Putting these in a separate thread to avoid cluttering that one up
Thank you to everyone who came to the first quiz this afternoon (morning/evening). We hope you enjoyed learning about conlangs!
As mentioned, we have prizes for you this year, to be distributed as follows:
Each quiz is split into three distinct rounds and the top three players in each round will win:
3rd place = 400 uCoins (our in-app currency, worth ten topics)
2nd place = 600 uCoins (15 topics)
1st place = 800 uCoins (20 topics)
AND thank you to a generous offer from iTalki, the 1st place player in each round will also get $10 of iTalki credit. So that we can share these out fairly, weâre generally sticking with the idea that you can only win $10 per day - but if you win first place on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, youâd still end up with $30.
Weâre also running a leaderboard for the highest score of the Conference and weâve got even more prizes for that, which weâll be announcing next weekend.
(If you want me to correct/change your name or see yourself on there twice, please let me know and Iâll update it! Itâs tricky to sometimes tell from Kahoot nicknames! )
Hope to see you all tomorrow - at the later time of 17:00 EST / 22:00 BST / 06:00 (+1) JST - for our Austronesian quiz!
(Again, if you see yourself on there twice or if you think you should be on there and youâre not, please let me know! Still trying to work out everyoneâs Kahoot names )
Thanks for coming today everyone! If you came in the top 3 of any of the rounds please email me at languages@utalk to claim your prize
A recap of the prizes! If you come 3rd, you win 400 uCoins (access to 10 topics in any language in the uTalk app), 2nd place you win 600 uCoins (15 topics) and 1st place wins 800 uCoins (20 topics) plus a $10 credit from the amazing iTalki team!
Also we have some AMAZING prizes for our overall top 3 winners - to be announced during our quiz tomorrow! You donât want to miss it!!
Thanks, Emily, it was great to have the quizzes in a language other than English today. Although I was following the theme by calling myself EstebanT today, itâs probably best to show my usual name (StevenT), though no doubt Iâll be off the weekly leaderboard again after tomorrow so it wonât matter!
It was surprising and fun to be able to hold my own with the hispanohablantes - Iâll have to remember to thank Paula, who teaches the Intermediate Spanish online group class I go to - weâve been covering topics related to Latin America recently as listening practice, discussion topics, illustrations of the use of the subjunctive, etc, and there were 2 or 3 things on each quiz today that I wouldnât have got or been able to have an educated guess if she hadnât done that.
Hi Steve, thanks for coming today! Sure do feel free to send me the Spanish group details across, thanks for asking languages@utalk.com Hope to see you at our next quiz tomorrow!
If you came to the quiz today, youâll have found out more about our prizes for this leaderboard⊠weâve got some fun codes from Hodder (publishers of Teach Yourself etc.) up for grabs, as well as some more iTalki credits! Want to get yourself in for those prizes? Come to any of our next four quizzes and try and get that top spot
(Is your name wrong? Are you there twice? Are you not there at all and should be? Let me know!)
As for tomorrowâs quiz - itâs in the later timeslot again (17:00 EDT / 22:00 BST / 06:00 (+1) JST) and weâll be covering Sino-Tibetan languages. Youâve got just over a day to cram, if youâre so inclined!
(Is your name wrong? Are you there twice? Are you not there at all and should be? Let me know!)
If youâre looking to take the #1 spot tomorrow, then you might want a sneak peek of the theme - tomorrowâs early quiz (09:00 EDT / 14:00 BST / 22:00 JST) is all about Turkic languages!
Not related to the uTalk quiz but just wondering does the uTalk app have Shan, Mon and Hmong languages? I donât think I have seen them on the app so I was just wonderingâŠ
No, theyâre not on the app, and it doesnât look like we had them in the old CD-ROM series either. Good ones to add to our big list of languages to add to the app though!
Hi all! So, weâre not going to be posting the leaderboard tonight because Richard has kindly agreed to announce our top three prize winners in tomorrowâs closing ceremony! Make sure you go if you can, and if you canât, then Iâll be posting the full leaderboard after itâs done so you can see if you were in the top 10 this week.
Of course, no matter where you came, I hope you still had fun and learnt some new things (even if it was just to never trust the picture).
Thank you all for an amazing conference! Hopefully weâll see some of you at our monthly quizzes (yes, weâre gonna keep doing those ) in the future.
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Good ones to add to our big list of languages to add to the app though! 
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Make sure you go if you can, and if you canât, then Iâll be posting the full leaderboard after itâs done so you can see if you were in the top 10 this week.