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#22361695 - 10/11/15 03:51 AM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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I know a lot of us joined this place at a time in our lives where our major goals were set for us: get good grades; earn your degree; don't get arrested. For me, it was freshman year of university. These days, many of us are past that point in our lives - the point where there's a giant checkered flag somewhere down the road, a definitive "finish line": HS diploma, college degree, first job, marriage.
So, we're forced to come up with our own goals.
For me, I've always wanted to learn a second language. I took three years of spanish and 2 of german back in my hometown, but i can't roll my R's and german was a "easy" class, so neither stuck at the time. In the years since i left for school, i've "began" learning languages more times than I can remember: -DOwnloaded a ripped version of Rosetta Stone's Turkish program -Bought Pimsleur's Chinese course -Berlitz German book (hey, maybe i should try one i already know a little of?!) -Introduction to Japanese
Obviously it's hard to self-motivate. It's hard to schedule out the time, consistently, that one requires to actually develop something. But, it can be good if you can figure out how. I recently dove back into German, about 2 months ago, but this time decided I'd look on craigslist for a personal tutor. $40 for 90 min once a week and it's just the level of accountability I needed in order to keep me on schedule. If i bojangle on my studying, i'm wasting money: the perfect incentive.
SO, two months in and I've already learned about 100x more than I did in my two years of highschool german. This post is to inspire you to take up your dreams, to set a long-term goal for yourself, and to walk the arduous-yet-fulfilling path of achievement.
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#22361703 - 10/11/15 03:56 AM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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Jawohl! Auch, wenn du willst, wir können zusammen durch skype uben.
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Re: Pursuing your long-term goals [Re: memes]
#22361709 - 10/11/15 04:00 AM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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Yeah goals can be hard to stick to. With languages I feel like living in that environment can really help you learn something fast. You could mimic this by watching german language based movies. I have watched several spanish movies and though I don't speak it I can understand more then I thought.
Also something else to ponder is how much you actually need to learn. 6% of everything you say is the word "the". Learning the top most used words in every day language would be very advantageous to mastering a language. These are the top most used by ranking. The is most used then each one is half as used as the following.
The of and to a in is i that it for you was with on as have but be they
You obviously need to know a lot more then this to speak a language but this would help you be very fluent.
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Re: Pursuing your long-term goals [Re: Gorlax]
#22361715 - 10/11/15 04:04 AM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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As far as I recall, there about 1600 spoken words, once learned, will let you communicate 99% of ideas. When I was into making languages, I used this list to create them.
I can understand mostly everything in spoken german, and if I can't I know how to use context to ask what they mean. I can't really understand legal german though, so I hire an immigration lawyer when I need to at the VISA office. However, when I run into someone with a thick Berlin accent, its like I don't even speak german at all. It can be that gnarly.
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Re: Pursuing your long-term goals [Re: memes]
#22361718 - 10/11/15 04:08 AM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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-I'd like to give having a family and being a husband another shot
-I too would love to learn another language. I began using Rosetta stone for French years ago and found it incredibly effective. I just never stuck with it :/. You inspired me to start again ASAP
-Id like to create a new album(this would be my third. It's been an 8 year gap)
-Id like to save up money for a down payment so I can buy my own house and stop renting
-id like to travel the Mediterranean
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#22361736 - 10/11/15 04:28 AM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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when i joined here i just wanted to get faded and live to do it again tomorrow. im just now getting to a point of my life where things are slowing down and priorities are becoming clear. i got my own place and a good job so now i need to find a lady to wash my clothes and bear my children.
as long as i can stay afloat with what i have, acquire guns and vagina and keep social with my family and people i will die okay
i live a simple existance
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Re: Pursuing your long-term goals [Re: zSDMF]
#22361828 - 10/11/15 06:04 AM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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wouldn't the important part be to learn the instance of how nouns are used in a specific language...there are such major differences from English in that respect.
but i don't know, whatever, i'd love to learn another language.
French, German, Japanese, Greek...anything would be cool.
it's all important to the development of English anyways (save Japanese).
long-term goals are called long-term for a reason...you fill your time with achieving something, only to have it be replaced by a new aspect of what you were trying to do earlier.
that's long-term achievement. it's pretty fuckin' important.
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Re: Pursuing your long-term goals [Re: akira_akuma]
#22361833 - 10/11/15 06:08 AM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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Depends on the language. However, in my experience in Germany thus far no one expects you to speak it perfectly their jaw drops if you can however as long as you are understood Germans don't REALLY care You can build good friendships through a combo of German and English they call Denglish.
