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We're here to participate in the Total Annihilation Challenge. It's a challenge to learn as much as you can about your chosen languages in one year.

Rules

  • Each week a new thread will be posted in which each person can log what they have done the previous week. This log can be a short or as long as you want; the main goal is to keep yourself motivated. The typical log usually contains what you've done, how you are progressing in the goals you set yourself, etc.

  • Each month (starting end of May) a goals thread will be posted, so that people can write down their goals for the month. That way, people can compare their progress to what they wanted to get done.

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2022 Mar 28: week 9

How was your progress last week?

What are your goals for this week?

How will you achieve these goals?

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2022/03/28
12:41 UTC

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2022 Mar 14: week 7

How was your progress last week?

What are your goals for this week?

How will you achieve these goals?

1 Comment
2022/03/14
19:00 UTC

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2022 Mar 7th: Week 6

How was your progress last week?

What are your goals for this week?

How will you achieve these goals?

5 Comments
2022/03/07
18:03 UTC

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2022 Feb 28th: Week 5, and end Feb monthly goal check in.

How was your progress last week? What are your goals for this week? How will you achieve these goals?

Secondly, how has your February gone to meeting your year long goals? What are your March goals and how will you achieve them, split into weekly fragments?

Feel free to share anything else here!

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2022/02/28
13:30 UTC

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2022 Feb 21st: Week 4

How was your progress last week? What are your goals for this week? How will you achieve these goals?

Feel free to share anything else here!

Today is International Mother Language Day, which celebrates multilingualism & language diversity. Appropriate! This year’s theme is “Using technology for multilingual learning: Challenges and opportunities” 🖥

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2022/02/21
08:46 UTC

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2022 Feb 14th: week 3.

How was your progress last week? What are your goals for this week? How will you achieve these goals?

Feel free to share anything else here!

Ps. Happy Valentine’s. In my target Lang this is 情人节快乐 (Qing ren Jie kuai le), so that’s some learning done for today!

6 Comments
2022/02/14
10:36 UTC

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2022 Feb 7th: Week 2.

How was your progress last week? What are your goals for this week? How will you achieve these goals?

Feel free to share anything else here!

6 Comments
2022/02/07
11:54 UTC

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2022. It’s February, so maybe it’s an 11 month challenge, but who’s in?

Hi All! Welcome to 2022 version. Tell us your languages! What are your goals? We’ll have some regular monthly and weekly check ins, hopefully automodded!

23 Comments
2022/02/03
13:59 UTC

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Total Language 2021, anyone?

Anyone trying to get back into languages this year? I'm thinking about starting a thread here, since it seems semi-active. https://forum.language-learners.org/

If anybody wants accountability in the new year, let me know.

9 Comments
2021/01/01
01:16 UTC

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Learn Languages inside a Video Game Mobile App

Hey r/totalanguage I love languages and have studied 7. Wie geht's euch? 你好朋友 ! Today we put up a project to learn languages through immersion in a mobile game. As fellow language learners, you know that it's so hard to learn a language without true immersion. With this app, you can engage in 55+ different virtual levels that will teach you Spanish, French, German, Mandarin Chinese and other languages. If you think this would help you out while learning languages, let me know what you think. We are a local, family owned business and are passionate about making language learning better for everyone. Thank you for this amazing community and keep learning languages! LINK: http://kck.st/2QXMoqc

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2020/03/31
22:18 UTC

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LangCorrect: Writing site where you can be corrected by native speakers! Write every day in the new year!

2 Comments
2019/12/17
15:22 UTC

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I made a free website to help you learn Vocabulary through reading

I am a recent graduate from university. I have been learning German for a few years now and have always struggled learning vocabulary because I always found it so boring.

I read online that the best way to learn is through reading and immersing yourself in the language. But this is impossible as a beginner!

So I made a free website that allows you to read anything and learn foreign vocabulary no matter what level you are at in your target language.

It would be great if you could check it out as I would love to hear your feedback!

My website

Have a nice day 🙌

5 Comments
2019/10/29
17:17 UTC

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There are sooo many great language learning tools out there (Duolingo, Rosetta Stone, Babbel, etc.)

But even if you dedicate yourself daily, it's still not easy and most people fail or they peak and then start to forget/lose what they've learned. Why does this happen??

I'll tell you why. Because you're not immersed in the language that you are learning. If I was learning Italian, and I moved to Italy, then with these tools I can learn Italian fluently. But if I try to learn Italian from America, sure I can memorize many words, but that doesn't mean that I will retain much since I'm not surrounded by the language.

