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ros3ybabe · 1 month
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Spanish Media/Input Recommendations?
Can you guys comment me some good media/input recommendations for someone learning Mexican/Spain Spanish? I' talking about any and all that you guys find interesting, whether you learned Spanish on your own or it's your native language!
Books
Podcasts
Tv Shows
Movies
Youtube channels
Songs/Musical Artists
Favorite Spanish teachers/tutors on Italki
Literally anything!
Thank you guys <3
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4月4日2024年ー「木」
I’m writing this from my building’s laundry room floor. One person is taking up 6 washing machines…I haven’t done laundry in a week and a half….Anyways.
What I’ve Gotten Done:
Genki I Chpt 4 Practice
Anki review (L00 - L06)
WaniKani review
GenkiKani deck L03
Wrote down new vocab from NHK Easy News
Journaled in Japanese
What I Have Left To Do:
Nothing
I literally got 3 and a half hours of work done today, probably overcompensating for doing basically nothing yesterday. I’m glad I got so much done though.
Bonus: you can see my girlfriend’s binder in the background of the first picture; we were working in the uni library together.
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vibinwiththefrogs · 4 months
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2024 Language Goals
The focus for 2024 is going to be immersion in media without formal study. I've been testing out comprehensible input in the past few months and I plan to design my language learning around it. Turns out this is mostly already how I study Japanese and Korean because I'm a higher level in them, the real challenge will be doing comprehensible input with German, which I'm a much lower level. Here's the series/books I would like to check out or continue in 2024, purple ones are what I'm starting with:
Japanese
Reading: コーヒーが冷めないうちに (小説), 満月珈琲店の星詠み(小説), One Piece (a monumental task, I know), ダンダダン, 君は放課後インソムニア、ヲタ恋、文豪ストレイドッグス.
There's another two novels I want to read (JR上野公園口 and 乳と卵) but I don't currently own them. So I won't add them to the list until I do.
Listening: Honestly I was just going to browse around and see what I can find. I start and stop a lot of dramas because I end up not liking them a few episodes in lol. Japan can be pretty strict with media pirating so it gets hard to find (non-anime) TV shows without English subtitles without paying for a streaming service. If I don't find a live-action TV show I like in January, I plan on starting Jujutsu Kaisen (because I can't find the full manga raw).
Korean
Reading: 전지적 독자 시점, 날씨가 좋으면 찾아가겠어요, 강철비
Not adding a lot of reading projects for Korean because I get intimidated easily, I already started 전지적 독자 시점 in early December.
Listening: 커피 프린스 (actively watching, about halfway through), 여신강림 (I already watched, but going to rewatch for more focused comprehensible input), Reply 1997, 힘쎈여자 도봉순, 시카고 타자기...maybe 괜찮아, 사랑이야; Its my favorite drama so maybe I'll do a little rewatch
German
Reading: Boyfriends (Webtoon), I've heard mixed reviews for it but its available in German and looks easy and engaging enough for my level.
Listening: Die Heiland, Der Tatortreiniger, EasyGerman (YouTube). I don't know many German shows but these two looked most accessible without a VPN. I found some episodes of Die Heiland for free with German subtitles. I'm going to check out other things once I brush up more.
I'm going to try to post regular updates as well whenever I finish/switch series and resources. I'm hoping to be more active on langblr in 2024
Currently media can be found with the tag: #languagemedia
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uwmspeccoll · 3 months
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Publishers' Binding Thursday
Since it's the beginning of the semester we're sharing an educational book that will help you reach your Language Goals just like the fellow on the cover. Language Goals was written by Dr. Henry G. Paul, professor of the "teaching of English" at University of Illinois, and W.D. Miller, "Formerly Superintendent of Schools, Easthampton, Mass." I've shared several of this sort of book here and for most of them it's been difficult to find anything out about the authors, as is the case here. However, we do know that the publisher, Lyons & Carnahan, was a textbook publisher based in Chicago and published this book in 1931.
The book's cover features some tree or leaf (?) like designs in columns on either side of a man with his arms triumphantly raised atop a long staircase or pyramid. This book has some personal touches to it that we can only assume were added by the person whose name adorns the flyleaf: Russell Frank Engstrom. We also know Engstrom's address (2447 North 62nd Street, Wauwatosa, WI), home room (116) and English teacher (Miss Macdonald, Room 117). There is also a little doodle of a man labeled "Uncle Sam" and written on the foreedge is "R.E. L J.M." and "J.R. L D.W." I can only assume the Ls stand for "loves."
