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| luke Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 7206 days ago 3133 posts - 4351 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Esperanto, French | Message 9 of 86 21 December 2012 at 4:46pm | IP Logged |
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For 2013:
French Get French Without Toil, Using French, and New French with Ease solidly under my belt. Get very comfortable with L'Etranger, Le Petit Prince, and Les Liaisons Dangerouse and perhaps a couple more books. I'm sure there will be some more variance here. Perhaps get comfortable with Jules Verne's Le Tour du Monde en 80 jours et Voyage au Centre de la Terre. Spanish Get through the FSI replacement, variation, translation, and response drills. Listen/Read Don Quixote and be able to understand the majority of it with ease. Esperanto Get Pasaporto al la Tuta Mondo, Jen Nia Mondo, Teach Yourself Esperanto under my belt. Read the book, Pasxoj al Plena Posedo through at least once. Be happy listening to Esperanto podcasts. English Finish the current trip the Federalist Papers and On Liberty by John Stuart Mill. Something else here too, but not sure what yet. Edited by luke on 21 December 2012 at 4:47pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Przemek Hexaglot Senior Member Poland multigato.blogspot.c Joined 6476 days ago 107 posts - 174 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, SpanishC2, Italian, Portuguese, French Studies: Turkish, Hindi, Arabic (Written) | Message 10 of 86 21 December 2012 at 5:11pm | IP Logged |
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My goals:
Portuguese: reach advanced fluency Italian: reach advanced fluency, pass CELI exam Turkish: reach basic fluency Swahili: move to intermediate level Hindi: return to it after two years pause Arabic - Egyptian: move to intermediate level Arabic - return to MSA to reach intermediate level French - maintain basic fluency I may "flirt" with Persian. Greek Koine is still waiting... Edited by Przemek on 21 December 2012 at 5:14pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| mahasiswa Pentaglot Groupie Canada Joined 4433 days ago 91 posts - 142 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish, German, Malay Studies: Arabic (Egyptian), Persian, Russian, Turkish, Mandarin, Hindi | Message 11 of 86 21 December 2012 at 6:53pm | IP Logged |
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French: consider a minor focus on gaining an accent that's français français instead of the Québécois
and Acadien French I so adore Spanish: acquire a better accent that isn't Panhispanic, read more Bolaño and learn prosody so that I can write some love poems to mi amor de México Portuguese: Master the small differences and false friends amongst Romance languages, gain more slang Italian: Again, master the small differences and false friends amongst Romance languages, gain more slang German: Go to Germany to work, continue to Skype friends weekly and write to my penpal Malay: Return in the spring time when school's out to acquire a more secure proficieny Arabic: Acquire proficieny in reading/writing MSA and spoken Egyptian Russian: Maintain correspondences via post and Skype to maintain proficiency in Russian Hindi: Maintain correspondences via post and Skype to maintain proficiency in Hindi, go out with cute Hindi-speaking girl from my linguistic classes :P With 127 days of summer, the languages I want to start studying: Mandarin Chinese Czech Hebrew (a return after having studied it for a year 2011-2012) Yiddish Hungarian Turkish Swahili Mongolian Then next December, with approximately 42 days of winter break from uni: Japanese Navajo Lithuanian 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| zerrubabbel Senior Member United States Joined 4601 days ago 232 posts - 287 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Mandarin | Message 12 of 86 21 December 2012 at 7:22pm | IP Logged |
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My goals are fairly simple I think
Japanese: start spending time with more native materials, and hopefully achieve an advanced level by no later than june Spanish: bring Spanish to an intermediate level, hopefully by april Mandarin: start after Spanish, also hoping for an intermediate level this year, however, I hope more for speaking than writing thats it, I think Ill probably get into cantonese and korean in about a year and a half, considering if I dont decide to take Spanish or mandarin farther 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| lichtrausch Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5961 days ago 525 posts - 1072 votes Speaks: English*, German, Japanese Studies: Korean, Mandarin | Message 13 of 86 21 December 2012 at 7:45pm | IP Logged |
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I plan to read and listen to more Japanese, make a large dent in Korean, continue the
eternal slog that is Chinese, get to a respectable level in Spanish, tinker more with Persian. And keep flirting to a minimum. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| sillygoose1 Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 4637 days ago 566 posts - 814 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, Spanish, French Studies: German, Latin | Message 14 of 86 21 December 2012 at 7:47pm | IP Logged |
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French:
Focus more on Quebecois and other accents, listen to radio/watch tv without "paying attention" I'm really going to work on getting a C2 by the end of 2013, but that may not happen if I don't visit France. Italian: Get as far as I can in Perfectionnement, get familiar with Neapolitan, Roman, & Abruzzese/Molisano dialects. Watch a bunch of movies/shows and listen to radio stations in the North/south of Italy, New York, Australia, etc. Ultimately, I'd like to finish C1. Spanish: Try to finish Perfectionnement, get accustomed to Chilean/Argentine speech, watch a few telenovelas. I'm learning this language mainly to watch telenovelas and for employment. I'd be fine with B2 or whatever it takes for me to speak what I know fluently and watch Univision/soccer. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| MixedUpCody Senior Member United States Joined 5257 days ago 144 posts - 280 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Mandarin | Message 15 of 86 21 December 2012 at 7:55pm | IP Logged |
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My goals are fairly modest. Inspired by Emk, my wife and I will converse only in Mandarin starting on January 1st. I think this will really catapult my Chinese, and around February 15th, my mother-in-law, who speaks only Mandarin, is coming to visit, so I'm looking forward to having some more nuanced conversation.
All of this is in preparation for my "3 Month Mission" this summer in Taiwan. I'll be going to Taiwan in June and staying for 90 days. During that time I plan to speak exclusively Chinese, which is why it is so important I develop conversational fluency before then. I'm hoping by the time I get back from Taiwan, I'll be comfortable saying that I "speak" Chinese. And then I'll start preparing for the HSK level 6 (B2) exam, in March of 2014. Going to be a great year! Good luck to everyone. 4 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Onrust Newbie United States Joined 4420 days ago 14 posts - 42 votes Studies: German | Message 16 of 86 21 December 2012 at 8:00pm | IP Logged |
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For 2013 I'm planning to continue my slog through the German language. Just last night I finished lesson 100 of
German with Ease (passive wave). Today I started doing a second active wave because I felt I hadn't absorbed enough in the first two waves. I am also going to start reading books with a dictionary. I already have Der Besuch der alten Dame, which I used in a high school German class but have completely forgot. I'd like to find other books around the same reading level (not Harry Potter). I'll continue to use the Deutsche Welle podcasts, which have been helpful as they have transcripts. And then I hope, after having enough input, to active my German. I'm lucky in that I have German-speaking parents to practice with. Activation is going to be the hardest part for me because I'm naturally reserved. 3 persons have voted this message useful |
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