[Update] Even More Public Video Pledges

[Update] Even More Public Video Pledges When we received the first batch of Public Video Pledges, we thought that was pretty cool as we really didnt know if anyone would do it. We were pleasantly surprised when weve received even more Public Video Pledges and put up the second batch. You really need to take some time to watch these Public Video Pledges as we hope these will serve as some inspiration for you to start learning a new language now!!! Once again we want to congratulate all our Challengers who promised to finish the Challenge and we want to remind to all of you who have not joined the World Cup Language Challenge yet, that there is still time to register and to make your Public Video Pledge and earn 50ITC as a bonus!  (Click here for more details) Megan   from the United States Megan decided to take part in the World Cup Language Challenge to learn Croatian. She will be taking 25 hours worth of lessons in this language plus she has committed to study one hour a day on her own. Her Public Video pledge is below. Please comment on her Notebook entry! As Megan hails from the United States, she hopes USA win the World Cup! However, she feels that its Germany or Spain winning the World Cup! Charise   from the United States Charise is learning Korean and her goal is to reach the intermediate level by the end of the Challenge. She publicly pledged to complete 2 to 3 lessons every week for the Language Challenge. She will also try to publish a video a week to show us her progresses. Lets wish her good luck by commenting on her Notebook entry! A. Jemand from Philippines Representing our Philippine Language Challengers, A. Jemand is taking the Challenge to improve her German skills. Shes already got a good foundation as you can see and hear from this video, but she hopes that the Challenge will take her speaking ability to the next level. She has committed to take at least 3 classes a week until the end of the World Cup Language Challenge.  Show that you care by commenting on her Notebook post! A. Jemand doesnt feel really familiar with the World Cup, but she will root for the German team! Scott Cronin from the United States Scott decided to take the World Cup Language Challenge because he believes it will help him to learn French and to reach the conversational level by the end of the two months. He publicly promised to take 2 to 3 lessons of French a week. Leave Scott some words of encouragement by commenting on his Notebook entry! Scott wants the USA team to win the World Cup! Anton Grigoryev   from Russia Anton is learning Portuguese and his goal is to able to speak accurately by the end of World Cup Language Challenge. He has committed to take 2 to 3 lessons a week. Help cheer Anton on by sending him some words of encouragement in his Notebook entry! Lauren   from the United States Lauren wants to improve her Spanish skills and she is committing 2 to 3 Spanish lessons a week to complete the World Cup Language Challenge. She wants to focus on her speaking and comprehension abilities. She sounds pretty good already, but there is always room for improvement. Give her some support on her Notebook entry! Lauren doesnt know much about the World Cup, but she predicts the host of the World Cup Brazil to take home the trophy! Chris   from the United States Chris hails from the United States but is now living in Japan and he has decided to participate in the italki World Cup Challenge to further his knowledge of the Japanese language. His goal is to be able to speak with his friends by the end of the challenge. Make sure to send him some words of encouragement in his Notebook entry! Chris also feels that Spain will win the World Cup! Derek   from the United States Derek is taking the World Cup Language Challenge because he really wants to improve his Chinese skills. He will be studying at lest 3 hours a week and he hopes he can see a real progress at the end of the Challenge. Please let him know that youre cheering him on by commenting on his Notebook entry! Derek wants the Dutch to win the World Cup!! Elise   from Australia Elise represents Australia for our World Cup Language Challenge. She is learning Spanish and she has started the italki World Cup Language Challenge because she wanted something that really motivated her. Elise is committing 3 to 4 lessons a week to complete the Challenge. Read her Notebook entry and leave some words of encouragement!! Elise is rooting for Spain during the World Cup because she thinks the Australian team is not very good!! Mimi   from Scotland Mimi is originally from Scotland, but she is currently living in Paris. She is also one of our Professional Teachersteaching English. She decided to sign up for the World Cup Language Challenge because she wants to improve her French and her Spanish. She has committed to take 3 lessons of French and 1 of Spanish a week until the end of the Challenge. Wish her good luck by commenting her notebook entry here. Mimi also hopes Nederland to win the World Cup! Paul   from England Paul who speaks already English, French, and Swedish, has signed up for the World Cup Language Challenge to learn Portuguese!! He is in Brazil right now and he will be doing 2 to 3 sessions a week to complete the Challenge! Read his notebook entry here and leave some words of encouragement! Even if Paul is in Brazil for the World Cup, his English origins are too strong and he wants England