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| prz_ Tetraglot Senior Member Poland last.fm/user/prz_rul Joined 4860 days ago 890 posts - 1190 votes  Speaks: Polish*, English, Bulgarian, Croatian Studies: Slovenian, Macedonian, Persian, Russian, Turkish, Ukrainian, Dutch, Swedish, German, Italian, Armenian, Kurdish | Message 41 of 86 26 December 2012 at 10:03pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Heh... For several years I had plans, more or less successful, but this year they've mostly f**ked up because of sicknesses and bad moods... So maybe this year it'll be better for me not to plan anything and to go with the flow?
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| druckfehler Triglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4869 days ago 1181 posts - 1912 votes Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Korean Studies: Persian | Message 42 of 86 26 December 2012 at 10:24pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
It seems that I feel very similar. This year was the first year I ever made language study plans instead of just going with the flow. While I was successful, I think in the end it may not be worth it to do it again next year. I get too obsessed with the goals instead of just seeing where my enjoyment of the language takes me. I feel that I may not need a goal of reaching a certain level in 2013. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| tygerlily Newbie United States Joined 4523 days ago 4 posts - 5 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Japanese | Message 43 of 86 26 December 2012 at 10:25pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Unfortunately, for the first part of the year, my life is going to be fairly busy with
work and moving house. Hopefully, the year will be less busy after that and I can meet my goals for 2013: German Right now I would classify myself as B1 overall. I would like to finish the exercises in Improve Your German. In addition, I have made one of my 2013 goals to read 50 novels. I would like at least 5 and hopefully 10 of these novels to be read in German. I am cheating slightly since I have already started reading Der Kleine Prinz. I would also like to watch at least an hour of German TV per week as well as listening the DW's Langsam gesprochene Nachrichten. I hope by mid-year to be able to transition to the regular DW news podcast. Japanese For my Japanese studies, my goal is to finish Pimsleur and Japanese for Busy People I. Also, I plan to continue working on my hiragana and katakana writing ability and to transition my knowledge of the kana from passive to active (I can recognize a kana when I read it, but I still have trouble recalling them when writing). I also plan to continue learning kanji. French In 2012, I decided to start learning French (again). My goal for 2013 is to continue working through Assimil French Without Toil and FSI French Basic. Edited by tygerlily on 26 December 2012 at 10:28pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6598 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 44 of 86 27 December 2012 at 9:30am | IP Logged | ||||||||
while "do something every day" can be boring, it IS crucial to have some contact with the language more often than once a month. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| renaissancemedi Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Greece Joined 4359 days ago 941 posts - 1309 votes Speaks: Greek*, Ancient Greek*, EnglishC2 Studies: French, Russian, Turkish, Modern Hebrew | Message 45 of 86 27 December 2012 at 9:40am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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French: I would like to study it some more, and achieve a good level of spoken fluency. It's a shame to understand a language well, but not to be able to use it equally well. Finish Michel Thomas or/and Pimsleur, focusing on spoken french. Dig out all my french workbooks and really work on them.
Greek: this might sound odd, but our native language deserves some care as well. Focus on the older styles of greek, mainly attic and hellenistic, and instead of doing crossword puzzles reading "unknown" texts. That is, passages from thematographiae books (I am not sure how you call them in English, but the phrase greek reader comes to mind). Just do it for fun. That's how it always works best. Language x: I want to really focus on a new language. Continue with my deplorable russian, or learn German (useful but my heart is not in it), or continue with the hebrew I like so much. I am a bit confused on that one. Edit: reading some of the previous posts on this thread, I thought it is better to set specific goals. Edited by renaissancemedi on 27 December 2012 at 9:46am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Marikki Tetraglot Senior Member Finland Joined 5496 days ago 130 posts - 210 votes Speaks: Finnish*, English, Spanish, Swedish Studies: German | Message 46 of 86 27 December 2012 at 3:30pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
So you don't count the amazing 20 000 pages you've read just in 8 months for much :) Btw, going with the flow is a good plan. It is my plan too...and depending on where the flow will take me, maybe learning the basics of Russian. Edited by Marikki on 27 December 2012 at 3:34pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| eebeejay Newbie Canada Joined 4481 days ago 34 posts - 43 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Norwegian, Latin, French | Message 47 of 86 28 December 2012 at 8:31am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I'm going to continue working on my French and finish the FSI course by the end of the year. Hopefully way before then, but I have no idea what's going to come up this coming year. I'm going to keep chipping away at my commitments for the Super Challenge, with lots of reading and movies.
I also have to force myself to actually use the language this coming year - to actively seek out conversations and correspondence with others. I do far too much book learning and I really need to step out of my comfort zone more. Other than that I'm planning on working on German and Norwegian. There's a possibility that I might be traveling to Norway in August so it's good motivation to refresh what I know. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5335 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 48 of 86 28 December 2012 at 10:55am | IP Logged | ||||||||
If you would like to further improve your native Greek, would like to work on your Russian and French and is considering German, you seem like an ideal candidate for team Sparta, where most of us share those languages. We have lots of room and would love to have you :-) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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