Baracuda Groupie United States Joined 5808 days ago 53 posts - 81 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, French, Russian, German
| Message 49 of 95 12 December 2010 at 8:56pm | IP Logged |
Continue studying Spanish to an intermediate level. Hopefully I will reach my goals with Spanish by mid year.
I'd like to begin anew with French, with the goal of reaching a high intermediate level by mid year. Good French gives me access to many good Assimil courses!
Start working on Russian with a goal of reaching a high beginner or low intermediate level by the end of next year. I plan on taking it slow with Russian so I don't scare myself away from it :)
Once I've reached my goals in French and Spanish, and I feel Russian is going well, I want to start one other language, German, Swedish, or even Japanese.
Edited by Baracuda on 15 December 2010 at 6:01am
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ilcommunication Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6695 days ago 115 posts - 162 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Russian, Portuguese, Mandarin
| Message 50 of 95 13 December 2010 at 1:29am | IP Logged |
Keep studying Russian, get to intermediate level by end of the year.
Get back into Spanish, stronger conversational fluency with more vocabulary.
Slowly but surely add more German vocabulary over the course of the year (not sure what method yet)...conversational fluency as the year-end goal.
Start Turkish, work to a moderately comfortable beginner level.
Read Swedish once every few days, listen to Swedish radio, etc....get back up to intermediate level through passive learning.
Not really goals: flirt with French, Portuguese, Serbo-Croatian.
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maydayayday Pentaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5222 days ago 564 posts - 839 votes Speaks: English*, German, Italian, SpanishB2, FrenchB2 Studies: Arabic (Egyptian), Russian, Swedish, Turkish, Polish, Persian, Vietnamese Studies: Urdu
| Message 51 of 95 13 December 2010 at 5:23pm | IP Logged |
Well. Having put some thought into this I'll say:
Take my C1/C2 Spanish exam (gulp) and have a 10,000 word working vocabulary.
Carry on with my Polish
Take my Swedish past the phrasebook plus vocabulary stage into native materials.
After that it depends on how my business requirements change.
In order of interest for me are
Improve my Italian (should be fairly pain free).
Continue revising Joyou Kanji (including the new ones)
But it will probably pan out that I improve my German
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Fabrizio Pentaglot Senior Member BelgiumRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5185 days ago 103 posts - 157 votes Speaks: Italian*, EnglishC2, French, SpanishB2, Portuguese
| Message 52 of 95 13 December 2010 at 11:43pm | IP Logged |
As for me, my goals are the following:
- Dele B2 (Nivel Intermedio) by May 2011;
- N2 (previously known as "JLPT 2") by December 2011 (by the way, quick question: what
level do you consider this certification is according to the "Common European Framework
of Reference for Languages"?);
- keep my English at "high" (or at least "decent"...) levels.
I've recently got interested in Afrikaans too (but only God knows whether I'll
eventually
start seriously learning it or not... eheheh)
:)
Edited by Fabrizio on 13 December 2010 at 11:44pm
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HenryMW Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5177 days ago 125 posts - 179 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, French Studies: Modern Hebrew
| Message 53 of 95 14 December 2010 at 1:20am | IP Logged |
I'm roughly half way through FSI German right now, so I certainly want to finish that program this year.
As a general rule, I don't like the idea of studying more than one language at the same time. That being said, I have never studied more than one language at once before, and I don't think I can hold off Italian any longer (I really, really want to go back, but I want to speak it first), so I'm going to start Assimil Italian in the next few days. I would like to hit B2 as a minimum by the end of the year.
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Hanekawa Diglot Newbie United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5175 days ago 30 posts - 36 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Japanese, Korean
| Message 54 of 95 15 December 2010 at 5:18am | IP Logged |
My goal for 2011 is to study harder with my Japanese. I do it too casually right now. I
also want to learn Hangul
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Halbarad Triglot Newbie France Joined 5668 days ago 8 posts - 9 votes Speaks: French*, English, German Studies: Arabic (classical), Kazakh
| Message 55 of 95 15 December 2010 at 10:01am | IP Logged |
My goal is to reach an intermediate level of Kazakh (yes, yes ^^) and continuing
Brazilian and Bulgarian.
And not loosing too much my Egyptian Arabic.
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Emme Triglot Senior Member Italy Joined 5350 days ago 980 posts - 1594 votes Speaks: Italian*, English, German Studies: Russian, Swedish, French
| Message 56 of 95 15 December 2010 at 4:00pm | IP Logged |
Since I’ve managed to read at least a book (novel or drama) in four languages this year, I think it would be great if next year I read a book in all five of my languages.
Apart from that, I don’t like making plans for the future, because I’m hopeless when it comes to keeping them. I must admit, though, that I’m pondering whether it’s time to bursh up my long-neglected German and I’m not ruling out starting a new language altogether: I’ve kept wanderlust at bay this year, but I’m not sure I can do the same next year. If I choose to pick up another language the most likely candidates right now are Spanish, Chinese, and Japanese.
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