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| ennime Tetraglot Senior Member South Africa universityofbrokengl Joined 5905 days ago 397 posts - 507 votes  Speaks: English, Dutch*, Esperanto, Afrikaans Studies: Xhosa, French, Korean, Portuguese, Zulu | Message 17 of 66 31 December 2008 at 5:11pm | IP Logged |
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Improve my Korean and Russian to a good conversational level
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| LittleKey Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5953 days ago 146 posts - 153 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Japanese | Message 18 of 66 31 December 2008 at 7:49pm | IP Logged |
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get my Spanish to a more advanced level. i'm not sure what this consists of, but i know i want to be able to watch tv and understand what i'm hearing, and to read books at intermediate levels (such as harry potter, eragon, etc.) without needing much use of a dictionary. also, after i'm comfortable with my Spanish, i'd like to dive seriously into another language. I'm thinking either Italian or norwegian. Italian would be easy because of the Spanish fresh in my mind, and norwegian should be easy because i'm a native English speaker. I'm probably going to go for norwegian, because after Spanish, i'll probably want to leave romance languages alone for a little bit. I'm thinking about a half a year for each goal; getting my Spanish better and getting to an intermediate level in probably norwegian. wish me luck people. Edited by LittleKey on 31 December 2008 at 7:49pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| andee Tetraglot Senior Member Japan Joined 7078 days ago 681 posts - 724 votes 3 sounds Speaks: English*, German, Korean, French | Message 19 of 66 31 December 2008 at 8:34pm | IP Logged |
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Not for the whole year, but current priorities are: Korean fluency, Spanish and Polish high intermediate/strong conversational. SHould take most of the year overall, but you never know.
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| altito425 Triglot Groupie United States Joined 5961 days ago 65 posts - 70 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French | Message 20 of 66 31 December 2008 at 8:41pm | IP Logged |
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Spanish - Advanced Fluency by late Spring (I think I'm actually already there passively, my new challenge is going to be bringing it to a nice level of active fluency).
French - Maybe the beginnings of Basic Fluency by the end of the year (doubtful, seeing as how I'm always putting off studying French for one reason or another). I might also start taking German classes in college (I figure I could kind of keep it on the back burner, only taking classes, for about two years, like I did with Spanish, and then start studying it on my own once I've brought my French up to par with my Spanish). 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| hcholm Heptaglot Groupie Norway Joined 6062 days ago 43 posts - 65 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Swedish, Danish, German, French, Polish Studies: Czech | Message 21 of 66 01 January 2009 at 8:01am | IP Logged |
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I want to be able to read all Asterix albums I have or will buy in the next couple of months. That includes many IE/European languages, and at least Turkish, Indonesian, Hungarian, Vietnamese, Estonian and various Finnish dialects. I know of course beforehand what's being said, but I want to be able to at least analyse sentences and make a good guess at what the individual words mean. I also have some comic books in three different Sami languages, and I'd like to do the same with those. I'd like to read some books at intermediate level in Spanish, German, Czech and Polish too.
After I've done that, I'd like to use the rest of my spare time to paint my house, fix my cars, go on vacation with my family, go for some long walks, do some work for a couple of NGO's, work on some web sites, play the piano a lot, build a guitar and mow the lawn. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| polikaru Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6149 days ago 206 posts - 215 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Italian, Dutch | Message 22 of 66 01 January 2009 at 8:13am | IP Logged |
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I hope to improve my German vocabulary and dramatically improve my Mandarin.
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 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6704 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 23 of 66 01 January 2009 at 11:16am | IP Logged |
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I have written a long status report in my profile thread a few days ago, so this will just be a brief summary.
Basically I didn't achieve as much in Russian in 2008 as I had expected, so conquering that language that will be my prime goal for 2009. One of the reasons for this is that I spent more time than expected on the Germanic languages, in particular on Dutch and Icelandic, but at the end of the year I also took up Afrikaans, and I have even been rebrushing my stagnant Low German by reading books bought in Hamburg and Flensburg. I have also to some extent activated my Swedish (in which I already had rather good passive skills) so all in all 2008 became a year dominated by the Germanic languages and not the Slavic ones as expected. My Modern Greek also became good enough for practical uses, such as reading books and articles on the internet. The big surprise was that my dormant Latin also 'woke up', sparked by my somewhat accidental find of a Modern Latin newspaper on the internet (Ephermeris). And then I have decided to spend some time on learning Esperanto. All that leaves me with a bunch of languages that need regular attention, and doing that will be my second most important assignment for 2009. Edited by Iversen on 01 January 2009 at 6:18pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| laoshu505000 Senior Member United States Joined 5817 days ago 121 posts - 232 votes Speaks: English* | Message 24 of 66 01 January 2009 at 12:33pm | IP Logged |
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My new year's resolution for language is to become proficient in these following languages I've chosen:
Georgian Estonian Lithuanian Icelandic I plan to study each of these languages intensively for 3 months. I will study hard to attain my goal. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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