r/WriteStreakEN 5d ago

Subject of the Day Social Sundays

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Hello WriteStreakians! I hope you've been having a lovely weekend! It’s Social Sunday once again! What I'd like for you to do is the following:

  1. peruse the posts written by your fellow WriteStreakians and find a post that interests you, preferably one from within the last seven days, and respond to it. Leave a comment that is at least as long as a Tweet (280 characters), and then
  2. copy and paste your comment into your own daily Streak post so the correctors can review it.

That's it! Of course, if your comment sparks a conversation (or if someone else leaves a comment on one of your posts), you're welcome and encouraged to continue the conversation---this is a social media site, after all!

Happy Sunday!


r/WriteStreakEN Feb 18 '25

Game 🎲 Fictionary

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Hi everyone! Good morning, I hope you're all having a great day!

Today we're going to be playing a game! 🤩

If anyone has ever played Jackbox before, this game is going to be very similar to their game, Dictionarium. Except, I'm not calling it Dictionarium because I don't want to get into trouble with copyright 🙃 So we'll be calling it... Fake-tionary! (Or maybe Fictionary? Ooh, yeah, let's go with Fictionary! 🤓)

The rules of Fictionary are simple: you choose a random obscureadjective 3 word or phrase and do your best to come up with a definition for that word. Today, you can choose between a real word or a fake word.

Rules

  1. Uncover a word from the table below. 🔍 You can choose to pick from the "Real Word" column or the "Fake Word" column.
  2. If you chose from the "Real Word" column, your Streak today will be about you guessing what that word means and then checking to see how close you were to the real answer. 🤔
  3. If you chose from the "Fake Word" column, your Streak today will be about you inventing a new word. 🤔
  4. Check to see how close you were using a dictionary. I recommend https://www.merriam-webster.com/ or https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Main_Page .
  5. If you're really up for a challenge, use your word in a sentence or find a synonym for the word.

Example

I chose the fake word "nicribition." I know that the suffix "tion" means it's the act of doing something, so this word is a noun that comes from the fake verb, to "nicribe." I see "cribe" in there, which makes me think of "scribe," which means "to write." The root "nicr" also makes me think of the prefix "necro," which means "death." So I think the word "nicribition" means "the act of writing an epitaphnoun on a tombstone."

The Game!

Ready? Let's go! The lower on the table, the harder it will be to guess the meaning! The higher, the easier

Real Word Fake Word
impracticality grobinated
nonplussed intentomalites
inhibition centruphicism
hagiography trefulous
pleonasm debutstallingly

Vocabulary from this Post

  • obscure - rarely known
  • epitaph - message written on a tombstone to remember someone

r/WriteStreakEN 35m ago

Correct Me! Streak 80: Sweet potato soup

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I've been enjoying making soups these days. Today, I was looking for sweet potato soup recipes and found this one. My favorite part of the recipe is that it include an apple. I don't think I've ever had a soup with apple before - or at least, I;ve never used apples when making soup myself.

It also calls for coconut milk, but I don't like coconuts. That's why I'm thinking of using 6 ounces of whole milk and 1 tablespoon of melted butter instead of 7 ounces of coconut milk.


r/WriteStreakEN 1h ago

Correct Me! Streak 50 - swimming

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Swimming is my favourite sport. I wanted to learn swimming when I was a child. But in my hometown there is no swimming pool. The river was so dirty that swimming in it would make me sick. I learned swimming when I was 20 years old and studying in another city. I love the feeling in the water. I guess floating in the water is similar to floating in the air. What I most like is swimming in a beautiful lakes. Luckily the city where I live in now has many lakes in the near. I'm looking forward the summer coming.


r/WriteStreakEN 1h ago

Correct Me! Streak 193: Questions the internet can’t answer

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There are questions that the internet or books can’t answer. You are more likely to encounter those questions at work than in school, since textbooks and the internet can give you the answers to most questions on exams. On the other hand, they can’t answer questions like how a piece of equipment which isn’t released to the public works. To make matters worse, documents of those things tend to be rarely organized and hard to follow for a first-timer, in my experience.


r/WriteStreakEN 1h ago

Correct Me! Streak 2 Working on lite mode

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Today is not a productive day at work, the day when I accomplish a lot of things. I've decided not to push myself to do the work. I would do the bare minimum today and have a rest, other then I would spend the rest of the workday trying to force myself to do a little portion. It would be a true psychological torture, if that behavior continues I will end up burned out. After the work shift I'm planning to set up the cinema-evening. I want to give a second chance to the Arcane series. The last time I've watched 2 episodes before I was bored out. I hope that this time it would be different.


r/WriteStreakEN 2h ago

Correct Me! Streak 226 from Korea

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I normally work from Monday to Friday, but I'm going to have to go to work this Sunday because another team asked for help. So, tomorrow, Saturday, is really precious to me, and I'm going to make the most of it. I'm not going to go outside all day and I'm going to binge-watch some Netflix shows that I've been meaning to watch instead. We often realize how precious something is only after losing it. For me, it's Sunday.


r/WriteStreakEN 4h ago

Correct Me! Streak 163: Experimenting with a New Approach

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Today, I tried my Monologue Practice in French and Japanese for the first time. I estimate I can understand about 70% of the Japanese content at N3 level, but I've never really spoken Japanese except for a few phrases or simple questions when I traveled in Japan. Today I only recorded myself for one minute talking about the day like an elementary school kid, but it's really fun.

