220 New Languages Available

👋 Hey Amigos, it’s zakokor. I’m the solo developer of 65words.com, a challenge for writing 65+ words daily in the language you’re learning.

My goal is to make 65 Words accessible in as many languages worldwide as I can.

When I released 65 Words on December 28th, only Spanish and English could be selected. Over this month and a half, I started enabling more languages as they were requested, understanding if the requested language had words separated by a space (this is how I count the words). 🤫

I found that several users, unable to find their language, and especially those languages without "words" separated by spaces, selected English as the default language and still posted good writings, bypassing the 65 words counter by writing a period and a space.

And here I want to talk about this and ask: what is this all about? 🤔 And I think it's about an honor system. 🎖️ Really, anyone could imagine ways to bypass the 65 words, but they haven't because that's not what it's about. This is about meeting the challenge you have with yourself to expose yourself to the language daily and make the most of the experience. 💪📚

💭 I really don't want, and honestly don't expect, to have to make the system more restrictive. That would totally go against what I had in mind when I created 65 Words as a user-friendly tool. If it came to that, I might prefer to shut it down if there's no other way to keep things simple.

But let's get back to the title of this post!

I hope more people can write in a greater variety of languages, so starting this week, I've included a total of 220 languages. Many of them won't have the 65-word counter because the language doesn't really have "words" separated by spaces, and they'll have to use the honor system, but I hope over time to be able to enable an approximate counter as I already did for Chinese and Japanese. 🌟🤗

Keep the words flowing and the languages growing! Let's make 65 Words a global linguistic adventure! 🚀🌏

Best,
Zakokor & Monkey 🐒