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100 Goals you can have as a language learner

A follower of mine asked me what are some realistic goals when you’re learning languages but before giving you 100 examples, i want to mention that you can have daily, weekly, monthly or/and yearly goals. If you get easily distracted and need motivation, set goals for each category; however, if you can focus and be motivated for a longer period of time, you might not need daily or/and weekly goals.

Also, the numbers/minutes/hours are an example, you can change them according to your time, resources, motivation etc.

Daily goals

Read 1 article in your target language.

Learn 10 words.

Learn 1 poem in your target language.

Learn a song  in your target language.

Watch a movie.

Read 1 page from a book in your target language.

Sing 1 song in your target language.

Talk with a native for 10 minutes.

Learn 2 idioms.

Translate 1 song.

Translate 1 poem.

Write 1 short text about anything.

Watch 1 episode from your favourite show dubbed/subbed.

Get 50points on duolingo.

Make a vocab list.

Learn 1 new grammatical concept.

Think in your target language for 10 minutes

Read to a podcast for 15 minutes.

Learn 1 tongue twister.

Spend 15 minutes on WordBrewery.

Play on Babadum for 15 minutes.

Use Clozemaster for 15 minutes.

Listen to an audio book for 10 minutes.

Revise your notes for 20 minutes.

Learn 1 vocab list.

Weekly

Read 10 articles in your target language.

Read 2 books for children.

Learn 5 poems.

Learn 3 songs.

Watch 3 movies.

Learn 10 grammatical concepts.

Talk for 2 hours in your target language.

Learn 5 vocab lists.

Learn 100 new words.

Finish 8 lessons on duolingo. (i mean the entire bullet/dot/set of mini-lessons)

Watch 10 episodes from your favourite show  in your target language subbed/dubbed.

Learn 30 idioms.

Write 3 A4 pages about anything.

Translate 5 songs.

Learn 3 vocab lists.

Revise with the help of some tests online for 2 hours.

Change your phone settings to be in your target language.

Make a summary for the books you’ve read.

Read 10 pages from a complex book in your target language. 

Make 5 vocab lists.

Write a motivation text of 10 lines for your in your target language about why you enjoy learning languages.

Think for 2 hours in your target language.

Translate 3 pages from a book in your native language.

Translate 3 pages from a book in your target language.

Discover 10 new songs in your target language.

Monthly

Learn 350 new words.

Read 1 advanced book in your target language.

Finish a grammar book.

Finish 10 stories for kids.

Learn 80 idioms.

Learn 20 vocab lists.

Finish 35 lessons on duolingo. (the bullets/dots/set of mini lessons)

Make 20 vocab lists.

Watch 10 movies in your target language subbed/dubbed.

Translate 10 songs.

Learn 10 poems.

Learn 5 songs.

Talk to natives for 10 hours. 

Write summaries for every chapter/article you’ve read.

Watch 15 youtube videos in your target language .

Make a story of 5 minutes while looking at a random picture on google.

Understand a song (that you don’t know) without checking the lyrics too often.

Read 20 articles.

Make a dish while reading the recipe in your target language

Revise for 20 hours.

Keep a journal with your daily progress and at the end of the month, read how many things you achieved.

Read to a podcast for 24 hours.

Think in your target language for 24 hours.

Play babadum/wordbrewery/clozemaster for 10 hours.

Yearly

Be mistaken for a native.

Know 50 poems.

Be able to sing most Disney songs in your target language.

Watch movies without subs.

Learn 10.000 words.

Read 10 advanced books.

Finish duolingo/whatever course you use.

Be able to think in your target language effortlessly.

Master irregular verbs.

Have at least 5 native friends that talk to you in your target language.

Be proud you didn’t give up.

Study a bit daily.

Finish 3 grammar books/workbooks/books for advanced learners.

Have a decent accent.

Be able to read without translating anything.

Watch more movies in your target language than your native one/English.

Have favourite youtubers that are native of your target language.

Keep a diary and read how your year has been.

Be able to talk about advanced stuff.

Have very detailed descriptions.

Know the most popular songs in your target language.

Read mostly in your target language.

Know several new recipes that cooked only in the country where your target language is spoken.

Being able to say that you’re bilingual/multilingual/a polyglot.

Learn your next language through the one that you mastered already.

