDF

🇮🇪IRISH #ie

online lessons 

daltaì na Gaeilge (grammar, phrases, vocab)

PDF textbooks

duolingo basics by @gaeilge101​

Slavic languages

🇨🇿CZECH

assimil (in french)

🇵🇱POLISH

assimil (in french)

masterpost by @languageoclock​

polish grammar in a nutshell 

lernpolisch.de (in german, +audios)

🇷🇺RUSSIAN #ru

learn to read Russian in 15 mins

assimil (french)

misc 

🇫🇮FINNISH #fi uralic masterpost

PDF textbooks thanks @languagessi​ !

online lessons

masterpost

watch moomin

🇫🇷FRENCH #fr

100 topic specific vocab lists

vocab lists by @nerdinaomi​

verbs

movies by @themessyjournals​

downloadable books to read

read Asterix

🇬🇷GREEK

assimil (french)

🇭🇺HUNGARIAN

PDFs

assimil

🇯🇵 JAPANESE #jp thanks @udaitenma​

resources

joshu

learn-japanese-adventure  –>vocab (Japanese culture related too)

tofugu grammar lessons

grammar lessons

Japanese verb conjugation by @japanesewithanime​​

JLPT material

survival phrases

cheatsheets

100 grammar points

🇰🇷KOREAN #kr

http://www.koreanfromzero.com/

https://www.learn-korean.net/

https://www.howtostudykorean.com/

🌷  my posts 🌻 insta: art+self | languages+snailmail   🌺  my app review 🍀 planned langs to add: estonian, Lithuatian, Latvian, Hawaiian

(started 22/3, finished 6/4/2020)

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You guys I just found something that’s pretty cool if you’re interested in practicing listening in your target language (and learning something new altogether at the same time!)

Khan Academy has a bunch of videos in foreign languages and apparently it’s called Khan Academy International (here’s a link to their tumblr).

They have content in quite a few languages, and while some of them have mostly math and science stuff, there are a lot of channels that delve into a lot of the other content that Khan Academy English does, like art history, world history, etc.

So far I’ve found their Youtube channels in these languages (I’m sure there are more though, and if you find any feel free to add them to this post!):

Russian: https://www.youtube.com/user/KhanAcademyRussian

French: https://www.youtube.com/user/KhanAcademyFrancais/

Spanish: https://www.youtube.com/user/KhanAcademyEspanol/

Danish: https://www.youtube.com/user/KhanAcademyDansk/

Norwegian: https://www.youtube.com/user/KhanAcademyNorsk/

Turkish: https://www.youtube.com/user/KhanAcademyTurkce

Polish: https://www.youtube.com/user/KhanAcademyPolski

Italian: https://www.youtube.com/user/KhanAcademyItaliano

German: https://www.youtube.com/user/KhanAcademyDeutsch

Mandarin: https://www.youtube.com/user/KhanAcademyMandarin

Japanese: https://www.youtube.com/user/KhanAcademyJapanese

Hindi: https://www.youtube.com/user/KhanAcademyHindi

Bulgarian: https://www.youtube.com/user/KhanAcademyBulgarian

Portuguese: https://www.youtube.com/user/KhanAcademyPortugues

Korean: https://www.youtube.com/user/KhanAcademyKorean

Serbian: https://www.youtube.com/user/KhanAcademySerbian

Mongolian: https://www.youtube.com/user/KhanAcademyMongolian

Thai: https://www.youtube.com/user/KhanAcademyThai

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How to learn a language when you don’t know where to start:

General Plan:

Weeks 1 and 2: Purpose:

Learn the fundamentals sentence construction

Learn how to spell and count

Start building a phrase stockpile with basic greetings

The Alphabet

Numbers 1 - 100

Subject Pronouns

Common Greetings

Conjugate the Two Most Important Verbs: to be and to have

Basic Definite and Indefinite Articles

Weeks 3 and 4: Purpose:

Learn essential vocabulary for the day-to-day

Start conjugating regular verbs

Days of the Week and Months of the Year

How to tell the time

How to talk about the weather

Family Vocabulary

Present Tense Conjugations Verbs

Weeks 5 and 6: Purpose:

