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| Marj Senior Member United States Joined 6564 days ago 257 posts - 283 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Mandarin, French | Message 25 of 98 26 December 2006 at 7:39pm | IP Logged |
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My goals are
1. Finish Pimsleur's Comprehensive Spanish lessons 1-90 2. Finish Rocket Spanish course 3. Go through the textbook I saved from my Spanish 101 class in college 25 years ago, and see what I can learn and retain. I hope to complete the above 3 items within 6-7 months. 4. Start FSI Spanish. 5. Start and finish the Pimsleur Irish course I bought 2 years ago. When I start #4, I also plan to start #5. I don't think the Irish will take more than 3 months, as it's a short course, and my only goal is to know a few phrases in Irish, not to become fluent. 6. Start learning Mandarin. I plan on starting #6 after finishing the Irish, while continuing with the FSI Spanish. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7154 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 26 of 98 26 December 2006 at 8:57pm | IP Logged |
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1) Take Hungarian proficiency exam for one of level B2 or C2 after completing exam preparation using FSI's Hungarian Basic Course, Hungarian Graded Reader and Banhidy et al's "Learn Hungarian".
2) Acheive "basic command" (estimated level A2) in Lithuanian using course either from Teach Yourself or Colloquial series. 3) Start review of German using FSI's German Basic Course in the fall. 4) Build on existing knowledge of Polish via communication with friends and intermittent review using Schenker's "Beginning Polish" and books and audio in the "Universitas" series by the Jagiellonian University of Krakow, from the summer onward. 5) Maintain existing knowledge of Croatian, Czech and Slovak via communication with friends. If time permits, consider one of two long-term projects: 6a) Begin learning one of Finnish, Indonesian or Turkish 6b) Explore ways to create a comprehensive course in Slovak for a non-beginner (i.e. me) as a continuation to Swan's and Galova-Lorinc's course "Beginning Slovak". This is an ambitious project and depends not only on my individual efforts for the course but also my ability to convince enough of my Slovak friends to lend their talents in recording/speaking in dialogues and helping me to draw up exercises and notes on grammar. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Qin Shi Huang Newbie United States Joined 6542 days ago 14 posts - 14 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Mandarin | Message 27 of 98 26 December 2006 at 9:32pm | IP Logged |
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My goals:
1) Finish Pimsleur Mandarin off once and for all. Perhaps periodically revisit different lessons of it to reinforce things that may be slipping from my memory, but otherwise at one lesson a day on Pimsleur III I should be done by mid-January. 2) Do two Elementary level ChinesePod lessons a day. At this rate, move from Elementary to Intermediate lessons by February. Proceed from there and hopefully reach Upper Intermediate level of comprehension by March or April. 3) Start listening to more Mandarin radio in my free time. 4) Find a Mandarin language partner so I can work on my pronunciation and tones, if nothing else. 5) Complete my Beginner's Chinese Grammar book. 6) Start work on the FSI Chinese dialogues. I haven't even started with them yet, so I have no idea how long they'll take or how much ground they'll go over that I've already covered. 7) Work on finding/writing down words from Chinese newspapers. 8) Above all, by this fall, be in China, learning Mandarin through immersion. :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Ethan Diglot Newbie United States lowter.com Joined 6541 days ago 12 posts - 13 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Swedish, Icelandic | Message 28 of 98 26 December 2006 at 9:39pm | IP Logged |
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1) Speak European Spanish instead of Latin American Spanish. This will require learning another form for each verb, getting use to not using vos, using vosotros, and learning some new vocabulary.
2) I would like to improve my Swedish all around. 3) Perhaps improve my Icelandic and Romanian a bit too, if there is time. Edited by Ethan on 27 December 2006 at 9:41am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| johntothea Senior Member United States Joined 6626 days ago 193 posts - 192 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Russian, Norwegian, Polish, French | Message 29 of 98 26 December 2006 at 10:18pm | IP Logged |
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They use vos in spain? I know they use vosotros, but I thought that vos was mostly used in argentina, uragray, bolivia, and paraguay. Please PM me considering this is very off topic. :]
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| Ethan Diglot Newbie United States lowter.com Joined 6541 days ago 12 posts - 13 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Swedish, Icelandic | Message 30 of 98 27 December 2006 at 9:42am | IP Logged |
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Lol, sorry had a little word left out there. :)
I use vos now, and I need to stop. :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6701 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 31 of 98 27 December 2006 at 1:49pm | IP Logged |
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Goals 2007 (and I think they are realistic):
Move Modern Greek up to at least intermediate, basically by starting to think in full sentences in the language. Besides, my vocabulary still is too small, but growing. Work on it! Move my last remaining Romance language Romanian from Intermediate to Basic (I just need some more practice and some more work on idioms) Get back to Icelandic which I had to put on hold because Greek took more time than expected this autumn and I suddenly had to learn Portuguese. Relearn Latin, and this time as a real living language that just happens to be dead as a dodo Learn Dutch Maybe start using Swedish actively (I know it quite well as a passive language) Have a look at Russian and maybe start learning it and finally: keep every single language on my list alive and happy by listening, reading and thinking (maybe speaking) in every one of them at least a couple of times every week. Edited by Iversen on 27 December 2006 at 1:56pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| CaoMei513 Senior Member United States Joined 6843 days ago 110 posts - 113 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Mandarin, Korean | Message 32 of 98 27 December 2006 at 2:41pm | IP Logged |
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Hehe... I have heard many times that if you tell someone your goals you are more likely to stick to them. :)
I plan to STUDY MANDARIN MORE OFTEN!! I have this stupid problem of saying I will practice more and not doing it... but I'm sure alot of us do that. I plan to finish the Integrated Chinese textbook series, improve my incredibly-bad speaking skills (I'm really 嘴笨). And in the summer I will be spending 5 weeks in Beijing in a Mandarin study program. I plan to use that trip to my full advantage!! And I also plan to...uh... take my current 955 hanzi to at least 1500. There are more smaller goals, but those are my main ones. Good luck everyone with your goals!! 加油！！ 1 person has voted this message useful |
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