Asiafeverr Diglot Senior Member Hong Kong Joined 6343 days ago 346 posts - 431 votes 1 sounds Speaks: French*, English Studies: Mandarin, Cantonese, Shanghainese, German
| Message 57 of 85 02 January 2010 at 1:09am | IP Logged |
My Goals:
Reach advanced fluency in Mandarin and written Chinese
Reach basic fluency in Cantonese
Reach basic fluency in Shanghainese
Learn enough Sichuanese to hold a basic conversation
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El Forastero Pentaglot Senior Member Colombia alijunakai.blogspot.Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6270 days ago 186 posts - 228 votes Speaks: Spanish*, Portuguese, FrenchB1, EnglishC1, Italian Studies: German
| Message 58 of 85 02 January 2010 at 2:26am | IP Logged |
I would like to start 40 new languages courses, but I need to be more realistic, so these are my goals:
German: at least B2. I must to finish Pimsleur method before february and start to read news and some blogs (anyone can recommend me some?). I'm in the way right now
French: Reach C1 Certification. I have to recover my ancient skills, long ago forgotten.
Portugues: Reach C1 Certification. I'm going to start in July, i also need to recover ancient skills
English: Improve my Toefl Score (87). Perhaps a C1 certification Try to get a British accent
Start a new language (I hope it would be Basque because I travel to Bilbao to do a Master title).
Polyglottery: Start a multilingual blog (I have already one in Spanish), write in this forum very often
Good luck gor everyone
Edited by El Forastero on 02 January 2010 at 2:45am
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El Forastero Pentaglot Senior Member Colombia alijunakai.blogspot.Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6270 days ago 186 posts - 228 votes Speaks: Spanish*, Portuguese, FrenchB1, EnglishC1, Italian Studies: German
| Message 59 of 85 02 January 2010 at 3:10am | IP Logged |
I've read the entire post and I could see that some members talk about Assimil method. Is it as good as you say? Where could I find it?
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datsunking1 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5586 days ago 1014 posts - 1533 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Russian, Dutch, French
| Message 60 of 85 02 January 2010 at 3:56am | IP Logged |
El Forastero wrote:
I would like to start 40 new languages courses, but I need to be more realistic, so these are my goals:
German: at least B2. I must to finish Pimsleur method before february and start to read news and some blogs (anyone can recommend me some?). I'm in the way right now
French: Reach C1 Certification. I have to recover my ancient skills, long ago forgotten.
Portugues: Reach C1 Certification. I'm going to start in July, i also need to recover ancient skills
English: Improve my Toefl Score (87). Perhaps a C1 certification Try to get a British accent
Start a new language (I hope it would be Basque because I travel to Bilbao to do a Master title).
Polyglottery: Start a multilingual blog (I have already one in Spanish), write in this forum very often
Good luck gor everyone |
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For German try multiligualbooks.com they have many internet podcasts/newscasts. Best of luck!
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Lindsay19 Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5822 days ago 183 posts - 214 votes Speaks: English*, GermanC1 Studies: Swedish, Faroese, Icelandic
| Message 61 of 85 02 January 2010 at 4:07am | IP Logged |
Reach advanced fluency in German
Basic fluency in Swedish
Conversationaly fluent in Faroese
Get the basics of Icelandic down
Hope I can do it :-)
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doviende Diglot Senior Member Canada languagefixatio Joined 5987 days ago 533 posts - 1245 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Spanish, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Hindi, Swedish, Portuguese
| Message 62 of 85 02 January 2010 at 5:26am | IP Logged |
El Forastero wrote:
German: at least B2. I must to finish Pimsleur method before february and start to read news and some blogs (anyone can recommend me some?). |
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For many languages, you can just go to www.wordpress.com and choose a language in the drop-down box. I do this to find German, Swedish, and Esperanto blogs to read, and there are plenty more languages in the list.
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Recht Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5802 days ago 241 posts - 270 votes Speaks: English*, GermanB1
| Message 63 of 85 02 January 2010 at 8:43am | IP Logged |
German fluency - This means a C1 or C2 level. We'll see what happens. I've never taken a
language to fluency other than English (native), so this will be fun. I have a new TAC
log
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ellasevia Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2011 Senior Member Germany Joined 6143 days ago 2150 posts - 3229 votes Speaks: English*, German, Croatian, Greek, French, Spanish, Russian, Swedish, Portuguese, Turkish, Italian Studies: Catalan, Persian, Mandarin, Japanese, Romanian, Ukrainian
| Message 64 of 85 03 January 2010 at 1:06am | IP Logged |
Wow...2010... Here are my goals:
ENGLISH: Native Fluency (my proficiency has gone down lately)
ESPAÑOL: Native or Very-Near Native Fluency
PORTUGUÊS: Advanced Fluency
FRANÇAIS: Advanced Fluency
ITALIANO: Basic Fluency (at least)
DEUTSCH: Basic Fluency
ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ: Basic Fluency
日本語: High Intermediate Level
SVENSKA: Basic Fluency
EDIT: This was originally a very long post with lots of mini-goals, but it looked a bit annoying in a public thread, so I shortened it. The full thing is in my log.
Edited by ellasevia on 01 February 2010 at 2:41pm
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