Warm up with the last of the day-to-day vocabulary

Add more complex types of sentences to your grammar

Colours

House vocabulary

How to ask questions

Present Tense Conjugations Verbs

Forming negatives

Weeks 7 and 8: Purpose:

Learn how to navigate basic situations in a region of your target language country

Finish memorising regular conjugation rules

Food Vocabulary and Ordering at Restaurants

Money and Shopping Phrases

Present Tense Conjugations Verbs

Weeks 9 and 10: Purpose:

Start constructing descriptive and more complex sentences

Adjectives

Reflective verbs

Places vocabulary

Weeks 11 and 12: Purpose:

Add more complex descriptions to your sentences with adverbs

Wrap up vocabulary essentials

Adverbs

Parts of the body and medical vocabulary

Tips for Learning a Foreign Language:

Learning Vocabulary:

What vocabulary should I be learning?

There are hundreds of thousands of words in every language, and the large majority of them won’t be immediately relevant to you when you’re starting out.Typically, the most frequent 3000 words make up 90% of the language that a native speaker uses on any given day. Instead try to learn the most useful words in a language, and then expand outwards from there according to your needs and interests.

Choose the words you want/need to learn.

Relate them to what you already know.

Review them until they’ve reached your long-term memory.

Record them so learning is never lost.

Use them in meaningful human conversation and communication.

How should I record the vocabulary?

Learners need to see and/or hear a new word of phrase 6 to 17 times before they really know a piece of vocabulary.

Keep a careful record of new vocabulary.

Record the vocabulary in a way that is helpful to you and will ensure that you will practice the vocabulary, e.g. flashcards.

Vocabulary should be organised so that words are easier to find, e.g. alphabetically or according to topic.

Ideally when noting vocabulary you should write down not only the meaning, but the grammatical class, and example in a sentence, and where needed information about structure.

How should I practice using the vocabulary?

Look, Say, Cover, Write and Check - Use this method for learning and remembering vocabulary. This method is really good for learning spellings.

Make flashcards. Write the vocabulary on the front with the definition and examples on the back.

Draw mind maps or make visual representations of the new vocabulary groups.

Stick labels or post it notes on corresponding objects, e.g when learning kitchen vocabulary you could label items in your house.

How often should I be practising vocabulary?

A valuable technique is ‘the principle of expanding rehearsal’. This means reviewing vocabulary shortly after first learning them then at increasingly longer intervals.

Ideally, words should be reviewed:

5-10 minutes later

24 hours later

One week later

1-2 months later

6 months later

Knowing a vocabulary item well enough to use it productively means knowing:

Its written and spoken forms (spelling and pronunciation).

Its grammatical category and other grammatical information

Related words and word families, e.g. adjective, adverb, verb, noun.

Common collocations (Words that often come before or after it).

Receptive Skills: Listening and Reading

Reading is probably one of the most effective ways of building vocabulary knowledge.

Listening is also important because it occupies a big chunk of the time we spend communicating.

Tips for reading in a foreign language:

Start basic and small.  Children’s books are great practice for beginners. Don’t try to dive into a novel or newspaper too early, since it can be discouraging and time consuming if you have to look up every other word.

Read things you’ve already read in your native language. The fact that you at least know the gist of the story will help you to pick up context clues, learn new vocabulary and grammatical constructions.

Read books with their accompanying audio books. Reading a book while listening to the accompanying audio will improve your “ear training”. It will also help you to learn the pronunciation of words.

Tips for listening in a foreign language:

Watch films in your target language.

Read a book while also listening along to the audio book version.

Listen to the radio in your target language.

Watch videos online in your target language.

Activities to do to show that you’ve understood what you’ve been listening to:

Try drawing a picture of what was said.

Ask yourself some questions about it and try to answer them.

Provide a summary of what was said.

Suggest what might come next in the “story.”

Translate what was said into another language.

“Talk back” to the speaker to engage in imaginary conversation.

