|
 |
Language goals for 2008 | ||
Share with:
| ||
 Language Learning Forum : General discussion |  | |
 Hencke Tetraglot Moderator Spain Joined 6895 days ago 2340 posts - 2444 votes  Speaks: Swedish*, Finnish, EnglishC2, Spanish Studies: Mandarin Personal Language Map | Message 49 of 74 05 January 2008 at 6:49pm | IP Logged | ||
Well, having dabbled in Zen a bit too, I could answer that it is the striving itself that can keep us from getting there ;o). But of course there's the general goal looming in the distance of achieving fluency one day, or even a basic passable level to be able to understand and communicate. And much of the time it is just the serendipitous daily tinkering with writing and pronunciation exercises and other activities. A lot of it is about enjoying the process, coupled with the joy of discovery. And there are some intermediate goals too that tend to crop up spontaneously: getting to x number of characters learned, or finishing these ten lessons, and sometimes a general idea by when I hope to reach them, but at least up to now I have preferred to avoid setting any definite deadlines or feeling bound and committed to any of them. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| hobbitofny Senior Member United States Joined 6234 days ago 280 posts - 408 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Russian | Message 50 of 74 05 January 2008 at 8:29pm | IP Logged | ||
|
I am working toward a 2000 word Russian vocabulary by end of the year.
1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| bushwick Tetraglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 6245 days ago 407 posts - 443 votes Speaks: German, Croatian*, English, Dutch Studies: French, Japanese | Message 51 of 74 05 January 2008 at 8:40pm | IP Logged | ||
|
in 2007 i barely worked on my languages.
but i do plan to change that this year, after all, each new year is there to change something :) i really want to work more on french as i don't know anything besides understanding the gist of some texts. i hope to achieve at least some conversational skills and definitely increase my understanding of the language. for korean i need to start working seriously. korean was barely touched upon since i "started it". i was thinking of working on hanja at least, if for anything. also, i don't really feel like i've gotten a good feel for the language, the phonetic part. i'm not really confident even about faking the language, which i think can show that one at least has a certain idea of the sound etc. edit: i really, really want to start working on dutch as well. considering i basically understand about 60% of a normal text, more or less, i feel like i can learn the language in a matter of months. Edited by bushwick on 05 January 2008 at 8:50pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| PolyglotNZ Pentaglot Groupie New ZealandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6205 days ago 71 posts - 91 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishC2, German, Mandarin, Japanese Studies: Polish, Swedish, Hungarian, Russian | Message 52 of 74 06 January 2008 at 12:14am | IP Logged | ||
|
Just like bushwick, I barely worked in my languages, since my post grad courses at uni took 80% of the day. I
am really happy it is over! For this year, I've decided to spend as much as I can surrounded by the languages I am learning. I will watch movies, listen to music and chat to people. Hungarian I want to finish FSI Hungarian Basic Course 1 and start 2. I also want to finish Hungarolingua 1 (I am in lesson 7 now, only 5 to go). Polish I want to review basic stuff with Ach, ten język polski! which won't take too long and I plan to continue with Z polskim na ty which I find very useful. Swedish Improve my fluency. Maybe do FSI Swedish or one of the other books I have. English, German, Mandarin and Japanese Keep improving what I already know and learn more each day. If I have time... I want to practice Portuguese and Italian, I need to speak them regularly. I can read newspapers, watch TV news and movies with 70% to 80% understanding. I have studied their grammars, but I can't speak a single word besides the basics. This is really frustrating, maybe I haven't tried hard enough. I would also like to review Finnish which I abandoned a long time ago. I wish you all the best for 2008 and may all your language goals be achieved!!! Edited by PolyglotNZ on 06 January 2008 at 12:18am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6704 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 53 of 74 06 January 2008 at 7:47pm | IP Logged | ||
|
I have three languages waiting in line for the basic fluency stamp: (Modern) Greek, Icelandic and Dutch. My main problem with especially the two first is to find enough interesting material to read and listen to, - with Dutch I have at least the AVRO Museum TV, but not much interesting stuff on paper. However with a bit a pressure - for instance in the form of a trip to a relevant country - I could probably give these three languages the last kick upwards from the intermediate quagmire. My Latin is also proceeding quite well, - I'm reading Sallust now, but Cicero is waiting on my shelf. The problem is to remind myself to think in Latin, - otherwise it will never become a living language for me (and I don't want rotting carcasses on my language list). On the other hand my Russian has progressed more slowly than expected, - mostly because I still don't feel at ease with the idiomatics. But hopefully with a lot of reading and a fair amount of listening it will also make it to the blessed realm of basic fluency before the end of 2008. I hopre that I can find time for a bit of Swedish and (New) Norwegian - maybe even Esperanto. But no experiments with new language families, and certainly nothing non-Indoeuropean in the foreseeable future.
By the way, I have just spent a week in France, and as expected I had no problems speaking French and only French. The only case where I had to write something down to be understood was when I wanted to buy a train ticket to "Aix-les-Bains". This boring little town is NOT pronounced "Ai-leh-bain", but rather "Eggs-leh-ban". Considering that I having done anything special to polish my French it is encouraging to see that it still functioning rather well. Edited by Iversen on 09 January 2008 at 7:15pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| delectric Diglot Senior Member China Joined 7182 days ago 608 posts - 733 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin Studies: German | Message 54 of 74 06 January 2008 at 10:06pm | IP Logged | ||
|
I hope by the end of 2008 I will improve my Chinese to the level that I can confidently sit the HSK (Chinese language proficiency test for foreigners) and achieve a score well above 7 which is needed for entry into a Chinese university.
Also hope to improve my German vocabulary (which I can't really speak but understand) by watching lots of films and listening to lots of story books. I also plan to start learning Indonesian this year using the Assimil method and hopefully I will go to Indonesia in a couple of years. Seeing as this Assimil course only comes in French looks like I will have a chance to improve my terrible five years of school French. Seems like learning a language through another language that I don't know so well could be hard but actually I don't think so. Ordering of the French assimil website was easy. French seems like English with strange spellings. Looking forward to the challenge. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| judyvasilef Newbie United States language-for-learnin Joined 6165 days ago 1 posts - 1 votes | Message 55 of 74 09 January 2008 at 6:36pm | IP Logged | ||
|
My husband and I try to learn a new language every year. We are fluent in three languages other than English. The next one we are hoping to learn is Japanese.
We would like to meet other married couples who are also looking to learn Japanese or a different language. We are going to be starting a free help article and would appreciate your experience and knowledge! Judy Vasilef Our Blog 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Zhuangzi Nonaglot Language Program Publisher Senior Member Canada lingq.com Joined 7029 days ago 646 posts - 688 votes Speaks: English*, French, Japanese, Swedish, Mandarin, Cantonese, German, Italian, Spanish Studies: Russian | Message 56 of 74 09 January 2008 at 8:38pm | IP Logged | ||
How long have you been studying and what is your present vocabulary in Russian? 1 person has voted this message useful |
|  | 
Printable version
|
| Copyright 2024 FX Micheloud - All rights reserved No part of this website may be copied by any means without my written authorization. |
