Your Language-related New Year's Resolutions 2023

[Fuerza]

I’ll be resuming my study of Old English, this time alongside my children to make it a little more interesting. We’ll be working through Learn Old English with Leofwin together, and then I’ll continue with Mary Savelli’s Elementary Old English, before finally working through a bilingual edition of Beowulf. I also plan to work through Clyde Pharr’s Homeric Greek, and will be doing improvement/maintenance work on Latin, Standard Italian, and Portuguese, mostly via reading. My language goals generally tend to be reading-oriented, so working through various languages at once is less of a problem for me.

[Ug_Caveman]

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* 2022 by Ug_Caveman

Hey, I got a shoutout!

Time to ask...

What are your New Year's resolutions for 2023?

Will you start a new language? Or do you expect to finally finish off the one you started last decade?
Will you set new goals? Or are you continuing with last decade's?
Will you finally come out of the silent period? Or are you more likely to enter into yet another wanderlust odyssey?
And what's your usual success rates with New Year's resolutions?

My main goal is to keep pushing with my Dutch B1 exam. They're only held in May so it can't really last the whole year though...

Ideally I'd like to tackle another language once I'm done. French, Spanish and the Scandinavian trio all appeal to me for a multitude of reasons (I'm hoping to visit Sweden for the first time quite soon.) But I know I can't take on all five plus Dutch so I need to think of a way to choose.

And what's your usual success rates with New Year's resolutions?

Last year I had to put my Dutch B1 on hold for reasons outside of language learning, but the year before I passed the Dutch A2 so generally have done OK with my major goals. (If I pass B1, next target is passing the two separate Dutch B2 CNaVT exams.)

[Ug_Caveman]

Learn Dutch below C Level

I kid. Though technically, I only need to learn 1 Dutch word to achieve it, because A0 is still below C...

May I suggest spook?

[Gaoling97]

Very specific and measurable goals:

• Clear my Chinese Anki backlog (over 3000 cards due now )
• Read at least two novels in Chinese
• Read at least 12 novels in German
• Reach 5000 German Anki cards (text+audio cards combined) -- am at about 2800 right now
• Take and pass German C2 exam

I wonder if you can see which language is getting more priority

[Vordhosbn]

Nothing concrete, but I regret neglecting Georgian for the second half of last year and will endeavor to review and then progress beyond all the lessons I've currently studied in the textbook I've been working through.

[Suzie]

Completing the Super Challenge (French). This will be naturally joined by some Anki work to revise new vocabulary, but I am not going to set any separate goals for that. My goal is not overly ambitious, but I am not a consistent learner, and my breaks are often the results of burnouts from the self-imposed stress to add a language goal to all my other resolutions.

I see myself out before changing my mind on this. Have just returned from a lovely holiday in Sweden and am pondering over the best time to add Swedish. And I am still very far away from where I'd like to be with my French.

[badger]

take the French DELF B1 exam

[garyb]

I'm not usually one for goals especially now that languages are far from being my main activity (this year I plan to continue to concentrate on career and music), but I'm very keen to finally get my German past the very basic stage and get to a point of being able to actually use it, even if just for simple conversations and being able to get through a book or TV series without being completely dependent on subtitles or dictionaries. I've almost finished my A1 textbook, and hopefully I can get a good chunk through A2.

For Italian and Spanish, I'll settle for maintenance. I am planning to travel to Portugal so I'd like to pick up a bit more basic Portuguese too.

[księżycowy]

Stick it out in the 365 Challenge, and make it to 300+ days.

And at least finish my textbooks for Biblical Greek and Hebrew.

Edit: Fixed phrasing.

[cjareck]

For Mandarin, I have a modest goal - to finish the 2nd volume of the Assimil course.

For Arabic, I would like to complete the 365 Challenge and maybe reach the 50th lesson of the DLI MSA Basic Course and the 30th lesson of the Polish ESKK course for Arabic. First is surely reachable, second and third also, but not combined.

For Hebrew, to read my first book in the language