Instead of resolutions, I think I'll go for hopes and aspirations. For 2019, I'd like to actively continue with my language learning. Dabble a little with French and Spanish and do a bit of reading and writing, just for maintenance. Reduce my constant use of English. But my real aspirations for the year, in terms of language learning are:
German
- Prepare for the C1 test. This means being fairly fluent and will require work in grammar, vocabulary and even pronunciation. Read and listen a lot. Watch a bit of German shows - I've got a great list. I'd hope to continue our exchange sessions with Brun Ugle.
- Focus my activity much more on native material.
- Spend at least 2 hrs a week.
- Complete Assimil & FSI. Really I'd like to move this to a solid A2 level. I've been futzing around this last year and need more consistently, if I want to get anywhere with this.
- Take a pause from italki lessons until February.
- Spend at least 2 hrs a week.
- Complete Colloquial Tibetan and Modern Tibetan Language Volume 1. I really like what I've achieved in the last year and think that continued work here will be truly enjoyable.
- Take a pause from italki lessons until February.
- Spend at least 2 hrs a week.
- I'm going to complete that damn Memrise course. I've fallen behind! I may not go beyond the Polyglot conference (if I attend) but I would like to continue studying Setswana at least up to that date.
- Spend at least 1 hrs a week.
- Activate my Portuguese - over the winter vacations I had two opportunities to speak it and mostly waffled. I was nicely reminded that my father and brother are pretty fluent, if hesitant. So I have family resources to practice.
- Tzotzil and Nahuatl - do a bit of exploratory study to figure out which of the two I want to tackle next. No real solid goals there but mostly feed the dragon. And have fun with it.
- Esperanto - I want to continue to fervently avoid learning this language. I am involved in projects where some of the communication is proposed in Esperanto. I do not want to spend time on it. It isn't part of my goals, so I hope to actively avoid it.
- Norwegian - Someone keeps trying to distract me with this language. I have some material, I hope to barely look at it.