Starting The 75 Fluent Challenge
Finishing L'Étranger and returning to time tracking
📅 Week 26/53 | Study Log 2026
Happy summer!
The school year has ended, which means my summer break has begun! I now have more time to dedicate to language learning.
🥐 French
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
🍜 Japanese
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.
✨Language Wins of The Week
🥐 Finished reading L’Étranger!!
🥐 Reached 3,155 known words in Migaku.
⭐Started the 75 Fluent Challenge!
📅 Next Week’s Plans
🥐 French: Start reading Mon mari.
Thanks for being here! See you next week.
Congratulations on finishing L'Étranger ! 🥳
How did you find the storyline?
Also: I'm also doing quite a lot of YomuYomu these days. One of my favorite activities is to listen to the audio first, without reading, to train my head, then read the story (without looking at the vocabulary and translation), then re-read with translation and finally read out lout to make sure I remember the kanji reading. Sometimes I switch the first step with a transcription exercise: I listen to the audio only and write down the transcription. When I don't understand the words that are being said, I just write down the sounds I hear. That's a great exercise to 1. fine tune my head and see if I heard the sounds well, and 2. to review my the kanjis I know by having to write them down.
Are there any specific activities you do when reading on Yomuyomu? 🤔
Congratulations on finishing l'Étranger, I read it recently myself. I'm not reading Le petit prince this summer but I have Terre des hommes by Saint-Exupéry on the shelf ready to go.