Summary of my last post, just my personal suggestions (you can do whatever you want and do things differently), worded shorter:

Learn pinyin or zhuyin, learn how they're pronounced and how to type them. If you're following a textbook or class, just learn pinyin or zhuyin as the materials go over it. If you're learning on your own then do this for a while: the first time you learn new words, look at the hanzi, the pinyin or zhuyin, and listen to the pronunciation of the word. If you're learning with an anki deck then a lot of user made decks will already include this stuff. If you're using Pleco app then you can hear the pronunciation, see the hanzi, and pinyin, in any word entry. Google Translate will also provide sound, hanzi, pinyin.

Learn hanzi. By this I mean: learn to recognize the hanzi of new words, as you learn new words. When reading materials, practice reading the hanzi. Some learner materials will have pinyin text above/below the hanzi, some websites can display pinyin above/below hanzi you paste into the site. These pinyin aids are fine, and potentially necessary if you can't listen to audio as you read, since the pinyin will allow you to sound out the words aloud if you don't remember all the hanzi or if there's a new hanzi in the reading material. (For listening to audio as you read - if you have audio already then just listen along, or use Pleco 'dictate' text feature in the Clipboard Reader area, or Pleco 'speaker' feature to hear just the pronunciation of individual new words, or Microsoft Edge 'Read Aloud' or any other TTS). But you'll want to learn hanzi well enough to recognize them without pinyin aids or audio aids eventually, so you can read whatever you want. So practice reading hanzi on their own too. (Pinyin, audio, and TTS are tools you can use to aid reading, but you will need to develop reading skill of just hanzi if your goals include reading).

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Links:

For watching/listening/reading:

Listening Reading Method links: https://rigelmejo.tumblr.com/tagged/listening%20reading%20method

Rec list (titles and links to novels, audiobooks etc): https://rigelmejo.tumblr.com/tagged/rec%20list

Lets plays: https://rigelmejo.tumblr.com/tagged/lets-plays

Massive Immersion Approach Immersion Wiki (google drive with notes, and a ton of resources, a ton of condensed audio, resources, etc): https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1gDpwFl07a0EO_pTHLLVn_Waz2GXwwSE1 

Audio Immersion Links: https://rigelmejo.tumblr.com/post/657151785912385536/audio-immersion-loop

General study resources links:

Japanese resources tag (a bit messy as some are in japanese reference instead, but here’s some of the main resources): https://rigelmejo.tumblr.com/tagged/japanese%20resources

Japanese reference tag: https://rigelmejo.tumblr.com/tagged/japanese%20reference

Chinese resources tag (also messy, some in chinese reference instead): https://rigelmejo.tumblr.com/tagged/chinese%20resources

Chinese reference tag: https://rigelmejo.tumblr.com/tagged/chinese%20reference

Memrise and Anki SRS Flashcard Decks:

Memrise decks: https://rigelmejo.tumblr.com/tagged/memrise

Specifically tagged ‘memrise decks’ for only posts with links: https://rigelmejo.tumblr.com/tagged/memrise-decks

Anki decks: https://rigelmejo.tumblr.com/tagged/anki

Specifically tagged ‘anki decks’ for only posts with links: https://rigelmejo.tumblr.com/tagged/anki-decks

Translator apps, Reader tool apps, Comprehensible Input Resources:

translators: https://rigelmejo.tumblr.com/tagged/translation-apps

reader apps: https://rigelmejo.tumblr.com/tagged/reader

comprehensible input resources (youtubes and books): https://rigelmejo.tumblr.com/tagged/comprehensible-input

Study Plans, Goals, Progress:

Study plan (my tag for study plans and goal setting - I also break these down into more tags by ‘month-study-plan,’ ‘month-goals,’ ‘month-progress,’ and just ‘month’ if you did want to search by month): https://rigelmejo.tumblr.com/tagged/study%20plan

Notes from @yue-muffin, tagged for now under ‘japanese notes’: https://rigelmejo.tumblr.com/tagged/japanese%20notes

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Some recent links:

Most below have japanese subtitles (courtesy of @a-whump-muffin, you can search for more with 実況 which is used for the phrase “let’s play”)

Crisis Core: a female player (no jpn subs): https://youtu.be/XG9V-EtxKYY or https://youtu.be/CvGjIe_JzYU a male player: https://youtu.be/YqYxcEpagSM

nier automata: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXPngowycCM another male player (belle): https://youtu.be/GBs_ruu7X98

