6 months in -- How are your 2019 New Year's Resolutions going?

[Elsa Maria]

I voted "Great" but that is because I have had a great six months of language learning. I only somewhat stuck to what I planned back in January, though.

In summary, this is how it has gone:

Stayed in the 365 Day Challenge for Danish, but did not follow through with the Output Challenge.
Finished strong in my Dutch class, but dropped the 365 Day Challenge for Dutch.
Finished strong in my Latin class, and took the National Latin Exam.
Intended to work a bit on Spanish and Russian, but have dropped them for Portuguese and Polish.

I wrote: In 2019, I plan to be brave enough to write part of my log in Danish.
I still have not done that, but hey, the year is only half over.

[Lemus]

Five books each in Spanish, German, and Italian. Adult novels or substantial words of nonfiction.
One easy reader in Persian
4,000 words in Anki (a thousand in each language)

Note though that I did set these goals out about two months ago so I already am well underway. Cheating? Maybe...

If I hit the targets before the end of the year, then I will let myself embrace the wanderlust!

Maybe I should have added also update my language log, which I haven't done in well over a month...

I selected great though since I'm very happy with how things are going! Five books in Italian are finished as well as six in Spanish. So I am well over half way on my reading goals for the year and considering maybe bumping it to ten Spanish books since I will have the time.

1,000 words in Anki are done for Italian, getting real close for Spanish (about 700 at the moment) and are at least started for German. I'm at just about 2,000 words total so that's where I wanted to be.

Not where I wanted to be in Persian but some things in my life changed and it would be a good idea for me now to at least speak some basic Portuguese. I have kicked that off successfully but it has come at the expense of Persian. Resolutions are good to make but you shouldn't be afraid to update them if you need to!

I'm not ruling out getting through that easy reader but if I don't make it I'm not going to beat myself up over it.

[Bex]

Looks like I didn't write anything. I think back in January I just wanted to focus on finishing the Super Challenge, especially as I was struggling with the reading part.

My Super Challenge progress so far is "so-so"...
My reading total is 65 books but I should be at around 70 at this point. So I'm behind but not by an amount where I can't reach my goal by the end of the year.

My total listening so far is 77 films, which is 7 ahead of where I should be at this point. So the listening part is going pretty well.

I have added FSI Spanish Basic to the mix, which is helping me progress well at the moment but it does eat into my SC time. So far I have logged over 4,000 hours of unplanned 'studying' this year which is mainly a combination of FSI and various workbooks.

So it seems I'm doing OK 6 months in.

[Brun Ugle]

Distract Brun Ugle with at least one other new language.
Spend 20 minutes per day per language + 1 other learning project.
Do a Free and Legal Challenge for another language. The next one starts in January right?

Successful in number one... Polish.

You don’t get credit for that one. It was the Gathering team that distracted me with Polish by announcing that the next time would be in Poland.

[rdearman]

Distract Brun Ugle with at least one other new language.
Spend 20 minutes per day per language + 1 other learning project.
Do a Free and Legal Challenge for another language. The next one starts in January right?

Successful in number one... Polish.

You don’t get credit for that one. It was the Gathering team that distracted me with Polish by announcing that the next time would be in Poland.

You're right. But seriously, you should consider French. How will you talk to all your friends when they are all speaking French? French... French... French.

Thinking about it. You might want to speak to Carl. So perhaps Italian would be better. Have you considered Italian? Italian would be easy with all that Spanish you know. You should defo try Italian.

[StringerBell]

So far I have logged over 4,000 hours of unplanned 'studying' this year which is mainly a combination of FSI and various workbooks.

Wow!!! That's 22+ hours every day of studying Spanish - you're a machine!

[Skynet]

My resolutions are going better than expected except for the fact that I cannot find a French-speaking professor who is willing to supervise me as I endeavour to write and publish an article in French. In all candour, finding a willing professor at an English-instruction university was a moonshot.

[Bex]

So far I have logged over 4,000 hours of unplanned 'studying' this year which is mainly a combination of FSI and various workbooks.

Wow!!! That's 22+ hours every day of studying Spanish - you're a machine!

I meant minutes!

[Fenderman]

It's going "pretty good" so far.

The good: Because of the 365 day challenge I've practiced at least 30 minutes of Spanish everyday.

The bad: I really wanted to average around one and half hours of language study per day this year and as of today I'm at about one hour and ten minutes. Not bad, but I would still like to hit my average by the end of the year.

[Sayonaroo]

I only have one and it's something that I've been trying to keep up for a couple years now which is to read 2 books in Japanese a month (not including manga). Sometimes I'm okay with just finishing one if it's a really long book. I hit my quota so far this year and I don't think I'll have any issues hitting it for July since I'm currently in the middle of 3 books and all three are keeping my interest. One is about love and dating in Korea (it's very different from Japan and American for sure!), one is a light novel, and one is about north korean defectors.

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