✍ Speak/Write Every Day Challenge (Spring 2025) 🌷

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:tulip: Welcome to the “Speak/Write in Japanese Every Day” Challenge, Spring 2025 Edition! :tulip:

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
  • 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!

Archive of Past Challenge Threads

:snowflake: Speak/Write Every Day Challenge (Winter 2025)
:maple_leaf: Speak/Write Every Day Challenge (Fall 2024)
: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: April 1- May 31

Late starts are totally welcome! Usually people will continue posting through March 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.

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Would you like to participate?
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  • Yes, but I might start late
  • Not sure
  • No
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*･゜ﾟ･*:.｡..｡.:*･feralfuton･*:.｡. .｡.:*･゜ﾟ･*
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Plans and Goals

My goal is to at least write one sentence in Japanese per day. Practice using grammar points and vocab in context. It will likely a lot of random simple sentences for practice, but since I finished Genki 1 I want to start writing more journal-like entries to talk about day to day life.

I expect to finish Genki 2 in early June, so that should free my time up a bit more (and give me the skills needed) for more of those journal-like entries / maybe the occasional essay.

Past Challenges

:snowman: Winter 2025

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I’ll join in this challenge, since I’m writing everyday on LangCorrect anyway :stuck_out_tongue: Though I might rethink how I’m approaching things at some point during the challenge.

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I want to participate in this to be able to practice speaking more!!

Reasons/Goals

I am going to Japan for three months in August, so I’m really going hard on Japanese! I have been reaching my progressive goals and have been listening more recently than I ever have. I feel like my speaking ability is lacking though :pensive_face: I hung out online with some friends the other day after not talking to them for a while, and it’s so frustrating to be held back by my speaking ability!!

I think right now my biggest problem with speaking is thinking too consciously about it, or thinking in English, which then causes a lot of stuttering and pausing. I know a paid tutor is probably the best, but I’m trying to save money :’) (I might do some paid lessons closer to my trip tho) and I think what I need to work on is not being corrected or thinking to hard. I think right now my speaking would be better if I had a consistent flow, even if the words are imperfect. So I want to start speaking out loud to myself in Japanese everyday! I don’t think it will be pretty at all :grimacing: but I think it will improve, and if not, I’ll adjust!

So I’m going to start slow and record myself for just 5 minutes each day (the recordings will probably not see the light of day tho LOL) and then after a week or two probably more, like 10, 20 minutes a day

I have also thought about and wondered if shadowing would be of benefit. I don’t know, I could see it being beneficial, and also not. But I’m going to keep it in mind as I output in case I want to try it out!!

Since I can’t/won’t post the recordings, I still want to contribute to the thread a little bit! So I want to post every/every other day here, in Japanese, briefly about what I spoke about or how things are going :)) Looking forward to it!!

@feralfuton Nice job finishing Genki I and already going through Genki II!!

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Thanks! I might do the Quartet series next, but I think I’ll wait until next year to let Genki digest a bit first.

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I’m planning to shadow random “Japanese for travelling YouTube Videos” for the month of April only

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30日シャドウイングチャレンジ1日目〜スタート！

Repeated 3 times

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２０２５年４月１日(火)

すみません、次の電車は東京駅に行きますか。
いいえ、上野公園に行きます。

Excuse me, does the next train go to Tokyo Station?
No, it goes to Ueno Park.

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Home Post

4月1日（火）
初めての独り言練習を録音しましたー。思った通りに緊張したんだけど、３，４分後少し落ち着いて話しやすくなりました。家族が聴いたら恥ずかしいだけど :sweat_smile:それもいい練習と思います笑笑
恥ずかしくなくて話すようになりたいですね！！
今日普通に、どうして録音始まって理由と今の考えとかについて話したんです。「まだまだだなー」と未だによく感じるけど、毎日練習したら上達なることしかないですよね！これからなんです！頑張っていきましょう :flexed_biceps: :face_with_steam_from_nose:

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4月2日(水)
30日シャドウイングチャレンジ2日目

Shadowed 3 times

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Go everyone go! I will probably be joining soon but I caught a cold this weekend so haven’t been studying :sneezing_face:

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Aw no!! I hope you’re able to heal up soon!!

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Home Post

4月2日（水）
30分ぐらい家で一人だったから、チャンスをつかんでスピーキング練習をしました。今日すごい風と雨が降ってるから、天気について話しました。NintendoSwitch２のディレクトが流れて（実は、今見てますけど！ｗｗ）それについても話しました。Switchのことより、新しいゲームを楽しみにしています！！

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２０２５年４月２日(水)

この都市は本当に賑やかな所ですね。 私は静かな町は好きですが、賑やかな都市は嫌いです。

This city is a really lively place, isn’t it? I like quiet towns, but I don’t like bustling cities.

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4月3日(木)
30日シャドウイングチャレンジ3日目

Shadowed 3 times

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Hope you feel better soon @soggyboy!

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２０２５年４月３日(木)

あのー、ゴミ箱はどこですか。
あ、ゴミ箱は地下ですよ。トイレの近くです。
ありがとうございます。

Um, where are the trash cans?
Oh, the trash cans are in the underground level. Near the toilets.
Thank you so much!

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4月4日(金)
30日シャドウイングチャレンジ4日目

Shadowed three times

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Home Post

4月3日（木）
日常の生活のこととかについて話しました。今日の仕事はどうだった、友達送ったメッセージの内容、楽しみにしていることなど。2回くらい使いたかった単語忘れてしまいした :’) それども、いい機会、練習にすることができますね！だから、友達と会話してるなら、言葉忘れても別の言葉や言い回しいい見つからないとね！だからいい練習だとおもいますよ！:relieved_face:

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