Just to clarify this isn't strictly for Japanese, so feel free to talk about any goals you're working on. I wanted to state mine because maybe some people have advice and such.

・Get an internship. Currently awaiting to hear back from Baxter to see if they will give me a proper interview (they had previously called me for a phone interview in late October). This would be a 12-week summer internship and they don't stop looking at candidates until March so I still have some time to get lucky. In the meantime I'm planning on attending an internship fair in February at my school.

・Get fit. I had taken a 2 month break from exercise but am planning to restart in full-force after New Years. I'm 6'2" and 165 pounds so my goals are to get some muscle, cut some fat, and hopefully be in shape for the summer. If I get a new part-time job soon, I will also start taking MMA classes to aid in the following goal (confidence) as well as getting fit.

・Increase my confidence. At 23 I definitely need to work on making more friends, being more sociable, and also outgoing. I need to work on my confidence while I'm still in America, because it won't get any easier if my plans to move to Japan after school actually come to fruition.

・Stop messing around and study Japanese. Too often I get distracted and stop reading my Japanese book in favor of killing time on the internet. If I want to enjoy breaks in Japanese studying (such as when the new Starcraft II expansion or Bioshock Infinite come out) then I need to bust my ass at all other times. I have Hunger Games in Japanese now so maybe 1 book a month would be a good goal.

Great topic! Thanks for starting this, TheVinster.
My 2012 goals failed miserably except for one. I did find a new job with a slightly better pay, moved to another city and started all over again.
In 2013, I would like to:
1. Finish the book Kanji in Context by June 2013
2. Possibly take Kanken exam level 5 sometime in summer 2013canceled
3. Finally finish my professional exam by February 2013 Finished this in May instead
4. Work on public speaking by joining Toastmasters starting January 2013
5. Improve my social skills - I'm very reserved and need to meet new people. Maybe by joining meetups that fit my interests

1. Increase weight (186cm/62kg) by eating more healthily and keeping up my three times a week work-out schedule at the gym.
2. Fluency
3. もっと真面目にN2のための準備をしとくｗ
4. Signing up at nursing school and become a nurse (エロいでしょw)

1. Finish Tae Kim (by the end of January). Proceed with other grammar resources.
2. Complete Core2K
3. Work out more often.

If I could complete more than the Core2K over the course of a year that would be excellent.

1. Finish Core 6k (3,6k to go!)
2. Read DoIJG and SRS the related sentences
3. Attain B2 level Italian comprehension (currently A2)
4. Move on to native material for further learning (both JP & IT)

1. Become more confortable with Japanese and German. (B1->B2)
2. Make sure I don't fail my course at the University of Bath.
3. Have about 8000 Anki cards by the end of the year. (Currently at 2350)

...and just get through the year I think, don't have any specific goals to be honest.

1. Finish RTK if I don't finish it before then (<300 to go!!).
2. Finish Core6k.
3. Complete an RPG in Japanese.
4. Run a marathon.
5. Get a new job.

1. 1000 pages for Tadoku in January
2. Finish 1M Challenge with decent stats, do two more advanced stages
3. Participate in every Tadoku, generally read more
4. Pass N2 or if by some miracle I already did, N1
5. Visit Japan, didn't go in 2012 and there are so many things I want to do and see

1. Getting a scholarship/ finding a more fulfilling job with good career growth
2. Full transition to native Japanese materials, no more "studying"
3. Break out of depression

I'm really really hoping and looking forward to get my life sorted out this year!

I hope for you to achieve your goals too, good luck everybody!

1. Enjoy Japanese media (understand more, read more, watch more)
2. Graduate
3. Get ready for college
4. Sleep
5. Run my fastest 1600 meter

1. At least 10,000 new vocabulary words
2. Avoid getting a job or going to school
3. Try to not get fat

一 Complete Core6k
二 Subsequently conquer Japanese
三 Complete my Chinese vocab deck
四 Subsequently conquer Chinese
五 Send my Russian friend a message with only the words "It's time."
六 Subsequently conquer Russian
七 Stare depressingly at my korean deck
八 Write an IME module that uses laptop touchpads to draw characters/letters
九 ???
十 Profit!

And I should probably mention somewhere about passing my A-Levels (高校試験) but that shouldn't be all too challenging...

1. Sort things out with my family, forget the past and get out of depression.
2. Somehow make it through this year in university.
3. Finish Core6k before summer break.
4. Read through DoBJG and other books Ive got recently.
5. Have more fun from learning japanese.
6. Learn how to take it easy on myself.

Kewickviper Wrote:3. Complete an RPG in Japanese.

I just completed my first RPG in Japanese, ニノ国. Every word has furigana and it's very accessible. I highly recommend it as a resource, but as far as the game itself it's a typical RPG and nothing really stands out other than the Studio Ghibli art.

undead_saif Wrote:3. Break out of depression

Tough one that I'm having trouble with too. By increasing my confidence and meeting new people I hope this sorts out by itself.