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Apollyphelion said: Jawohl! Auch, wenn du willst, wir können zusammen durch skype uben.
made me so happy that i understood this immediately without resorting to any reference materials. although i don't know uben yet, its apparent what you're saying through the wir können zusammen durch skype~
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Re: Pursuing your long-term goals [Re: memes]
#22362303 - 10/11/15 09:26 AM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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Memes, awesome thread. glad you're learning a language. I think that is awesome.
I'm about to start Italian classes again on Tuesday. and this thread inspired me to watch a documentary in Italian (although I could barely understand anything, it was cool just to listen to Italian again).
I'm pumped to get back into learning a language; I just wish languages came easier to me... I prefer the language of maths
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Apollyphelion said: Depends on the language. However, in my experience in Germany thus far no one expects you to speak it perfectly their jaw drops if you can however as long as you are understood Germans don't REALLY care You can build good friendships through a combo of German and English they call Denglish.
i'm sure even plenty of young German's opt for Denglish sometimes.
but yeah, it's not a particular hard language to speak...just one that's difficult to fully comprehend, in writing, and in reading. the speaking part is the easiest part, i think.
like i can speak some Japanese, but do i know wtf i'm saying...not nearly even a single percentile. i know Arigato, and that's it. that's all i've nailed, memory wise.
oh and Gomen or Gomenasai. so there, 0.1%. i know how to apologize for fucking up and then to thank anyone for understanding my horribleness.
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Re: Pursuing your long-term goals [Re: akira_akuma]
#22362632 - 10/11/15 10:39 AM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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Unless you are in the country where no one speaks english Pretty much the minute a german detects you are not native, 80% of the time they just automatically switch to english your brain does a barrel roll and you just start speaking english it can be annoying but it is a good time saver.
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it's bizarre how prevalent English is.
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I gotta ask... what's the point in learning a language if you don't encounter people that speak that language? I mean I get the appeal but it seems like you'd have to constantly be practicing it once you learned it to retain the information.
Though it would be cool to go to forums based in another country in a different language.
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#22362828 - 10/11/15 11:23 AM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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-Cut toxic people out of life (family) -Buy cute stuff -Learn 3 programming languages (currently python and C) -Refresh French, learn German OR Japanese, or both! -Join the three programs in place for getting a job in chemistry & combine with education. -Quit all drugs, yay.
For Japanese I use: Manga-University (hardcovers) Tofugu (best blog ever, very intensive & talks about living in Japan aswell + the JET program) https://twitter.com/animechat_jp (4 words a day) &various ebooks
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luvdemboomers said: I gotta ask... what's the point in learning a language if you don't encounter people that speak that language? I mean I get the appeal but it seems like you'd have to constantly be practicing it once you learned it to retain the information.
Though it would be cool to go to forums based in another country in a different language.
Job prospects, travel, shit on people in games in their native language.
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Re: Pursuing your long-term goals [Re: Beanhead]
#22363207 - 10/11/15 12:55 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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good thread 
right now just focusing energy on small goals -
in order - - get stronger and make some of my bigger climbing goals happen. Go back and finish unfinished business, and put up more first ascents.
- pay off cc debt and rebuild savings
- build that subie I've been wanting for years. (wrx wagon)
big goals -
- after spending a few years on the road and travelling and hopefully saving some money, start saving for some land to build on.
After looking at them in front of me, they're all super reachable. climbing goals will probably be the toughest to nail down cause I'm a bit of a dreamer.
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Re: Pursuing your long-term goals [Re: Mr.PhilCybin]
#22363257 - 10/11/15 01:10 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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It's been a while since I set any goals for myself. Kinda sad being almost 27 and all but meh whatever.
I think my biggest goal is like Masked's... to save enough money for a down payment on a house and stop renting, and start renting out.
I'm pretty fluent in Russian since I lived over there for the first 9 years of my life and my ma and gram still speak it on a daily bases so that helps me keep up with it greatly.
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lets drive around said: It's been a while since I set any goals for myself. Kinda sad being almost 27 and all but meh whatever.
I think my biggest goal is like Masked's... to save enough money for a down payment on a house and stop renting, and start renting out.
I'm pretty fluent in Russian since I lived over there for the first 9 years of my life and my ma and gram still speak it on a daily bases so that helps me keep up with it greatly.
what do you do for a living? there's probably some good uses for your second language, if you decided to meld that with your profession somehow.
