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Goals, milestones, progress bars

Postby Serpent » Sun Aug 30, 2015 9:28 pm

Which are your current and future goals, what milestones are you looking forward to? :) What do your progress bars mean? :P
This is also a place for posting more progress bars than what your signature can handle, but please include an explanation :idea:

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[progress=label]X/Y[/progress]

Please ask any technical questions in the original thread, keeping this one focused on goals :)
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Re: Goals and milestones

Postby Jar-Ptitsa » Sun Aug 30, 2015 9:42 pm

I like the blue progress bars, but I don't understand how to add them in my signature. :? Not that I progress much :lol:
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Re: Goals and milestones

Postby galaxyrocker » Sun Aug 30, 2015 9:44 pm

Right now I'm just wanting to finish An Fear a Phléasc. I'm averaging about a story a day, possibly more, so it should be fairly quickly done. Also just improving my listening ability. My main goal is to just do that consistently for a week.

My end goal is to eventually be able to take a C1 exam, which is the highest offered for Irish. But I've got a long way to go, especially on my listening ability, and it'll be hard to do it without moving to Ireland.


As for French, just doing an Assimil lesson a day. I like my simple and short goals.
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Re: Goals and milestones

Postby sillygoose1 » Sun Aug 30, 2015 10:07 pm

Long term:

-French & Spanish C2 all around
-Earn my masters degree in a francophone country (probably Quebec)
-German C1
-Read Roman literature without a dictionary in Latin

Mid term:

-Read a B2 level novel in German without a dictionary
-Get better acquainted with Caribbean speech in Spanish
-Read 10 novels in Portuguese

Short term:

-Learn the Cyrillic alphabet
-Complete Swedish and maybe Norwegian & Danish Assimil courses
-Complete a Russian Assimil course
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Re: Goals and milestones

Postby rdearman » Sun Aug 30, 2015 10:13 pm

My goal is to be able to speak to ten year olds in French, Italian, and Mandarin without looking and sounding like a village idiot. I have a long way to go before i can achieve this goal. :cry:
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Re: Goals and milestones

Postby tomgosse » Sun Aug 30, 2015 10:55 pm

vogeltje wrote:I like the blue progress bars, but I don't understand how to add them in my signature. :? Not that I progress much :lol:


If you want to put the progress bars in your signature use this code:

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[progress= ]3/52[/progress] French In Action chapters :
[progress= ]562/3810[/progress] Memrise French words :
[progress= ]7/30[/progress] Pimsleur French 1 lessons :


You need to put a space after the equals sign in the opening tag. In my example I have finished 3 of 52 chapters in French in Action, 562 words out of 3810 in Memrise, and 7 lessons out of 30 in Pimsleur French 1. You can, of course, choose any measurement you want. When you put your mouse over a progress bar you will get a popup that reads something like, ":3/52"

By the way, the color of the bars can change on different systems.
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Re: Goals and milestones

Postby tomgosse » Sun Aug 30, 2015 11:12 pm

My goals are :
    Pass the test for A1 in French by next Spring.
    Complete French in Action by the end of 2016.
    Run away and join the French Foreign Legion (that's a joke :) )
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Re: Goals and milestones

Postby jeff_lindqvist » Sun Aug 30, 2015 11:17 pm

Serpent wrote:Which are your current and future goals, what milestones are you looking forward to? :)


None other than levelling up in all my languages (including listing my unlisted languages - those are probably around A1).

Serpent wrote:What do your progress bars mean? :P


You mean you don't read Irish? ;)

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Re: Goals and milestones

Postby CarlyD » Sun Aug 30, 2015 11:53 pm

I've recently returned to doing family genealogy, which is actually changing my goals a bit.

Spanish Goals:
Able to watch telenovelas, detective shows and the news comfortably.
Able to read (probably lower level) books easily, and follow online news stories.
Hold a conversation, but I don't honestly know how often that will happen.

German Goals:
Able to read/write posts, emails, letters, easy books
Learn Fraktur to decipher old German records

Other Languages:
I've considered dusting off my rusty Croatian, but I'm finding that the old records I need are held in now-Slovenia, so I'm considering whether I want to dip into that or just find a translator.

End Goals:
Pass either B1 or B2 in Spanish--comfortably.
Pass A2 in German.
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Re: Goals and milestones

Postby Rem » Mon Aug 31, 2015 12:41 am

I’ve always had trouble setting myself goals, especially where languages are concerned. I find that the main problem for me is thinking of ‘real’ goals that I can aim for.

People often say that goals should be measurable and I think they have a point. Just ‘speaking better’ or ‘improving listening’ for example are very difficult to judge and what they actually mean can vary, not just from person to person, but also to me on a day-to-day basis. This isn’t to say that I think these general types of goals are bad, just that they’re not ideal for sustaining my motivation.

I do have a couple of more concrete language goals though.


1. Pass my University Degree

I’m going into my second year now and expecting the workload to increase accordingly, but I think I can manage it. I’d also like to pass the degree with a decent mark as I’d hate to feel as though I’d just scraped through. I’m off to a good start and, as long as I put in the time and effort outside of classes, I should be able to get a respectable result. :)


2. Conquer my Year Abroad

I want to have a good enough grasp of my target languages by the time I go abroad that I can handle most of the everyday situations that I’ll find myself in without having to rely on English.

I don’t expect to be perfect and I’m certainly not against the idea of using some English while I’m away, but I don’t want to have to do so because my abilities in the target language are too poor to cope.


I have a few smaller (short term) goals as well, but these are my main 2 for now. :)
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