to win the World Cup!! Tom   from the United States Tom is a Language Challenge veteran. He took the last Challenge to learn Norwegian while this time he has committed to learn French and Italian and he will be taking 25 hours worth of lessons! He is also one of our English Community Tutor. Cheer him on by his notebook post here. Erika   from the United States Erika is another Language Challenge veteran, she took both languages to study Japanese. She has lived in Japan for three years and she thinks that the Language Challenge is a good opportunity to keep practicing this language. Wish her good luck by commenting her notebook post here. Diego   from Mexico Diego is learning English and his goal is to be able to express his ideas and points of view in English after publicly pledging to complete 3 lessons every week for the World Cup Language Challenge. Help cheer Diego on by sending him some words of encouragement in his notebook entry. Diego doesnt mention anything about the World Cup but were assuming hes rooting for Mexico! Javier   from Spain Javier is from Madrid and he has signed up for the italki World Cup Language Challenge because he wants to improve his English. He has committed to take at least 3 lessons a week and he seems really determined to finish the Challenge! Show that you care by commenting on his notebook entry. Javier really hoped that Spain would win the World Cup again, but unfortunately for him this cannot happen since Spain is already out of the game! [Update] Even More Public Video Pledges OK OK were still getting more Public Video Pledges. When we received the first batch of Public Video Pledges we thought that was pretty cool as we really didnt know if anyone would do it. We were pleasantly surprised when we received even more Public Video Pledges and put up the second batch. Even though we are approaching the second week of the Language Challenge, we received even more video pledges from Challengers. Take some time to watch these pledges below. Again, we want to applaud those all our Challengers who were brave enough to publicly promising to finish the Challenge. Theres still time so you can make your Public Video Pledge and earn 50ITC as a bonus!(Click here for more details) Lets give the following Challengers a big round of digital applause by commenting on their Notebook Entrees! We also hope that these pledges serve as motivation for you to finish the Challenge! Laura from Spain Laura hails from Spain but is now living in Peru and has joined the Challenge to learn Korean. She is also one of our newest Professional Teachers teaching Spanish and English. If youre taking the Challenge and learning any of these 2 languages, you should take some lessons with her. Teachers with her experience and credentials get their schedules booked very quickly so make a request now as she is new. Also make sure to thumbs up her notebook entry and give her some love for her efforts in the Challenge. Lamb from the United States Lamb is learning French and his goal is to be able to hold a conversation in French after publicly pledging to complete at least 3 lessons every week for the Language Challenge. Help cheer Lamb on by sending him words of encouragement in his notebook entry. Lilian from China Representing our Chinese Language Challengers, Lilian is taking the Challenge to improve her English skills. She knows that she is joining the Challenge one week late so she is going to try extra hard to cram in all the extra hours so that she can finish. Lilian is also a new Chinese Professional Teacher. Check out her notebook entry here and tell her to ??! ??! Erica living in Japan Erika is living and working in Japan and she is using the Challenge as a way to finally become fluent in the language that she is surrounded by on a daily basis. Comment on her Notebook entry here. Make sure to give her some Thumbs Up to let her know you care! LindsayDoesLanguages from the United Kingdom Lindsey is taking the Challenge to improve her German. She actually speaks a lot of languages and she even has a cool blog about learning languages. Even though Lindsey joined the Challenge before the start date, she finally got around to posting this Public Video Pledge just now. As a language learning enthusiast, check out her Notebook entry, she even included a nice picture in there. Lindsey is also one of our Community Tutors who teaches English so she might be doubly busy during this Challenge. Again, even though the Challenge has already started, you still have time to make a Public Video Pledge. Were mainly doing this to provide some positive pressure so that you can finish the Challenge. Best of all  we’re giving away 50ITC if you make a Public Video Pledge!    Theres still time. [Update] Even More Public Video Pledges OK OK were still getting more Public Video Pledges. When we received the first batch of Public Video Pledges we thought that was pretty cool as we really didnt know if anyone would do it. We were pleasantly surprised when we received even more Public Video Pledges and put up the second batch. Even though we are approaching the second week of the Language Challenge, we received even more video pledges from Challengers. Take some time to watch these pledges below. Again, we want to applaud those all our Challengers who were brave enough to publicly promising to finish the Challenge. Theres still time so you can make your Public Video Pledge and earn 50ITC as a bonus!