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spockisgaypassiton:

to anyone having a bad day im so sorry also here are some pictures of baby elephants 

feel better friend

You can’t not smile

100 Days Challenge for Langblrs

lovelybluepanda:

Since the langblr community seems dead and studyblrs have this challenge that seems very productive, i thought i should try to make a langblr version.

Rules:

• There are 100 activities and you have to finish 1 task daily. 
  
• There’s no particular order for these tasks. You choose what you feel like doing that day.
  
• The tag for the challenge is #100daysoflanguages. In this way i can see how your studies are going and other people can get motivated knowing that someone else is doing the same challenge.
  
• If you have time, write in your post what words/idioms you learned, what you’ve read/watched etc.
• You can do this challenge for 1 or more languages.
• Where i didn’t mention, there’s still a 95% chance that you still need to use your target language. [yes, i stopped writing “in your target language” at some point]
• You don’t have to post about the challenge if you don’t want to, but i’ll be glad to see your progress or a post after you’ve finished the tasks. ^^

Tasks:

• also, these tasks don’t really work for sign languages, at least not all of them
  

1. Learn 5 new words.
   
2. Learn 10 new words
   
3. Learn 2 idioms.
   
4. Sing a Disney song for 3 times.
   
5. Translate a song.
6. Memorize a poem.
7. Read 1 article online about something that interests you.
8. Name every thing that’s in the room for 5 minutes. Write down new words.
9. Try 2 tongue twisters.
10. Learn 15 words.
11. Learn 4 idioms.
12. Watch a movie/episode from a serie subbed or dubbed in your target language.
13. Learn 1 new grammatical concept/make a post and explain a grammatical concept if you learned everything related to grammar.
14. Write about your day in 3-5 lines.
15. Send a motivational message to another langblr. (in your target language of course) [it can be only a “don’t give up”, it still counts]
16. Find 3 new songs in your target language and learn 5 new words from each.
17. Learn 30 words.
18. Learn 5 idioms.
19. Write about your goals/dreams in 5-7 lines.
20. Read 1 page from a book, any book.
21. Write a dialogue between 2 people about anything; person A and B having each 10 lines.
22. Learn 1 new grammatical concept/make a post and explain a grammatical concept if you learned everything related to grammar.
    
23. Write about your passions in 5-7 lines.
24. Learn 5 words related to pets. [e.g. fur, claws, whiskers, paws, tail]
25. Translate a short poem or song.
26. Learn 1 Disney song. (you don’t need to learn it perfectly, if you know 3-5 lines without looking for the lyrics, that’s great)
27. Try to talk for 3-5 minutes with someone and if you don’t have natives to talk to, write a mini dialogue about why you like languages.
28. Choose a vocab list from tumblr, learn 10 new words/structures from there. [yes, it’s time for us to use those vocab lists]
29. Read 2 articles about something that you like.
30. Change your phone’s settings to your target language for 1 day.
31. Learn 20 words.
32. Learn 3 idioms.
33. Watch a movie/youtube video subbed or dubbed in your target language.
34. Write 5-7 lines about your favourite movie, serie, drama, anime, cartoon, youtuber.
35. Talk to yourself for 5 minutes. [even if you don’t know a word, look it up, or change the entire sentence; just think in your target language]
36. Learn 1 new grammatical concept/make a post and explain a grammatical concept if you learned everything related to grammar.
    
37. Read 3 pages from a book/comic/magazine.
38. Translate 1 song.
39. Translate 1 paragraph from a book in your target language. [if you don’t have a book, tell me the language and i’ll find you a pdf]
40. Watch 2 videos on youtube in your target language or about your target language.
41. Translate 1 paragraph from English/your native language to your target one.
42. Translate 1 song from English/your native language to your target language.
43. Write a motivational message in your target language to 2 other people.
44. Write in 5 lines some things that you dislike.
45. Learn 15 words.
46. Talk to someone for 5 minutes/write a dialogue about anything.
47. Write in 3-5 lines what you like about your target language(s).
48. Learn 1 new grammatical concept/make a post and explain a grammatical concept if you learned everything related to grammar.
    
