A Statuesque Theme

In a previous post I talked about how Viglo's methodology is like taking a rough piece of marble block (your INfluency) and using the calls to chisel away at the raw stone until you are left with a beautiful statue (your Spanish fluency). I've decided to incorporate this theme into every aspect of Viglo. In the section of Viglo where we do the calls (still under development as of writing this on Dec. 13, 2023), we had images of bubbles in the background. The background will be changed to have a raw block of stone with a speech bubble being carved out of it. Secondly, Viglo had "challenges," which were goals for how the student would use their Spanish outside of Viglo in real life situations. These are going to be called “Unveilings.” As a sculpture is “unveiled” to the public, the students will “unveil” their Spanish abilities to the public. And instead of calling the lessons within the calls “climbs,” they will be called “Strikes.” A strike is the action of a mallet hitting a chisel to break off bits of stone which leads to the artist releasing the beauty of the statue to the world. In Viglo, the student’s completes “strikes” against their Spanish errors, until the Spanish fluency that lies within them is released.

The one thing I don’t like about using the word “strike” is that it’s often associated with failures, like in baseball. I would like to find a better word, but the closest I can find that is analogous to students chipping away at their Spanish errors and stays with the sculpting theme is “chisel.” But I just don’t like the word “chisel;” it sounds so lame. “I completed four ‘chisels’ in Viglo today.” I just hate the sound of it. But if people tell me otherwise and they like the sound of it, I would go with it.