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| microsnout TAC 2010 Winner Senior Member Canada microsnout.wordpress Joined 5473 days ago 277 posts - 553 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 57 of 95 15 December 2010 at 5:42pm | IP Logged | ||
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Time for ambitious goals for 2011 is it ? Hmmm ?
1er By spring, complete current French immersion project in Montreal with significant improvements in verbal fluency. If I need one of those vague descriptions lets call it "moderately advanced quasi-functional mostly-conversational fluency" 2ième Sit one of those DALF exams at the Alliance Française just to see what they are like. I don't care which one, either B2 or C1. I don't think of my level in terms of these designations. 3ième In summer, voyage up the Saint-Laurence river in my sailboat into French speaking territory. Explore maritime areas of Quebec and small towns, meet new people, improve knowledge of Québécois culture, idiomatic expressions and geography. 4ième Visit my home town in Northern Ontario (which is now over 60% francophone) which I have not done in the 4 years since starting French study. Sample Franco-Ontarien culture. 5ième Speak French better than Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper. 6ième Interact with a dozen people in Montreal in one day without anyone speaking English to me. 7ième In the spirit of Irishpolyglot, fool a Français into thinking I am Québécois for 30 seconds. As you can see, the wanderlust is killing me : ) Edited by microsnout on 15 December 2010 at 7:00pm 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| olhazar Pentaglot Newbie Croatia Joined 5729 days ago 13 posts - 20 votes Speaks: Croatian*, English, Spanish, Russian, Italian Studies: Arabic (Written), Turkish, Georgian, Kurdish, Modern Hebrew | Message 58 of 95 15 December 2010 at 7:20pm | IP Logged | ||
I was in Georgia this summer and i bought N.Notadze's grammar of georgian language. Next year I am going to Turkey and Chechnya, so i will try to learn as much Turkish and Chechen as possible. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| global_gizzy Senior Member United States maxcollege.blogspot. Joined 5705 days ago 275 posts - 310 votes Studies: Spanish | Message 59 of 95 17 December 2010 at 4:03pm | IP Logged | ||
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For 2011 my goals are thus:
SpanishIn a few words: Heavy Duty Maintenance and steady advancement of abilities. I want to reach conversational fluency by the end of this year. I want to be a Level 3 on the ILR scale. Conversation: Spend more time in CONVERSATION with Spanish Speakers, I'm going to attempt to have a 10-minute conversation EVERY SCHOOL DAY with one of the Spanish tutors/speakers about my day, yesterday and tomorrow. Find a LANGUAGE PARTNER for 3-4 virtual meetings daily. Reading: at least 25 books in Spanish. I'm going to begin reading and listening to Harry Potter in Spanish and try to make my way through the whole series. I've read each book once in English and I'll get both copies incase I need it since I dont have a decent dictionary. Self-StudyI'm going to use-up every Spanish workbook that I have for a review of GRammar and complete as many Audio series as possible to help build my oral and aural abilities. ArabicI haven't studied this language since 2006 and I'd like to restart my study and rebuild my understanding of the language and amass a larger vocabulary without detracting anything from my Spanish studies. Esperanto:I want to restart and complete the my Esperanto lessons, I'm going to renew my membership with the Organization and find a language partner. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Biscotti Triglot Newbie United Kingdom Joined 5132 days ago 29 posts - 48 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish | Message 60 of 95 24 December 2010 at 1:59pm | IP Logged | ||
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My Goals:
Spanish- Get up to advanced fluency Learn lots of colloquial language Meet more speakers Read book translations, starting with Harry Potter Italian- Reach the level of basic fluency Have lots of conversations with other speakers Iron out problems with my grammar And above all- Work hard Avoid wanderlust - no more languages for the moment! Have fun! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| mirab3lla Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom lang-8.com/220477Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5445 days ago 161 posts - 229 votes Speaks: Romanian*, EnglishC2, German Studies: Spanish, FrenchB1, Mandarin | Message 61 of 95 24 December 2010 at 3:47pm | IP Logged | ||
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My language plans for 2011:
-take part in the English Olympiad and hopefully, qualifying for the national phase -obtain a prize at the national phase of the German Olympiad -work harder at the film for the Fetival de Film Francophone in Zielona Gora, which I am going to attend -translate more TED talks into Romanian Those are my ”academically-oriented” plans... Now, my ”language-oriented” plans: -preparing for the future language examination papers which I am going to sit in 2012 for Uni ( Cambridge, Oesd, DELF and DELE) -learn at least a new word every day - practise German speaking more - practise French and Spanish writing more - brush up my English grammar - abtain from learning more Russian than the basics And my ”hobby-oriented” plans - go on with completing the ”1001 books to read before you die” and ”1001 movies to see before you die” lists :D - manage to visit a new country ( if I win the 1st prize at the national German Olympiad, I will get the chance of visiting Germany but otherwise... I will have to find a trip to go on myself) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Nguyen Senior Member Vietnam Joined 5095 days ago 109 posts - 195 votes Speaks: Vietnamese | Message 62 of 95 24 December 2010 at 3:54pm | IP Logged | ||
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I may be moving to Singapore for six months to a year in January so I think I may start learning Mandarin as there are alot of resources. I also plan on setting up a blog to help friends and family members learn English and Vietnamese.
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| Segata Triglot Groupie Germany Joined 5173 days ago 64 posts - 125 votes Speaks: German*, Japanese, English Studies: Korean, Esperanto | Message 63 of 95 24 December 2010 at 5:10pm | IP Logged | ||
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Actively listen to Korean (dramas, TV, news,...) for at least 3 hours each day.
Read a few Korean books Read Wikipedia articles in Korean without much use of a dictionary. Maybe learn some Chinese. Edited by Segata on 24 December 2010 at 5:11pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| yawn Bilingual Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5428 days ago 141 posts - 209 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin*, FrenchC2, SpanishC2 Studies: GermanB1 | Message 64 of 95 25 December 2010 at 12:10am | IP Logged | ||
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-Obtain at least the Zertifikat Deutsch B2
-Pass the DELE Superior (C2) exam -Maintain skills in Mandarin/French -Continue studying Latin/Ancient Greek (I could potentially take the National Latin Exam...?) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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