{"id":349,"date":"2007-04-09T20:07:39","date_gmt":"2007-04-09T19:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/09\/language-learning-challenge\/"},"modified":"2007-04-09T20:07:39","modified_gmt":"2007-04-09T19:07:39","slug":"language-learning-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=349","title":{"rendered":"Language learning challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A number of the denizens of the forum at <a href=\"http:\/\/how-to-learn-any-language.com\/forum\/forum_posts.asp?TID=5523&#038;PN=1\">How to learn any language<\/a> are conducting an experiment to see how much of a language they can learn in 6 weeks. They&#8217;ve chosen languages they haven&#8217;t studied before and there has been quite a lot of discussion about learning techniques and how to measure the results.<\/p>\n<p>Are any of you taking part in this challenge, or have you done anything similar before?<\/p>\n<p>I did something similar with Italian a few years ago when I tried to learn as much of the language as possible in 2 months before going on holiday to Italy. When I got to Italy, I was able to have basic conversations and to generally get by, but I was a long way from fluency. Unfortunately I didn&#8217;t continue studying Italian after the holiday and have since forgotten much that I learnt.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, it&#8217;s my birthday today &#8211; <strike>dau<\/strike> dwy ar bymtheg ar hugain ydw i.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A number of the denizens of the forum at How to learn any language are conducting an experiment to see how much of a language they can learn in 6 weeks. They&#8217;ve chosen languages they haven&#8217;t studied before and there has been quite a lot of discussion about learning techniques and how to measure the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13,77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","category-language-learning","category-welsh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}