When we preserve books we sometimes also get to preserve some stories or memory of the people who owned them. In this case, the fact that Russell Engstrom of Wauwatosa loved somebody with the initials J.M. when he was in junior high in 1931 gives us the idea that maybe junior high has always been about crushes and who likes who.
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-- Alice, Special Collections Department Manager
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la-galaxie-langblr · 10 months
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It's that time of the year again! Unlike previous years, for this third edition (!!) I'm going to be focusing on quality over quantity with my language learning, so to start with I'm restricting myself to 2 goals per language, and only adding more if I achieve one of my original goals :)
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French 🇫🇷
Finish B1-B2 course on Coursera
Read L'Étranger
Irish 🇮🇪
Catch up on the Speaking Irish podcast (37 eps at the time of writing)
8 chapters of workbook
Mandarin Chinese 🇨🇳
Completely review Hello Chinese
Complete HSK1 course on Coursera
BR Portuguese 🇧🇷
8 chapters of Teach Yourself Complete Brazilian Portuguese
Hold a (very) basic conversation with @mal-studyblr <3 (when she has a second to breathe and recover from being a law school girlboss)
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Hot Enby Language Summer 2023 will commence on 3rd July and will end on 27th August, so that's 8 full weeks of language study and fun, see you there!!
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My Language Learning Goals
i think it's been long enough. time for a new one.
FRENCH:
Current position: lower intermediate
be able to pass this semester (it's not looking good currently)
be able to pass a b1 test (is this too optimistic?)
watch a french movie every week for a month
ITALIAN
30 minutes a day
try to watch an italian movie every week for a month / or start a tv show
SPANISH
try not to forget the stuff you learned
if you can learn a couple extra stuff that would be nice
i just realised that it's 3 romance languages? good luck to me i guess
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about27th · 1 month
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language learning is TOUGH
i learned the phrase 'look up to you' only this year, it took me a long time to memorize it
look up at you?
look up for you?
look up on you?
look upon you?
look onto you?
wtf...
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never thought that english speakers would also have to struggle with this phrase but in a different way; proves again both languages work completely differently and require a lot of hard work to master
but happy to know Jobroseph is taking 6th grade mandarin classes in his 30s; he's definitely someone i look up to
i'm gonna have a new english teacher soon, probably will aim at junior high school english; cant wait to speak more fluently soooooooooooooon
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lotsoflouvre · 10 months
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July '23 language goals
French
finish reading la mystère de la chambre jaune
currently at 12% (page 62/539)
800 words on Anki deck
currently 637/800 (79.6%)
focus on one topic weekly - learn new words, piece of writing, get corrections
topics to choose from: future plans, books, fashion, health, holidays - this probably sounds like the most gcse list omg
Korean
500 words on Anki deck
currently 351/500 (70.3%)
review all talktomeinkorean lessons
go through all beginner level topic vocabulary on naver dict.
currently at 104/1953 (5.3%)
Japanese
reach level 29 on kanshudo
currently on level 25
review all jlpt n5 kanji
not yet started
Mandarin
finish hsk2 course on coursera
currently on lesson 12/24
know 140 hanzi
need to find out a way to quantify this...
500 words on Anki deck
currently 202/500 (40.4%)
Spanish
finish clozemaster essential 100 deck
currently 17.625% seen, 0% mastered
reach halfway (lesson 36) through modern Spanish grammar textbook
currently on lesson 27 (75% of goal, 37% of total)
333 words on Anki deck
currently 267 (80.1%)
German
finish languages on fire beginner German deck
not yet started (0%)
reach 5% fluency on learnwitholiver.com
currently at 0.18% (this one might be too ambitious I can't tell)
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linguacoreana · 1 year
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Learn 30 Words Per Month
This is a good goal because it's pushing you, but not beyond your limits. 30 words per months ends up as one word per day on average. That's not too unreasonable, right? We usually have 5 minutes here or there to learn how to use a word very well. If you don't have time, that's okay because you can make up for it with the flexibility of this goal.