KH1: male player: https://youtu.be/tLDag2eK590

KH2: male player: https://youtu.be/C2XjNDILpog female player: https://youtu.be/QkDpVpItndM

drakengard 3: https://youtu.be/QGSqRtpSLQk

Ratchet and Clank video game ‘movies’: 1 - https://youtu.be/QG7CsYg2n-s  2 - https://youtu.be/7aYmYaDFIAU 3 - https://youtu.be/_r8adhW0-44

Persona games: Persona 3 (lets player does not talk much, guy):  https://youtu.be/H5xm7tJJc2Q

Persona 3 (guy reads lines he considers picking): https://youtu.be/Acv8N7XKk0I

Love and Redemption L-R links:

https://www.shushengbar.net/%E7%90%89%E7%92%83%E7%BE%8E%E4%BA%BA%E7%85%9E-the-glass-beauty-%E5%8D%81%E5%9B%9B%E9%83%8E/

the glass maiden - eng translation: https://lazycatchronicles.wordpress.com/2020/10/23/the-glass-maiden/

audiobook: https://www.ximalaya.com/youshengshu/28810646/

chinese text: http://www.jjwxc.net/onebook.php?novelid=309223

Carmilla L-R Links:

Carmilla english audiobook: https://youtu.be/KIPg_RaZwxY

Carmilla french audiobook: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpOWTYUar6NK8Qn7niKNw7Vp0z5YE5t7Z

Carmilla english text: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/10007/10007-h/10007-h.htm

Carmilla french text: https://beq.ebooksgratuits.com/vents/Lefanu-carmilla.pdf

Misc Tools:

japanese manga translations in chinese: https://www.chinese-forums.com/forums/topic/27354-grand-comic-reading-project/

analyze chinese texts difficulty, and make generated vocabulary lists: http://www.zhtoolkit.com/apps/wordlist/create-list.cgi

Bidiread - make parallel texts: https://jzohrab.github.io/bidiread/#

Immersion Wiki, Database - contains study materials for tons of languages, including condensed audio for shows, graded readers, textbooks, fiction, etc: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1p4vHiONiDmLdfJD8UqEax9qmjRkjBE4R

Radio Garden - a website where you can listen to radio all over the world: http://radio.garden/listen/fm93-6/eANty5xN 

Misc Materials:

Dracula audiobook (french): https://youtu.be/l0hdBpzGpYY

Frankenstein audiobook (french): https://youtu.be/vHg_Zgmgi1U

Pride and Prejudice audiobook (Orgueil et Préjugé - french) - https://youtu.be/PoJOHHn79_4

Carmilla book (french): https://beq.ebooksgratuits.com/vents/Lefanu-carmilla.pdf

Carmilla book (english): https://www.gutenberg.org/files/10007/10007-h/10007-h.htm

DeFrancis Chinese Readers Audio: http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=31539&PN=16&TPN=3

Bilinguis French Alice in wonderland (with audio): http://bilinguis.com/book/alice/fr/en/c1/

Bilinguis Japanese Alice in wonderland: http://bilinguis.com/book/alice/jp/en/

Bilinguis Chinese Alice in wonderland (simplified, traditional is also available): http://bilinguis.com/book/alice/zh/en/

Bilinguis Chinese Sherlock Holmes: http://bilinguis.com/book/baskerville/zh/en/

FSI Chinese: https://fsi-languages.yojik.eu/languages/FSI/fsi-chinese-mandarin.html

FSI Basic French (a note there’s other French courses): https://fsi-languages.yojik.eu/languages/FSI/fsi-french-basic.html

FSI Japanese headstart: https://fsi-languages.yojik.eu/languages/FSI/fsi-japanese.html#

Japanese Audio Lessons: https://www.japaneseaudiolessons.com/how-to-speak-japanese/

Nature Method books with audio:

Français par le Methode Nature audio: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLf8XN5kNFkhdIS7NMcdUdxibD1UyzNFTP

Francaise par le Methode Nature book: https://archive.org/details/jensen-arthur-le-francais-par-la-methode-nature

Poco à Poco Spanish audio: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLf8XN5kNFkhe4D2BPBKaUb2JvDHuzAGPI

Poco a Poco book: https://archive.org/details/pocopocoelementa00hallrich

Learn Italian by the Nature Method audio: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLf8XN5kNFkhfQonvCySTrKEUV742WzshJ

Learn Italian by the Nature Method book: https://archive.org/details/LitalianoSecondoIlMetodoNatura

Learn Japanese with video games (lessons):

