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| psy88 Senior Member United States Joined 5403 days ago 469 posts - 882 votes  Studies: Spanish*, Japanese, Latin, French | Message 1 of 37 31 December 2011 at 12:16am | IP Logged |
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I am surprised no one else has posted this, so I guess I will. What are your New Year's Resolutions? Both specifically for languages, and, in general for 2012.
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| alang Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 7033 days ago 563 posts - 757 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish | Message 2 of 37 31 December 2011 at 2:50am | IP Logged |
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Maintain and improve Spanish- Expand vocabulary by cognates, suffixes and roots.
Brazilian Portuguese- Start Finish (Pimsleur I-III, Semantica I-II, Berlitz Self-Teacher, and MM's Invitation to Portuguese) Start and finish the Body for Life 84 day program Start learning the Abacus/Soroban Increase English vocabulary through Latin and Greek Roots, Prefixes and Suffixes. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| lichtrausch Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5772 days ago 525 posts - 1072 votes Speaks: English*, German, Japanese Studies: Korean, Mandarin | Message 3 of 37 31 December 2011 at 6:29am | IP Logged |
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Reach an advanced level in Chinese, Spanish, and Persian. Reach an intermediate level in Turkish, Russian, and French. I'm probably aiming a bit too high. Oh well, either way it will be fun.
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| amethyst32 Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5461 days ago 118 posts - 198 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Portuguese, French | Message 4 of 37 31 December 2011 at 2:35pm | IP Logged |
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Well, I've returned to French as a false beginner and aiming to reach an upper intermediate level by the end of 2012. Very reachable and realistic goal I think, that's if I put the time in.
Happy new year everyone! :-) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Mauritz Octoglot Senior Member Sweden Joined 4880 days ago 223 posts - 325 votes Speaks: Swedish*, EnglishC2, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Turkish, Esperanto, French Studies: Old English, Yiddish, Arabic (Written), Mandarin, Korean, Portuguese, Welsh, Icelandic, Afrikaans | Message 5 of 37 31 December 2011 at 3:20pm | IP Logged |
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2011 was a year of getting to know a lot of new languages, but 2012 will be a year where I solely seriously focus
on becoming very comfortable in two languages: Russian and Turkish. I will also focus somewhat on Korean, as this is the only language I'll actually attend a course for, but I suspect that this won't be too demanding. Nevertheless, I will also continue to study Old English until I've read Beowulf. Other languages will become secondary, but I'll try (and hopefully will!) succeed in improving them all notably. Edited by Mauritz on 31 December 2011 at 3:20pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6515 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 6 of 37 31 December 2011 at 4:08pm | IP Logged |
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My new years's wow last year was not to make new years wows ever, and thereby I honoured my new years wow from the preceding year, and so forth.
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| Michael K. Senior Member United States Joined 5541 days ago 568 posts - 886 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Esperanto | Message 7 of 37 31 December 2011 at 4:26pm | IP Logged |
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I learned this past year at school you should never go more than 2 days without exercise, so I decided I don't want to go more than 2 days without studying my languages.
I also want to get through Assimil Spanish and French courses. I also want to spend as little money on language resources as I can, since I keep spending money on language books and and then I don't use them. I should also spend more time studying languages than reading about them . . . in English. 6 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Humdereel Octoglot Groupie United States Joined 4790 days ago 90 posts - 349 votes Speaks: English, Spanish*, Arabic (Levantine), Arabic (Egyptian), Arabic (Written), Turkish, Persian, Urdu Studies: Russian | Message 8 of 37 31 December 2011 at 5:11pm | IP Logged |
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I hope to further my exploration of Turkish literature, since compared to Arabic and Persian, I have not looked at it as much. Plus, I hope to practice speaking a lot more as well and exposing myself to more Turkish media in general.
I also plan to amp it up on Russian, since I have been more of an "on and off" student with it than with my other languages. It would also be cool to take a look at Swahili. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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