(Click here for more details) Lets give the following Challengers a big round of digital applause by commenting on their Notebook Entrees! We also hope that these pledges serve as motivation for you to finish the Challenge! Laura from Spain Laura hails from Spain but is now living in Peru and has joined the Challenge to learn Korean. She is also one of our newest Professional Teachers teaching Spanish and English. If youre taking the Challenge and learning any of these 2 languages, you should take some lessons with her. Teachers with her experience and credentials get their schedules booked very quickly so make a request now as she is new. Also make sure to thumbs up her notebook entry and give her some love for her efforts in the Challenge. Lamb from the United States Lamb is learning French and his goal is to be able to hold a conversation in French after publicly pledging to complete at least 3 lessons every week for the Language Challenge. Help cheer Lamb on by sending him words of encouragement in his notebook entry. Lilian from China Representing our Chinese Language Challengers, Lilian is taking the Challenge to improve her English skills. She knows that she is joining the Challenge one week late so she is going to try extra hard to cram in all the extra hours so that she can finish. Lilian is also a new Chinese Professional Teacher. Check out her notebook entry here and tell her to ??! ??! Erica living in Japan Erika is living and working in Japan and she is using the Challenge as a way to finally become fluent in the language that she is surrounded by on a daily basis. Comment on her Notebook entry here. Make sure to give her some Thumbs Up to let her know you care! LindsayDoesLanguages from the United Kingdom Lindsey is taking the Challenge to improve her German. She actually speaks a lot of languages and she even has a cool blog about learning languages. Even though Lindsey joined the Challenge before the start date, she finally got around to posting this Public Video Pledge just now. As a language learning enthusiast, check out her Notebook entry, she even included a nice picture in there. Lindsey is also one of our Community Tutors who teaches English so she might be doubly busy during this Challenge. Again, even though the Challenge has already started, you still have time to make a Public Video Pledge. Were mainly doing this to provide some positive pressure so that you can finish the Challenge. Best of all  we’re giving away 50ITC if you make a Public Video Pledge!    Theres still time. [Update] Even More Public Video Pledges When we received the first batch of Public Video Pledges, we thought that was pretty cool as we really didnt know if anyone would do it. We were pleasantly surprised when weve received even more Public Video Pledges and put up the second batch. You really need to take some time to watch these Public Video Pledges as we hope these will serve as some inspiration for you to start learning a new language now!!! Once again we want to congratulate all our Challengers who promised to finish the Challenge and we want to remind to all of you who have not joined the World Cup Language Challenge yet, that there is still time to register and to make your Public Video Pledge and earn 50ITC as a bonus!  (Click here for more details) Megan   from the United States Megan decided to take part in the World Cup Language Challenge to learn Croatian. She will be taking 25 hours worth of lessons in this language plus she has committed to study one hour a day on her own. Her Public Video pledge is below. Please comment on her Notebook entry! As Megan hails from the United States, she hopes USA win the World Cup! However, she feels that its Germany or Spain winning the World Cup! Charise   from the United States Charise is learning Korean and her goal is to reach the intermediate level by the end of the Challenge. She publicly pledged to complete 2 to 3 lessons every week for the Language Challenge. She will also try to publish a video a week to show us her progresses. Lets wish her good luck by commenting on her Notebook entry! A. Jemand from Philippines Representing our Philippine Language Challengers, A. Jemand is taking the Challenge to improve her German skills. Shes already got a good foundation as you can see and hear from this video, but she hopes that the Challenge will take her speaking ability to the next level. She has committed to take at least 3 classes a week until the end of the World Cup Language Challenge.  Show that you care by commenting on her Notebook post! A. Jemand doesnt feel really familiar with the World Cup, but she will root for the German team! Scott Cronin from the United States Scott decided to take the World Cup Language Challenge because he believes it will help him to learn French and to reach the conversational level by the end of the two months. He publicly promised to take 2 to 3 lessons of French a week. Leave Scott some words of encouragement by commenting on his Notebook entry! Scott wants the USA team to win the World Cup! Anton Grigoryev   from Russia Anton is learning Portuguese and his goal is to able to speak accurately by the end of World Cup Language Challenge. He has committed to take 2 to 3 lessons a week. Help cheer Anton on by sending him some words of encouragement in his Notebook entry! Lauren   from the United States Lauren wants to improve her Spanish skills and she is committing 2 to 3 Spanish