at the end of last year I made a video
called 12 languages for 2020 who is
their really lofty goal to improve 12
languages that I am currently learning
right off the bat I received comments
like that's impossible you can't learn
12 languages at the same time that's
true it is highly not recommended to
start 12 languages from scratch a lot of
these languages are already in
maintenance mode so I've been learning
Korean for almost 10 years I was like
half of my life and there are however
other languages which I am starting from
scratch like Burmese I have no history
with it whatsoever that aside I would
like to talk about my progress in these
whole languages we are a quarter of the
way through the year so let us see how I
am tracking in these languages
I started a thread on Twitter to list my
goals there so I could pin it so that
every time I opened my profile Twitter I
would be able to see these goals and
remind myself to keep making progress
first of all let's start with Korean
Michael was to take the topic exam and
pass level 4 that did not happen because
the exam got postponed twice so once it
got postponed to me and then it got
postponed to June that kind of threw off
my language learning schedule a lot
because I plan to get the topic out of
the way in Norwich so I could focus
fully and wholeheartedly on other
languages I've had to rethink my study
plan there is a video coming up of how I
study grammar and how I made a schedule
for that so stay tuned for that Korean
exam prep has been going pretty good
unfortunately my language partner moved
back to Korea so I don't have anyone in
person to correct my essays but I've
been focusing on improving my writing a
lot so here you can see an example of an
essay that I'm working on and you can
see in red is where my friend is
correcting my work before I write an
essay on a specific topic I also try to
look up the words relevant to the topic
and study those I think it's been going
quite alright with my Korean studies but
I definitely have lost a little bit of
motivation now that we have so much more
time
the second goal I listed was to
and to in-home oh no dopes candy jlpt
hmm I'm actually thinking that I maybe
won't take the jlpt this year just
because of how the year has turned out
there's a lot to do still for the topic
and I don't think I will probably be
able to pass the end to by December so I
might just push this goal to next year
and I'm going to talk a bit about moving
your goals I think that's totally okay
our goals are only for our self to act
as a motivator it's really not something
that we have to prove to the world and
I'm only doing this to keep myself going
and if I burned out or if it's really
difficult to achieve that's okay to have
flexible goals I'm not being paid to
study these languages it's not like my
life depends on it so I feel completely
comfortable and okay to be honest with
you guys and say well maybe I just won't
be taking the jlpt this year Ezard goal
is for French get comfy speaking again
and read more French articles I can
confirm that this goal is mission
accomplished I feel a lot more
comfortable speaking French one of my
most recent videos was actually entirely
in French and a lot of that is because
I've been consuming a lot more French
content I also have a friend from France
who lives in Singapore and we've been
speaking a lot more French so definitely
immersion has been going good going very
well for French I have not read a single
French particle those I should do that
luckily these goals are for the entire
year so we're only a quarter of the way
through the year so I'm still okay I
think next one is really scary
I wrote to get into be one in Hungarian
and understand and read most of one
article I don't know why I set this goal
for myself because that is not gonna
happen
why why did I why did I do that b1 is
pretty high that's like intermediate
gosh like I'm still using a beginner
textbook we're not going to achieve b1
in Hungary
by the end of this year let's move on to
the Mexico learn to read and write and
reach a one in Burmese I have learned
about three characters and that is it I
have an app which I'm using to learn
Burmese characters and that's really yet
I can only say like mingalaba which is
hello honestly I haven't touched Burmese
I need to realign my priorities and
think about that also every language has
a different reason that I'm learning it
and Burmese is honestly just because I
enjoy the music I have like one Burmese
colleague and I like the writing system
and my goal is also not to get fluent
it's basically just to read and write
we'll see how the rest of the year goes
Arabic refresh reading and writing and
reach a - I have not reached a - luckily
there's still time in the year but I
have practiced my characters like back
in middle school I took Arabic at school
because I lived in the United Arab
Emirates and there was this program we
used to learn Gulf Arabic and my friend
reminded me of it and it is hilarious I
found it online and I've been playing
around with that it's so funny so I've
definitely been refreshing my reading
and writing in Arabic okay the next part
of this thread is to have a 30-minute
conversation in bahasa indonesia without
English I think I've had a 10-minute
conversation maybe less on own ego so I
have a video coming up about talking to
strangers on omegle so fools
so yeah daddy Africa's a lot done in one
yes but maybe I got like a 10-minute
conversation definitely not at the level
enough to talk for half an hour but
maybe by the end of the year we shall
see uh the next one is for Mandarin
Chinese is to have a one-hour
conversation about something I'm
interested in without English finally a
goal that I can stay accomplished I am
very lucky to say that I do
in Awesome language partner for Chinese
he is learning Korean and I'm learning
Chinese and we've been practicing our
languages together a tip I have for
language exchange with someone is to
record your conversations
Rugel alone eating Denova yet take time
and separate your conversation into like
half an hour of one language and a half
an hour of another I don't be sure to do
just a voice recording on your phone so
that you can listen back to that
whenever they teach you something or
saying new word repeat it so you can
hear yourself repeating it in their
accent so it's been going very good with
my Chinese I've been recording our
conversations and I've learned a lot
more vocabulary although my vocabulary
is still lacking at least I can keep a
conversation going the next goal was to
learn Tagalog to a one-level and be
comfortable speaking with my colleague I
can't say I've reached a one yet but I
have been focusing a lot more on Tagalog
I have been working a little bit in a
textbook and I've also been watching a
lot more Tagalog movies on Netflix so
there's this really handsome Filipino
actor who I like watched all those
movies so there's some visual motivation
for me to be immersed in this language
but it's still gonna take a long time to
improve myself another one of my goals
was to have a 30-minute conversation in
Vietnamese I have not had the
opportunity to have a full conversation
yet but I have been ramping up my
grammar learning activities I have a
friend who is sending me grammar
structures that I can learn because my
textbook that I have is really basic and
I've also been um talking to people on
tinder in Vietnamese I'm just being
honest with you guys I have nothing to
hide from you so I actually had a very
interesting conversation with the
Vietnamese architect I did have to look
up a few words but hey that's how we
learn something good that has been
happening is the sheer amount of audio
immersion I've been getting so I'm a
designer so I need to do a lot of like
crafting on screen so I can listen to
podcast and stuff because I'm not really
you know typing when I'm working I do
yeah bang boy okay I I am listening to
podcasts in Korean Japanese and
Vietnamese so I found a really cool
Vietnamese learning podcast made in
Korean the app is called
audio clip so on audio clip it is for a
Korean audience it's made by neighbor
but they also have podcasts to learn
other languages so I've been listening
to those while I work yeah Vietnam
Vietnam you feel numb you talkative
awake yeah I also wanted to read and
write the vinegary and reach a one in
Hindi none of that has happened
whatsoever end of story
and be able to help myself get around
Mexico and reach b2 in Spanish I don't
think I've reached b2 the last time I
did a level check I wasn't a - between
a2 and b1 I still need to do a lot of
refreshing reading over my old Spanish
notes polyglot conference in Mexico in
October I don't know if it's gonna
happen given the virus situation also I
don't think I can make it to Mexico this
year it's extremely far from Singapore
so I'm very sorry if you were excited to
meet me at the polygon conference I was
so looking forward to talking to all of
you guys there but right now as the
situation stands I don't think I will be
heading to Mexico this year that is a
review of all of my language goals so
far so I will check in with you guys
again
halfway through the year so stay tuned
and let me know what you thought about
the video in the comments also remember
to check out my website I post a lot of
articles resources everything you could
need for language learning all the links
are in the description thank you so much
for watching and I will see you in the
next video
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