What are Your Top 10 Language Learning Goals for the Year?

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Hi everybody, and welcome back to Top Words.

My name is Alisha, and today we're gonna be talking about your top ten language learning

goals for the year.

Sounds good, right?

Let's go!

I'll finish the survival phrases series on EnglishClass101.com by listening to two lessons a day.

The first goal is I'll finish the survival phrases series on EnglishClass101.com by listening

to two lessons a day.

Wow!

That sounds like a good goal.

Two lessons a day, that doesn't sound too bad, I suppose, having never listened to one

of these because I speak English already.

But I mean, if it's if it's only like two or three minutes, you could do that, like,

one in the morning and one at night.

I'll finish reading one English book by reading ten pages a day.

Oh! That's a really good goal, actually.

Actually, I have this goal for myself for Japanese and I'm doing a terrible job of it,

because I picked a book that was too hard.

So I guess if you want to do this you should pick a book that's just a little challenging

for you, I think that's the best thing to do, something just tough so you learn while

you read.

I'll pass my English test.

The next goal is I'll pass my English test.

So hopefully all of you will pass any English tests that you have coming up or get the score

that you want on your English certification exam.

Again, I think it's just an everyday thing, like, studying every day, making it a habit

is the best.

I'll memorize five English songs.

Whoo!

Oh, the next one, I used this technique when I started learning Japanese, actually.

This goal is I'll memorize five English songs.

Songs were great because like the melody helps the words stick in your head, but it does

make things a little bit weird because you might end up using like an intonation pattern

or a speaking pattern that's not so natural, but you can at least kind of remember phrases

or remember how words are supposed to fit together, even if it's not necessarily grammatical,

you know, you might still be able to use it.

Actually this is a surprisingly easy one, if you just take time listen to the songs

and repeat after the singer the same way that you would for a song in your native language,

this one's a pretty fast goal, I think.

I'll finish memorizing 350 words with flashcards on EnglishClass101.com.

The next goal is I'll finish memorizing 350 words with flashcards on EnglishClass101.com.

350 words with flashcards, I wonder how long that would take.

350 words, if you learn, I don't know, 350 words, I feel like you could do that in like

a couple months, pretty easy; if you're ambitious, a couple weeks.

That's a good one.

I'll write 10 postcards in English to my English-speaking friends.

The next goal is I'll write 10 postcards in English to my English-speaking friends.

That's sort of cute, actually, I would be sort of happy to get a postcard from a friend,

like, you don't get postcards these days, and like a handwritten one from someone who's

studying English.

That'd be really cute, I'd like this.

Hey, all my friends watching this video, will you send me a postcard?

Okay.

I'll send you one in my really bad Japanese and you can make fun of my handwriting, looks

like an elementary school student's.

I'll learn how to talk about past, present, and future events.

So the next goal is I'll learn how to talk about past, present and future events, this

should really already be a goal, this is pretty much what language is.

Like, language is a tool to talk about past, present, and future events and potential events

as well, if you're watching this video, you're probably studying it right now.

I'll master 150 words by memorizing five words a day.

The next goal, similar to one we just saw a few minutes ago is, I'll master 150 words

by memorizing five words a day, that sounds pretty good five words a day sounds fine,

just make sure to review so you don't forget the five words you learned the day before.

Find a way to make sure that you don't forget the words you've already learned.

But five words a day seems pretty reasonable if you can stick with it.

I'll become a better English writer by journaling every day.

The next goal is I'll become a better English writer by journaling every day.

I think this is a really good goal to have, actually, just doing something, writing something,

creating something in your target language, in this case, in English, is great.

I do this in Japanese, like, I don't hand write but I use sometimes I use like Twitter

or Instagram, like, just to try to say what I would like to say in, of course in English,

but also to try and say it in Japanese, as well.

So I use writing as a way to just try to create language every, roughly, every day or so.

I'll watch one history documentary a week to learn more about the United States.

The next goal is I'll watch one history documentary a week to learn more about the United States.

Oh, this is interesting, this is a cultural goal, really.

So watching the documentary is a nice way to practice your language, but because this

goal has a history documentary in the goal name, you'd be learning about the culture

of the country, the culture behind the language that you speak a little bit.

That's a really good goal, actually, I like that one.

Okay, that is the end, that was the last one!

All right, so those are ten goals for learning English this year.

So maybe one of your goals was included in this list, if you have a different goal for

your language learning this year, please leave it in a comment, let us know how it goes,

too.

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Whoa! That's a big goal, watching the same movie every day, that is a really hardcore.

I wonder what movie would you watch.

Groundhog day.

Clearly, like there was any other choice.

Yeah, I was gonna say, like, Star Wars.

But that's probably not a very good choice because it's like science fiction, I would

want to use a movie that's like you know you can pick up like lines from actually use them.

Maybe like a comedy then, or even like, it sounds dumb but like, a romance, like, what's

that call? A chick-flick.

Yeah, you know, like cheesy romance movies, those might be good.

Rom-Com.

Yeah, honestly, because there's so much like normal dialog in those.

Yeah, wow, that would be quite a goal.

Wow, if anybody does that, 10 points for you!