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| Olympia Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5984 days ago 195 posts - 244 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Old English, French | Message 65 of 95 25 December 2010 at 1:23am | IP Logged | ||
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Well, I will be spending the first half of 2011 in a university exchange/language immersion program in Sao Paulo, Brazil, so obviously my main language goals center around Portuguese. My goal is to attain C level and actually speak Portuguese better than Spanish (I'm about a C-level there, but I'm not exactly sure.). I really want to become totally fluent in Portuguese by the end of June when I return to the States.
After that, starting in July, I hope to devote much more time to French. I have done very little formal studying with French, but I have been reading and listening to music a bit and my comprehension has improved. If I have time, I'd like to start Russian at some point, but I'm thinking that might be a 2012 goal :). 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6912 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 66 of 95 25 December 2010 at 1:41am | IP Logged | ||
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Some of my modest goals:
Decent conversational skills in German. I took an online test the other week and got B2. My spoken German isn't at that level yet. B1 Spanish (or whatever level is above my current). Better focus/structure for my Russian and Mandarin "studies". Now it's pure chaos, and it doesn't take me anywhere. Some of my ambitious goals: Take the remaining Esperanto tests at the Lernu site. A2/B1 Portuguese (I've studied it since September, and my Spanish has helped a lot) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Magnus13 Triglot Newbie United States mybestwaytolearnspan Joined 5144 days ago 9 posts - 9 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Japanese Studies: Mandarin, Korean | Message 67 of 95 25 December 2010 at 1:56am | IP Logged | ||
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My goals for the coming year are as follows:
Spanish ~ Advanced Fluency (current: Basic Fluency) Mandarin ~ Intermediate/Basic Fluency (current: Beginner) Arabic (MSA) ~ Intermediate (current: Beginner) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| dotdotdot Diglot Newbie United States Joined 5222 days ago 24 posts - 37 votes Speaks: Korean, English* Studies: Italian, Russian | Message 68 of 95 25 December 2010 at 2:21am | IP Logged | ||
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My goals for this coming year are:
Italian: Gain basic Fluency Russian: Start and get to A2/B1 level And start out in Hungarian or Lithuanian 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| GettingThere Newbie United States Joined 6252 days ago 24 posts - 27 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 69 of 95 26 December 2010 at 1:56am | IP Logged | ||
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My basic goals are to:
French: Get to the point this year to where I can understand a program or show in French, and to be able to read a book and understand it without having to look the words up. I'd also like to be able to write decently without having to use a dictionary and grammar constantly. Latin: to keep up with my study group and still be at it by the close of the year! Hindi: still be plugging away and to have made decent progress by the end of the year I would also like to have started either Spanish or Russian. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Dr. Daneeka Triglot Newbie United States Joined 5110 days ago 6 posts - 9 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French Studies: Mandarin | Message 70 of 95 27 December 2010 at 5:00am | IP Logged | ||
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Hopefully I will be at at least an intermediate level in Farsi, and I have plans to greatly improve my Mandarin and get myself over the hump and reach basic fluency. I'm also going into a semester at school in which I will be studying K'iche', and hopefully reach at least an intermediate level (or perhaps basic fluency) through these regular and serious studies for the next five to six months, though I can't make an accurate prediction since I haven't the slightest idea about how difficult the K'iche' Maya language is to learn.
And, probably to squeeze in during the summer, I would hopefully like to get in some French and/or Hopi. 'Tis a task, but it will all be realized with good time management. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| cathrynm Senior Member United States junglevision.co Joined 6128 days ago 910 posts - 1232 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Finnish | Message 71 of 95 27 December 2010 at 7:33am | IP Logged | ||
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2011 is the year I start to get serious about Finnish. I started on Finnish 2010, but my father had some personal problems that got in the way, and I'm also busy with Japanese. I got stuck doing a lot of driving in 2010 so I managed to get a fair amount of listening in with Japanese and Finnish, but, still, I've been kind of passive with Finnish the last year.
My plan. Textbooks, beginner Finnish audio material, like Supisuomea, and other random Finnish TV that I've collected or found on youtube. Combine that with daily writing practice on lang-8.com. I've started posting some simple sentences in Finnish to lang-8.com, and I'm getting comfortable with this. I know, this is exactly what I need, since with Finnish error-free sentence production is so so hard. Passive methods aren't going to work for this language. For Japanese, I'll continue reading and watching TV. I plan to retake the JLPT N3 -- that is assuming I failed the JLPT N3 in 2010. I did finally break the ice with internet voice chat and I need to force myself to do more of this. My reading skills are advancing nicely, but I am still spectacularly non-fluent in this language. I am capable of the 'talk to the slow foreign person' conversation in Japanese -- but several times Japanese people have tried to actually talk to me and then I'm 'huh, what was that -- then weird awkward silence.' 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| guitarob Hexaglot Groupie CanadaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5090 days ago 95 posts - 138 votes Speaks: Spanish*, French, English, Danish, Portuguese, Italian Studies: German | Message 72 of 95 27 December 2010 at 4:59pm | IP Logged | ||
Before I post my goal, I wanted to know, where did you take that test? Is it also available in other languages? My only goal for 2011 is to achieve basic fluency in danish (B2) by the end of the year. I will try to achieve this with assimil and probably some formal training. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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