Fat-tony Nonaglot Senior Member United Kingdom jiahubooks.co.uk Joined 6142 days ago 288 posts - 441 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Russian, Esperanto, Thai, Laotian, Urdu, Swedish, French Studies: Mandarin, Indonesian, Arabic (Written), Armenian, Pali, Burmese
| Message 1 of 2 26 July 2009 at 3:30pm | IP Logged |
I thought I'd get my goals down "on paper" somewhere and update the journal weekly to
try and keep myself focussed.
Immediate targets (in order of importance)
1. Prepare for Indonesian Level 2 exam in Nov.
2. Prepare for Thai Level 3 exam in Oct.
3. Improve passive knowledge of Punjabi.
4. Build passive knowledge of Potwari and Pashto.
5. Re-invigorate my Mandarin studies-need a plan and a definite goal.
Longer-term goals:
1. Prepare for French, Spanish and Russian level 3/4 exams.
2. Improve fluency when reading Lao and Hindi.
3. Look to work on (genetically or culturally) related languages: (in order of
interest): Burmese, Javanese, Khmer, Farsi, Bengali.
4. Something different - could be anything, downloaded an interesting looking Inuit
course, Tagalog looks different, Somali could be useful in the future etc.
I'll say what I did this week and what resources I'm using later today.
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Fat-tony Nonaglot Senior Member United Kingdom jiahubooks.co.uk Joined 6142 days ago 288 posts - 441 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Russian, Esperanto, Thai, Laotian, Urdu, Swedish, French Studies: Mandarin, Indonesian, Arabic (Written), Armenian, Pali, Burmese
| Message 2 of 2 27 July 2009 at 6:50pm | IP Logged |
My materials:
Indonesian - Colloquial Indonesian; the old Teach Yourself Indonesian; USSOCOM 200 hour
course; SCOLA and GLOSS.
Thai - SCOLA and JLU (via Fastrac)
Punjabi - GCSE Punjabi (Nagra); USSOCOM 200 hour course and
this site.
Potwari - Friends, in-house course (unclassified and digitised if anyone's interested)
Pashto - GLOSS, USSOCOM, similar in-house course to above.
Mandarin - nothing at the moment, still have unused podcasts from Chinesepod; any
suggestions - I can request virtually anything from the library at work.
French, Spanish and Russian - I have plenty of books to read in all three, just need to
find the time; probably after the Bahasa exam in Nov.
Lao - Mother's Beloved.
Hindi - Requested Dunwoody's Hindi Newspaper reader.
Burmese, Javanese, Khmer, Farsi, Bengali - USSOCOM 200 hour courses; also Beginning
Burmese, Colloquial Khmer and Teach Yourself Modern Farsi.
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