Your Language-related New Year's Resolutions 2016

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So, my resolution for 2016:

To keep my listening skills no more than one level below my reading skills in at least 2 languages that I shall actively study in 2016.

04 Apr 2016 - Q1 report

On track. I've mostly just studied Swedish so far, and my reading and listening skills seem to be at the same level.

01 Jul 2016 - Q1 & Q2 report

Behind in Swedish. Comfortable reading vs Stressful listening.

Behind in Dutch - but not my fault! I did listen diligently to the audio of my course, but cognate discount from German means I can read at a much higher level than that. Will work on it

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My favourite linguistic pun again:

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana

We're in the last quarter of 2016 - can you believe it?!

I hope everyone's on track with their New Year's Resolutions. If not, fear not, as there's still 25% of the year ahead of us. Just giddy up!

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So, my resolution for 2016:

To keep my listening skills no more than one level below my reading skills in at least 2 languages that I shall actively study in 2016.

04 Apr 2016 - Q1 report

On track. I've mostly just studied Swedish so far, and my reading and listening skills seem to be at the same level.

01 Jul 2016 - Q1 & Q2 report

Behind in Swedish. Comfortable reading vs Stressful listening.

Behind in Dutch - but not my fault! I did listen diligently to the audio of my course, but cognate discount from German means I can read at a much higher level than that. Will work on it

02 Oct 2016 - Q1-3 report

Swedish - behind but slowing working on it.
Dutch - behind but actively working on it.
Finnish - reading skills and listening skills similarly non-existent

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December. Your last chance to keep up or catch up with the New Year's Resolutions you so enthousiastically set 11 months ago.There's still time, so go for it!

[Xenops]

My resolutions this year was to make sufficient progress in Spanish and Japanese...I abandoned these for French.

[Spoonary]

My resolutions were extremely vague, so let's say I succeeded?

Next year I want to be more focused in my language learning, and as I'll be moving into a place of my own in January, I will have much more freedom to organise my time, so I definitely think it's possible. Maybe...

[jennybenny25]

Next year finish level 3 bsl and keep going with french and spanish (try to finish duolingo lessons)

Really need to start reading and watching more!

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[gsbod]

I'm planning to carry on filling up the progress bars in my signature for reading German books and watching German TV. But I am deliberately not giving myself a date to complete this by, because I find that if I want to spend quality time with a large quantity of material, trying to do it quickly is an unnecessary distraction.

This is definitely one to roll over into 2017, but those progress bars have been filling up and I'm somewhat surprised to see I'm only around 810 minutes away from filling the TV/film bar completely.

I also want to finish studying all the important grammar bits (I'm looking at you, Passiv).

I'm not sure what I meant by "finish studying". But I think I've now covered all the important grammar bits one way or another, and have shifted from "learning" to "perfecting" in most cases. Including Passiv.

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I hate doing intensive listening practice and I've been avoiding it more and more. I do do extensive listening, but it doesn't work very well for me. So, my resolution for 2016:

To keep my listening skills no more than one level below my reading skills in at least 2 languages that I shall actively study in 2016.

End-of-year report

Mission accomplished - Italian and German.

In both languages, I think I read at B2 level - I can enjoy native materials but my reading speed has room for improvement, and the amount of unknown words is still noticeable. While my listening would be at B1 level or above - got 18/20 in a mock B1 Italian test, and DW's Top Thema, which is B1, is easy.

Thing is, I was expecting to achieve this resolution with my newer languages (Swedish, Dutch) instead of my old languages (F.I.G.S.), but it turned out almost impossible. Swedish and Dutch reading is just sooo much easier than listening given the cognate discounts that I get from English and German.

It was still good to have set up this NY's resolution, though. Made me work a lot more on Dutch listening than I otherwise would have, as I had originally planned to achieve the resolution with Dutch. Towards the end of the year, I could see that Swedish and Dutch weren't promising, and started working on Italian and German instead, which, again, I otherwise wouldn't have done.

Yay! Let's see how 2017 goes!

[jeff_lindqvist]

To move my weak target langages up one notch, from A1 to A2, from A2 to B1 etc. And that also means that I'll do my best to bring any new/A0 language to A1 (currently fi, yue, ro, tp, cy, kw).

So, did I succeed? Well, the only language (in this group) where I think I made significant progress is Finnish. A more detailed summary will follow in my log any day soon (I just have to update that spreadsheet of mine).