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| Iwwersetzerin Bilingual Heptaglot Senior Member Luxembourg Joined 5667 days ago 259 posts - 513 votes  Speaks: French*, Luxembourgish*, GermanC2, EnglishC2, SpanishC2, DutchC1, ItalianC1 Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin | Message 33 of 95 11 December 2010 at 3:18pm | IP Logged |
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My goals for 2011 are the following:
1) Italian: finish Assimil perfectionnement, read a lot of books and maintain a solid B2 level. Maybe, just maybe, take the CELI 4 exam (level C1) at the end of the year. 2) Dutch: work through my self-study books (Teach Yourself, Assimil) and reach B2 level. Start reading books in Dutch and maybe take a language exam if possible. 3) Indonesian: learn the basics. 4) Portuguese: learn the basics. And if I still have time and energy left: 5) Russian: Take my Russian back to the level it was 5 years ago (somewhere between A2 and B1) and start studying it seriously again. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| skeeterses Senior Member United States angelfire.com/games5Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6616 days ago 302 posts - 356 votes 1 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: Korean, Spanish | Message 34 of 95 11 December 2010 at 7:25pm | IP Logged |
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I'm tempted to say fluency in Korean, but given the sheer scale of the vocabulary, that's probably going to be
another couple years. For 2011, the first aim will be to get through several books from Kim Il Sung's biography in Korean. The reason I've chosen that text is because the North Korean website 우리만족 has the audio for the text, which will be valuable for me to practice my listening skills in Korean. Also, I want to go back through the advanced Ganada books to help get my grammatical Korean down. (I've already gone reviewed the Ganada basic and Intermediate 1 book over the past couple months.) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| MixedUpCody Senior Member United States Joined 5254 days ago 144 posts - 280 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Mandarin | Message 35 of 95 11 December 2010 at 8:31pm | IP Logged |
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Awesome topic!
Over the summer of 2011 I am going to go to Mexico for 3-4 weeks, and hopefully that will be the final push to take me up to B2-C1 (I'm around B1 written and A2 spoken now). After I've reached that level in Spanish I'm going to focus on passing the DELE advanced exam by the end of 2011. And then... I'm going to start learning Mandarin. I'm really excited about this because my wife speaks Mandarin so I'll have native interaction from day one and I'll be able to practice a lot. 2011 is going to be awesome! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Kerrie Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Kerrie2 Joined 5393 days ago 1232 posts - 1740 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 36 of 95 12 December 2010 at 5:49am | IP Logged |
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My mission for 2011 is to focus intensely on one language at a time, and then maintain it by reading and listening after their designated time frames. I plan to focus on Spanish through February 2011, French (March-July), Italian (August-November), and German (October - March 2012).
For each of these languages, I plan to use the Living Language Ultimate books alongside Assimil. With the Romance languages, I will then jump into dual-reading materials, probably starting with The Little Prince and Harry Potter, simply because I'm familiar with them. I don't know if my German will be strong enough at that point to jump into reading or not, but that will be nearly a year from now, and I'm not planning that far ahead yet. =) My mission is to get my Spanish and French to a C1 level and my Italian to a B2 level. For German, I want to finish Assimil and the Ultimate German books before the end of the year. I have a lot of work ahead of me. I better quit hanging out here and go do something. =) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| marvelgirll Newbie United States Joined 5139 days ago 37 posts - 37 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Dutch, Arabic (classical), Arabic (Levantine) | Message 37 of 95 12 December 2010 at 6:35am | IP Logged |
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I'd really like to reach an intermediate level in Arabic and improve my listening skills.
I also want to start Dutch. I'll be participating in the January Dutch challenge to kick- start that. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Ericounet Senior Member France yojik.euRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5433 days ago 157 posts - 414 votes Studies: English, German, Russian | Message 38 of 95 12 December 2010 at 9:19am | IP Logged |
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Hi,
my goals for 2011: 1) I would like to finish FSI Russian the third allready done) 2) .. to finish assimil German I didn't speak German since 1974 ... 40 lessons done. And to improve my Russian: speaking, reading (Kamenskaia ;) and writing. 3) to advance my work on FSI Russian ( to OCR the course, to format it in docbook format, to write the programs to extract the exercices and vocabulary, to translate the course in French ..., to put it on my server for everyone use ) It will take me years to complete. We want also to re-record some parts (my wife will do it )and to give the answers to the exercises) It will be enough to fill all 2011 :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Dottymy Newbie United States Joined 5342 days ago 4 posts - 4 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, Mandarin | Message 39 of 95 12 December 2010 at 10:53am | IP Logged |
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I will only study Chinese for the first half of the year, then during the second half I would really love to brush up on my French at the same time as working on my Chinese. I truly though right now only have motivation for Chinese (because I study that alone)... I love French but it is a bummer that I have to study it in school (which I feels limits how far I can go with it). Pretty basic goals for my languages this year.
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| lerner Groupie Germany Joined 5816 days ago 51 posts - 79 votes Speaks: Hindi* Studies: EnglishC2, GermanC1, Spanish, Dutch | Message 40 of 95 12 December 2010 at 2:21pm | IP Logged |
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Well, since I don't really have time (really lame excuse.... ok, back to the point), I've scaled down my goals to:
1. Improving proficiency in German to about the C2 level (I'd put my present status at C1) and increasing my active vocabulary. 2. Starting... and hopefully finishing... Platiquemos (or however it's spelled) 3. Dabbling a bit in Swedish and maybe, just maybe, Czech 4. For once, trying to properly (and honestly) maintain a log for each of the mentioned languages. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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