Hello Journalers! 🎈 I'm so excited that it's finally Day 01 of Round 04 of the Multilingual Book Club! This is our first Extensive Reading edition of the book club which I think is going to be such a great way to close out the year.
I'll be reading in Mandarin Chinese and I've got my three graded readers from Mandarin Companion and my Skritter decks all ready to go, and my activity & habit tracker is filled out and ready to come to life over the next three weeks with my splendid little colour-scheme that I decided on for this round! Here's a photo of how my tracking sheet looks:
I just posted a really fun kickoff video over on YouTube which you can find here, and I'll be sending out our first email shortly so I can finally join the fun and enjoy an evening of reading!
So let's get the party started and I'd love to hear from you: are you joining us this time around? What language are you participating with and what will you be reading? Do you have any particular goals you'd like to accomplish? And finally, are you going to be using my Activity & Habit Tracker? No pressure of course xD
Happy reading and happy journaling everyone!
I will be reading one graded reader in Spanish, entitled Silencio, and my goal is to find love for (learning) Spanish once again! In terms of habits, I want to drink more water and read more (not only Silencio but other novels that I bought recently).
I'm going to read in Italian 🇮🇹
I just started to read "Maxwell's Demon" by Steven Hall the day you announced the Bookclub, so I'm going to finish that. I'm not sure yet what I'm going to read after that. Since the aim is extensive reading, I might just read something in German (I never read novels in German). I just found one about a daughter of Vietnamese immigrants living in Berlin and starting to discover the culture and history of her ancestors. That sounded quiet interesting to me. There's also an Italian novel I still want to read. I'll just see what I feel like reading after finishing the first one.
Hi Robin! I'm realy happy to use your activity and your habit tracker !! I'm in !!! I use the sheet to track my English reading, studying and writing, my daily meditation and my daily art. I started reading english novels in october (extensive reading). My goal is to read 7 books before the end of the year. I already read almost 5 books ! :) I love reading romance books. I found out it was easier than I imagined. I watched a lot of Book Youtube Channels and I'm often looking at the Goodreads website to find ideas! I also have a tutor on iTalki. We talk twice a week since october too, but I'll take a break for a couple of weeks. I use Harry Potter books too to make my intensive reading because they contains a lot of vocabulary and a lot of very useful synonyms. I realy enjoy your youtube channel. Thanks to share all those precious advices ! I’m learning English with you too as well :)
I’m currently reading Olly Richard’s book of 8 short stories for beginners in Italian. I came across your video today on YouTube about the Bookclub round 4 and feel like it’s a perfect time to join in as I’ve just started story 5. I already had a plan to read the last four stories before the end of the year. So I’ll do one story a week for the book club and then I can do the last story on my own afterwards. Sorry - I probably won’t use your tracker because I have one I love using from Kerstin Cable that I run in Notability because I also like to write notes by hand (with a digital pencil in different colours as I study 4 languages) about what I studied each day rather than just colour in a square. So, I will try and post an Italian journaly post each week and also some English posts. It will be a challenge to write in Italian as I am still pretty much a beginner and have only been focusing on inputting comprehensible Italian and not outputting it! Andiamo!
I will proceed reading the Harry Potter series in french. In the last round i read the first book after i finished Soie. It is a delight to read Harry Potter in french... I wouldn't have thought that it would be so enjoyable! Have a good time everyone :).
I have no idea what I'll read. Decisions...
Hello! Like @Violili, I'm reading Olly Richard's short stories in Italian for beginners. I've already read one full story and was so excited to move on to the next. This book club has motivated me to continue with my Italian studies. Thank you!