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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
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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
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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
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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
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United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name
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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
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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
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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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