Productive Skills: Speaking and Writing

Tips for speaking in a foreign language:

If you can, try to speak the language every day either out loud to yourself or chat to another native speaker whether it is a colleague, a friend, a tutor or a language exchange partner. 

Write a list of topics and think about what you could say about each one. First you could write out your thoughts and then read them out loud. Look up the words you don’t know. You could also come up with questions at the end to ask someone else.

A really good way to improve your own speaking is to listen to how native speakers talk and imitate their accent, their rhythm of speech and tone of voice. Watch how their lips move and pay attention to the stressed sounds. You could watch interviews on YouTube or online news websites and pause every so often to copy what you have just heard. You could even sing along to songs sung in the target language.

Walk around the house and describe what you say. Say what you like or dislike about the room or the furniture or the decor. Talk about what you want to change.This gets you to practise every day vocabulary.

Tips for writing in a foreign language:

Practice writing in your target language. Keep it simple to start with. Beginner vocabulary and grammar concepts are generally very descriptive and concrete.

Practice writing by hand. Here are some things you can write out by hand:

Diary entries

Shopping lists

Reminders

What could I write about?

Write about your day, an interesting event, how you’re feeling, or what you’re thinking.

Make up a conversation between two people. 

Write a letter to a friend, yourself, or a celebrity. You don’t need to send it; just writing it will be helpful.

Translate a text you’ve written in your native language into your foreign language.

Write a review or a book you’ve recently read or a film you’ve recently watched.

Write Facebook statuses, Tweets or Tumblr posts (whether you post them or not will be up to you).

Write a short story or poem.

Writing is one of the hardest things to do well as a non-native speaker of a language, because there’s no room to hide. 

There are lots of ways to improve your writing ability, but they can be essentially boiled down to three key components:

Read a lot

Write a lot

Get your writing corrected

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Numbers in Languages of Central Asia. 

Kazakh is one of the main languages of Kazakhstan, alongside Russian, and is spoken by over 5 million people within the country. It is from the Kipchak-Nogai branch of the Kipchak family of Common Turkic, in the Turkic language family. It can be seen written in the Latin, Cyrillic and Arabic alphabets.

Uzbek is the official language of Uzbekistan, with about 27 million speakers. It comes from the Karluk branch of Common Turkic in the Turkic language family. It is typically written in the Latin or the Cyrillic alphabet.

Turkmen, the official language of Turkmenistan, is spoken by about 6.7 million people. It comes from the Eastern Oghuz branch of the Oghuz languages within Common Turkic. It can be seen written in Latin, Cyrillic and Arabic script.

Kyrgyz is the official language of Kyrgyzstan and is spoken by over four million people. Like Kazakh, it is from the Kipchak branch of Common Turkic, belongs to the Kyrgyz-Kipchak subgroup. Kyrgyz can be written in Person-Arabic script or Cyrillic script.

Tajik, the official language of Tajikistan, is spoken by about 8.4 million people and comes from a completely different linguistic family as the languages previously described. It is actually an Indo-European language, from the Persian subgroup of the Iranian languages. Tajik can be written in the Cyrillic or Latin alphabet.

Dari, also known as Farsi, is an official language of Afghanistan and is spoken by 12.5 million people. It is also a Persian language from the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European languages. It uses the Persian alphabet.

Pashto is the other official language of Afghanistan, mostly spoken southeast of the Dari speaking area by 58 million people. It is also an Iranian language, but comes from the Eastern Iranian branch rather than the Western Iranian branch (from which Persian languages originated). It is written in Person-Arabic script.

Note: Spelling, pronunciation or full words may differ according to region or locale.

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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

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I know this is a tiny accomplishment in the grand scheme of things, but it feels really good to be able to listen to a native speaker and understand them, even if I can’t speak many words back.

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While it's great if you can use the quarantine to learn a new language or write a book, it's also perfectly okay if all you can manage is scrolling through social media or binge watching Netflix. While it's great to make the most of this situation, for some of us just getting through it is an achievement by itself. So don't be too hard on yourself if you haven't managed to draw or write daily or if you have yet to dedicate hours to a new hobby. It's okay. You're doing good even if all you're doing is keeping yourself together.