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LtM
Triglot
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United States
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Speaks: English*, French, Spanish
Studies: German

 
 Message 25 of 66
01 January 2009 at 3:53pm | IP Logged 
German -- greatly improve vocabulary, work towards basic fluency
French -- spend more time speaking & writing, increase vocabulary
Spanish -- refine pronunciation, increase reading speed
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Serpent
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Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish

 
 Message 26 of 66
01 January 2009 at 4:41pm | IP Logged 
Serpent wrote:
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...
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nobita
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Vietnam
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Speaks: Vietnamese*, EnglishC2
Studies: French, Mandarin, Thai

 
 Message 27 of 66
02 January 2009 at 4:16am | IP Logged 
My goals:
- Mandarin at intermediate level by May, as I'm planning a trip to China then. This
would be the field I'll put my most efforts into.
- English to the advanced fluency from the current basic by mid-year.
- French to basic fluency by sometime near the end of the year.
- Start an undecided language at indefinite time.
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J-Learner
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Australia
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Studies: Yiddish, English*
Studies: Dutch

 
 Message 28 of 66
02 January 2009 at 4:24am | IP Logged 
My goals are to become somewhat fluent in Hebrew, and get down the basics of Spanish and Yiddish.

I have done 6 months of Hebrew already and I'm not even close to basic conversational. It is such a dense language to wade through.

With Spanish I am basically a total beginner. Starting from scratch other than a few looks at it. Hope to get to beginner/low intermediate level.

With Yiddish I know the sound of it really well and have some passive understanding of some parts of it. I will start to study it around August so my plan is only to get to a beginner level with it.

Good luck everybody!
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grwn
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Netherlands
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Speaks: Dutch*

 
 Message 29 of 66
02 January 2009 at 5:17am | IP Logged 
My goals for 2009

- Improve my spoken/written English. My passive knowledge is near advanced fluency, but my active knowledge is closer to upper intermediate.
- Upper intermediate/basic fluency in Latin
- Upper intermediate/basic fluency in Ancient Greek
- Basic fluency in Japanese

I might also start German or French, but this depends on how fast I go with Ancient Greek and Latin.
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dustxs
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United Kingdom
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Speaks: Mandarin, English*, French
Studies: Polish

 
 Message 30 of 66
02 January 2009 at 5:40am | IP Logged 
My main aim is to get to an intermediate fluency level in Polish.

Otherwise, I'll be brushing up on my French conversation and my Mandarin, which has sadly been left to rust since I moved to the UK four years ago...

Edited by dustxs on 02 January 2009 at 5:41am
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MegatronFilm
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Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, French
Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese

 
 Message 31 of 66
02 January 2009 at 1:06pm | IP Logged 
Spanish:
To speak with confidence and relaxed fluency. To have a very large vocabulary :)
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Hampie
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Sweden
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Speaks: Swedish*, English
Studies: Latin, German, Mandarin

 
 Message 32 of 66
02 January 2009 at 5:49pm | IP Logged 
Survive Latin, and when taking the German course stop slacking so I can get a good
grade. Thats my goal.. A or B in German :3.


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