Last weekend I had some fun learning Yoruba during the #LangJam Challenge. Because Yoruba is not a language I particularly am interested in, I wasn’t too concerned about making much progress in the language. Instead, I took the opportunity to simply familiarise myself with the language a bit, and have
Another chance to dabble in a new language for a weekend with #LanguageJam! July’s Jam is from a selection of Indigenous Languages, in honour of the United Nations International Year of Indigenous Languages. This Jam I drew Yoruba – here’s some fun facts. Yoruba is a language spoken in Western
Last weekend I got my first opportunity to learn Macedonian during the #LangJam Challenge. Cyrillic Script The Macedonian alphabet is quite different to English. For a start, the Macedonian language uses a Cyrillic script, so I had a week before the challenge to learn that. This image shows the vowels
Time to play with a new language over a weekend with #LanguageJam! This time I drew Macedonian – which has a Cyrillic script, a messy political situation, and not many resources “because it’s really just a dialect of Bulgarian”. Well, so the Bulgarians say! Recognition of the Macedonian Language I
Hey y’all 🙂 (Putting on my Southern twang there 🙂 )… just thought I had better let you know how the 21 Day Vocab Challenge went, and bring you all up to date with it. So the commitment was only five minutes a day – Did I manage to stick to
Oops! It’s a bit unplanned, but I saw something advertised I just could not pass over… the opportunity to study one language for one weekend… and I don’t even get to choose the language! Language Jam is a weekend long challenge organised by Language and Travel Blogger Lingudendron. It was
Do you find yourself getting into a rut with your language learning? Does your “get up and go” seem to… well… get up and go? I have been at that point for the past three months with French. I completed the 33rd Add 1 Challenge, all fired up ready to
As I mentioned a while ago, one of the assignments in the current Add1Challenge (#A1C33) we were asked to write down or make a reminder in some way for why we wanted to learn this language. This is a really good idea for all language learners – even if we
Yesterday was the final opportunity for those of us in the Add 1 Challenge 33 (A1C33) to post our final videos demonstrating us having a 15 minute conversation with a native speaker. Of course, the obligatory tech glitches caused a one hour delay. Fortunately my conversation partner was not short
Within the Add1Challenge there are a variety of assignments and challenges set for us. This week Assignment 2 addresses motivation – remember why we started the challenge, and find some creative way to keep that reason in front of us as we study; and secondly, to consider the first two