49. Read 2 pages from a book in your target language.
50. How was your day? Tell me in your target language.
51. What do you want to become? Why? Tell me in your target language.
52. Tell me in your target language how you decided to learn your target language.
53. Sing 1 Disney song.
54. Learn 15 words.
55. Make a vocab list of at least 10 words. You choose the theme. [if you want one; you could just choose random words]
56. Try 2 tongue twister.
57. Think in your target language for 10 minutes.
58. Talk about your favourite animals in 3 lines.
59. Learn 10 words related to school.
60. Learn 1 new grammatical concept/make a post and explain a grammatical concept if you learned everything related to grammar.
    
61. Talk about your favourite sweets. [no limit]
62. Talk about yourself. [no limit]
63. Talk to someone in your target language for 10 minutes/write a dialogue/text.
64. Learn 2 idioms.
65. Read 1 article and talk about it a bit.
66. Translate 1 paragraph from English to your target language.
67. Translate your favourite quote to your target language.
68. Summarize 1 page from a book, in your target language.
69. Sing a song.
70. Talk about your favourite celebrity. [no limit]
71. Learn 15 words.
72. Talk about your favourite book. [no limit]
73. Watch a movie/episode from a serie/youtube video subbed or dubbed.
74. Talk about a friend of yours/langblr that you like.
75. Learn/Revise 1 new grammatical concept/make a post and explain a grammatical concept if you learned everything related to grammar.
    
76. Talk about a happy moment from your life. [no limit]
77. Give in your target language 3 tips for learning a language.
78. Translate 2 quotes that you like in your target language.
79. Write in 5-10 lines anything. You choose the topic.
80. Talk about your fears in 3-5 lines.
81. Read 5 pages from a book.
82. Learn 10 words.
83. Write in your target language a sentence with the following words: earring, nightmare, bracelet, seahorse and jar. You can use the plural of these words.
84. Talk about a pokemon. [no limit]
85. Learn/Revise 1 new grammatical concept/make a post and explain a grammatical concept if you learned everything related to grammar.
    
86. Write a motivational message in your target language to 2 other people.
    
87. Write an advice.
88. Read 1 article.
89. Sing a song.
90. Learn some lines from a poem.
91. Summarize a story in few lines. [it can be a story from your life or a fairytale]
92. Learn 10 words related to hobbies.
93. Learn 3 swear words in your target language.
94. Read 1 page from a book.
95. Translate 1 paragraph from a book.
96. Talk about a book you like.
97. Translate 3 quotes that you like.
98. Sing a disney song.
99. Describe your room.
100. Talk about what motivates you.

Since i made this challenge, you have for sure 1 partner if you decide to do it. We can motivate each other! ^^ I hope that many langblrs will try it. Good luck!

100 Goals you can have as a language learner

lovelybluepanda:

A follower of mine asked me what are some realistic goals when you’re learning languages but before giving you 100 examples, i want to mention that you can have daily, weekly, monthly or/and yearly goals. If you get easily distracted and need motivation, set goals for each category; however, if you can focus and be motivated for a longer period of time, you might not need daily or/and weekly goals.

Also, the numbers/minutes/hours are an example, you can change them according to your time, resources, motivation etc.