1. (as I have written on the new years resolution board for the regulars at one of my favorite beer bars in Osaka) ビールが大好きな彼女をゲット！(笑)
2. Write, at minimum, 20 new songs.
3. Get a better job.
4. World Domination (..what? if I'm going to break at least one of my resolutions anyway I'd better throw in a long shot, right?)

Tori-kun Wrote:1. Increase weight (186cm/62kg) by eating more healthily and keeping up my three times a week work-out schedule at the gym.
2. Fluency
3. もっと真面目にN2のための準備をしとくｗ
4. Signing up at nursing school and become a nurse (エロいでしょw)

エロい！・・ってなんでやねんw

On the bright side, Goal number 2 will make goal number 3 child's play! But not like the movie. Unless you liked the movie. Won't stop you from doing that..

2012 Goals: Start learning Japanese - Success!

2013 Goals:
Real life:
1. Keep doing well in University
2. Try to stay employed

Japanese:
1. Complete my "divide and conquer" plan for Japanese. My currently planned path is to go through:
-Authentic Japanese (textbook) -> RTK 3 -> Core 6k -> Go "monolingual" with Japanese Level-Up's J-J guide
2. Read more... a lot more.
3. Keep immersing and enjoying Japanese
4. Improve my (very weak) output ability

TheVinster Wrote:

Kewickviper Wrote:3. Complete an RPG in Japanese.

I just completed my first RPG in Japanese, ニノ国. Every word has furigana and it's very accessible. I highly recommend it as a resource, but as far as the game itself it's a typical RPG and nothing really stands out other than the Studio Ghibli art.

It's funny that you should say that actually as I was just looking at buying ni no kuni. Did you buy the English PS3 version? I've heard that since they're on blu-ray most PS3 games come with dual English and Japanese as default.

Kewickviper Wrote:

TheVinster Wrote:

Kewickviper Wrote:3. Complete an RPG in Japanese.

I just completed my first RPG in Japanese, ニノ国. Every word has furigana and it's very accessible. I highly recommend it as a resource, but as far as the game itself it's a typical RPG and nothing really stands out other than the Studio Ghibli art.

It's funny that you should say that actually as I was just looking at buying ni no kuni. Did you buy the English PS3 version? I've heard that since they're on blu-ray most PS3 games come with dual English and Japanese as default.

The English one isn't out until late January. I heard it will have dual audio but I'm not sure if it'll have subtitles. A surprising amount isn't voiced so I think this would be a big chunk of Japanese you might miss.

Finish learning all of http://almostsure.wordpress.com/stochastic-calculus and get a lot of applied-probability related study done

Figure out future career

Read some more light novels

Try and get back into an MMO (hopefully FFXIV ARR)

Maybe go to Comiket, but it feels like a chore and probably anything I'd want would find its way online anyway

That's about it

Every time I come up with big goals (like making a game development portfolio, becoming able to draw, etc.) I end up giving up after a few weeks. I have no idea how I learnt Japanese...

http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/blo...l-the-time

dizmox Wrote:Figure out future career

Ah, I know how that feels...

2012's:
1. Write at least one lang-8 entry a month Only wrote 3 throughout entire year...
2. Read at least 7 Japanese books. Only read 5
3. Keep SRS workload low. Stay below 40 new cards per month. Stayed well below that. Now that was easy
4. Straight A's Accomplished thanks to having barely studied subjects outside of school...

2013:

1. Spend less than I make!
2. Straight A's
3. Declare a damn major
4. Read at least five Japanese books

. pass jlpt1
. pass JBT
. practice translation and interpretation
. decide and enter into a master's degree http://www.world.ryukoku.ac.jp/kenkyuka/...index.html (possibly in Japan, where I'm now studying until August japanese language)
. make more japanese friends
. read japanese books on cool skills (集中力、説得力、プレゼン、など)
. continue reading articles in english and portuguese
. read and learn on the most diverse subjects
. play more videogames (either english or japanese)

study triz
not get arrested or interviewed by the police, stay out of gaol, not take any drugs
stay positive
learn basic phrases of 20 or so languages
get better at chess
sleep more
not get depressed
not to drink till i black out and almost get killed
read up on TRON and chokanji
make an anki grammar deck
work for more agencies than i am now
study dependency grammar and formal linguistics
not buy any weapons, deliberately harass or blackmail women
buy more books
not keep my flat like a tip
start to get money to buy a house
not chat up any girls because i'm a psychopathic lunatic
develop a tool for understanding complex sentences
not to dwell on small things
study Japanese at least 4 hours per day

Nuriko Wrote:

dizmox Wrote:Figure out future career

Ah, I know how that feels...

I'll probably just continue life as a student for 3 more years if I get funding to continue onto a PhD here.. if not I'd end up applying haphazardly to companies and letting fate decide. So not so much of a resolution.