Clear the List | Monthly Language Learning Strategies Update | December
It’s the most wonderful time of the year! The holiday season is upon us and it’s always such a joy, especially with small children who have such wonder and excitement for the holidays.
But the holidays are also a time where we’re all a little more stressed, occupied, and busy, so finding balance this month is key.
I’m currently working on a language maintenance project, you can learn more here:
And here:
I’m also getting ready to kick off a few new projects I’m very excited about. So if you want to be one of the first to hear about them, be sure to sign up here:
Be in the know!
And… another friendly reminder that I recently updated my course Busy Language Learner. I’ve written more about it below, but you can sign up here. It’s a 7-day course that helps you find the time to learn a new language and it’s just $29. You get actionable steps you can take each day.
The Language Hacking Podcast
The Language Hacking Podcast over at Fluent in 3 Months where I’m co-hosting with Fi3M founder, Benny Lewis is still going strong! We release a new episode every week and we’re up to almost 30 episodes.
Some of our more recent guests have been: yours truly in an episode about Drops, Steve Kaufmann from LingQ, and Michele Frolla from The Intrepid Guide.
If you give the podcast a listen, or if you already have been listening, we’d love your reviews!
Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify Listen on Stitcher
And now, on to #clearthelist …
Wondering what #clearthelist is? Let me clear it up for you (see what I did there?). #CleartheList is a linkup where we share our monthly goals, and by we, I mean myself, and Lindsay of Lindsay Does Languages.
We’d absolutely love for you to a part of our community. You can join us by adding a link to your own goal post below.
So let’s get started, sharing our goals and motivating one another to #clearthelist!
Please feel free to tag your posts or photos with either #clearthelist on your favorite social media channels!
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Last Month’s Goals
Continue filling the gaps in my Mandarin vocabulary I’ve noticed since Little Linguist’s arrival. // We’ve fallen off a bit with this over the last month, but there’s a great movie that came out on Netflix called “Over the Moon” that’s available in Chinese and we’ve been watching it quite a bit.
Maintain my vocabulary learning streak. // Yes! I’ve hit over 100 days on Drops and am even further along with several languages in Memrise.
Keep working through my YouTube Queue. // Yes, but I also added several, and I mean several videos to the queue this month as well. I’ve bounced back up to 1,974.
Fluent in 3 Months Challenge // I’m in the midst of another challenge working on Hungarian, Persian, Russian, Croatian, and Japanese!
Keep reading Game of Thrones in Russian. // I only had one Russian lesson this month, so I didn’t get to this.
Get through at least three chapters in each course book I’m working on. // Yes!
Get to lesson 15 of Pimsleur Persian II. // Nope! I’ve been doing a lot of audio book listening and this has stolen the time I would have spent on this.
Maintain my weekly lessons in each language. // Yes, so long as both my teachers and I are available, I’ve been keeping this up.
This Month’s Goals
Continue filling the gaps in my Mandarin vocabulary I’ve noticed since Little Linguist’s arrival. // I’d like to continue to incorporate this more and more until we’re an OPOL household.
Maintain my vocabulary learning streak. // This has been a great way to rebuild my language routine, so it’s staying on the list indefinitely! Plus, I’m really seeing the impact of this study.
Keep working through my YouTube Queue. // I definitely want to keep working through this. I’ve been learning a lot!
Fluent in 3 Months Challenge // I’m looking forward to continuing on with this over the next two months or so.
Keep reading Game of Thrones in Russian. // I will pick this back up this month!
Get through at least three more chapters in each course book I’m working on. // These are still: Teach Yourself Complete Persian, Genki I for Japanese, Colloquial Russian, Colloquial Croatian, and Colloquial Hungarian.
Maintain my weekly lessons in each language. // It makes sure I’m using all my languages each week and helps me a ton with accountability. Plus, now that I’m maintaining five languages, this is more important than ever.
Resources I Used This Month
A quick recap of the materials I am using.
What I Am Using to Learn Chinese
LingQ – my favorite tooliTalki Lessons – I have weekly Chinese lessonsMemrise Drops
What I’m Using to Brush Up/Improve My French:
LingQListening to French radio/podcasts/music
What I am Using to Learn Russian:
Colloquial RussianLingQiTalki LessonsDropsPimsleur
What I am Using to Learn Persian:
LingQPreply LessonsDropsPimsleurTeach Yourself Complete Persian
What I am Using to Learn Hebrew:
LingQiTalki LessonsDropsPimsleur
What I am Using to Learn Korean:
LingQDrops – they just added several hundred new culture-specific words for Korean and I’m so excited about the new content!iTalki LessonsPimsleur
What I am Using to Learn Spanish:
LingQ
What I am Using to Learn Italian:
LingQ
What I’m Using to Learn Japanese:
Genki IDrops – they just added hundreds of new culture-specific words for Japanese!iTalki LessonsPimsleur
What I’m Using to Learn Croatian:
Colloquial CroatianiTalki LessonsLingQ – they added Croatian, woot woot!Drops
What I’m Using to Learn Hungarian:
Colloquial HungarianiTalki LessonsDropsLingQ – they added Hungarian, too!
Not Currently doing any study for: German, Hindi
What I’m Using for Little Linguist
Lots of booksDay-to-day interactionitalki LessonsDuolingo ABCDropletsMovies in ChineseGus on the Go Chinese
Resources That Aren’t Language Specific
Fluent in 3 Months ChallengeTodoist (to keep all my language lessons and to-do’s organized)Notion – my new favorite app for taking notes
The Biggest Lesson I Am Taking Away from This Month
Surprisingly, I don’t have a big lesson this month. Just reminders of past big lessons. Initially, I was a bit worried about not having a big takeaway to share, but when I thought about it a little more, I realized it’s alright. Not every month needs to have a big, new learning moment. Sometimes just slow, steady progress is enough.
Don’t forget that I would love to hear all about your goals for this month! Please join us by adding your post to the linkup below!
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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.
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