If you know LangTwitter (langtwt) or some language Instagram spaces or polyglot communities, you have most definitely heard of some kind of language challenge. Back at school, this was basically just homework. On social media, however, and with similarly inspired language learners, this is more of a tool to motivate yourself to get to work on the language you are currently learning. But before I take all the glamour off language challenges, lets get going!
Depending on the learning aims, there are different kinds of language challenges that are useful. For a beginner, answering little questions everyday might be a great start. Day 1: What’s your name? Day 2: Where do you live? etc. … In this case, we talk about weekly tasks that are a bit bigger than responding to small short questions. These tasks fit best for intermediary or advanced learners of a language.
Job related language learning
As you can already read from the headline, this language challenge is about job and work related language. I remember sitting in a French business class at university thinking “Why didn’t I have any classes like this for Portuguese, English or Spanish?” Eventually, we did some of the topics in my other classes as well, but a class specialized for business language is not exactly easy to come by. So, to take matters in our own hands, let’s do some research on business language/work language/job language, however you want to call it, for the language(s) that you are currently working with.
How does this language challenge work?
On the job language challenge sheet, you find a task with several steps for every week. The idea is that you do a task with all its steps every week. There are going to be new job language challenge sheets but for now, we will start with one sheet for your first month. You can write your texts for the challenges on some device, on some sheets of papers or in a journal. In addition, you are free to post about it on social media. From where I’m standing, one of the bigger differences between boring homework at school and a fancy language challenge that I’d found on social media, was the community effect (and not being forced to do anything, big factor, too!). So, if you find some friends with whom you can do the job language challenge together, this might help you, too, to stay motivated and to keep learning.
Let’s connect!
Feel free to use the Hashtag #JobLanguageChallenge2025 and #JobLangChallenge25 on whatever platform that you are using when you post about this challenge or your results. Also feel free to link back to this website so that people can choose to stay up to date on the challenge and/or link back to one of my social media profiles in case you find one on the platform of your choice!
Challenge sheets for download
Thank you for participating in the Job Language Challenge 2025 and also thank you for connecting within bigger language learning related communities!