Flexibility is okay as long as you have a way to get back on track if you fall off. I tried to learn 365 Chinese characters this year. There were months where I did nothing. However, because of the flexibility of the goal, I was able to quadruple up at the end of the year, and I still reached my goal. It wasn't as smooth as I had hoped, but I achieved it. My push helped me learn to read and write 365 Chinese characters I wouldn't have known if I didn't make this resolution.
If I had made the goal one Chinese character per day, I would have beat myself up after the first failure and totally given up. Instead, having flexibility (but firmness) baked into the resolution meant that I actually made it without punishing myself for one mistake or overly busy day.
Do 6 Hours of Listening Per Month
I am a big fan of listening as I have talked about on my YouTube channel. I personally think you should drown yourself in native speaking examples. This is an amazing goal because of all the passive benefits of listening.
As for the specifics of the goal, this is very reasonable, but still allows for you to push. On average, you would need to watch 12 minutes of content in your target language per day. That's totally reasonable. Follow a YouTube channel in your target language! If you want long-form content, that accounts for 4 movies of 90 minutes in length. This means you could watch one movie on the streaming platform you already pay for every weekend. This is absolutely doable, but the results accumulate so many good benefits.
Write 1 Sentence About My Day Per Day
A key to get better is to produce the language and get feedback. There's no better way to produce the language than calmly, carefully making a good sentence.
On top of that, with a goal like one sentence per day, you'll have so many good sentences after just one month. At the beginning of the year, you might start with "today was so busy" or "today I relaxed all day," but after some time, your sentences will grow in complexity. For me, my goal would be to write a complex, rich sentence like "Originally, I was planning to run by the grocery store to grab a couple high-caloric snacks to treat myself, but I ended up falling asleep on the couch with my dinner in my hands stained with pizza sauce on account of my crippling depression." Imagine the possibilities...
Take 1 italki Lesson Per Week
Consistency is so critical. Creating a regularly scheduled event, especially one connected to another person, will definitely keep you on track.
Even on weeks where your progress is slow, or you can't find time to do language study, a regularly scheduled event keeps you on the path to improvement.
On top of that, although reading, listening, and writing can be fit into a busy schedule rather easily, it's hard to regularly find time to speak the language with a native speaker unless it's a speaker who has a set time to speak with you.
I've had so many busy weeks where life obligations prevented me from doing my reading or listening or any other goal on this list. However, thanks to my dedication to proving to another person that I have done something in the week, I do even get minimal progress in those weeks that would have been zero progress had I not had the recurring task.
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Record Yourself Speaking Once Per Week
Something we lose sight of with language learning is perspective. It often does not feel like any progress is being made. This is because change happens slowly, and we don't notice when it happens. If we record ourselves from time to time, we can see the progress firsthand.
This goal also is really nice because you don't have to worry about embarrassing yourself in front of native speakers. You don't have to post this or show this to anyone. Just by recording yourself speaking, you've done two things: (1) you have a record of your level at that moment for future comparisons, and (2) you got your brain practicing speaking and forming sentences.
I accomplished this goal with Turkish, and it was very exciting to see progress. I love to go back to my old footage and noticing such a huge leap in my progress. It's very motivating while being minimal commitment on your part. As a goal, this is beneficial because you do regular practice in a way you might not have done; you can get out of your comfort zone.
Finish 1 Novel By December 31st
This deadline might not be pushing the envelope for a lot of people, but if you have never read a novel in your native language before, it's distant enough to not feel overwhelmed while being close enough that you don't procrastinate forever.
Novels are such a great source of vocabulary. Authors tend to use a very sophisticated mélange in their writing, so you are bound to encounter tons of new, good phrases while hopefully enjoying yourself.
Even if you do want to do more listening or speaking, reading in general is such a great passive way to improve your speaking with deep, rich expressions and elevated speech. If you drop some idiom from a novel into your daily speech, you're bound to impress natives.
Speak 1 Hour Everyday in April
"April" is just a placeholder for any month. What I am really suggesting is do something that is probably out of your comfort zone for an extreme push in a limited time. the duration is bound by a beginning and end so that you don't continue until burnout. However, the time is long enough that sustained effort will make a difference to your skills.
Assuming you don't speak the language regularly, a daily push is enough to get your brain to really take the speaking skill seriously.
Who do you speak to? That's your choice. This could be a daily tutoring lesson, recording yourself, or making an agreement to meet with a native speaker friend or language exchange partner.
