I powered through the Paul Noble Italian course, and found Italian really cool.
I have the option of studying one unit (per semester) of Italian, Dutch or German for my degree (starting in September). Not sure which language to pick so I'm spending a couple of weeks learning a bit of each to find out which one I enjoy most.
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Firstly, I'd like to apologise for the utterly terrible attempt at a pun.
I thought now would be a great time to get started on learning basic Italian and dabbling in Russian while maintaining my French. I took the DELF B2 test for the latter back in March, and was pleasantly surprised to pass with 72! I didn't feel that I deserved it as I walked out of the exam thinking I'd failed. Over the next 3-5 years I'm hoping to get good enough at speaking French to pass the C1 and eventually C2 exams... We'll see.
But that's not why I've started this log. I have 12 weeks and change until university starts, and want to make something of my evenings until then. I hope that keeping a public log will help me to stay accountable by achieving realistic goals. So without further ado...
12 week language challenge - the first 6 weeks
Objectives
- Maintain solid B2 level (French)
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- Get comfortable with super-basic Russian
Plan
French
Read 3 books in French
Translate one short story from French to English
(Bonus: translate one short story from English to French.)
Italian
Watch 1 film in Italian (with subtitles!!)
Practice writing by doing a very short story.
Russian
Complete first 3 chapters of "Ruslan I" course
Practice writing by doing a very short story.
This may be hopelessly optimistic as it's been years since I've done anything but study in dribs and drabs, but it's nice to have some goals.