Hey 大家好！我是 Jason the product manager here at Yoyo Chinese and today
I just wanted to talk a little bit about one of the features that we have on the
website called the Study Streak. So a lot of you will be familiar with this but
some of you might not be so we wanted to talk a little bit more about it whenever
you log into the Yoyo Chinese website you're brought right to the home page and
you can see right away on the left here this panel this window for your study
stats and study stats can be things about your flashcards or about your quiz
scores but the top the top two of them are your Study Streak. And your study
streak is just the number of consecutive days in a row that you have studied
Chinese with YoyoChinese.com and the way we measure that is by completing a
quiz. So for example if your current study streak is 10 that means you have
completed at least one quiz every day for the last ten days and if you're a
study streak best is 50 or something like that or something amazing like that
then it means that at some point you have completed 50 quizzes every day at
least one quiz every day for 50 days in a row and the reason we added this
feature was because we want to have some sort of like gamification right
something that can keep you motivated and turned studying into a fun kind of
game-like thing but also we wanted it to be meaningful and motivational not just
random coins or something like that and we feel that the the quizzes are
actually a pretty good way to come out of the website use your brain to
actually study a little bit of Chinese right if we measured it by just watching
a video it would be really easy to spam and it wouldn't really be as meaningful
you can just come on click the video walk away and who's to
say whether or not you actually studied but the quizzes each one is at least ten
questions I'd ask you about vocabulary translation fill in the blanks word
order things like that and so it kind of forces you to rethink about Chinese and
step back into learning everyday for even just 10, 15 minutes and each lesson
has a quiz as you know so you can do any quiz from any lesson you don't have to
do a new one that you've never done before in order to keep your streak up
all you have to do is do any quiz on the site
and that was also intentional because review is sometimes more important than
studying new material so we wanted to make sure that your streak could reflect
that work as well not just new material but if you're ever curious about when
the streak is going to end right as in how many more hours in the day do I have
it's not necessarily based on your time zone
our clock uses the Pacific time zone here in California where office is based
for technical reasons for now and so if you need to know how many hours you have
left before you need to complete it for your 24 hour period you just click this
little eye here next to the word study stats and you'll see a clock telling you
counting down backwards so today we have 7 hours and 31 minutes left before my
account I need to I haven't done it yet complete a quiz to increase my study
streak by one day and you can also see it here that it's incomplete for the day
so if this were to say complete then I would be good to go and I would be able
to just study as normal and it wouldn't have to worry about my study streak so
yeah that's pretty much how study streaks work and we really hope that you
continue to enjoy them and we might have some new features related to this in the
future coming out so just keep your eyes peeled for updates and the other thing
we wanted to talk about was we're doing another Study Streak Challenge. So we've
done two of these before and we want to do another one because they were so
popular and we really like running these because it gets everybody excited to
study Chinese. So basically what a Study Street Challenge is is during that month
we're tracking everybody's study streak and at the end of the month we'll give
you rewards based on how much you completed or how high of a study streak
you got and traditionally, the last two we did it only based on if you did the
whole month so if you've got till the end of the month 30 days 31 days then
you got the bonus you got the reward but this month we decided to make it a
little bit different and allow anybody who has completed at least 15 days to
get a 15% promo code and then anybody who has finished the whole month will
still get the 31% promo code so in other words we made it a little bit easier
right we want to reward people who have as long as you've studied 50% you get a
little something and then if you study the whole month you get a lot much
better promo code of 31% and you also become eligible to get a free course so
anybody who I'll just say it again if you at least 15 days doesn't matter if
it's the first day through the 15th day it could be the eighth day through the
23rd day wait my math is wrong there but yeah it could be fifteen days from the
eighth or whatever the 18th or whatever as long as it's 15 consecutive days
during the month of October you will get 15% discount code promo code to use and
if you complete the entire month you'll get 31% off promo code to use and you'll
also become eligible to get a free course so yeah go to the blog
YoyoChinese.com/blog and just check out the post there's more details there
and we really hope to see all of you on the website in October studying with us
everyday. 加油 (jiā yóu)!