Starting The 75 Fluent Challenge

Happy summer!

The school year has ended, which means my summer break has begun! I now have more time to dedicate to language learning.

The 75 Fluent Challenge officially started yesterday, and I'll be completing it in French. One of the requirements is to track your study time, so I've started using Toggl again. A couple of years ago, I tracked all my studies and visualized them with charts. It’ll be interesting to bring that habit back.

My biggest accomplishment this week was finally finishing L’Étranger. I had only planned to read one chapter, but I ended up reading the final three over the weekend. Reading it intensively was rewarding. This week I got my Migaku vocabulary to 3,155 known words.

I'm also joining a Le Petit Prince book club for the 75 Fluent challenge. Along with reading two chapters each week, I'm answering comprehension questions as a way to get more writing practice. I feel that writing in a target language has to be functional, so I’m hoping this will help me keep the habit.

Since I probably won't learn as much new vocabulary from Le Petit Prince, I'm also thinking about reading Mon mari by Maud Ventura intensively, since I've already read it in English.

Migaku Stats

• French Total Words Known: 2913 → 3,155 words

• L’Étranger Part 1 Deck: 40→ 56/446 cards reviewed

I've been casually reviewing vocabulary, reading on Yomu Yomu, and slowly working back through my Japanese textbook. While French is my main focus, I want Japanese to be a language I enjoy without putting too much pressure on myself.

• 🥐 Finished reading L’Étranger!!

• 🥐 Reached 3,155 known words in Migaku.

• ⭐Started the 75 Fluent Challenge!

• 🥐 French: Start reading Mon mari.

Thanks for being here! See you next week.