2024 is a fresh new year. It is currently January. This therefore begs the question: what is new for me this year?
This blog post will be split up into two main sections. My language learning goals and then everything else.
Language Learning goals:
This year I want to continue learning Mandarin and Cantonese. This is very good. I would also want to dabble in French. I started dabbling in French because I enjoy this idea, and I would find it fun (language learning isn’t just about improving all the time and becoming fluent fast, if it isn’t the most fun way of approaching this anymore).
So, I will keep up my Mandarin as my focus language and Cantonese as my maintenance language (with a bit of French here and there). Then halfway through the year (July / August) I plan to go 50/50 split with my language learning time between Mandarin and Cantonese. This is so I can improve both in tandem and to get ready for my trip to Hong Kong (hopefully in November this year).
I currently don’t have any goals with my French. This is because I am just dabbling in it. However once I feel ready it will become my next language I will focus on learning.
Overall, I don’t have an end goal with this; I hope to continue adding languages in the future on my to-learn list and see where it goes!
Other goals:
I have goals around becoming an EFL teacher. I hope to start off voluntary to gain experience then I will start looking for paid work sometime in the future. This is to take the pressure off and to get more experience.
I will continue blogging & writing, especially about my main passion which is languages. I hope to also inspire others to learn languages whether that’s English, Chinese or a different language.
I hope also to continue my health and fitness journey. I currently know how to cook well and how to use the gym. I hope to grow in both two areas. I want to set a step goal on my Fitbit app. I currently want to aim for 6-7k steps a day which I know will be a challenge but hopefully I’d be able to achieve this goal.
I also hope to keep blogging about language learning. As I am passionate about it and have a lot of thoughts and opinions on how one person can learn a language well and effectively, being a successful language learner myself. This will in turn; direct my language learning; with the latest cutting-edge methods of language learning.
Some articles to come may include updates on my language learning. Reviews of different websites and software to learn languages and other things. I hope to do more research into this area and provide more information on this topic.
2023 Goals Reviews:
In general, I didn’t set any goals in 2023. This is fine because sometimes trying to hit certain goals etc can be stressful and can put undue pressure on yourself. This is something I may change this year.
However, I believe that habits & systems are much more important than goals. Without these systems in place I believe most goals are just pipe-dreams.
Conclusion:
Overall, I feel that having goals are important. However, I believe what is more important is having habits and systems in place in order to achieve those goals.
What about you? Do you have any goals this year? Let me know in the comments below.
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