📝 Speak/Write Every Day Challenge (Fall 2024) 🍂

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Welcome to the “Speak/Write in Japanese Every Day” Challenge, Fall 2024 Edition!

This is a thread dedicated to output of the Japanese language. What that means for you may vary. You may choose to:

  • Write a diary about your everyday life
  • Write essays from textbook assignments (Looking at you, Quartet learners)
  • Speak by talking to a friend, acquaintance, or tutor, in real life or on a language exchange site
  • Speak by talking to yourself in the shower :bathtub:
  • Speak by shadowing native audio like an audiobook or podcast

Or anything else that works for you!

Where does this challenge come from?

@Redglare originally hosted the Read Japanese Every Day Challenge, and since then many of us have participated in that and the Listen Every Day Challenge. The Speak/Write Every Day Challenge was first hosted by @softlyraining !

Please help us keep this a positive, encouraging, and fun space! Please feel free to bribe encourage fellow participants with cute pet and animal photos or recipes even.

Archive of Past Challenge Threads

:cherry_blossom: Speak/Write Every Day Challenge (Spring 2024)
:sunny: Speak/Write Every Day Challenge (Summer-to-Fall 2023)
:cherry_blossom: Speak/Write Every Day Challenge (Spring-to-Summer 2023)
:snowflake: Speak/Write Every Day Challenge (Winter 2023)
:maple_leaf: Speak/Write Every Day Challenge (Fall-to-Winter 2022)
:sunny: Speak/Write Every Day Challenge (Summer-to-Fall 2022)

While the name of the challenge is “Speak/Write Every Day,” you may have noticed that it also has a season attached. That’s because each challenge only lasts 2 months. Forever would be a long commitment. By having clear start and end dates, it becomes a much more manageable goal. At the end of the challenge, please consider what worked or didn’t work for you. Did you have fun? Then you can take a break or decide to keep going.

Also, please don’t worry about starting late or not completing the challenge! Life happens. This is an open opportunity for everyone who wants to set speaking/writing goals. Everyone is welcome.

This is a thread for people who:
:bookmark: want to improve their output
:bookmark: want to hold themselves accountable and have a place to document their progress
:bookmark: simply want to join in on the challenge of speaking/writing every day for two or so months

Time frame: October 1 - November 30

Again, late starts are totally welcome! Usually people will continue posting through December and some may give some updates even later. It’s all good! You can start and finish your personal challenge at any point during that time, and shorten or lengthen the challenge to the time period that works best for you.

Would you like to participate?
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  • Yes, but I might start late
  • Not sure
  • No
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Participants

Feel free to add your username to the list!
Note: please try to keep this alphabetical

Username Date Joined Days Completed
Akashelia Nov 3rd
hotdogsuplex Nov 1st
Jaimejo Oct 1st
Jira2406 Oct 4th
jmgisondi Oct 1st
Kamukura08 Oct 1st
kcrazeynate Nov 17th
Kenturkey Oct 7th
Lisaveeta Oct 1st
mitrac Oct 1st
soggyboy Oct 1st
TexasToast97 Oct 1st
WeepingWeeb Oct 12th
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@Mods Could you make the first reply a wiki? It’s the post I’m replying to here. Thank you!

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I’m not sure yet how I want to do this, but output is a huuuuge challenge for me, so I definitely need to try :upside_down_face:

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Hooray!!

I’m in the same boat, not sure what I’m going to focus on. Maybe I’ll do like a baseline amount of shadowing per day (5-10mins?) and then go from there.

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I like the idea of writing to start (quick diary entries); I’m hoping as that habit really builds I’ll kind of grow into talking to myself as I’m coming up with ideas of what to write before I’ve actually sat down to do it, if that makes sense lol

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I’ll start easy in the first month & just practise shadowing 1 short episode from the Thinking in Japanese Podcast per day.

In the second month, I might schedule some lessons & practice writing

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That’s done :slightly_smiling_face:

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hotdog's \ writing \ challenge
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I want to write at least 300 characters per day, focusing on new and troubled grammar. Currently working on a list of prompts. I’ll post my entries here after getting them corrected.

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How delightful, thanks for hosting!

I’m in! October 1st isn’t half bad even, so I could even attempt to get my longest Japanese output streak ever (I’m pretty sure I’ve never broke 2, so I’m bound to break it, lol)

:eyes: why hello there

That is a good idea, maybe I’ll just start the next task from Quartet in a small way and not try to gear myself up to do it all (uh, as yes, I’ve gotten stuck at the first 400 character essay!)

I like this idea, too. It sounds like something easy I can definitely achieve everyday. If I do more, great, if not, at least I did a thing.

I won’t do a tracker for myself as I’ve been a bit overwhelmed lately, but I’ll be active with periodic updates, comments and encouragement :slight_smile: That’s my favourite part of these threads

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I may have done… the exact same thing :sweat_smile: I keep being like ‘well I’ll just wait for a day off and then write the whole essay in one go’ which is a terrible idea

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OMG so glad I’m not the only one! Ok, we will small step this one together and make it through to the other side :star2:

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:night_with_stars: soggy’s home post :night_with_stars:

I think I’ll use the calendar to track a very manageable goal like,

  • 10mins/day shadowing practice
  • 10mins/day writing (Quartet, diaries, etc)

I think I would rather use time goals than character goals because right now writing takes me a very long time. After trying out this schedule for October I’ll revisit in November and see if I want to push myself to write daily diaries.

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Aw, I’m glad to see this challenge is back :slight_smile:

For anybody who isn’t sure what to do, I used to write a daily diary entry and it was a really great way to get familiar with vocabularly that is everyday vocab for me but isn’t neccessarily everyday vocab for people who don’t share my hobbies/career/local area.

I have too much on my plate to be able to participate at the moment, but I’ll probably lurk in the thread to see what everyone else is up to. :slight_smile:

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What is this Quartet that keeps coming up??

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It’s an intermediate textbook! A few of us are studying from it in the Quartet Casual Study Group, and there are a few people who’ve completed it recently as well. It’s by the same publisher as Genki, and is meant to be used after Genki 2.

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But we’re not done yet though… Okay fine I’ll go work on the 1000 character essay assignment that I’ve been neglecting for the last two weeks :smiling_face_with_tear:

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If you wait another week or so you can complete the 1000 character essay and get credit for this writing challenge :wink:

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Ohhh! I love it!

I do like me some textbooks. I can’t for the life of me find my genki books other than one workbook :face_with_raised_eyebrow: If I find those with our next shed cleanup, I can brush up on those and try out quartet!

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