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| mountains Newbie Norway Joined 4536 days ago 12 posts - 43 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Norwegian | Message 33 of 86 25 December 2012 at 7:00am | IP Logged | |||||
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Next year will be devoted entirely to my Norwegian studies, so far I've been studying on and off for just over a
year. I would say I'm currently at a good B1 level, and want to push that up to a B2 or even a low C1. This is the first language I've ever studied, and this forum alone has helped me a lot along the way, so a big thank you to all the contributors here! My main goals for the year are to continue reading and watching films, to speak at least every day, basically to incorporate Norwegian more and more into my daily routine. I plan on moving to Norway in June so I want the best possible start. I am also thinking of starting my own language learning log for motivation. I would also like to become more involved here on this forum and to also restart the Super Challange. Next year is the year for Norwegian mastery! Edited by mountains on 25 December 2012 at 7:03am 4 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Elsinore13 Groupie United States Joined 4919 days ago 41 posts - 53 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: German, Mandarin | Message 34 of 86 25 December 2012 at 8:30am | IP Logged | |||||
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This past year, life and sickness took a huge toll on my language learning goals. Anticipating some flow and ebb for next year, I decided to scale back and/or decide to learn at certain times. I have trouble focusing fulling on more than one language at a time or at least I haven't learned the "knack" yet.
German: This is something I really need to get down once and for all at a basic level. I have a lot of missing parts in my education. I need to go back and fill in the blanks, I will go through Living Language Intermediate to complete this. My other goal is to go out to a local German language meetup at least twice this year and speak. My good friend, who is first gen American and learned German as her first language, has wanted to speak in order for her to still retain the language. So, I need to take every opportunity to do this. An additional goal, will be to watch one tv show in my target language a week. Chinese: I'm going to pick this up again about two and half months before my next business trip. I want to go through Assimil/Pimsleur again for a refresher. I will focus on Chinese seriously for only about a four month period since my business trips will be at that time. I love Chinese, but until I can get to a decent place in my German it will be impossible to focus the time the language requires. My hope is to maybe do a Pimsleur a week just to maintain during the "off season". I want to be able to let a language go dormat for a bit and not feel guilty about it! Italian: This is going to be a "pick up/drop off" language for a family trip to Italy in November 2013. I will be focusing on this at the end of the summer, but that time my German (hopefully) will be a good point to where I can scale back temporarily to work on Italian. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| melkior79 Newbie Japan Joined 4574 days ago 16 posts - 31 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Latin, French | Message 35 of 86 25 December 2012 at 11:57am | IP Logged | |||||
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Merry Christmas All.
Some of my goals are clear and some are a little vague. This list of goals will be subject to revision as well.I am in a fortunate position that I have a 3 month period where I don't have many work commitments. Japanese Pass the N1 in June 2013. I am going to do a mock test tomorrow (couldn't bring myself to do it on Xmas day!) I have failed N1 twice before and I think I am getting closer now. Improve my composition skills on Lang 8. Start learning to write the Kanji. I can read them alright but I cant even write basic Kanji from memory. I will go through Japanese Kanji Kentei materials to do this. If I can pass Kanken level 6 next year I would be happy. I need to prioritise the JLPT though. French I have started this language for the Assimil challenge. I will continue doing my daily Assimil (I even did it today) and see where it takes me.After Assimil I might follow up with FSI French and start reading novels. For now I am just focusing on Assimil. I am really enjoying the Assimil process. Latin I am setting a three month challenge for myself to get through D'Oogues Latin for Beginners (I started today). It is a chance for me to rocket through a solid grammatical approach to the language. At the end I would like to try and read Caeser as that is what the book is designed to teach. (I would appreciate any feedback on people who have done this) Edited by melkior79 on 25 December 2012 at 11:58am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Darklight1216 Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5043 days ago 411 posts - 639 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: German | Message 36 of 86 25 December 2012 at 7:28pm | IP Logged | |||||
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My goal is to make a goal. I want to reach the point that I can make "start learning German" my goal for next year, but I need to get my French to an acceptable level in order for that to happen.
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| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7099 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 37 of 86 26 December 2012 at 1:22am | IP Logged | |||||
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My goals in 2013 for Polish, Slovak, Turkish, Ukrainian and Uralic languages can be seen by clicking on the respective links.
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| ennime Tetraglot Senior Member South Africa universityofbrokengl Joined 5847 days ago 397 posts - 507 votes Speaks: English, Dutch*, Esperanto, Afrikaans Studies: Xhosa, French, Korean, Portuguese, Zulu | Message 38 of 86 26 December 2012 at 5:03pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Okay...
I will focus mainly on four languages: Korean, French, isiZulu, and Sesotho... My 2012, the sequel strategy (oh yeah, I refuse to acknowledge 2013 until the zombie apocalypse actually happens, therefore 1st of january will be the start of 2012, the sequel in my world) will be to space things out properly, in order to utilise my tendency to digress and wander (discipline is just not my thing). I will be having 4-5 day long intensive periods of French study once per month for 6 months, and 4-5 day long intensive periods of Korean study for the remaining 6 months. I know the basics of these languages already, so it is really about revitalising and then improving upon. The aim is to have sound B2 level in French and B1 in Korean... (right now I've probably sunk to A2 in both...) Then... I will focus on Sesotho until it is up to par with isiZulu, which is at A2 right now. So it will be Sesotho, and no isiZulu for about 3-4 months, then I'll alternate: 2 weeks Sesotho and 2 weeks isiZulu. The aim is to reach B1 in both by the end of 2012, the sequel. In order to allow my wanderlust to be satiated, and thus not to disturb my study plan, I've allowed for 3 days per month max to dabble into Kiswahili, Lingala, Russian, Latin, Danish, Spanish, Portuguese, and what not... That's about it ^_^ Edited by ennime on 26 December 2012 at 5:06pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6540 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 39 of 86 26 December 2012 at 5:11pm | IP Logged | |||||
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| ennime Tetraglot Senior Member South Africa universityofbrokengl Joined 5847 days ago 397 posts - 507 votes Speaks: English, Dutch*, Esperanto, Afrikaans Studies: Xhosa, French, Korean, Portuguese, Zulu | Message 40 of 86 26 December 2012 at 5:17pm | IP Logged | |||||
I think so as well, I've never done it this way, so it is a new strategy for me... I just know that if I "do something every day" I'll get bored with it within a month time, and only pick it up a 4 months later... so this is an attempt at preventing boredom in study... I think it especially would work because I already know the basics of these languages, so it isn't new ground... 1 person has voted this message useful |
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