Hey howdy, everyone!
It's the beginning of a new birth year, a new semester, and a (re)newification of goals and projects. But I'll keep this short for now:
My dear friend/evil nemesis Rick Dearman and I have teamed up and created The Lollygagging Podcast, wherein we talk about language learning from our personal perspectives. We'll be up and running on larger platforms down the line, but for now, you can access all 'casts as they're posted at
http://www.polyglotsanonymous.com/lollygagging.html
In other news, I've posted my language goals for the next 16 months on the Language Learner's Forum--you'll need to register to access the forum, so I'll just list my goals here:
I, Dave Prine, being of sound mind (well, relatively speaking for a language nerd) and body (don’t go there), hereby register for the Super Challenge 2018/2019 committing to the following:
German (Full Challenge) (currently A2-B1) [involves reading 100 books in German and watching 100 movies in German]
Spanish (Full Challenge) (currently A1-A2) [involves reading 100 books in Spanish and watching 100 movies in, you guessed it, Spanish!]
In addition, I plan on regular and focused study of the following languages in order to achieve the corresponding goals by December 31st, 2019:
Desire to maintain and improve (the “FIGS” group):
German: 10,000 words (currently comfortable with ~1500), C1 level
Spanish: 10,000 words (currently comfortable with ~500), B1-B2 level
French: 2,000 words (currently comfortable with ~400)
Italian: 2,000 words (currently comfortable with ~200)
Other (partially in support of an upcoming project):
Esperanto: 2,000 words (currently comfortable with ~100)
(in order to interact with local and international communities, as well as to finally learn something so gosh darn easy)
Slovak: 2,000 words (currently comfortable with ~75)
(in order to consistently communicate with the Slovak community during Polyglot Gatherings as long as they continue to take place in Slovakia)
Indonesian: 2,000 words (currently comfortable with ~50)
(in order to prepare for potential employment to Indonesia)
Hungarian: 1,000 words (currently comfortable with ~50)
(What can I say? I love the language)
Manx: 1,000 words (currently comfortable with ~50)
(an easy revitalized language to pick up, and there are plenty of resources)
Tswana: 1,000 words (currently comfortable with ~20)
(because a certain Rick D who shall not be named suggested a group of us learn this simultaneously)
Lakota: 1,000 words (currently comfortable with ~10)
(to show support of an endangered Native American language, and I have a lot of resources for the language)
K’iche’: 1,000 words (currently comfortable with ~80)
(I’ve studied this casually in school and want to continue for fun and perhaps the chance to become involved with creating more awareness)
Tunica: 1,000 words (currently comfortable with ~40)
(I’m marginally involved with working on this language and feel that one should know asmuch of a language they’re involved with)
The plan is to return to this thread monthly with updates in addition to the Twitter/forum logs. The updates will be brief, yet rambling.
Other languages might come into play over the next 16 months and my goals might fluctuate, but I will work to stay on track to the best of my ability since this constitutes the core that I plan to develop and build from. At the very least, I plan to end 2019 having completed the two challenges as well and reach the goals for the FIGS group.
But expect all of this to change daily, nay, hourly.
And finally, I'll be contributing to my blog (this one here) as I progress, make discoveries, and solidify my language learning experiences.
That is all. Nice to be back!
Hint and tip: one does not actually need to be logged in to access the forum, only to post and access member profiles.
Posted by: Lilian | September 17, 2018 at 10:20