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 meramarina Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5969 days ago 1341 posts - 2303 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Italian, French Personal Language Map | Message 1 of 95 10 December 2010 at 3:49am | IP Logged |
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I'm surprised no one has posted this question yet!
A new year is almost upon us, and it's a good time to think about what we want to do next year. So, what are your language goals for 2011? For me: Likely to do: Continue with the three languages (Spanish, German and French) that I'm already working on. I'd like to start using Skype to practice speaking and conversational skills, and I'd also like to meet people offline who study or speak these languages. I'll be adding a fourth language, Italian, at some point. I though I'd be ready for it by now, but other things have interfered. Still, it's soon to come! Unlikely for this year, but I can hope: if health and financial resources allow, I want to travel to a location where I can use one or more of these target languages. Also unlikely, but I'm researching it: I'd love to have a job that allows some use of foreign languages, perhaps with an international company, or even just as a local volunteer. And at the end of 2011, I'll redo my learning plan with one or more new languages How about you? Edited by meramarina on 10 December 2010 at 3:51am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
 budonoseito Pro Member United States budobeyondtechnRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5807 days ago 261 posts - 344 votes Studies: French, Japanese Personal Language Map | Message 2 of 95 10 December 2010 at 4:11am | IP Logged |
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Mine is to continue with French and Japanese. I will be going to Quebec in July. So, I
will have some more motivation for French. I want to get to German. But, that will have to wait probably another year. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Genocyde Groupie United States Joined 5774 days ago 56 posts - 75 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Russian, Mandarin, Persian | Message 3 of 95 10 December 2010 at 4:50am | IP Logged |
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I'm thinking of participating in TAC 2011 with Swedish and Swahili, along with still studying my current languages.
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| The Real CZ Senior Member United States Joined 5651 days ago 1069 posts - 1495 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Korean | Message 4 of 95 10 December 2010 at 4:59am | IP Logged |
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Mine is to make realistic goals. Or stop being lazy and achieve the goals I set forth. My main goals for the end of 2010 and beginning of 2011 are improving output in both Korean and Japanese. Increase passive understanding in both a lot. For Japanese, (finally) finish learning the (new) Joyo kanji list. My main goal for the beginning of 2011 is to play video games in Japanese, and right now, I'm binging on Japanese vocabulary.
For the rest of 2011, that's really too far out there. I don't know if I'll be able to do my travel abroad in 2011. If so, South Korea is my preference, and if I can't go there, Japan is the close runner up. So, for either of those scenarios, basic conversation skills (mainly working on output and some input) would get me there if I have the ability to do my travel abroad in 2011. If not, I can do it in my last year of college. As for other languages, probably not. I dabbled with Chinese, German, and Spanish for a week each. Until I hit a satisfactory level in both Korean and Japanese, I won't be starting another language. Edited by The Real CZ on 10 December 2010 at 5:00am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| justberta Diglot Senior Member Norway Joined 5587 days ago 140 posts - 170 votes Speaks: English, Norwegian* Studies: Indonesian, German, Spanish, Russian | Message 5 of 95 10 December 2010 at 5:08am | IP Logged |
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My goal and resolution for 2011 is to go from beginner to intermediate in Russian. As I
am already living in Russia, this is both realistic and achievable. I don't want to add any other languages to the mix, I would simply like to maintain them. Spanish fluency would be great though, but that's more like 2012... 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| ellasevia Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2011 Senior Member Germany Joined 6144 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 6 of 95 10 December 2010 at 5:39am | IP Logged |
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I am quite pleased with all that I've accomplished in 2010 and hope that 2011 will be just as good, if not better! Last year I wasn't very familiar with the CEFR levels, but I set goals of reaching advanced fluency in French and Portuguese and basic fluency in Greek, German, Italian, and Swedish, as well as a high-ish intermediate level in Japanese. I think I've probably achieved all of those, except not quite the basic fluency in Swedish and maybe not a "high enough" intermediate in Japanese. All the other languages you can see in my profile were unexpected surprises over the course of the year. I partially attribute my successes in 2010 to setting very lofty goals and working like crazy all year to achieve them, so I'll do the same now, although I won't bore you with all the details that I had last year. Here are just the approximate levels I hope to achieve by the end of 2011:
Spanish/Portuguese/French: Maintain C1-C2 level Italian: Maintain B2, or maybe try to move up to C1 if I'm motivated Greek: C1 German: C1 Dutch: B2 Swedish: B2 Romanian: B2 Esperanto: B2 Swahili: B2 Japanese: B1 (I'm probably already around there, but I don't foresee myself getting to B2 [ie, basic fluency] in the next year. Maybe 2012.) Russian: B1 Persian: B1 Also, I hope that I don't bog myself down with even more language projects that I honestly don't have time for--keep wanderlust to a minimum! If I can achieve most or all of these by the end of 2011, I'll be extremely pleased with myself, and will probably reward myself with some new foreign delicacy. I'm so excited! Edited by ellasevia on 10 December 2010 at 6:24am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Lianne Senior Member Canada thetoweringpile.blog Joined 5117 days ago 284 posts - 410 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Esperanto, Toki Pona, German, French | Message 7 of 95 10 December 2010 at 6:25am | IP Logged |
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Absolute beginner to basic fluency in Toki Pona and Esperanto! I'm not sure if it's reasonable, but Toki Pona is obviously easier than most languages, and from the little Esperanto I've had time to do while still in school, it seems to come very easily to me. I'll also be getting back into my German, hopefully pretty soon, but I'm definitely emphasizing Toki Pona and Esperanto until I'm fairly comfortable with them.
I'm graduating university this month (11 days until my last exam!), so 2011 will be my first ever year with no homework! I'm very excited. So, while there will be some big life changes (finding a permanent job, moving out of my parents' house in the spring), I'm still hoping I'll have a lot more time for language learning than I've ever had before. Also, I should probably make it a goal to not let myself get distracted. Esperanto is the reason my German got put on hold, and Toki Pona just recently butted its way into my life. I will have to content myself with looking gleefully at all the audio courses at the library, and use them as motivation to get to an advanced level in my current languages faster, so I can add new ones. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| TixhiiDon Tetraglot Senior Member Japan Joined 5466 days ago 772 posts - 1474 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese, German, Russian Studies: Georgian | Message 8 of 95 10 December 2010 at 7:24am | IP Logged |
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Just to keep ploughing through Georgian. My passive skills are getting better and better
but my speaking is still pretty disastrous. I was trying to explain the British school system to my Georgian teacher last night and it must have been painful for her to hear her beautiful and exotic language butchered so brutally. I intend to visit Georgia once, and possibly twice, in 2011 and I want to be able to pull off at the very least basic conversations in shops and restaurants. I also intend to return from my travels laden with Georgian food, wine, books, magazines, DVDs, and any Georgian Soviet kitsch I can possibly lay my hands on. It is OK to have "shopping" as a goal for 2011 as long as the shopping is done in the target language, right? 1 person has voted this message useful |
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