Welcome to the “Speak/Write Every Single Day” Challenge! 
For whatever reason, it can be extremely intimidating to practice outputting in a foreign language. I certainly have felt anxious about my own speaking and writing skills. That’s where this challenge comes in.
The challenge will take place in between the community’s other wonderful challenges: reading and listening (started/continued by @Redglare, @windupbird [reading], @KJules, and @omk3 [listening]).
The goal of this challenge is to get you out of your comfort zone in a positive and encouraging environment and put all of the vocab and grammar you’ve learned to use. There’s all sorts of ways you can go about participating:
Wanna try speaking for the whole month? Go for it!
Itching to improve your writing skills? Awesome!
Dying to practice both skills at the same time or interchangeably? You do you!
Take a class/meet with a tutor and want that to count towards your goal? Excellent!
Just want to use this challenge to practice your pronunciation or handwriting? Cool!
You can talk or write about anything you like: your day, a book you’re reading, a show you’re watching, your cat, your neighbor’s cat, a story about a tanuki that you made up, or simply practice using new vocabulary. The sky’s the limit!
You can speak or write as much or as little as you desire. Most of the recording tools listed below also have upper limits (5-10 minutes, depending), so there’s zero pressure to speak for any longer than that. You’re also free to adjust the challenge to your own needs: if you want to try speaking on-the-spot, that’s fantastic, but even if you’d prefer writing out what you want to say and then recording it, that’s great, too.
To quote KJules quoting windupbird quoting Redglare (that’s a lot of quoting):
This is a thread for people who:
want to spend more time speaking/writing
want to improve their output abilities
want to hold themselves accountable and have a place to document their progress
simply want to join in on the challenge!
Time Frame: September 1st to September 30th
Late comers are always welcome! 
Click for windupbird's amazing calendar template for tracking your progress!
To use, reply to this post, click the “quote whole post” button (little speech bubble), and copy/paste the part below into your post:
| 9月 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 月 | 火 | 水 | 木 | 金 | 土 | 日 |
| 01 | 02 | 03 | ||||
| 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 | 10 |
| 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 |
| 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 |
| 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 |
Click here for a link to a prompt generator, courtesy of potatonaught!
I also put together a list of topics/challenges. Use as many or as few of these during the challenge as you like!
Recording Tools (for those who want to share their speaking practice):
Vocaroo (can share via link / download recording)
Reverb (can share via link)
Voice Spice (can share via link)
Online Voice Recorder (can download recording)
TwistedWave (can download recording)
For download-only tools, you can upload your recordings to a file sharing service and link to them using that, if you so wish. If there are other tools you’d like to share with everyone, let me know and I’ll add them to the list!
There is no pressure to share your writings/recordings. Do so only if you feel comfortable. If all you want to do is post a calendar to track your private practice, that’s 100% okay. What matters most is that you try your best at whatever goal you set for yourself during this challenge.
- Yes
- Yes, but I might start late
- Not sure
- No
