Learning Slovak – With Difficulty!
We’re three weeks into this year now and that means three-quarters of the way through the uTalk challenge… and there is the slightest possibility that I am not doing as well as I had hoped. I’m perhaps a quarter…
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New Year Challenges – January 2015
Alrighty, so we’re here on the last day of 2014 and I’ve got a blog post for you! I’m going to do some goal-setting tomorrow but for today, I thought I’d compile a list of all the language challenges I’ve…
uTalk January Challenge: Which Language Will I Learn?
Drum roll, please! … Okay, maybe not. So no one guessed which language I was planning on learning for the uTalk January Challenge, but oh well. Without any further ado, the language I’ve picked for January iiiiiiiiis….. Slovak! So I…
uTalk January Challenge
I know, I know. I have plenty to do already (today alone I’m supposed to be translating and studying Spanish and simplifying an article for tomorrow for school and presumably packing at some point) – so what am I doing…
Hello August!
So here I am, back on this oft-neglected blog with some fun stuff planned for this coming month. As it is, I’ve got this full month in the UK and then I’ll be off to Europe, so I’m hoping to…
The Super Challenge has begun!
Okay, so it began a month ago. I may have dropped the ball a little. Basically, the Super Challenge lasts from 1st May 2014 to 31st December 2015 and involves you reading 100 books and watching 100 films in your…
6 Week Challenge – February 2014 Halfway Point
Hi, all! I’ve been a bit hit-and-miss with the posting recently; mostly because even though it’s the beginning of my second semester, I’m still super busy. The joys of final year, and all that… Today’s post is just me chatting a little…
6 Week Challenge – February 2014 Edition
With the end of January heralding the end of the Tadoku Challenge (which I’m going to talk at more length about on Wednesday), February brings something else our way: the 6 Week Challenge. It’s really as simple as it seems.…
Read More or Die!
Well, not literally. ‘Read More or Die’ is the motto of the Tadoku challenge, which runs five times a year (currently, three-month-long stints and two two-week ones) and aims to motivate people into reading as much as they possibly can…