How happy are you with your progress?

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How happy are you with your progress?

Poll ended at Fri Jan 05, 2018 3:13 pm

Extremely happy
6
7%
Very happy
9
10%
Quite happy
40
44%
Neutral
9
10%
Quite unhappy
18
20%
Very unhappy
5
5%
Extremely unhappy
4
4%
 
Total votes: 91

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How happy are you with your progress?

Postby smallwhite » Wed Dec 06, 2017 3:13 pm

You can only place 1 vote. Use it for any one or more or all of your languages as you please.
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Re: How happy are you with your progress?

Postby PeterMollenburg » Wed Dec 06, 2017 3:23 pm

Despite being nowhere near where I expected to be with regards to advanced fluency in foreign languages (still not there with my first one), I am still content. I know I've done a lot (more than I expected I would have to do) to get to where I am, but I think that's fine.
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Re: How happy are you with your progress?

Postby Elenia » Wed Dec 06, 2017 3:35 pm

I'm quite happy (Swedish). I would be 'very happy' but I've slacked off these past few months, so there hasn't really been any progress.
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Re: How happy are you with your progress?

Postby lichtrausch » Wed Dec 06, 2017 3:57 pm

Somewhat happy.
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Re: How happy are you with your progress?

Postby Ogrim » Wed Dec 06, 2017 4:05 pm

Overall quite happy, but to be more specific, I am very happy with my progress in Russian, because I understand more and more and I notice in class that speaking has become more fluent and my active vocabulary has increased a lot during the year. My writing skills still stink, but that is because of laziness and lack of time.

I am quite happy with my progress in Arabic, although it is very slow, but then I expected it to be.

I am (very) unhappy with my Greek, because I have not been able to do very much at all since the summer - I really need to get up to speed on it again.

With my other languages I am just happy :)
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Re: How happy are you with your progress?

Postby rdearman » Wed Dec 06, 2017 4:21 pm

Hummm... I appear to be one of the few people who posted. "Extremely unhappy". Perhaps I have unrealistic expectations. :( :?:
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Re: How happy are you with your progress?

Postby trui » Wed Dec 06, 2017 4:34 pm

I wish there was an option between neutral and quite happy :lol:

I don't know. I'm happy with my progress. I've been learning Dutch for the past 3 years and while I could have done more in the past year or so, my reading is up to a B2 level now and this is the first language I've got that far in. Before learning Dutch, the best I had done was get to an A2 level in French through school and a bit at home--which I promptly forgot.

My goal is to get my Dutch to a native-like level. I am planning on moving to the Netherlands as soon as that's possible and that will help a lot, but before then I'd like to improve my Dutch as much as I can. Sadly, I seem to have lost a lot of the motivation that I used to have for studying and I'm just reading extensively, chatting with people online, and watching the occassional tv show nowadays which isn't bad, but I feel like I should be doing more. It really feels like a waiting game now--read, write, listen, speak and eventually I'll get there? I miss the days where improvement was as simple and easily quantifiable as learning a new aspect of word order.
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Re: How happy are you with your progress?

Postby Dylan95 » Wed Dec 06, 2017 7:38 pm

This is difficult for me to answer because on any given week my answer could range from extremely happy to extremely sad.
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Re: How happy are you with your progress?

Postby MacGyver » Wed Dec 06, 2017 11:03 pm

Not happy at all. I enjoy the process, but the results are no where near as good as I had hoped for.
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Re: How happy are you with your progress?

Postby Hank » Thu Dec 07, 2017 1:56 am

АмериканскийДурак wrote:This is difficult for me to answer because on any given week my answer could range from extremely happy to extremely sad.


This is exactly how I feel.

On balance I chose quite happy. I'm normally very happy with Spanish but Welsh is quite a struggle for me at the moment. A couple of years from now I'm sure my vote will be much higher.
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