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Re: Pursuing your long-term goals [Re: akira_akuma]
#22363951 - 10/11/15 03:44 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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akira_akuma said: wouldn't the important part be to learn the instance of how nouns are used in a specific language...there are such major differences from English in that respect.
but i don't know, whatever, i'd love to learn another language.
French, German, Japanese, Greek...anything would be cool.
it's all important to the development of English anyways (save Japanese).
long-term goals are called long-term for a reason...you fill your time with achieving something, only to have it be replaced by a new aspect of what you were trying to do earlier.
that's long-term achievement. it's pretty fuckin' important.
if you were makin fun of my vernacular then the truth is i type how i talk and i dont speak proper. i could bust out verbs and nouns and periods and commas like the best of em but no. i type how i talk. that way if i ever meet any of you goons you can be like yep thats definitely zsd with his ghetto country slang.
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Re: Pursuing your long-term goals [Re: memes]
#22363976 - 10/11/15 03:48 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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- Become millionaire - create self-sustaining biodome community city project with futuristic technology in harmony with nature - grow lots of weed - start new world once the old one collapses, or overthrow the Illuminati before they get too powerful. Make them all pay for their crimes against humanity. - have my own music studio - welcome the aliens
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Re: Pursuing your long-term goals [Re: Shroomism]
#22364036 - 10/11/15 03:58 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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Re: Pursuing your long-term goals [Re: zSDMF]
#22364124 - 10/11/15 04:18 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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zSDMF said:
if you were makin fun of my vernacular then the truth is i type how i talk and i dont speak proper. i could bust out verbs and nouns and periods and commas like the best of em but no. i type how i talk. that way if i ever meet any of you goons you can be like yep thats definitely zsd with his ghetto country slang.

...naw, i can respect that.
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#22364494 - 10/11/15 05:27 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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lets drive around said: It's been a while since I set any goals for myself. Kinda sad being almost 27 and all but meh whatever.
I think my biggest goal is like Masked's... to save enough money for a down payment on a house and stop renting, and start renting out.
I'm pretty fluent in Russian since I lived over there for the first 9 years of my life and my ma and gram still speak it on a daily bases so that helps me keep up with it greatly.
what do you do for a living? there's probably some good uses for your second language, if you decided to meld that with your profession somehow.
Hahah I'm a machinist. I like working with my hands so the chances of me using my language skills is kinda slim to none.
I did want to pursue a music career where I'm sure I could benefit from knowing a second language but that dream kinda faded.
I was in the mil for a bit and I took their language test and passed with almost maxed out scores. It opened up zero opportunities for me and I didn't even get payed like I was supposed to because and I quote the civilian that told me why at the time when I asked "Russian is not a desirable language" I just lold and left. Like are you serious? I was one of the only people at all the bases where I got stationed who spoke Russian fluently, guaranteed.
I'm still a bit sour about that whole ordeal as you can tell
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#22364534 - 10/11/15 05:35 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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if you get drunk & or stoned you'll feel like you can do anything and take on anything so you should be drunk and stoned for ever and forever grab the world by it's balls and fuck it in the ass with a million foot long strapon and cum on it's mountain tits
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- Get a job related to my degree (have interview Tuesday, hope that goes well)
- Figure out what I want to do now that I have my 4 year degree (master, Phd, or military).
- Attempt to get my in more shape
- Pay off my credit card debt and student loans
- Buy a house
- Invest more in the stock market
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- Have a family (seems like a long shot for some reason right now)
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Re: Pursuing your long-term goals [Re: zSDMF]
#22364738 - 10/11/15 06:14 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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My biggest long term goal is to write another book, a fantasy novel. Got a good start but then stopped working on it. Time to get back to that but the discipline of writing is hard for me now that I am done school.
Travel is a big one but we have done quite a few countries already and it's starting to become less of a priority for me now. We are going to Antigua soon and after that will take a few years off travel.
At this point building a healthy savings financially is becoming a bigger goal. We also want to do a lot of work on the house .
For me I have a lot of religious goals - to mediate daily, to do yoga daily , to go to church and dharma centre of other spiritual observances weekly. This is an ongoing lifestyle goal more then anything with a definite goal post.
I used to want to do my PHD but now I don't really. I already have three degrees and a college certificate and I think I need to focus on non academic things now for a while.
I want to get back into a martial art and maybe get my black belt but I better start on that soon.
Really my biggest Goals are these - retire and write a book.
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Shroomopotamus said: if you get drunk & or stoned you'll feel like you can do anything and take on anything so you should be drunk and stoned for ever and forever grab the world by it's balls and fuck it in the ass with a million foot long strapon and cum on it's mountain tits
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