smallwhite wrote:How is everyone doing with their New Year's Resolutıons?
Good question. BTW that's a fascinating typo in 'Resolutions'... unless it was deliberate
Neurotip wrote:1. Get Icelandic up to a solid A1, hopefully approaching A2, with 100 hours of study.
2. Get Italian up to a solid B1, with 100 hours of study.
The Italian is mostly going to be listening to podcasts and reading articles online; for Icelandic, studying simple texts (preferably parallel texts) alongside Icelandic Online and lots of Anki. I think I can commit to four hours a week - doesn't sound all that much, but I have a goal in one of my other hobbies that's going to take me a fair amount of time as well, and then there's Real Life...
Weeellll... I haven't been counting hours so I cannot answer the question strictly as asked. However:
- I have definitely been putting in at least a couple of hours a week of listening (divided more or less equally between my two TLs), and I have probably got up to a couple of hours a week of miscellaneous other TL-related activities, so I reckon I've been putting in the hard yards as intended
- I'm already closer to A2 than to A1 in Icelandic (woop - doesn't sound much but I'm very excited about this)
- I was at least a strong B1 in Italian before I started (oops), but earlier today I was watching an unscripted round-table (rather heated) political discussion and noticed that I was understanding about the same amount as I was six months ago in scripted podcasts. This I call progress.