Are you ready for an italki challenge to push your language-learning forward in 2015?

Today, learn how to take action and bet on yourself with an amazing opportunity!

Every challenge you face is like putting a bet on yourself. But the only way to really lose is if you don’t even try.

This month, the italki.com Language Challenge can help you improve your English in a serious way.  A $10 sign up fee gets you into the game. If you can complete 20 lessons (20 hours) with an online teacher by the end of February, italki will pay you $40 back in credit.

This comes out to 3-4 lessons per week. Can you handle that? Essentially, you are placing a bet on your commitment to learning English!

Three reasons to participate in a language challenge:

Motivation: All of us need to be pushed sometimes, and there’s never better time than NOW!

Defining your goal: Learning English is a lifetime project, but having defined goals will bring clarity to your progress.

Social experience: Even though you could do this by yourself, being accountable to others will focus you and help you follow through to the end.

Ready for the challenge? Sign up at allearsenglish.com/italki.

Are you signing up for the challenge?

Share your goals in the comments section below!

Kevin Chen is an entrepreneur based in Shanghai, China. He is co-founder of italki.com, a language learning community marketplace that connects students and teachers from around the world for online language lessons. italki has over a million users, thousands of teachers, and thousands of language classes are scheduled through the site every day.

Kevin is also an organizer of Techyizu.org, a non-profit group that organizes startup and technology events in Shanghai, including Barcamp Shanghai and Designing Shanghai.

Kevin previously co-founded Famento, a startup focused on recording family history. Before that, Kevin worked in the finance industry as a research analyst for Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch.

He has a masters degree from the London School of Economics, and a bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University.

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