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| Desacrator48 Groupie United States Joined 5306 days ago 93 posts - 127 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, French | Message 25 of 95 10 December 2010 at 8:21pm | IP Logged |
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1) Hope to be able to say I am fluent in Spanish, not quite advanced fluency yet.
2) Say I am conversational in French, maybe at a B2 level, or C1 in an ideal world. 3) Have decided upon another language to start with about mid-year & be resolute in that choice (from one of Dutch, German, Russian, Hindi, Portuguese...leaning towards Dutch w/ others perhaps started in another year)...and to attain that level to an A2 Edited by Desacrator48 on 10 December 2010 at 8:21pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Omenapuu00 Tetraglot Newbie United States Joined 5106 days ago 10 posts - 19 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Russian, Swedish | Message 26 of 95 10 December 2010 at 9:11pm | IP Logged |
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Excellent topic, and very motivating to see people with such exciting goals and aspirations for the coming year :) :)
1.) Give that final heave to push my Russian from somewhere near B2/C1 to a C2. Hopefully once I get settled in new living arrangements and employment I'll be able to jump back into my 6+ hour daily study regimen. 2.) Spent a good portion of 2-3 months intensely studying French, hopefully reaching at least a basic fluency in those few months. I assume my Spanish will assist me greatly. 3.) This kind of goes along with 1, but I'd like to read a lot more Russian literature in the original...I've quite enjoyed everything I've read. 4.) Perhaps spend a couple months putting in some pretty serious hours studying Swedish, its been neglected lately and its time to kick it up from high-intermediate to fluency of some sort. 5.) Ideally I'd like to spend probably the latter half of 2011 reaaaally polishing my Spanish, Russian and Swedish, and maybe get my Esperanto back up to par. 6.) If I'm not too occupied with other endeavors, I think I would like to spend some time with Icelandic again. Icelandic was the first language I started studying on my own, and I'd like to get back with that beast of a language :). (plus, Old Norse mythology and language is a keen interest of mine, and reading sagas and epics in the original would be awesome!) Yikes, I'd love to pick up some other languages I've spent a lot of time with in the past, from Finnish to Arabic to lojban., but I don't think there will be enough hours in 2011 :), oh well, there's always 2012...or is there ?! ;) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| SamD Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 6657 days ago 823 posts - 987 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French Studies: Portuguese, Norwegian | Message 27 of 95 11 December 2010 at 2:24am | IP Logged |
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In 2011, I want to improve my Portuguese to the point where it isn't so obvious that I learned Spanish and Italian first.
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| Merv Bilingual Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5271 days ago 414 posts - 749 votes Speaks: English*, Serbo-Croatian* Studies: Spanish, French | Message 28 of 95 11 December 2010 at 3:09am | IP Logged |
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1.) Gain fluency in Spanish.
2.) Start learning French and gain fluency in French. 3.) Start learning Portuguese. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| genini1 Senior Member United States Joined 5466 days ago 114 posts - 161 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 29 of 95 11 December 2010 at 3:37am | IP Logged |
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Step 1) Learn Japanese
Step 2) ???? Step 3) Profit 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| zerothinking Senior Member Australia Joined 6370 days ago 528 posts - 772 votes Speaks: English* | Message 30 of 95 11 December 2010 at 8:25am | IP Logged |
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Main focus: (200 hours of study each)
Japanese Mandarin German Secondary Focus: Russian Norwegian French (Maintain, expand vocabulary, read extensively) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| gerry Triglot Newbie United States Joined 5248 days ago 22 posts - 23 votes Speaks: English*, French, Italian Studies: Spanish, Latin, German | Message 31 of 95 11 December 2010 at 11:39am | IP Logged |
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My main goals are to continue studying French to greater fluency and continue with my Italian and German to an intermediate level. I would also like to pick up Spanish again if there's time.
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| doviende Diglot Senior Member Canada languagefixatio Joined 5984 days ago 533 posts - 1245 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Spanish, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Hindi, Swedish, Portuguese | Message 32 of 95 11 December 2010 at 12:42pm | IP Logged |
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Firstly, in 2011 I hope to find some ways to maintain a year of full-time language study through some part time work and living cheaply.
In January and February I'll be studying Dutch intensely with some friends, aiming at high reading/listening comprehension and basic speaking ability. I've also been thinking that I'd like to branch out a bit in the language families, by working on a romance language, a slavic language, and an indian language. I haven't decided completely, but this will probably involve one month of intense Spanish work, one or more months of Polish, and as many as 6 months focused on Hindi. Because of the limited time frames, I'll be focusing on reading/listening comprehension in Spanish and Polish. I'm hoping that if I can build up enough comprehension, then I can work on the speaking slowly over time, through activities like hosting occasional couchsurfers, people I meet on the street, and skype. I also want to test the limits of book-based vocabulary acquisition with parallel texts and audiobooks. Hindi will be mainly a project for when I'm back in Vancouver, where there's a very large base of Hindi speakers available...the main task for me will be to break out of my book-based methods and find ways to learn from talking with people, since I haven't been able to find any audiobooks for Hindi at all. Actually, in Vancouver I know several native speakers for all 4 of these languages, so it'll be interesting to surprise them all, and hopefully I'll be able to get practice in something wherever I go. :) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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