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| mezzofanti Octoglot Senior Member Australia mezzoguild.com Joined 4558 days ago 51 posts - 112 votes  Speaks: English*, Arabic (Written), Ancient Greek, Biblical Hebrew, Arabic (classical), Arabic (Egyptian), Irish, Arabic (Levantine) Studies: Korean, Georgian, French | Message 1 of 86 21 December 2012 at 8:46am | IP Logged |
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So apparently today is the end of the world.
If you're one of the survivors (assuming there's people left to talk to :)), what language learning resolutions do you have for the New Year? Edited by mezzofanti on 21 December 2012 at 8:49am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6719 days ago 4250 posts - 5710 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 2 of 86 21 December 2012 at 11:44am | IP Logged |
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My goals from 31 Dec 2008:
"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)." My German is better now, as is my Spanish, but other than that I still want my target languages to improve a level (whether that's from A1 to A2, B1 to B2 etc.) For most of my languages it's still a question of "getting used to it". My (passive) comprehension is way better than my active skills in any of them. I've been reviewing my Assimil courses (in four languages) for the past two-three months and when I've "finished" them, I'm up for something else (in addition TAC 2013 for Danish, Norwegian and Irish). 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| sans-serif Tetraglot Senior Member Finland Joined 4369 days ago 298 posts - 470 votes Speaks: Finnish*, English, German, Swedish Studies: Danish | Message 3 of 86 21 December 2012 at 2:46pm | IP Logged |
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My first priority is German. I have lots of extensive reading and listening lined up for myself and I'll probably throw some Skype conversations into the mix later in the year. Fortunately, there aren't any major pronunciation issues I have to worry about, so I can start reading without audio right out of the gates.
Number two on my list is getting more comfortable speaking Swedish and to keep it fresh, so as to minimize interference with German. My earlier strong focus on Swedish took its toll on my active German skills, so I'm trying to be more prudent this time around. On the side, I'll work on Danish and Norwegian. My most tangible goal is to achieve 'natural' listening in Danish, but I'm also hoping to get a solid grasp on grammar and spelling in both languages. Finally, I reserve the right to do some Japanese, if I get bored. It would be awesome if I could follow the Bananaman podcasts with only few gaps in understanding by the end of 2013. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| hrhenry Octoglot Senior Member United States languagehopper.blogs Joined 4940 days ago 1871 posts - 3642 votes Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, ItalianC2, Norwegian, Catalan, Galician, Turkish, Portuguese Studies: Polish, Indonesian, Ojibwe | Message 4 of 86 21 December 2012 at 2:57pm | IP Logged |
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B2 exams for Turkish in the first quarter of 2013. The rest is gravy.
I have plenty of plans for the year, but passing the exams is my focus the first part of the year. R. == 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| BaronBill Triglot Senior Member United States HowToLanguages.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4499 days ago 335 posts - 594 votes Speaks: English*, French, German Studies: Spanish, Mandarin, Persian | Message 5 of 86 21 December 2012 at 3:36pm | IP Logged |
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My goals for 2013 are:
Maintain my C1 French Maintain my B2 German (maybe even improve it some) Bring my Spanish to B2 (conversational fluency). Find an additional language to start and work up to a spoken A1/A2 (Looking at Swahili, Dari, and Japanese) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5191 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 6 of 86 21 December 2012 at 4:13pm | IP Logged |
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Improve my languages (German, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto) and add Italian. Nothing fancy.
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| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4517 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 7 of 86 21 December 2012 at 4:31pm | IP Logged |
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Improve my Russian to a level where I can comfortably read novels and magazines and
understand 80%+ of what is being said. Get to finish Assimil in Breton. Dabble in some other languages. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4517 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 8 of 86 21 December 2012 at 4:36pm | IP Logged |
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I love this forum software. Edited by tarvos on 21 December 2012 at 4:36pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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