Get ready, I'm going to pitch something, but know that it's something that I truly created for myself at first to solve the exact issue from above. Except my issue was to not forget my native language of Romanian since I moved to America at a very young age, and in my adult life I speak Romanian to very few people and very rarely. So naturally, I started slipping. Every couple of years I would go back to visit Romania for about a month, and in that month of being immersed in the language, it came back sooo much more than if I were to just practice at home on my own.

Light bulb!! What if I could stay immersed in the Romanian language even in America, every day. That would be cool. Well, what do I already do every day.....I have conversations through text messages every day!! These convos are in English, but what if I could see those convos in Romanian too. Ahhhhhhhhh!

So I developed a simple text messaging app, that my wife and I, and a couple of family/friends used. It does what I described above, it shows me my convos in another language as well. I ended up placing it on the App Store, Apple even featured it in the "New Apps We Love" section.

Yes, I'm promoting my app, but c'mon, this is so relevant for this community. So check it out if interests you, and I would love your feedback.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/chatall/id1043435029

Here's a screenshot. I'm having a conversation in English on the left side, and on the right side my conversation is being translated in Spanish.

Thanks,

Adrian

P.S. I'm not competing with Duolingo or Rosetta Stone. Those are amazing tools that you should continue to use. But adding something like this to the mix will make a BIG difference.

P.S.S. If you are on iOS 13 already, there is a small bug with the formatting. The blue header at the top is missing (it's actually transparent). An update with a fix is coming in the next couple of days :) Apple always breaks something with their new releases.

https://preview.redd.it/9gk3g5zbl0p31.png?width=1242&format=png&auto=webp&s=3b4ea4adc92136f534f2f0525fee9f494fc2a755

3 Comments
2019/09/26
22:27 UTC

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Week 36 - September 08 2019

Share your thoughts and for the week!

Did you achieve what you wanted? How do you plan on improving?

Any goals for next week?

0 Comments
2019/09/08
13:04 UTC

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September 2019 Goals

What are your goals for this month? How did you do last month?

0 Comments
2019/09/01
13:05 UTC

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Week 35 - September 01 2019

Share your thoughts and for the week!

Did you achieve what you wanted? How do you plan on improving?

Any goals for next week?

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2019/09/01
13:05 UTC

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Week 34 - August 25 2019

Share your thoughts and for the week!

Did you achieve what you wanted? How do you plan on improving?

Any goals for next week?

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2019/08/25
13:04 UTC

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Week 33 - August 18 2019

Share your thoughts and for the week!

Did you achieve what you wanted? How do you plan on improving?

Any goals for next week?

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2019/08/18
13:04 UTC

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Week 32 - August 11 2019

Share your thoughts and for the week!

Did you achieve what you wanted? How do you plan on improving?

Any goals for next week?

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2019/08/11
13:04 UTC

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Week 31 - August 04 2019

Share your thoughts and for the week!

Did you achieve what you wanted? How do you plan on improving?

Any goals for next week?

0 Comments
2019/08/04
13:04 UTC

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August 2019 Goals

What are your goals for this month? How did you do last month?

0 Comments
2019/08/01
13:05 UTC

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Week 30 - July 28 2019

Share your thoughts and for the week!

Did you achieve what you wanted? How do you plan on improving?

Any goals for next week?

0 Comments
2019/07/28
13:04 UTC

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Week 29 - July 21 2019

Share your thoughts and for the week!

Did you achieve what you wanted? How do you plan on improving?

Any goals for next week?

1 Comment
2019/07/21
13:04 UTC

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Week 28 - July 14 2019

Share your thoughts and for the week!

Did you achieve what you wanted? How do you plan on improving?

Any goals for next week?

0 Comments
2019/07/14
13:04 UTC

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Week 27 - July 07 2019

Share your thoughts and for the week!

Did you achieve what you wanted? How do you plan on improving?

Any goals for next week?

0 Comments
2019/07/07
13:04 UTC

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July 2019 Goals

What are your goals for this month? How did you do last month?

1 Comment
2019/07/01
13:06 UTC

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Week 26 - June 30 2019

Share your thoughts and for the week!

Did you achieve what you wanted? How do you plan on improving?

Any goals for next week?

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2019/06/30
13:04 UTC

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Week 25 - June 23 2019

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Did you achieve what you wanted? How do you plan on improving?

Any goals for next week?

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2019/06/23
13:04 UTC

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Week 24 - June 16 2019

Share your thoughts and for the week!

Did you achieve what you wanted? How do you plan on improving?

Any goals for next week?

0 Comments
2019/06/16
13:04 UTC

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Week 23 - June 09 2019

Share your thoughts and for the week!

Did you achieve what you wanted? How do you plan on improving?

Any goals for next week?

0 Comments
2019/06/09
13:04 UTC

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