{"id":565,"date":"2010-01-08T22:08:01","date_gmt":"2010-01-08T22:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/?p=565"},"modified":"2010-01-08T21:17:49","modified_gmt":"2010-01-08T21:17:49","slug":"happy-new-year-goals-and-targets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/08\/happy-new-year-goals-and-targets\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year: Goals and Targets!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Goal-setting.jpg\" alt=\"Goal setting\" title=\"Goal setting\" width=\"125\" height=\"92\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-566\" \/>I hope everyone had very happy holidays, and welcome to 2010 at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/\">Language Museum<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Normally I don\u2019t make New Year\u2019s resolutions, but I think this year it\u2019s time to make one that will benefit me not just this year but in years to come. Last year I started to learn Spanish, and this year I think it\u2019s time to accelerate that learning. <\/p>\n<p>So, I\u2019m rededicating myself to the cause, and plan to improve both my language learning skills, and my knowledge of the language itself.<br \/>\nTo this end, I\u2019ve set myself some goals.<\/p>\n<p>1)\tTo attend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/language\/spanish.html\">Spanish classes<\/a> at a beginner level.<br \/>\n2)\tAim to move to beginner-intermediate level classes by the end of the year.<br \/>\n3)\tOutside of class, complete homework to the best of my ability.<br \/>\n4)\tPractice speaking the language at every opportunity.<br \/>\n5)\tSeek out opportunities to use Spanish \u2013 listening, speaking, reading and writing.<br \/>\n6)\tLearn to read basic texts \u2013 children\u2019s books, short stories, newspaper articles.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully it will help to write down my goals, review and revise them throughout the year. Goal setting is a great way to measure your progress in learning a language, whether you do this individually or in conjunction with a teacher. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s also a good idea to have both short-term and long-term goals \u2013 for instance, one of my long-term goals is to read <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carlos_Ruiz_Zaf%C3%B3n\">Carlos Ruiz Zafon\u2019s<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/04\/25\/books\/in-the-cemetery-of-forgotten-books.html?pagewanted=1\"><em>The Shadow of the Wind<\/em><\/a> in the original. To achieve this goal though, I have set myself the short and medium-term goals listed above. They are the steps I will take to get to the bigger goal.<\/p>\n<p>What are your language learning goals? What is your long-term ambition?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hope everyone had very happy holidays, and welcome to 2010 at Language Museum! Normally I don\u2019t make New Year\u2019s resolutions, but I think this year it\u2019s time to make one that will benefit me not just this year but in years to come. Last year I started to learn Spanish, and this year I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,40,327],"tags":[522,520,524,123,427,523,327,329,330,521,72],"class_list":["post-565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hints-and-tips","category-language-acquisition","category-spanish","tag-goal-setting","tag-goals","tag-language-classes","tag-language-learning","tag-listening","tag-reading","tag-spanish","tag-spanish-language","tag-speaking","tag-targets","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=565"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":568,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565\/revisions\/568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}