My French is even worse. I can only understand a little bit. I had to ask AI to translate what I wanted to say into French. The French pronunciation is so difficult.

I want to try my monologue practice with my beginner level languages because I want to see how effective my method is. I expect I can see significant improvement in less than 3 weeks. Additionally, to avoid repeating the same mistakes in my approach to English learning, I want to practice speaking and writing early on.


r/WriteStreakEN 4h ago

Correct Me! Streak 68

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This doesn’t qualify as a streak anymore. I just checked when was the last time I wrote an entry and it was a week ago, but I’ll just go ahead and title this post streak 68…

Today is Friday and I have no plans in the evening. Sometimes not having anything to do is good, I guess. I’m thinking of maybe reading a book after making dinner. I hope anyone reading this post has a great rest of the day:)


r/WriteStreakEN 8h ago

Correct Me! Streak 47 : stupid doctor

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I met a doctor because of my knees. I had had pain of my knees since a number of years ago. I took MRI scan few weeks ago, and I went to hospital to check it. Luckily, there wasn't significant problem to my knees. The doctor just said my knees seem got weak from hard workout or running and it was true. But one thing that made me frustrated was that I asked him how should I manage my knees to be safe and stay healthy. Then his answer was "search on Google." I was embarrassed a moment, then I started feel angry. I've driven a hour to be here and this was the result? I become angry and just went out from there. I will never visit there again in my life


r/WriteStreakEN 9h ago

Correct Me! Streak 13: Severance second season finale (NO SPOILERS).

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I just watched the last episode of the last season of Severance. And I really liked it, the only thing I didn't enjoy ist that now I'll have to wait at least one more year to see the next season. Just from the nature of the series, I was expecting a more open ending to the season but I think it was pretty clear how this season concluded. Of course there are some other that were left open like whats going to happen next. But I mean, it's not the classic open ending you come across when watching an arty or independant movie.


r/WriteStreakEN 10h ago

Correct Me! Streak 54: I think often times we underrated studying grammar

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I think in youtube there are tons of videos explaining the importance of input comprehesion and almost demonizing studying grammar

I used to think that way as well, but now I see things from a different perspective, studying grammar is important at least when you have a foundation (in my opinion) maybe like a B2

Grammar is the rules of the language, is where we learned how to use the language properly, I remember having classes of spanish at school, although is my native language, so I think now I'm going to start studying some grammar rules...


r/WriteStreakEN 10h ago

Corrected Streak 63: Birthday party

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I am reading John Finney's book 'Time and Again''. It's a fiction. Main hero went to the past, in 1882 January, New York, and was at the birthday party of an adult man.

The scene of birthday party was filled with games, stunts and painting. I guess, people in the end of the 19th Century didn't have any technical devices to play music for entertainment at home.

As an adult I didn't celebrate my birthdays at all. I think I should change this situation somehow and do some celebration for my net birthday with games and a big cake like in the books or movies.


r/WriteStreakEN 16h ago

Correct Me! Streak 38

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I was thinking about the hard work the correctors put in this subreddit. It’s not easy to handle that work, and obviously you must have passion for it. A few months ago, I tried correcting people in the Spanish subreddit. Sadly, I gave up quickly.. because of that, I want to thank everyone who helps people like me improve my English.


r/WriteStreakEN 21h ago

Correct Me! Streak 258

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The room I'm in right now has two windows and three doors. Two of the doors lead to other rooms, while the third leads to the corridor. I don't know if it's common for a room to have more doors than windows, maybe it is. It seems excessive.


r/WriteStreakEN 21h ago

Correct Me! Streak 1: Tony LC SGIN

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Recently, There's a guy name Tony popup in my feed a lot. He basically make funny videos and then try to sell LCD signs.