The Complete JLPT N5 Grammar Video(Game) Textbook: https://youtu.be/_ojVS-KgDEg

The Complete JLPT N4 Grammar Video(Game) Textbook: https://youtu.be/M0yEOIEuaDg

Game Gengo - makes lessons, here’s their Learn Japanese with FF7 Remake: https://youtu.be/GB1BkptBr9w

Game Grammar - has lessons, here’s their Learn Japanese with Pokemon: h ttps://youtu.be/-stbdKehONw

Japanese Quest - has many lessons, here’s their Japanese Quest - All Lessons in Order playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUiSI6qGVDKsXmMW0GnjV–kUTLhsKN-K

*Notes: the tag ‘rec list’ is most likely to find any link to audio, novels, lets plays. My actual studying process and updates/changes/observations is in ‘progress’ and ‘month progress’ tags generally, or monthly ‘month goals’ ‘month study plan’ updates.

#LearningSwedish #sstellestudiess 1

Swedish Introductory courses

FSI Languages | basic swedish lessons with audio lessons and a textbook

Ikindalikelanguages.com | 45 short Swedish lessons

Ielanguages | basic phrases, vocabulary and grammar in 3 levels with 58 tutorials

Internetpolyglot | word vocabulary lists with audio pronunciations and English translations, with 44 categories

Swedish language course | 4 small lessons on the basics

OnlineSwedish | 7 lessons with a small exam at the end

Speaklanguages | basic vocab and phrases

Memrise | 1025 Basic swedish words to learn

Goethe-verlag | phrases, vocab and audio lessons

Learnalanguage | phrases, verbs, vocab, dictionary and culture

Loecsen | small lessons with quizzes

Mylanguages | literally so many different things

SayitinSwedish | 30 beginners lessons

SwedishPod101 | many, many different things

Wikiversity | 12 short lessons

Babbel | kinda like Duolingo I guess?

P.S. Many of these sites also offer beginners courses in other languages!

YT Rec for Mandarin!

I feel bad that I haven't been able to deliver on some post I've promised because life has been hectic lately, so I wanted to share a learning resource in the meantime~

Mandarin Melon (and her second channel for shorts!)

I really love her videos and find that they're a great resource for how to speak in a casual, natural manner. The video I linked below is great for learning common phrases—not simple phrases! It's not about how to say "Hello", but how to say phrases that are common in conversation like "Thanks anyway!" or "Fingers crossed!"

Also, I really love her video production. Her editing is really eye-catching without being distracting and improves so much from video to video!

#LearningFrench #sstellestudiess

bon matin! c’est tôt pour moi, hmm? today I’ll be sharing some online resources for learning french ranging from vocab lists to full on courses! i hope you find these useful - the internet really is precious when learning languages! <3

⁎⁺˳✧༚ frenchtoday.com

this website threatens to put me out of business and I couldn’t be more delighted! vocab lists galore, free lessons, tips to work on your pronunciation, articles on french culture and even stories and poetry. i haven’t looked at everything available on there, but from what I’ve seen, it’s pretty useful!

⁎⁺˳✧༚ frenchpod101.com

this is a free course you can take, with options for absolute beginners and those already a little familiar with the language. it looks to be good for conversational french and is an easy, no nonsense starting point for beginners, who i know from experience are often easily overwhelmed.

⁎⁺˳✧༚ coffee break french

this is one I’m not quite as familiar with but has come to me highly recommended. it’s a podcast that covers the basics as well as providing dialogues and example role plays. give it a try and let me know how you find it!

⁎⁺˳✧༚ innerfrench (chaîne de YouTube)

this is a really interesting channel! you get to learn french through a variety of different topical discussions and he speaks slowly enough for you to get most of what he’s saying even if you’re a relative beginner, which can make you feel super smart :)

bien, c’est tout! i hope these recs are alright, and I hope we meet again soon~ a bientôt!

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Resource List for Learning Malayalam

Hello! Do you want to learn Malayalam but don't know where to start? Then I've got the perfect resource list for you and you can find its link below! Let me know if you have any suggestions to improve it. Here is what the resource list contains;

"Handmade" resources on certain grammar concepts for easy understanding.

Resources on learning the script.

Websites to practice reading the script.

Documents to enhance your vocabulary.

Notes on Colloquial.

Music playlists

List of podcasts/audiobooks And a compiled + organized list of websites you can use to get hold of grammar!

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