The main point is that one very good goal is to set a bound time where you will push much harder than you will normally.
Finish My Grammar Textbook by March 31st
Although grammar is not everything, you will never speak fluently until you have at least a basic grasp of the main grammatical concepts of the language. Grammar is somehow divisive in the language community, but I am firmly on the side of getting it done as fast as possible so you can start focusing on vocab acquisition, accent, and native-style sentences.
Giving yourself a due date for finishing a grammar textbook is a way to cut through the procrastination and get a critical piece of learning done.
March 31st is an arbitrary date. Choose a date that makes sense with your schedule and your book. A good speed could be one chapter per week or one grammar point per day depending on how your book is organized. What you should be focusing on is setting a due date for this thing that could take years if you procrastinate enough.
You need to eat your vegetables before you can have dessert.
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comrade-heather · 4 months
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2024 Language Learning Goals
Swedish
100 hours
Keep up with Anki
Master the "500 Most Common" level on Clozemaster
watch S1 and S2 of Phineas & Ferb
watch Young Royals
German
200 hours (at least a third of these will be earned in class)
Keep up with Anki
listen to Eine kurze Weltgeschichte für junge Leser
Ojibwe
10 hours
Keep up with Anki
Progress through "Ojibwe Language Table"
Russian
Learn Cyrillic
I'm excited for another year of language learning! I want this year to be a big year of immersion for me, especially with German and Swedish. (That's why my hour goals are pretty high, I expect a lot of them to be watching tv) I'm also starting a new language, Russian! My plans for now are to start slow and focus on learning the alphabet. German is the language I'm studying at school, which is why it's a big focus this year. I also have a very clear motivation for German: I'm hoping to study abroad in Germany in spring 2026, which means I need to be fluent enough to write essays. (Feels far off but it's a long term goal that I really want to work towards!)
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2024 Goal Check-in (January)
I'm hoping by doing a monthly check-in I'll keep myself on track, but we'll see what happens!
Japanese
Reach ~N3 level - I'm currently reviewing N4 grammar and vocabulary. I think I'm getting more of it in my head, but I definitely have a long way to go before I reach this goal. It's difficult at this stage to say if I'm on track or not. I'm also learning N3 kanji.
Learn 10 songs by heart to a level where I could sing them at karaoke - I've been learning 少女S by SCANDAL this month. It's going well, but I think I'll need to keep practising often if I want to remember it!
Finish reading another book of short stories - Started Japanese Short Stories For Language Learners - Bilingual Stories in Japanese and English by Anne McNulty & Eriko Sato, but I've not made much progress.
Finish both Minna No Nihongo books - I've completed another unit and a half so I've now completed 6/25 units from book 1 and I'm halfway through unit 7.
Norwegian
Read at least 2 books in Norwegian - I brought 2 books in Norwegian with me from the UK, but I've not looked at them yet
Maintain an overall B2/C1 level - I feel like I'm definitely slipping back towards B2 level. I need to work harder to maintain my level
Finish Enjoy Norwegian textbook - I decided to start from the beginning again and finished unit 1/10 last week.
Life in Japan
I haven't really had the energy or felt confident enough to attempt most of the goals on this list, so rather than listing all 11 with some variant of "I haven't done this yet," I'll draw your attention to the final goal on the list, which is...
Be able to point to every prefecture on a map and name their capital cities - I've been doing this quiz and this quiz pretty frequently and I'm now able to do this! Sometimes I mix them up but I've got most of them down. Gonna keep practising regularly though to keep that knowledge there.
Non-language
Read 36 books - I've read 5/36 books, which is 2 books ahead of schedule.
Complete a first draft of a novel manuscript - I wrote like 450 words last night? So not really much progress
Comfortable two-block oversplit with back bend - I've barely stretched this month, but I did do a little. My splits are suuuuper stiff and my back feels cranky af.
Consistently hold a handstand for 5 seconds - Still dealing with an icky shoulder so I'm avoiding handstands, but it's gettings loads better and I'm easing back into yoga.
Noticeably improve my demi pointe - I've not done much in the way of exercises, but when I have time before classes at work I do a few elevés and relevés. My calves still cramp SO BAD :(
Diet-related goals
Tackle my diet soda and sugar addictions - I've been doing okay at the latter, practising more restraint, eating fruit instead of processed snacks. I'm trying to get more used to green tea to substitute my diet soda addiction but it's slow going.