Daily goals

1. Read 1 article in your target language.
2. Learn 10 words.
3. Learn 1 poem in your target language.
4. Learn a song  in your target language.
5. Watch a movie.
6. Read 1 page from a book in your target language.
7. Sing 1 song in your target language.
8. Talk with a native for 10 minutes.
9. Learn 2 idioms.
10. Translate 1 song.
11. Translate 1 poem.
12. Write 1 short text about anything.
13. Watch 1 episode from your favourite show dubbed/subbed.
14. Get 50points on duolingo.
15. Make a vocab list.
16. Learn 1 new grammatical concept.
17. Think in your target language for 10 minutes
18. Read to a podcast for 15 minutes.
19. Learn 1 tongue twister.
20. Spend 15 minutes on WordBrewery.
21. Play on Babadum for 15 minutes.
22. Use Clozemaster for 15 minutes.
23. Listen to an audio book for 10 minutes.
24. Revise your notes for 20 minutes.
25. Learn 1 vocab list.

Weekly

1. Read 10 articles in your target language.
   
2. Read 2 books for children.
3. Learn 5 poems.
4. Learn 3 songs.
5. Watch 3 movies.
6. Learn 10 grammatical concepts.
7. Talk for 2 hours in your target language.
8. Learn 5 vocab lists.
9. Learn 100 new words.
10. Finish 8 lessons on duolingo. (i mean the entire bullet/dot/set of mini-lessons)
11. Watch 10 episodes from your favourite show  in your target language subbed/dubbed.
12. Learn 30 idioms.
13. Write 3 A4 pages about anything.
14. Translate 5 songs.
15. Learn 3 vocab lists.
16. Revise with the help of some tests online for 2 hours.
17. Change your phone settings to be in your target language.
18. Make a summary for the books you’ve read.
19. Read 10 pages from a complex book in your target language. 
20. Make 5 vocab lists.
21. Write a motivation text of 10 lines for your in your target language about why you enjoy learning languages.
22. Think for 2 hours in your target language.
23. Translate 3 pages from a book in your native language.
24. Translate 3 pages from a book in your target language.
25. Discover 10 new songs in your target language.

Monthly

1. Learn 350 new words.
   
2. Read 1 advanced book in your target language.
3. Finish a grammar book.
4. Finish 10 stories for kids.
5. Learn 80 idioms.
6. Learn 20 vocab lists.
7. Finish 35 lessons on duolingo. (the bullets/dots/set of mini lessons)
8. Make 20 vocab lists.
9. Watch 10 movies in your target language subbed/dubbed.
10. Translate 10 songs.
11. Learn 10 poems.
12. Learn 5 songs.
13. Talk to natives for 10 hours. 
14. Write summaries for every chapter/article you’ve read.
15. Watch 15 youtube videos in your target language .
16. Make a story of 5 minutes while looking at a random picture on google.
17. Understand a song (that you don’t know) without checking the lyrics too often.
18. Read 20 articles.
19. Make a dish while reading the recipe in your target language
20. Revise for 20 hours.
21. Keep a journal with your daily progress and at the end of the month, read how many things you achieved.
22. Read to a podcast for 24 hours.
23. Think in your target language for 24 hours.
24. Play babadum/wordbrewery/clozemaster for 10 hours.

Yearly

1. Be mistaken for a native.
   
2. Know 50 poems.
3. Be able to sing most Disney songs in your target language.
4. Watch movies without subs.
5. Learn 10.000 words.
6. Read 10 advanced books.
7. Finish duolingo/whatever course you use.
8. Be able to think in your target language effortlessly.
9. Master irregular verbs.
10. Have at least 5 native friends that talk to you in your target language.
11. Be proud you didn’t give up.
12. Study a bit daily.
13. Finish 3 grammar books/workbooks/books for advanced learners.
14. Have a decent accent.
15. Be able to read without translating anything.
16. Watch more movies in your target language than your native one/English.
17. Have favourite youtubers that are native of your target language.
18. Keep a diary and read how your year has been.
19. Be able to talk about advanced stuff.
20. Have very detailed descriptions.
21. Know the most popular songs in your target language.
22. Read mostly in your target language.
23. Know several new recipes that cooked only in the country where your target language is spoken.
24. Being able to say that you’re bilingual/multilingual/a polyglot.
25. Learn your next language through the one that you mastered already.