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| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5339 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes  Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 1 of 111 09 August 2014 at 7:06am | IP Logged | ||
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I do not know to which point this is a familiar expression to native speakers - but we use it a lot in Norway to
express something you trust that it is possible to do in the long term, but that you know is very hard to achieve. I found the following definition: A Big Hairy Audacious Goal (BHAG) is a strategic business statement similar to a vision statement which is created to focus an organization on a single medium-long term organization-wide goal which is audacious, likely to be externally questionable, but not internally regarded as impossible. We use it just as much on an individual level, and not necessarily for a single goal either. So what would be your hairy goals in your main target language and any secondary languages? ( And yes, Serpent, it is perfectly all right to list hairy goals for 10 languages:- ) For Russian my main goal would be to read the Russian classics, and more specifically to finish the books that are on my bedside right now: - Tolstoi: Anna Karenina -Tolstoi: War and Peace - Bulgakov: The Master and Margerita - Three volumes of Chekov's short stories - Lermontov: Heroes of our time. I may actually start on 'The Master and Margerita' or 'Heroes of our time' or Chekov's short stories pretty soon. I will only catch 20-30 percent, but I may still do it. Tolstoi's work is definitely more of a long term vision thing. Then another goal is to read any Agatha Christie book in Ukrainian and Polish. Those are really hairy goals, as I am at lesson 13 and 5 respectively in the Pimsleur courses, so I am an A0 in both, possibly a false beginner in Polish since I did actually learn a little Polish 20 years ago. But hey, that is what hairy goals are for! I still remember the time when getting through a single page in Russian seemed like an impossible feat, and managing to 'read' through my first Agatha Christie book in Russian is what gave me such an adrenalin kick that I started the Super Challenge. So what are your hairy goals? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Via Diva Diglot Senior Member Russian Federation last.fm/user/viadivaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4239 days ago 1109 posts - 1427 votes Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: German, Italian, French, Swedish, Esperanto, Czech, Greek | Message 2 of 111 09 August 2014 at 7:47am | IP Logged | ||
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Мохнатая цель :D That's a funny term :)
English: - be able to watch things without subs - read classics (e.g. Austen) without problems German: - understand lyrics of all the German songs I listen to - read Stefan Zweig's books - be able to write and communicate without being ridiculous Swedish: - read Millennium When I will be brave enough... French: - read Les Rois maudits 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| eyðimörk Triglot Senior Member France goo.gl/aT4FY7 Joined 4104 days ago 490 posts - 1158 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, French Studies: Breton, Italian | Message 3 of 111 09 August 2014 at 8:07am | IP Logged | ||
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I don't really think of my goals in that way. Others may be less adversely affected by that sort phrasing, but I don't find it useful to focus on difficulty. Time, yes, to maintain motivation. Thankfully, the people I surround myself with don't seem to question my ability to follow through on my goals, and even the nay-sayers of my childhood and youth have changed their tune (or at least stopped singing).
My current longish-term language goals include… French Write well enough to sell articles/ghostwrite. This is my day job and I would like to expand into the francophone market. I would estimate that I am currently solidly in the B2 category. Italian Read my all-time favourite novel Il gattopardo in the original. I haven't started learning Italian yet and won't until my French has levelled up a little and my Breton speech has caught up a bit more with my Breton understanding/writing. Anything longer off is in the Someday Maybe pile and doesn't qualify as a goal. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| eyðimörk Triglot Senior Member France goo.gl/aT4FY7 Joined 4104 days ago 490 posts - 1158 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, French Studies: Breton, Italian | Message 4 of 111 09 August 2014 at 8:11am | IP Logged | ||
Cool! That's actually next on my reading list! You can get the whole series on Kindle for 27€. I just have to finish Henri Loevenbruck's L'Apothicaire first (but I'm not particularly enjoying it, so I keep procrastinating even reading it). 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| AlexTG Diglot Senior Member Australia Joined 4643 days ago 178 posts - 354 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Latin, German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 5 of 111 09 August 2014 at 9:57am | IP Logged | ||
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Fool a native from another country into thinking I'm an Argentine. German Read 5 million words. (I think I'm approaching 0.2% of this target right now) Japanese Comprehend maybe 50% of a movie or TV show. (haha never gonna happen) Edited by AlexTG on 09 August 2014 at 10:10am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5339 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 6 of 111 09 August 2014 at 10:01am | IP Logged | ||
Never say never :-) That's the point of a hairy goal. To aim at something which may seem impossible, but which you deep down know you can do if only you are persistent enough. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Darklight1216 Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5105 days ago 411 posts - 639 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: German | Message 7 of 111 09 August 2014 at 10:53am | IP Logged | ||
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French:
Be mistaken for a native speaker... regularly. Spanish: Stop hating it first and foremost. Secondly, I'd like to reach a level in which I can basically live my life (outside of work and church) entirely in this foreign language. I would prefer to do that with French, but Spanish is the only possibility that does not require me to move. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Via Diva Diglot Senior Member Russian Federation last.fm/user/viadivaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4239 days ago 1109 posts - 1427 votes Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: German, Italian, French, Swedish, Esperanto, Czech, Greek | Message 8 of 111 09 August 2014 at 10:59am | IP Logged | ||
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eyðimörk, well, I guess I will end up L-Ring it (I have audiobooks in French) even if I won't be really learning French at the time. I have read some books as a little kid, when I got the access to the Internet I have read the whole series and re-read it a few times, I just adore these books.
If I will be really learning French I also consider reading Les Grandes Familles or even everything that I can find from Druon :) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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