Welcome to June’s #ClearTheList! This month, it’s all about Lao, Khmer and Thai.

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.

Your free planner for June!

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

Click the image below to download your copy for June. Use it to keep track of your language plans and goals for the coming month. Woop!

Or, if you want something with more detail to take things further, then grab a copy of the brand new Solo Language Learner Planner, which contains calendars, goal setting pages, reviews, and a daily study session planner. Woop!

Join the #IGLC in June!

Did you join the Instagram Language Challenge last month to learn or share the basics of a language? This month it’s all about useful little words to take your language learning further.

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

To celebrate Language Stories Season 1 wrapping up at the end of May, I wanted to give you a chance to share your own stories.

So, the prompt for this month’s #IGLC is quite simply that: Stories.

As always, it’s open to your own interpretation. Here’s a few ideas…

• read a story out loud
• share a funny story from your language learning
• write a story to share
• find a traditional story in the language you’re learning to share
• and quite honestly anything else that comes to you inspired by the prompt ‘Stories’!

I’m excited to check out the hashtag this month!

Language Learning Review for May

Vietnamese

Vietnamese was interesting.

I learn most of my language on the ground in a place from looking around a reading stuff.

Of course, with Vietnamese using the same alphabet as English (with lots of accent markers thrown in for good measure) this was a lot easier than it’s likely to be this month.

Within just a few minutes walking around on the first evening, I’d learnt chicken, beef, and various other food words that helped me build on that as I learnt more over the next three weeks.

It also helped that we were interviewing lots of people for Language Stories, so we had the chance to ask how stuff works!

That said, although I quickly picked up the basics, I’ve been so busy finalising details for this season of Language Stories and getting the final episode of season one out (Guaraní – did you check it out?) that I didn’t get the chance to really sit down and learn.

But back in Montreal at LangFest, I did get a free ‘Get Started in Vietnamese’ book from the Teach Yourself stand, and I added visiting Son Doong cave to my lifetime to do list, so I’ll definitely be back at some point!

Language Reading Challenge

The topic for Shannon’s Language Reading Challenge over at Eurolinguiste in May was “A tutorial, recipe, or lesson in your target language”.

Seeing as I don’t really have a target language right now, I skipped last month for now and might catch up when I’m back home with some Paraguayn recipes because I really miss the food!

Language Learning Goals for June

Lao, Khmer + Thai

Similarly to Vietnamese, I’m not taking learning bits of these languages too seriously as we’re working at basically double speed filming this series of Language Stories than we were in Latin America, which means very little language learning time!

However I’ve got my phrasebook; I downloaded uTalk, which is super helpful for the basics for free; and I’m excited to learn about the languages (and others…) as we meet people for the interviews here for Language Stories.

Language Reading Challenge

The topic for Shannon’s Language Reading Challenge over at Eurolinguiste this month is “A book on learning strategies”.

I’ve already started reading Think Small by Owain Service and Rory Gallagher so I’ll finish that up this month.

Trip Update

We’ve just arrived in Laos and this month, we’ll also be visiting Cambodia and very briefly Thailand before heading into Malaysia at the start of July as we get ready to go home mid-July!

Video Update

It’s been way too many months since I was able to do an update video. To our surprise as we set out on our last morning in Hanoi to film it, there was a procession going on!

Join Clear the list!

1. Share your goal post whether it includes your aspirations for the month or year. Submissions unrelated to the theme or links to your homepage will be deleted.

2. Link back to this post. You can use our button code below if you wish.

3. Follow the hosts: Lindsay from Lindsay Does Languages and Shannon from Eurolinguiste.

4. THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT RULE: Please visit the site of the person who linked up immediately before you and leave them an encouraging comment! By hosting this linkup, we’re hoping to create a positive community where we can all share our goals. If you do not do this, you will be removed from the linkup.

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Your free planner for June!

If you missed it up top, click below to get your free My Month In Languages Planner straight to your inbox for free. Woop!

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And remember, if you want the beefy version of this planner, click here to grab your reusable copy of The Solo Language Learner Planner. Yay!

Which language are you learning this month? What do you want to achieve? Join Clear The List to share your goals or comment below!