Hello comrades and welcome to the first improvement megathread of August! 
Some discussion ideas:
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How was your week?
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Do you have some plans for next week?
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How was your July?
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Do you have some plans for August?
Image description: “To the Defenders of the Soviet Arctic during the Great Patriotic War”, commonly called Alyosha, is a monument in Murmansk, Russia to Soviet soldiers, sailors, and airmen of World War II (called the Great Patriotic War in Russia).
Continuing running and daily lichess, going to start daily language lessons. The library provides a free subscription to a program called Mango, and it looks sufficient.
A fascist trained today, did you?
I haven’t trained today but I will go running on the following 3 days. What language are you learning?
Russian. I was using Duolingo before but it got way too gamified.