lessons a week to complete the World Cup Language Challenge. She wants to focus on her speaking and comprehension abilities. She sounds pretty good already, but there is always room for improvement. Give her some support on her Notebook entry! Lauren doesnt know much about the World Cup, but she predicts the host of the World Cup Brazil to take home the trophy! Chris   from the United States Chris hails from the United States but is now living in Japan and he has decided to participate in the italki World Cup Challenge to further his knowledge of the Japanese language. His goal is to be able to speak with his friends by the end of the challenge. Make sure to send him some words of encouragement in his Notebook entry! Chris also feels that Spain will win the World Cup! Derek   from the United States Derek is taking the World Cup Language Challenge because he really wants to improve his Chinese skills. He will be studying at lest 3 hours a week and he hopes he can see a real progress at the end of the Challenge. Please let him know that youre cheering him on by commenting on his Notebook entry! Derek wants the Dutch to win the World Cup!! Elise   from Australia Elise represents Australia for our World Cup Language Challenge. She is learning Spanish and she has started the italki World Cup Language Challenge because she wanted something that really motivated her. Elise is committing 3 to 4 lessons a week to complete the Challenge. Read her Notebook entry and leave some words of encouragement!! Elise is rooting for Spain during the World Cup because she thinks the Australian team is not very good!! Mimi   from Scotland Mimi is originally from Scotland, but she is currently living in Paris. She is also one of our Professional Teachersteaching English. She decided to sign up for the World Cup Language Challenge because she wants to improve her French and her Spanish. She has committed to take 3 lessons of French and 1 of Spanish a week until the end of the Challenge. Wish her good luck by commenting her notebook entry here. Mimi also hopes Nederland to win the World Cup! Paul   from England Paul who speaks already English, French, and Swedish, has signed up for the World Cup Language Challenge to learn Portuguese!! He is in Brazil right now and he will be doing 2 to 3 sessions a week to complete the Challenge! Read his notebook entry here and leave some words of encouragement! Even if Paul is in Brazil for the World Cup, his English origins are too strong and he wants England to win the World Cup!! Tom   from the United States Tom is a Language Challenge veteran. He took the last Challenge to learn Norwegian while this time he has committed to learn French and Italian and he will be taking 25 hours worth of lessons! He is also one of our English Community Tutor. Cheer him on by his notebook post here. Erika   from the United States Erika is another Language Challenge veteran, she took both languages to study Japanese. She has lived in Japan for three years and she thinks that the Language Challenge is a good opportunity to keep practicing this language. Wish her good luck by commenting her notebook post here. Diego   from Mexico Diego is learning English and his goal is to be able to express his ideas and points of view in English after publicly pledging to complete 3 lessons every week for the World Cup Language Challenge. Help cheer Diego on by sending him some words of encouragement in his notebook entry. Diego doesnt mention anything about the World Cup but were assuming hes rooting for Mexico! Javier   from Spain Javier is from Madrid and he has signed up for the italki World Cup Language Challenge because he wants to improve his English. He has committed to take at least 3 lessons a week and he seems really determined to finish the Challenge! Show that you care by commenting on his notebook entry. Javier really hoped that Spain would win the World Cup again, but unfortunately for him this cannot happen since Spain is already out of the game! [Update] Even More Public Video Pledges When we received the first batch of Public Video Pledges, we thought that was pretty cool as we really didnt know if anyone would do it. We were pleasantly surprised when weve received even more Public Video Pledges and put up the second batch. You really need to take some time to watch these Public Video Pledges as we hope these will serve as some inspiration for you to start learning a new language now!!! Once again we want to congratulate all our Challengers who promised to finish the Challenge and we want to remind to all of you who have not joined the World Cup Language Challenge yet, that there is still time to register and to make your Public Video Pledge and earn 50ITC as a bonus!  (Click here for more details) Megan   from the United States Megan decided to take part in the World Cup Language Challenge to learn Croatian. She will be taking 25 hours worth of lessons in this language plus she has committed to study one hour a day on her own. Her Public Video pledge is below. Please comment on her Notebook entry! As Megan hails from the United States, she hopes USA win the World Cup! However, she feels that its Germany or Spain winning the World Cup! Charise   from the United States Charise is learning Korean and her goal is to reach the intermediate level by the end of the Challenge. She publicly pledged to complete 2 to 3 lessons every week for the Language Challenge. She will also try to publish a video a week to show us her progresses. Lets wish her good luck by commenting on her Notebook entry! A. Jemand from Philippines Representing our Philippine Language Challengers, A. Jemand is taking the Challenge to improve her German skills. Shes already got a good foundation as you can see and hear from this video, but she hopes that the Challenge will take her speaking ability to the next level. She has committed to take at least 3 classes a week until the end of the World Cup Language Challenge.  