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| jimbo baby! Senior Member United States Joined 5978 days ago 202 posts - 208 votes  2 sounds Speaks: English* | Message 9 of 66 31 December 2008 at 10:40am | IP Logged |
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This is the year I get serious with language learning. I am going to create my own little immersion world and try to shut out English from my everyday life. That means no TV, radio, movies, sports or anything else in English. Everything I do will be in my target languages except for instructional material. I hope to become fluent in French, German and Spanish by the end of the year.
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| Felipe Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 6031 days ago 451 posts - 501 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Italian, Dutch, Catalan | Message 10 of 66 31 December 2008 at 11:10am | IP Logged |
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By the end of 2009 I hope to be able to converse quite well in French and Dutch, while also continuing to improve my Italian.
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| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6598 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 11 of 66 31 December 2008 at 11:40am | IP Logged |
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I've been postponing posting my goals for 2009 because I'm not sure about them... but that's what I currently hope to achieve:
Finnish: reach advanced fluency in 2009 or early 2010, ie before I'll have studied it for 5 years (27 June 2010). Some particular plans: -read more original books than translated ones -finally do the business Finnish course that I bought back in spring -listen to some challenging stuff (other than music with growling/screaming vocals which are hard to understand in any language ;)) -do more scriptorium Esperanto: reach basic fluency. It's frustrating that I've been wandering round it so long already... Hopefully I'll achieve it by learning the roots at lujz.org (or whatever was the url of the page linked in Volte's log), reading Pushkin (at least the things I've already read in Russian) and finally reading Lundo ekas sabate that I quickly abandoned, doing the exercises on suffixes and starting to use Esperanto actively. German, Portuguese - that's where my doubts are. I'm quite sure I can reach basic fluency in one of them, but probably not in both. My first goal is to get my active Portuguese to intermediate level, and then... I'll see later. I'm afraid it might keep me from getting fluent in German that when I have classes I'm not really motivated to do much outside of them. Belarusian - intermediate level. It's extremely frustrating to write the same goal as last year :-( Latin - no clue yet, probably not enough time for it before February Romanian - practically the same as Latin, although I'll probably watch sport broadcasts in it Toki pona - dunno what's fluency in it, since once you start using compound words as units the point is kinda lost - you just memorize cliches instead of thinking in simple categories. But I want to translate something by Tolkien into it :-) As for Tolkien btw, I wanna learn to write Tengwar - I find it embarrassing that I still can't do so. I'll start (have already started, in fact) by practicing writing Toki pona in it because it uses just 14 letters, and they're all pretty straightforward (ie I can be sure the person who adapted it for writing in Toki pona can't have done anything wrong - unlike Finnish, unfortunately:/). I'm also going to learn the Greek alphabet - to be able at least to read the examples in books on linguistics. Oh and as for English the goal is again not getting kicked away from the uni. Perhaps improving it (my English) - depends on how much the classes suck. And one more point... I used to think 2009 would be solely a year of consolidation. But knowing myself I now don't have any illusions, I'm pretty sure I will start something new. The most likely candidates are Old Church Slavonic, Italian, Danish and Dutch - although for some reason it's easier for me to start a language which is not on my hit list, so that I could do whatever I feel like doing without thinking about getting fluent in the long run... Edited by Serpent on 01 January 2009 at 4:43pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| delta910 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5876 days ago 267 posts - 313 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Dutch, German | Message 12 of 66 31 December 2008 at 11:54am | IP Logged |
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By the end of 2009 I want to be able to read a newspaper or book in German and Spanish and not have to go to a dictionary for help. Be able to hear news or watch a movie(no subtiles) and not have to go back to catch what they said. Be able to converse on a great scale in both of those. Before the end of the year I would like to get going on Modern Standard Arabic..maybe by like June.
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| solidsnake Diglot Senior Member China Joined 7042 days ago 469 posts - 488 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin | Message 13 of 66 31 December 2008 at 12:06pm | IP Logged |
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Japanese basic fluency by August 2010. I did Chinese in less than three years, so let's see if I can do Japanese in less than two.
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| frenkeld Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6944 days ago 2042 posts - 2719 votes Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: German | Message 14 of 66 31 December 2008 at 12:28pm | IP Logged |
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Hindi: Learn it. It's a language I want to speak and understand sooner rather than later, so I will start with courses with audio (Assimil "Le Hindi sans peine", TY Hindi, Colloquial Hindi, ...) and watch Bollywood movies for practice.
German: Continue reading novels to keep building vocabulary and feel for the language. Edited by frenkeld on 31 December 2008 at 1:18pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| AufExJetzt Newbie United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5821 days ago 5 posts - 5 votes Speaks: English* | Message 15 of 66 31 December 2008 at 1:33pm | IP Logged |
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- Continue studying German.
- Emphasizing grammar and conversational abilities. - While maintaining a steady stream of new vocabulary words to prepare myself for German University studies. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| wharrgarbl Newbie United States Joined 5845 days ago 27 posts - 36 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 16 of 66 31 December 2008 at 3:09pm | IP Logged |
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Esperanto- Become fluent within the first quarter of 2009.
Spanish- Get to the point where I can watch movies and listen to music in Spanish, understanding most of the words. German- Start learning and get to a beginner/intermediate level. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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