Slim down enough that none of my clothes are tight anymore - It's been a bit up and down. I ended up gaining 0.2kg, but I've since lost it and I've now lost a total of around 2kg. Some of my clothes have now gone from "too tight" to "snug but okay fit" but many are still a bit too tight for comfort.
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malaidarling · 1 year
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27.2.23 // 🐽
staying hydrated today (i ran around in the rain, and it turned to hail, and it hurt, but i had fun anyway). studied chinese pretty consistently these past three days thanks to obsessively watching 小猪佩奇,as you do. i got logged out of my polylogger so i made a new one @/nyaaa. feburary is almost over! i should make chinese goals for march!
log ~20 hours
finish 3 hours of tutor lessons
focus more on intensive reading
write 2 journal entries a week
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Realistic Language goals:
Last year I would set language goals that were too ambitious and in the end I couldn't achieve many of them, I kind of bit off more than I could chew, so this year I'm trying to set up more realistic and possible goals in order to do that I'm currently using a method called the daily high light . The daily highlight is the only thing you need to get done that day no matter what so, I set up a daily highlight for the week and some optional goals that I don't have to get done if I don't want to. I also try to do something related to language learning everyday even if it is just watching a kid's show in my target language
My language goals :
French:
Try to watch something in French every day so I keep exposing myself to the language
Learn a vocabulary topic every day
Review my anki cards
Master the basic grammar
English :
Record myself every day(most important goal)
Read aloud
Once a week write a small paragraph about movies or any topic I like so that I can improve my writing and grammar .
Read ten books in a month ( I think that's the most ambitious goal so far )
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la-galaxie-langblr · 1 year
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Language Goals May-December 2023
Time for some late language goals, I finally have 5 seconds to breathe sldbskdjskdhsl
French 🇫🇷
Achieve an A in my A-Level
Finish B1-B2 Coursera course
Read at least 2 of the following:
> L'Étranger
> Le Petit Prince
> Bilingual short story collection
> Bilingual magazine
Write (in rough order of difficulty):
500 words about a personal subject (could be my day, my week, a memory, aspirations etc)
A 500 word review of a piece of media
A 500 word persuasive essay
A 500 word informative article
5 drabbles (100 words of fiction)
500 words of poetry, and I'm giving myself the extra challenge of only using French poem styles, not the English ones I'm familiar with
This is going to be the most challenging aspect of my French goals because I haven't written creatively since my Wattpad era at 13/14, but it's something I want to try again!!
Watch 3 short-form and 2 long-form videos from ARTE
Be able to hold a 15 minute spoken conversation in French (if any fellow French learners want to practice together then lmk!! I have Discord :D)
Irish 🇮🇪
Written language: At least 4 units of my new textbook, Enjoy Irish
Spoken language:
> Rewatch some Now You're Talking and put previous notes into Anki
> Listen to a Speaking Irish episode at least once a week
Dabble Languages 🇨🇳🇳🇱🇧🇷🇷🇺
The flags listed are my 'main' dabble languages, but who knows, I may pick up something completely new or actually be within 10 feet of my German workbook sldhslhdksdhs
These aren't really goals, more just a reminder of what resources I have available to practice the languages if I feel like it.
Mandarin 🇨🇳
Continue with HSK 1 course
Check out Coffee Break Chinese
Dutch 🇳🇱
Review previous Anki vocab and complete 1 new chapter in my workbook
Brazilian Portuguese 🇧🇷
Find good resources and start using them
Russian 🇷🇺
Written language: 1 chapter of workbook
Spoken language: listen to Russian Made Easy
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hebrewbyinbal · 27 days
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ambitious-zombie · 10 months
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July '23 Language Goals
Korean
Finish 역사의 쓸모
Start reading 내가 원하는...
Open a textbook
Extensively read a short Webtoon series
Spanish
Start reading El Dominio Mundial
Work through 100 pages of Demystifying the Spanish Subjunctive
German
Review Grammar
It's been a long time since I last set language learning goals... so I want to turn over a new leaf 🍃 and try again. This month will probably be a lot of review and immersion and not a lot of new things. Even if Lingodeer released a new Thai course 🙈 I don't see it!
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