# aad's Calendialing Topic (Until Returns Diminish)

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**Category:** Life\
**Created:** [December 14, 2025, 6:07pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/aads-calendialing-topic-until-returns-diminish/12658 "2025-12-14T18:07:48Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 28, 2026, 6:38am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/aads-calendialing-topic-until-returns-diminish/12658/17 "2026-02-28T06:38:18Z")

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Good luck 🙂

Yes, I enjoy languages; maybe I can write something to become a reference point for the people joining the community - nonetheless my advice would be bland and generic.

I like to break it down by techniques of SLA - so I think you can make progress in microlearning (small exercises like Anki, Duolingo) and in comprehensible input (beemind listening, repetition). In general I use beeminder to destroy backlogs - 30 podcast episodes explaining grammar - perfect use case.

> [@Learning Spanish with Beeminder](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/learning-spanish-with-beeminder/11302):
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> ¡Hola! In this topic we list resources we use to learn this beautiful language and how it’s going. I beemind Duolingo, Anki and Memrise. On top of that I used to beemind podcasts (in minutes and in episodes, depends on the podcast). Listening to Hoy Hablamos became my default activity when driving or walking alone, so I no longer beemind it. I’m in top 2% of their audience on Spotify slight_smile I think it makes sense to beemind conjugated verbs - I use SpanishDict app for that, but I have…

In retrospective I think I could’ve done it much faster, for example investing in a tutor or moving to Spain, but speaking Spanish always has been a side quest.

Circling back to your original idea, the problem here is that it’s easier to do what’s measurable. Secondly, scope creep. Beeminder goals easily spill horizontally (one more language course). In other words, especially advancing mentally, spiritually requires depth. Moving to a different country, getting out of comfort zone. It is hard to model it with the red line (it never was a promise of beeminder anyway haha).

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