Show that you care by commenting on her Notebook post! A. Jemand doesnt feel really familiar with the World Cup, but she will root for the German team! Scott Cronin from the United States Scott decided to take the World Cup Language Challenge because he believes it will help him to learn French and to reach the conversational level by the end of the two months. He publicly promised to take 2 to 3 lessons of French a week. Leave Scott some words of encouragement by commenting on his Notebook entry! Scott wants the USA team to win the World Cup! Anton Grigoryev   from Russia Anton is learning Portuguese and his goal is to able to speak accurately by the end of World Cup Language Challenge. He has committed to take 2 to 3 lessons a week. Help cheer Anton on by sending him some words of encouragement in his Notebook entry! Lauren   from the United States Lauren wants to improve her Spanish skills and she is committing 2 to 3 Spanish lessons a week to complete the World Cup Language Challenge. She wants to focus on her speaking and comprehension abilities. She sounds pretty good already, but there is always room for improvement. Give her some support on her Notebook entry! Lauren doesnt know much about the World Cup, but she predicts the host of the World Cup Brazil to take home the trophy! Chris   from the United States Chris hails from the United States but is now living in Japan and he has decided to participate in the italki World Cup Challenge to further his knowledge of the Japanese language. His goal is to be able to speak with his friends by the end of the challenge. Make sure to send him some words of encouragement in his Notebook entry! Chris also feels that Spain will win the World Cup! Derek   from the United States Derek is taking the World Cup Language Challenge because he really wants to improve his Chinese skills. He will be studying at lest 3 hours a week and he hopes he can see a real progress at the end of the Challenge. Please let him know that youre cheering him on by commenting on his Notebook entry! Derek wants the Dutch to win the World Cup!! Elise   from Australia Elise represents Australia for our World Cup Language Challenge. She is learning Spanish and she has started the italki World Cup Language Challenge because she wanted something that really motivated her. Elise is committing 3 to 4 lessons a week to complete the Challenge. Read her Notebook entry and leave some words of encouragement!! Elise is rooting for Spain during the World Cup because she thinks the Australian team is not very good!! Mimi   from Scotland Mimi is originally from Scotland, but she is currently living in Paris. She is also one of our Professional Teachersteaching English. She decided to sign up for the World Cup Language Challenge because she wants to improve her French and her Spanish. She has committed to take 3 lessons of French and 1 of Spanish a week until the end of the Challenge. Wish her good luck by commenting her notebook entry here. Mimi also hopes Nederland to win the World Cup! Paul   from England Paul who speaks already English, French, and Swedish, has signed up for the World Cup Language Challenge to learn Portuguese!! He is in Brazil right now and he will be doing 2 to 3 sessions a week to complete the Challenge! Read his notebook entry here and leave some words of encouragement! Even if Paul is in Brazil for the World Cup, his English origins are too strong and he wants England to win the World Cup!! Tom   from the United States Tom is a Language Challenge veteran. He took the last Challenge to learn Norwegian while this time he has committed to learn French and Italian and he will be taking 25 hours worth of lessons! He is also one of our English Community Tutor. Cheer him on by his notebook post here. Erika   from the United States Erika is another Language Challenge veteran, she took both languages to study Japanese. She has lived in Japan for three years and she thinks that the Language Challenge is a good opportunity to keep practicing this language. Wish her good luck by commenting her notebook post here. Diego   from Mexico Diego is learning English and his goal is to be able to express his ideas and points of view in English after publicly pledging to complete 3 lessons every week for the World Cup Language Challenge. Help cheer Diego on by sending him some words of encouragement in his notebook entry. Diego doesnt mention anything about the World Cup but were assuming hes rooting for Mexico! Javier   from Spain Javier is from Madrid and he has signed up for the italki World Cup Language Challenge because he wants to improve his English. He has committed to take at least 3 lessons a week and he seems really determined to finish the Challenge! Show that you care by commenting on his notebook entry. Javier really hoped that Spain would win the World Cup again, but unfortunately for him this cannot happen since Spain is already out of the game!