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rlnv
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Message 97 of 102

02 February 2014 at 3:00am | IP Logged

maydayayday wrote:

rlnv wrote:

French:

My goal is to go from my current estimated A1 level to passing the B2 exam by the end of February 2015. That would put me in B2 territory at the end of the year.

When the New Year toasts are being made, I want to reflect back on 2014 as, "the year I learned French". I am committing the bulk of my spare time this year to do that.

Now that is an objective!

Knowing that there really is no endpoint, only more steps along a journey, I meant the statement more as to be a future refection on the effort I intend to spend this year. I will take myself from absolute beginner, to a having a reasonable ability to communicate in and comprehend the written and spoken language. Wherever I end up at the end of the year, I'm certain that years from now I will look back and see it as a rudimentary level. Yet it will be a year remembered for becoming a person that can participate in French in a meaningful way.

Edited by rlnv on 02 February 2014 at 3:03am
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luke
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Message 98 of 102

25 December 2014 at 8:50pm | IP Logged

The year is coming to a close. Time to look back and see what happened.

luke wrote:

French
Revise the 4 Assimil French courses I have. Business French needs the most work.
Get Le Petit Prince and L’Étranger to the point where they are easy and effortless to listen with close to 100%
comprehension.
Listen/Read several books, focusing on those that were originally in French, as well as a few interesting ones
that weren't originally in English or Spanish.
Start the long grind through FSI Basic French.

I did good with the four Assimil French courses. Business French is in good shape. Le Petit Prince was
pretty easy the last time I was reading and listening to it. The Stranger is still now where I want it to be. I've
Listen/Read several books in French. In FSI Basic French, I got up to unit 11 of 24. I've been reviewing
lately and that review is in unit 6.

Overall grade B. Better at some things than I expected. My study included a lot of stuff that wasn't in the
plan.

luke wrote:

Spanish
Finish a grand trip through Don Quixote de La Mancha. This involves listen/reading with support at times in
English, which I'm doing now (around capítulo 33 in part one today). I also want to read it in English without
audio for pleasure, and supplement that with just listening in Spanish for pleasure.
Listen/Read Cien Años de Soledad and take comprehension up several notches using the methods
described above for Don Quixote.
Listen a bit more to modern Spanish media. My wife has a subscription to Sirius XM Radio, and they have a
good bit of Spanish programming, such as CNN en Español. I would like to get this to the effortless stage as
well.
Do the Translation and Response drills from FSI Basic Spanish to keep active speaking skills up.
Go "all the way" with FSI Basic Spanish, and really get down Level 4 (of the original 4 level course).

Esperanto
Get the video/recordings I did at a conference in 2013 up to the point where they are pretty effortless as well.
They're pretty much here already.
Since stretch goals are okay, go ahead and read Lord of the Rings, which I bought at the conference.
Continue listening through Svisa Radio mp3s.

English
Continue to read several more Great Books, focusing on those that were originally done in English. Also
support my French listen/reading a bit with this goal.

I focused primarily on French this year. I did read the first part of Don Quixote in Spanish. I went through the
Using Spanish course with a French base. I listened to some odd radio programs and watched a little TV.

Esperanto got a little time watching some videos from a conference I attended.

English is hard to quantify, since it's my native language.

Overall, pretty incomplete on my plans, although I'm content with my progress in French.
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Serpent
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Message 99 of 102

28 December 2014 at 12:29am | IP Logged

Serpent wrote:

I've also listed some specific things I want to read/do here in my log.

In terms of the forum's levels, I'm hoping to list Italian and Polish as basic fluency.

Upgraded German and Spanish instead.
Went through my list at the end of this page (I got started on quite a lot of stuff, but haven't completed much)

Edited by Serpent on 28 December 2014 at 2:59am
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Darklight1216
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Message 100 of 102

28 December 2014 at 2:24am | IP Logged

I want to "finish" German and seriously improve my French. If I could get started on my
next project before the year's end that would be ideal.

I'll feel satisfied with German when I can converse fairly easily (a little less than my
French level is now) and read novels.

Edited by Darklight1216 on 28 December 2014 at 2:29am
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Serpent
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28 December 2014 at 3:25am | IP Logged

You noticed that this is the 2014 thread, right? ;)
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Darklight1216
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28 December 2014 at 3:30am | IP Logged

Serpent wrote:

You noticed that this is the 2014 thread, right? ;)

Lol, I've still got time!

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