Your Language-related New Year's Resolutions 2018

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It's mid-December and time to ask...

What are your New Year's resolutions for 2018?

Will you start a new language? Or do you expect to finally finish off the one you started last century?
Will you set new goals? Or are you continuing with last year's and last decade's?
Will you finally come out of the silent period? Or are you more likely to enter into yet another wanderlust odyssey?

Will you track your progress with progress bars in your signature? Or streak calendars on your wall?
Are your goals S.M.A.R.T.? Or do you prefer K.I.S.S.?
And what's your usual success rates with New Year's resolutions?

They say you're more likely to succeed if you make your resolutions public, so take advantage of this and hit that reply button!

And don't forget to tell us how you're doing with Your Language-related New Year's Resolutions 2017 over in that thread.

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[basica]

I guess my goal for the end of 2018 is to have my Serbian up from where it is now to a solid B2. I'm not sure how realistic that is, but I'm gonna give it a crack and see how I do. In terms of concrete goals..I guess the following (also should put these in my log):

• 500 pages read
• 2000 minutes of conversation practice (around 30 minutes a week, of which I'll certainly do more).
• 50000 words written down (most likely through lang-8 I think).
• Finish my Glossika course. I've previously done fluency 1, but I will go all the way through Fluency 3. At one a day, it'll take me 9 months (but I'll likely fast track Fluency 1 so it'll be a bit shorter).
• Finish BCS - A textbook with exercises and basic grammar. I've come close before but I need to go through it again as a refresher to be honest.

I don't know if this will take me to a B2, but I certainly hope it'll take me pretty close

[PeterMollenburg]

Sitting the DALF C1 (French, for those not in the know) in Nov 2018, and working very diligently and efficiently throughout 2018 to get there as prepared as I can be.

[tastyonions]

To be taken seriously at least once by a native speaker when I open my mouth and say something in a foreign language.

(The people I pay to listen to my babble don't count.)

[rfnsoares]

Hi everyone!

I've been thinking of my plans for 2018. I hope I can make it.

For the past two years I've been studying Russian very hard. I improved a lot in 2017, more than I had expected. So, in 2018, I'll reduce the amount of time spent on Russian and I'll add another Slavic language: Polish. Of course, I won't give up on Russian, because I love the language and I do not want to waste all my efforts during the past two years. As for it, I continue reading and looking up for unknown words, but not everyday. Anyways, here are my plan of attact:

- Assimil (2007) + colloquial + grammar (3-4 months), then I'll start improving vocabulary with newspapers and magazines. Probably I won't read any novels in Polish in 2018.

Besides, I also have big plans for improving my English, especially my writing skills. I'm planning starting a log on the forum. It will help with my writing skills. I don't want to putt it off anymore. And finally I'd like to visit and spend a time in an English-speaking country.

Regarding my other languages, Spanish, Italian and French, that are at B2 level, I will probably maintain them, reading newspapers and novels.

Concerning Greek and Romanian that are at a B1 level, I still don't know.

[Theodisce]

[*] 2000 hours of conversation practice (around 30 minutes a week, of which I'll certainly do more).

Is this number cumulative? If not, you will need more than 5 hours of conversation a day to achieve this goal in one year.

[basica]

[*] 2000 hours of conversation practice (around 30 minutes a week, of which I'll certainly do more).

Is this number cumulative? If not, you will need more than 5 hours of conversation a day to achieve this goal in one year.

I meant minutes, not hours. I am planning on doing 30 minutes a week at least once a week, but likely twice which I worked out being 1560 minutes if done once a week and rounded it up to 2000. Good catch. Definitely not doing 2000 hours

[Theodisce]

[*] 2000 hours of conversation practice (around 30 minutes a week, of which I'll certainly do more).

Is this number cumulative? If not, you will need more than 5 hours of conversation a day to achieve this goal in one year.

I meant minutes, not hours. I am planning on doing 30 minutes a week at least once a week, but likely twice which I worked out being 1560 minutes if done once a week and rounded it up to 2000. Good catch. Definitely not doing 2000 hours

Sorry for that, I was probably too focused on my own way of counting to read what you had actually written .

[basica]

Sorry for that, I was probably too focused on my own way of counting to read what you had actually written .

Nothing to apologize for. I confused myself too I was initially thinking of writing hours, but then I worked out the minutes and wrote them out while thinking hours. Anyways, 2000 minutes sounds more impressive than 26hrs I think so i'll keep it there