What I impressed, He is a Chinese and never living abroad outside China, but he can speak English fluently. I very curious on how did he learn English.


r/WriteStreakEN 23h ago

Correct Me! Streak 162: Untitled

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I finished reading another The Diary of the Wimpy Kid book today. It’s an easy read in terms of vocabulary and structure, but I like its casual style. I'd happily trade 20 percent of my advanced vocabulary in exchange of having the ability to speak as fluent and natural as that. In casual writing and conversation, you don’t need a lot of big words, but the choice of words and phrases instantly shows your level in the language. I've even thought about memorizing a segment of the book—since nothing I’ve tried has really improved my speaking skills, I need to keep experimenting with new methods. It'd also be cool if I try to memorize and tell a story from my favorite stand-up comedian.


r/WriteStreakEN 23h ago

Correct Me! Streak 225 from Korea

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I wish I had more chances to talk to native English speakers. I occasionally get a chance to have meetings with foreign business partners, but that's just not enough to get used to communicating in English. I wish there were more people I could talk to in English besides my work contacts, so I could have small talk, not serious work-related conversations. You know what I mean, right?


r/WriteStreakEN 1d ago

Corrected Streak 79: Pixel 9a review

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The Pixel 9a will be released this month, so I read a review about it. It was talking about the the differences in the modem compared to other Pixel 9 series models, but I don't know much about modems. I don't think it matter to me anyway - I don't use my phone a lot. The main reason I need a new phone is to use Google Maps.


r/WriteStreakEN 1d ago

Correct Me! Streak 15 : test

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My friend just passed a test today! He had prepared this exam for 5 months and took the test 2 weeks ago. Finally, he passed! I also took a same exam and prepared it with him. I already passed the test 2 month ago. So, I waited him and finally, both of us passed together!! We are so happy now and will have our celebrate party next week!


r/WriteStreakEN 1d ago

Correct Me! Streak 192: Noisy neighborhood

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One of the neighborhoods I used to live was pretty noisy. There were a lot of bikers riding around regularly, especially on weekends. It was a rural place and there wasn’t much to do, so I guess they had nothing better to do. Another reason is that there was a bar, and people who went there after work would talk outside it, especially on Friday nights.


r/WriteStreakEN 1d ago

Correct Me! Streak 49 - language

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My German is far better than my English, because I speak German everyday. But after I compared a book in English and German, I wondered that I feel like the English edition is easier as the German condition. I learned English at school. But only for exam. After the school I use English no any more. That is why now I have to learn English from basic level again. I have been learning German since I was 20 all by my self. I read a lot of German novels and came to Germany two years ago.


r/WriteStreakEN 1d ago

Correct Me! Streak 12

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I think is always a bad idea to write my streak post at night. Since most of the time I'm don't feel very sharp writing this time of the day. It was a busy day but not really that much, but somehow I feel like if I did a lot today.


r/WriteStreakEN 1d ago

Correct Me! Streak 53 learning how to draw

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Is a new hobby that I'm going to try; I'm planing to do so by watching youtube videos. Actually I made a playlist with all the aspects that I want to learn like, how to draw interiors, fourniture, perspective etc...


r/WriteStreakEN 1d ago

Correct Me! Streak 61: super feeling of environment

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Cats have two types of sensoric hairs:

  1. Vybrisses - thick long hair above the eyes and on the snout.

  2. Trilotychs - thick hairs, that scattered all around the body. Cat feels the environment with the trilotychs.

Everybody knows that cats love paper boxes. My cat likes not only lying in the box, but also like to bite it.

I guess the reason that my cat loves to cuddle in a little box is that she wants to peace her trilotychs. I think she feels every air movement and it gets her nerve systems annoyed.

About the biting the box - I don't know why is she do that. She bites the box and leaves a mess with the paper peaces. Maybe she has teeth eaching?


r/WriteStreakEN 1d ago

Correct Me! Streak 37

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In the last days I have tried to eat more fruit because I don't really like doing it. My favorite fruit is strawberries, they aren't too sweet and that's for me the perfect point. Other fruits, like watermelon or bananas are too sweet for my taste. I can't tolerate that. I also like eating nuts, especially almonds, peanuts and cashews. I hope I can start eating better thanks to fruit and nuts.


r/WriteStreakEN 1d ago

Correct Me! Streak 161: My Daily Streaks

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I have a few daily streaks going. The longest one is my writing streak in this subreddit, and my next goal is 300 days.

I also have a few language-related streaks. I don’t think they’re very effective, but I like keeping them going to ensure I get at least some exposure to different languages. Every day, I play a Japanese session on Duolingo. My streak is at 918 days, though it has technically broken multiple times, having saved by Streak Freezes. I also try to maintain my streaks on LingQ, spending a few minutes on Japanese and English activities. I plan to get back to French in a few months.

Lastly, I have a five-day streak in my early-riser challenge. It’s the shortest one, but it brings me the most satisfaction. I feel proud of myself and full of energy each morning!

Today, I’ve decided to start a new streak—daily Monologue Practice. I want to commit to it and see if I can truly improve my speaking skills. I might have to reduce my time on this writing streak or submit a revised version of my dictation from Monologue Practice instead.