New Year's pledges about language learning

[Reveuse]

Pledges are for efficient people. I believe in chaos and in not making promises to myself that I will not keep

I totally agree, the pledges never worked for me. But that doesn't mean that I don't have them, when I think about it..

Improve my French, I already have C1/C2 but I think you can always improve yourself
Finally start to learn Arabic. But I should take a course or something because on my own I'll never make it.
Be able to prononce the spanish r so people won't make fun of me anymore and then I'll be confident enough to learn more Spanish
Improve my English and my German, like always
Learn a lot of things about other nice languages

[Smitty]

My New Year's pledges are quite simple - I will give my upmost effort to get this right.

Japanese: My main focus for the whole year - reach an upper beginner/lower intermediate level with the aim of passing JLPT 3 (or 2級 if my progress goes exceptionally nicely - though that maybe too enthusiastic)

Spanish: Get a solid foundation in the language. Probably around the A2 level by December.

[Duke of Prunes]

Well, my biggest goal is to learn Russian.

Then perhaps a bit of Swedish/Norwegian as I can already understand most of either one when written down and it doesn't seem like it would be all too difficult coming from the languages that I already know.

Same thing goes for Spanish, which I once started... but never really followed through with.

Other than that, just keep practicing the ones I already know, difficult to stay completely fluent in several different languages if you're not constantly working at them.

[Merlin]

I should try and write in German too...But it would take hours to produce a few sentences. Whoops

Okay, my guidelines for 2009:

My main focus will be on Icelandic: I hope to spend five weeks in Iceland next summer, so I will go on practising as I did this year: reading books and listening to the radio. I've tried to contact Icelanders, but failed, alas. It would be lovely to be able to hold a real conversation in Icelandic and write texts and stories in that language.
German: I've been telling myself for three years that I have to do something about my German. I can read novels and all, but I'm unable to speak or write...because I lack practice. So I'll try to practice...(I bet I'm going to laugh at this next year )
Hungarian: go on learning it. If I manage to read a novel, that would be great.
Latin: refresh it. I've forgotten so much.
Finnish: I want to learn this language very badly. I'll try to refrain from jumping on Finnish grammars until next August.
Lebanese: speak it more often at home.

Good year ahead.

[Lietmotiv]

Read a book in Romanian, if I can find one at all

Nowadays nothing is impossible(including finding Romanian books in the US)
check this up : http://www.romaniandolls.com/books/009l ... index.html

I guess the site is for the US,maybe for the Romanian Diaspora. Those are some of the most important Romanian Classic Writers, --
: Ioan .L.Caragiale ,Panait Istrati, L. Rebreanu, Mihail Sadoveanu, I.Slavici

This is some poetry from 1920-1944
http://www.romaniandolls.com/books/009l ... index.html

Almost contemporary poetry
http://www.romaniandolls.com/books/009l ... index.html

And classic poetry Vasile Alecsandri,L. Blaga,A. Macedonski,Anton Pann,
http://www.romaniandolls.com/books/009l ... index.html

[Diogenes]

Thanks for the list of resources, AndreiB! I will make very good use of them, I'm sure.

[Anesthesia]

My goals are:
1. To focus on my Spanish, that means reading a lot, doing excersices, focus on tenses...
2. Portuguese, pretty much the same as with Spanish.
3. Reading a lot of books in Norwegian.
4. Practice my English every day, including pronunciation.
5. Revive my Russian hopefully.

[Mikael]

I've tried to contact Icelanders, but failed, alas. It would be lovely to be able to hold a real conversation in Icelandic and write texts and stories in that language.

We have an unhealthy lack of Icelanders on UniLang. It seems like a year ago there were at least a couple regular posters.

[loqu]

I've tried to contact Icelanders, but failed, alas. It would be lovely to be able to hold a real conversation in Icelandic and write texts and stories in that language.

We have an unhealthy lack of Icelanders on UniLang. It seems like a year ago there were at least a couple regular posters.

Egein and Almar, I remember them. Would be nice to have them back.

There's also a couple of regulars that have some advanced skills in Icelandic if I'm not wrong, like JackFrost or nighean-neonach.

[Mikael]

Egein and Almar, I remember them. Would be nice to have them back.

I talk to Almar regularly, but I don't know if he'd come back to the forum. Hopefully Egein starts coming back once he finishes his year abroad. Or during...

[Eoghan]

1. Improve my Scottish Gaelic
2. To read a lot more in Gaelic (Irish and Scottish)
3. To start with Portuguese
4. To find a place where I can get serious with Maori. I really want to learn the language in order to really understand it.
5. To study South Saami during the summer.

[Kasuya]

I've tried to contact Icelanders, but failed, alas. It would be lovely to be able to hold a real conversation in Icelandic and write texts and stories in that language.

Perhaps they're preoccupied by the crisis their country is going through.

[sa wulfs]

Egein and Almar, I remember them. Would be nice to have them back.

The other day I recommended Almar a band in the Currently Listening thread, and then I was like "Damn, but he isn't here!"

Kürzlich habe ich Almar eine Band im Hört Gerade Thread empfholen und dann dachte ich "Er ist nicht hier aber! Verdammt!".

[Egein]

I'm kind of glad I've gotten rid of my addiction to Unilang! I still come here...but nearly uniquely to ask for corrections in Finnish. Pretty selfish I know.

If you have any particular question that you can't find an answer to and that hasn't been answered in months and months, just send me a line to strakur@gmail.com and I'll most likely answer. I am, after all, always on gmail if I am on the internet.

yey.

[Monsieur-Kiwi]

I am finally going to France this year so my goal is to be able to have a conversation with a French person there. I know it doesn't seem like much but it will be a big deal for me as I have only ever really talked to people in French who have lived in New Zealand for a long time or only on the internet. So yeah, that's my only real language goal. Who knows what the year will bring though. I may just pick up another language as I am really starting to feel confident in French.

[Meera]

1. Finish the units in my Rosetta Stone for Arabic
2. Become conversational in Hindi
3.Study Tamil seriously
4. improve my accent in dari