Welcome to August’s Clear The List! Hosted by myself, Shannon of Eurolinguiste, and Mariah of Food, Booze and Baggage, we share our monthly goals and encourage you to do the same. Check the bottom of this post for more info on how to join in.

Your free planner for August!

Before we get started, it’s a new month, which means a new planner!

Click the image below to download your free monthly language learning calendar for august. Use it to keep track of your language plans and goals for the coming month. Woop!

on the blog in july

Language Learning Review for july

Korean

I kept learning Korean as planned, I met Shannon as planned (but not as often as usual because we’ve both been busy!), buuuut…I didn’t have my 2 italki lessons as planned.

Like I said, busy busy. I was working closely with my students on The Online Teaching Starter Kit as well as saying hello to new students with the Online Teaching Marketing Masterclass. (SO much fun!)

As well as this, two of my weekends were busy with local language festivals (and dominoes. If you follow me on Snapchat you’ll know exactly what I’m talking about!)

So yeah, I didn’t get the time for my 2 lessons I wanted.

Japanese

Yay! This happened!

I haven’t been very thorough with my Japanese in terms of practise, but I’ve been reading and working through the chapters of Teach Yourself Japanese as I wanted to do.

In fact, with all that time sat down on a plane back and forth from Montreal, I finished my read-through of Teach Yourself Japanese. Yay!

This means I’m going to take a little break from Japanese over the next month or so.

Icelandic

This happened…ish! There were a couple of days (busy, busy) that I missed, but it was quite easy to catch up.

However, I lost my streak in Montreal. To be honest, I kind of expected this so I wasn’t too worried.

Esperanto

Similar to Icelandic, I lost my streak a couple of days, but I’m not too worried as this wasn’t really my focus for last month.

Language Learning Goals for august

Quite a simple month of language learning planned for summer as I have plans for the autumn!

Icelandic

There’s still a couple of weeks or so until we head to Iceland, so that’s still a couple of weeks to finish my Memrise course and Icelandic Online Basics.

I also set out on the hunt this week for a good but small Icelandic phrasebook. Turns out, they’re hard to come by! What I did find however was an out of print Lonely Planet Scandinavian phrasebook.

Now, I LOVE me a phrasebook…but a regional phrasebook?! Even more so. I ordered it. I’m excited for its arrival.

Korean

Although I won’t be chatting with Shannon much in August, I want to solidify what I’ve been learning from the Coursera course and other resources I’ve finished recently.

As I mentioned above, I didn’t get the chance to have any italki sessions in July, but I’m planning to book those 2 sessions in August. In fact, one is booked ready and happening the day this post is published!

If I like that tutor, I’m going to book a second one straight away to take the friction out of the process so that it’s all booked and ready for the second lesson I promised myself.

Video Update

August’s instagram language challenge!

If you’re looking to learn a little language each day but not sure where to start, try joining the Instagram Language Challenge this month. Here are this month’s prompts:

To find out how to join in in more detail, click here.

Join Clear the list!

If you’re ready to learn some serious language this August, share your goals on your own blog (or video channel!) and join Clear The List!

All you have to do is use the button below that says ‘add your link’ to…well, add your link. It’s that simple. Check back and comment on other people’s goals too to encourage them!

Your free planner for august!

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