Are you staying home for the summer? Stuck on a beach with nowhere to go? Maybe you’re in the Southern Hemisphere enjoying a cosy winter?
Whatever your plans are for the month of July, CANCEL THEM Natively is here to add two more events to your agenda: a Readathon (July 10th to 13th), and an Audiothon (July 24th to 27th).
This page will be hosting our 2nd Audiothon 
See here for the Readathon: Summer Readathon 📚 ✨ [Voting on next edition]
I have been informed that July is anime season, so if you’re looking for an excuse to binge-watch new seasons, now is the time 
And if you’re not into anime, Natively has just expanded its language catalogue anyway, so go wild and watch / listen to anything you can get your hands on, during a 24-hour listening marathon (side-note: you don’t have to listen to things exclusively in languages supported by Natively).
Rules of the Audiothon
- The timeframe is 24 consecutive hours (see below to choose the day that works best for you)
- Listen to any of your target language(s): the challenge is to improve our listening skills, so as long as you’re not counting your native tongue, feel free to include any other language! If you are learning several languages, count any listening you do in them during the Audiothon.
- Listening can be: listening to raw audio or with accompanying text.
- Audio in target language (TL), without subtitles
- Audio in TL, with TL subtitles
- Audio in TL, with TL and native language (NL) subs
- Audio in TL, with NL subs only: I’ll leave it to your discretion, as long as you’re trying to understand the audio I feel like it’s within the spirit!
- Audio in target language (TL), without subtitles
- That’s it, really. You don’t have to post updates in this thread or to let us know your results, but it would be greatly appreciated if you did!
When?
Everyone is busy, especially in this month, so the Audiothon will run, like last time, from Friday to Monday. For this edition, pick a 24-hour window from Friday 24th to Monday 27th of July, and spend as much time listening as you can!
Goals
The only real goal is to spend time listening in your target language.
Of course, you can set your own individual goals: an amount of time, a number of episodes, finishing an on-going show, watching your first comprehensible input video…
Tracking
The Readathon is a bit more flexible with tracking, but I feel like for Audio it has to be minutes, right? If there is anything else you think might be tracked instead do let me know, but for now all I can think of is time, so: track your time!
Community event
On top of improving our listening, it is also fun to do so with other people.
This is where this thread comes in handy: once you have picked the 24h you will be doing the audiothon in, let us know here you are participating so we can cheer you on! You can also let us know your goals or plans beforehand, and post updates during your Audiothon. When you’re done, post your results to let us know how you did: how long did you manage? What did you listen to?Did you break any milestone of yours? (First time listening without text, first time listening with text, first time doing any listening at all…)
Audiothon newbie?
Don’t overthink it! We are just listening to our TL together for a few days, there are no stakes here. You’re busy and can only do 15 minutes? New to listening and you don’t think you can manage more than 5 minutes? IT’S AN HONOUR TO HAVE YOU.
Have a look at our first 📻 Mid-Year Audiothon 🌼 [FINISHED] to get an idea of how the event went, and check out this thread for some tips (they are for the Readathon, but most of them still apply): Readathon Strategies and Tips
I hate to end this post as an email, but if you have any questions do let us know! 
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I have too many options, I think, audiobooks and anime foremost among them.
I have an audiobook I picked out for the occasion but if it’s terrible I have backup shows to watch
. It’s censored GL but the chemistry is still great. This has hard chinese subs and soft English subs
