Hey, Everybody,
So I am sure many of you have heard of the Add1 Challenge. In fact, I am curious whether or not this 90 Day Challenge is designed to resemble it. In any case, with the Add 1 Challenge, there are people from all over studying many different languages, intensely for 3 months. From what I understand they have specific goals that they attempt to reach each week and specifically each month. It looks like the Add 1 Challenge is focused more on speaking, which I know is not necessarily the goal for many people on here, but the challenge ends with the participant attempting to have a 15 minute conversation with a native speaker and record it and post it for everyone. From what I have read online, the challenge has a few benefits that people seem to really enjoy. Specifically a community of learners all working together for the same goal, learn a foreign language. The participants come from all different backgrounds with their target language, and they also come to the challenge focusing on different languages as well. So the group can have someone who is learning Spanish commenting on someone’s post who is learning Swahili. The cool thing about it, is it seems from what I have read is that people do well on the challenge because everybody is helping to motivate each other. I previously had a tutor of mine do the challenge with French, she loved it, but said it was very difficult. She also stated that it was wonderful because really progressed in the language. They also have daily goals etc. Just as LingQ does, but I think they have to sign in and do extra stuff. I didn’t feel a need to sign up for the Add 1 Challenge for a couple of reasons. For starters, It is close to $100 to do the challenge, and I don’t know what is different realistically that I can’t get on my own. Besides, I love how LingQ works, and so I figured why not just bring the challenge here instead.
Anyways, I am publishing this thread in hopes that I can get a number of people who are taking various 90 Day Challenges on here, regardless of your language, and we can work together in hopes to motivate all of us. So if you are learning Arabic, Chinese, Spanish or whatever language it may be, we can all work together, speak about our progress and show off where we are in our language. I know there is a function within the challenge where people can comment to people doing the same challenge as them, but unfortunately, I was disappointed in the fact nobody was commenting on their progress. It was silent. Instead, I hope that whom ever might be interested in keeping a group of us working together on our 90 Day Challenge, we could work on this thread/forum and allow all of us to progress in the language. Who knows, maybe we can even create our own mini challenges throughout the 90 Day Challenge, and by the end of it see our progress.
I just finished my first challenge, and had to spend way too much time in the last two weeks listening to finish it. There is nothing wrong with that, but this time around I know I want to finish my listening gradually, not all at once. I also would love to have a group of us share our personal progress, not just seeing the Activity Score on the Leaderboards. I think that is extremely helpful, it allows a miniature competition, but I would like to see us all do this together. I am currently taking 2 90 Day Challenges this time: Hebrew (I am the only person) and Chinese (one of 2 people). So, how about we work together, and students of the other languages band together and help all of us move forward.
I am in the middle of finals this week, finishing up my last paper. So I will be a couple of days behind, but that is okay. I still will try to post my progress on here, in hopes we can have more people work together. Not to mention, I think that we have on LingQ a very low percentage of people finish the challenge, so I was hoping that this might help create a community where we can see the progress, and up having more people finish their personal challenges. I personally, would like to learn a few languages, but it is a gradual process. It is also discouraging to see when you haven’t completed your goals. So instead, I would like to see more of us finish the challenges and eventually reach our own personal goals.
I look forward to seeing some people publish on here. I hope everybody does well with their challenges, and I will see you soon.
-Cody Cannon