Ahoy! The year is coming to its halfway point, and what better way to celebrate than to see how much progress we’ve made with a nice little challenge?
Enters, the Mid-Year Audiothon.
All through the past… however long it’s been going on, there have been monthly Listening Challenges hosted here on Natively. If you have been participating in them, here is a chance to see if they have paid off, and if you haven’t, a chance to see if maybe you should sign up 
What’s an Audiothon?
It’s a marathon, except instead of running we listen to stuff in our target language(s). The idea is to consume as much audio as you can in 24 hours, tracking it as you go. You can track the minutes, episodes, audiobook pages (do audiobooks have pages??)… Anything that makes sense to you.
Date
Everyone is busy with real life, so to be flexible, the event will take place over the course of 4 days: from Friday 27th to Monday 30th of June. Choose the 24-hour window that works best for you, and limit your tracking to that time-period.
Metrics & Content
Anything goes as this is only for fun, but in case you’re looking for ideas, I have compiled a list of things that would be fun to listen to, and ways to track them:
- audiobooks
- radio shows
- podcasts
- series
- animes
- movies
- reality programmes
- songs, if you’re the kind of person who listens to the lyrics
Tracking:
- clock minutes (as in, runtime)
- dialogue minutes (leaving out any silent times)
- pages
- episodes
You can also go for difficulty instead of quantity, and set yourself a Natively level goal. Here they are for reference:
Participants
No requirements, feel free to join!
Before the event: Let us know when you’ll be doing your Audiothon, what you’ll be listening to, your goals, your past experiences with listening if you’re so inclined…
During the event: Update us on how you’re doing! It’s so much fun listening along to everyone else, and seeing what content everyone is listening to! And it’s also good to see the setbacks - everything doesn’t always go to plan. If you cat decided it was Play Time™ and is keeping you from listening… Then we want a picture of your cat.
After the event: Time to post your results! Not only the metrics but it would be fun to see how the experience was for everyone.
I will be participating
I will try to join but not sure yet
Not this time
PS: there will most likely be a Summer Solstice Readathon happening over on WaniKani the week prior if you’re looking for a Japanese reading alternative. Join both! Dedicate all of your weekends to language learning!
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