Julie Heptaglot Senior Member PolandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6904 days ago 1251 posts - 1733 votes 5 sounds Speaks: Polish*, EnglishB2, GermanC2, SpanishB2, Dutch, Swedish, French
| Message 1 of 66 31 December 2008 at 8:47am | IP Logged |
With the new year upon us, let's start a new thread. What are our language goals?
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paparaciii Diglot Senior Member Latvia Joined 6337 days ago 204 posts - 223 votes Speaks: Latvian*, Russian Studies: English
| Message 2 of 66 31 December 2008 at 9:04am | IP Logged |
I'll do the final solution with my English and Russian and then, at the end of the year, will probably start Spanish or Swedish. Haven't decided yet.
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Juan M. Senior Member Colombia Joined 5900 days ago 460 posts - 597 votes
| Message 3 of 66 31 December 2008 at 9:33am | IP Logged |
Take my German to the point where I can comfortably read Der Spiegel with a dictionary by my side by the middle of the year.
Be able to reach the above level in Russian by the end of the year.
Begin French around year's end.
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Oleg Triglot Groupie Russian FederationRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5830 days ago 57 posts - 95 votes Speaks: Russian*, Polish, English Studies: Spanish, French, Italian
| Message 4 of 66 31 December 2008 at 9:46am | IP Logged |
To reach some fluency in Spanish!
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jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6910 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map
| Message 5 of 66 31 December 2008 at 9:54am | IP Logged |
I think it's about time to activate my German - I've mostly been reading and listening for quite some time now. Nothing wrong with that, but I don't want to feel like a complete idiot if/when I meet native speakers and barely can keep a basic conversation.
I'd like to take my other languages to the level where my German was a year ago (so, still an idiot in those... :D).
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konayuki Diglot Newbie United States Joined 5830 days ago 26 posts - 26 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: Korean, French
| Message 6 of 66 31 December 2008 at 9:56am | IP Logged |
Learn Korean and have Advanced Fluency in Japanese. I want to increase "passive"
vocabulary in Japanese by A LOT.
There's a whole 12 months, hopefully I reach my goals!
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MäcØSŸ Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5810 days ago 259 posts - 392 votes Speaks: Italian*, EnglishC2 Studies: German
| Message 7 of 66 31 December 2008 at 10:06am | IP Logged |
• Improve my understanding of spoken English (especially non GA accents) and my speech fluency
• Become able to follow a Swedish blog without much trouble
• Learn a lot of Hindi words
• Start studying German
• Maybe I'll begin Latin, but I haven't decided yet
Edited by MäcØSŸ on 01 January 2009 at 12:35pm
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Julie Heptaglot Senior Member PolandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6904 days ago 1251 posts - 1733 votes 5 sounds Speaks: Polish*, EnglishB2, GermanC2, SpanishB2, Dutch, Swedish, French
| Message 8 of 66 31 December 2008 at 10:17am | IP Logged |
I'd like to reach basic fluency in French, preferably till the end of Juni, when I'm still abroad and able to use the language pretty often.
Other important goal is native-like fluency in German (from advanced fluency). Well, this one is probably a life-long challenge... but it'd like to improve my vocabulary, my ability to recognize and copy different registers of the language etc.
I wouldn't mind improving my understanding of spoken Swiss German during the first half of the year but it has a low priority and I'm not going to spend much time on that, so I'm rather unlikely to succeed.
I'll take a course of Italian because of some possibilities to speak it, but only if I find a decent course at my university (I'm not going to study it by myself).
The second half of the year depends strongly on what I'm going to do at this time (work, studies, going abroad etc. - I'm still not sure). Possible goals, apart from improving French and German, would be being able to read pretty fluently (with dictionary) and to hold a conversation in Dutch and/or Russian/Czech till the end of the year. I may also start learning a new language (from the list: Swedish, Norwegian, Portuguese, Hungarian).
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