It’s #ClearTheList time again! This month, I’m bringing something new into the mix…

Hosted by myself and Shannon of Eurolinguiste, Clear The List is your chance to set monthly language learning goals + achieve them as part of the community. 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.

Clear The List is your monthly chance to check in on your language learning and life goals. Click through to read mine for December and download your free planner! >>

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Before we get started, here’s your chance to make the most of December for language learning completely free with this month’s My Month in Languages Planner.

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What happened in November

On the blog

Christmas Gifts for Language Lovers 2018 – Sort Christmas in one clean sweep for your language loving friends and get your own list up on the fridge with this one post!

Language Stories: Learning Vietnamese (Season 2 is here!) – Language Stories is back. Season Two landed with episode one this month all about learning Vietnamese.

The Best Resources to Learn Vietnamese (+ 9 Reasons to Learn It) – If you’re feeling inspired by Language Stories, this 9 Reasons will see you right.

How to Start Speaking a New Language For The First Time – I shared this process to start speaking. Especially useful if it’s a lack of confidence that’s stopping you.

On YouTube

Language Stories Episode 1: Learning Vietnamese – Catch the video for the first episode here.

9 Reasons to Learn Vietnamese – The latest 9 Reasons video! Also the video to accompany the blog post above sharing resources.

How Intention Will Improve Your Language Learning – A quick win to learn the importance of setting intention when we set language goals and habits.

Language Stories

Learning Vietnamese – Here’s the link to the podcast page for episode 1 of season 2 of Language Stories. You can also use this link to catch up on season one and previous bonus episodes too!

And remember to check out our sponsor Lingora and sign up for free to show your support for Language Stories.

Teach Languages Online Podcast

Science Stuff: Kolb’s Experiential Learning Cycle – Ashley is back to share another learning theory with us.

Creative Stuff: Using Music and Lyrics – A few suggestions to use music and lyrics in your online language lessons. (For more like this, be sure to check out 100 Creative Ideas for Online Language Teachers)

Hidden Stuff: Facebook Pages vs Groups – Unsure where to share your teaching on Facebook? This episode is for you.

Your Stuff: All About TeachableTeachable is my favourite place to host my online courses and services. In this requested episode, I share with you the basics of how it works.

Join the #IGLC in December!

Did you join the Instagram Language Challenge last month to share your stories? This month we’re going back to basics with a classic IGLC 28 prompt list.

It’s totally free + you get to learn a little language each day. Woop!

Clear The List is your monthly chance to check in on your language learning and life goals. Click through to read mine for December and download your free planner! >>

Language Learning Review for November

Guarani

Vocabulary – My goal was to finish the Duolingo course for the second time and then replace that time with Clozemaster. I finished the Duolingo but didn’t replace it with Clozemaster.

Grammar – I wanted to keep working with the suffixes by writing sentences for practice. My goal was to share these with my tutor. I’ve still been writing but haven’t shared them with my tutor.

Reading – At least once a day, my goal was to spend a few minutes on Wikipedia in Guarani. This didn’t really happen everyday but there’s a Guarani Wikipedia tab on my phone and I do read it from time to time!

Listening – My goal was to listen and sing along to the song I love, listen and shadow one of the religious podcasts or a video from this channel on YouTube at least once a week. Aside from the religious podcasts, I did this.

Writing – I wanted to keep writing 13 sentences at least 3 times a week. This happened!

Speaking – My goal was to speak weekly on Instagram Stories. This didn’t happen. I did it twice.

Korean

Clear The List is your monthly chance to check in on your language learning goals. Click through to read mine for November and download your free planner! >>

Vocabulary – My goal was to finish the Korean 1 Memrise course. This happened!

Grammar – My grammar goal was to finish the first free Korean Grammar course available on Talk To Me In Korean. This happened!

Reading – I wanted to read one of these webcomics each week. I think I only did this once.

Listening – My goal was to watch stuff in Korean when washing up. This sort of happened! I started to watch a show called Chef and My Fridge but got bored. Ideally, I’d like something that’s 20-30 minutes but all the Korean shows I find are like an hour. Any suggestions welcome in the comments!

Writing – My goal was to keep writing up notes from the grammar sessions on Talk To Me In Korean. This happened!

Speaking – I wanted to speak weekly on Instagram Stories for Korean too. This happened once.

Other Languages (French, Spanish, Italian, German, Portuguese, Dutch, Mandarin, Japanese, Esperanto, Indonesian)

Clear The List is your monthly chance to check in on your language learning goals. Click through to read mine for November and download your free planner! >>

I kept up this habit and have no recorded 5 20 minute sessions in each of the 10 languages since I started, which is crazy to think that with minimal effort I’ve done almost 2 hours of each language, many of which I previously hadn’t studied/practised for years.

Language Reading Challenge

Clear The List is your monthly chance to check in on your language learning goals. Click through to read mine for November and download your free planner! >>

The topic for Shannon’s Language Reading Challenge over at Eurolinguiste last month was “A book written in your target language (originally, not a translation)”.

I reread my copy of Bodas de Sangre by Lorca that I picked up in Nicaragua. I understand the words, but still don’t really get the full story. Plays are hard to follow if you’re not acting it aloud.

I finished Others Is Not A Race, which I can’t recommend enough and hope to share something very exciting related to this with you soon…!

Language Learning Goals for December

With Christmas coming, regular routines are likely to be thrown up in the air and scattered down like snow, so rather than set my regular goals, I’m going to take a month off from Guarani, Korean and my “Others” language goals and focus on one thing instead.

Check the video below or read on to find out what my plans are…

Arabic

Clear The List is your monthly chance to check in on your language learning and life goals. Click through to read mine for December and download your free planner! >>

Learn the Arabic Script – A month or so ago now, I got sent a copy of Judith Meyer’s first in a brand new series with Teach Yourself: Script Hacking. I’ve got Arabic, a script I’ve looked at briefly in the past but never really focused on.

I also have another book: A Brief Introduction to the Arabic Alphabet.

I’m going to use both of these books during my regular study time to learn the Arabic script.

As it’s something pretty new to me, that’s why I’m giving myself a month off my regular language pattern and routine to really give it the attention it deserves.

Language Reading Challenge

The topic for Shannon’s Language Reading Challenge over at Eurolinguiste this month is “Read something about a language you’re not learning (it can be an article, an introduction to the language, or an entire book)”.

Well, of course, Arabic Script Hacking fits perfectly here!

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