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| luke Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 7054 days ago 3133 posts - 4351 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Esperanto, French | Message 81 of 86 30 November 2013 at 11:05pm | IP Logged | |||||||||||
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Let the look back begin !!!
Still time to make some more progress, but the way to get there is to remember where we were going ... To quote Little Einstein's.... "Blast Off!"
I've done well with the 3 Assimil courses as well as the book by Camus and Le Petit Prince. I started Les Liasons Dangerouse, but didn't get very far. I have read "a couple more books". There was an Introduction to Metaphysics by Henri Bergson and The Apology by Plato. Jules Verne got almost nothng, although I did read a chapter one day. That's a 6.5 hour novel, so I could still do it. Journey to the Center of the Earth is a bit humorous, so this wouldn't be painful. I've just shifted more towards "Great Books", and Jules Verne doesn't make the short list. I read and listened to On Liberty by John Stuart Mill and the first chapter of his Autobiography as well as some of The Subjugation of Women in French.
A bit too much of a stretch. I did review the FSI replacement and variation drills from Basic Spanish. I'm currently about 1/4 of the way through Don Quixote, but "with ease" is not the case. I've moved the review of translation and repoonse drills to 2014.
I have good comprehension of Pasaporto al la Tuta Mondo and Jen Nia Mondo down pretty well. Teach Yourself - I got about 1/2 way through it. Pasxoj - I read about 5 of the 30 chapters, several more than once. I went to the North American Congress this year and that was fun. I am listening to Esperanto podcasts. The "fun" part meant, pretty much with ease and fascination. I fall short on that one, but am continuing to listen to podcasts.
I put this goal out of the park (pretty much). I read and listened to those two books as well as Mill's Autobiography, which is interesting and honest. I've also read The Apology and Crito by Plato. I read Descent of Man by Charles Darwin, which was interesting and fun to support with images.google.com. I'm 1/2 way through The Brothers Karamazov. I've read more than this, but English is my native language, so probably shouldn't hurt myself patting myself on the back too hard. I look up unfamiliar words. With English, it's not so much my vocabulary that improves, although that has been helped, but forming complex thoughts and getting an appreciation for carefully developed ideas has been the biggest boon on this path. I have to give Professor Arguelles the credit for my newer approach to language learning and personal development. Of course, everyone here in this community makes this all feel not like a solitary journey. Edited by luke on 01 December 2013 at 12:04am 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||||||||
| BaronBill Triglot Senior Member United States HowToLanguages.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4538 days ago 335 posts - 594 votes Speaks: English*, French, German Studies: Spanish, Mandarin, Persian | Message 82 of 86 30 November 2013 at 11:47pm | IP Logged | |||||||||||
Check. Didn't really do much with French but as fa as I can tell, I've still got it.
Check! I've done a ton of extensive reading and listening as well as 2 Monthly Meetups.
Still up for debate. Been working hard on Spanish the last quarter of the year. Guessing at B1 come 1/1/14.
Fail. Started on (and stopped) Cantonese. Got to about an A1 but lost interest. Hoping next years results are a bit better! 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||||||||
| Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5015 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian | Message 83 of 86 01 December 2013 at 12:01pm | IP Logged | |||||||||||
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Is this usually done at current year's thread? I ask this because I just quoted myself from here and posted
what I have achieved or not right before posting my goals at the 2014 thread. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||||||||
| luke Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 7054 days ago 3133 posts - 4351 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Esperanto, French | Message 84 of 86 01 December 2013 at 2:54pm | IP Logged | |||||||||||
If you look in the Fixed Link thread in jeff_lindqvist's post below, you can see where we began doing an end of year recap in the thread that started with goals. Someone did make the insightful and humorous comment that most people are too considerate to ask others how they did on their New Year's resolutions. Edited by luke on 01 December 2013 at 4:38pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||||||||
 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6758 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 85 of 86 01 December 2013 at 3:32pm | IP Logged | |||||||||||
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| Duke100782 Bilingual Diglot Senior Member Philippines https://talktagalog.Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4337 days ago 172 posts - 240 votes Speaks: English*, Tagalog* Studies: Spanish, Mandarin | Message 86 of 86 01 December 2013 at 5:17pm | IP Logged | |||||||||||
A month is left before 2013 comes to an end. After a year, I realized that there is a lot more to being conversant than what I originally thought. Well, I have reached my goal more or less. I can approach someone in a cocktail party, ask his or her name, answer some of his questions and ask him or her some back. And hey, I've still got a month to go and I'm learning fast. 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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