welcome to the forums Sane! I understand the constant discouragement from ignorant people. I go through the same thing. especially family who think they know everything.

My goals right now are
1.) finish reading my first novel or half way
2.) finish my Love Hina and Dot Hack collection
3.) get through my college tests coming up.....yay

SaneInsane Wrote:Please, don't diss me because I don't know very much Japanese. I've already been insulted 100 ways from sunday, I am not a weaboo or whatever. I can't seem to find a place to hang out and discuss Japanese or recieve help because of this! I've already been to countless sites.

Be gone, n00b!
Jokes, jokes, we all play nice here.

master バビ語 lol. not serious i guess. seems fun though...
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SaneInsane Wrote:Please, don't diss me because I don't know very much Japanese. I've already been insulted 100 ways from sunday, I am not a weaboo or whatever. I can't seem to find a place to hang out and discuss Japanese or recieve help because of this! I've already been to countless sites.

Don't give anyone in real life a hint of you studying Japanese before you are at a decent enough level!

My ambitious goal is simple - to start reading those novels I magically acquired, and which seem like a magic book scribble to me now. So, therefore the goal is still faaaaaaar away, but I'm going to persevere. RTK 1 completion in a months time or so, CorePlus deck, and hopefully the fun will begin.

My ambitious goal? 著者になる!

Lose my virginity this year. And of course pass JLPT2. (this year as well)

"master バビ語 lol. not serious i guess. seems fun though... "

笑いました。XD

Raschaverak Wrote:Lose my virginity this year. And of course pass JLPT2. (this year as well)

LOL we have a winner! Actually doing 2) maybe help you achieve 1), you never know

My ambitious goals:

- Acquire fluency in at least two foreign languages (currently Japanese + mandarin).
( by fluency I mean understand and converse at roughly the same level as I can in English)
- Write an iPhone that sells over 100,000 copies.
- Get married, have kids, live a happy life.

vonPeterhof Wrote:Move to Japan, reach native-speaker level in Japanese, naturalize and enter politics in order to reform Japan from the inside out and save its society from the imminent collapse!

I have a similar goal. Mine is to work full time at a classical liberal economic lobby group like The Center for Free Enterprise in Korea and to translate dozens of works from the Austrian school of economics by authors like Ludwig Von Mises, Eugene von Boehm-Bawerk, Frederic Bastiat, Jean-Baptiste say and make them freely available online. It is also essential for me to become a great public speaker capable of making solid presentations and lectures.

I don't have a timeline for this. In two years I plan to enter a graduate program in economics in Korea so I'll probably improve my command over that type of language quickly. Right now I haven't even tried reading a novel yet though.

Dixon Wrote:I have a similar goal. Mine is to work full time at a classical liberal economic lobby group like The Center for Free Enterprise in Korea and to translate dozens of works from the Austrian school of economics by authors like Ludwig Von Mises, Eugene von Boehm-Bawerk, Frederic Bastiat, Jean-Baptiste say and make them freely available online. It is also essential for me to become a great public speaker capable of making solid presentations and lectures.

I don't have a timeline for this. In two years I plan to enter a graduate program in economics in Korea so I'll probably improve my command over that type of language quickly. Right now I haven't even tried reading a novel yet though.

Good luck with that! If I wanted to reform Japanese society I would definitely take your course of action over trying to become a Diet member. Alas, I ran out of enthusiasm and optimism ages ago, so I cannot even be bothered to seek out fellow Austrians in my city, let alone spread the word in another country.

aphasiac Wrote:My ambitious goals:

- Acquire fluency in at least two foreign languages (currently Japanese + mandarin).
( by fluency I mean understand and converse at roughly the same level as I can in English)
- Write an iPhone that sells over 100,000 copies.
- Get married, have kids, live a happy life.

almost the same as mine, expect the iPhone part

I know this thread is really, really old.

But I felt it was a really adorable thread. So I hope it's okay if I revive it. If not you can yell at me.

My short-term Japanese related ambitious goals are:

(go to Japan this summer, rent an apartment/room@guesthouse somewhere and…)

• See my favourite band perform and… Tell them how totally awesome I think they are. XD
• Visit an arduino workshop/the people at テクノ手芸.

socks Wrote:I felt it was a really adorable thread.

please adore!

I'm going to look at what I wrote now!

Edit: I haven't achieved my goal yet but it seems more achievable now (I said I wanted to do Kentei 1). I have started Chinese which makes Kanji feel easier than before~

What a lovely thread! My really ambitious goal is to revolutionise education by developing highly adaptable and generalisable learning software that is also, integral to the learning process, a compelling game. I'm not trying to be as compelling is Civilisation; after all, people need to sleep. As compelling as Farmville will do.

Note that at present I know very little about pedagogy and even less about coding. So this may take some time. And it's not as if I'm young or anything. But hey, if you don't plan big goals you wake up one day and you're dead.

Oh, *Japanese* goals. My main Japanese goal remains as it was in May -- to be able to read "Puzzle Communication Nikoli".

1) Fluency in Japanese (i.e. telling jokes, understanding the newspaper and full-length novels/films, including manga and anime using dialects for the sake of slap-stick)
2) Visiting a strip-bar (almost happened already in Soho/London, though xD)
3) Stealing a 狸-stature from Japan (aren't they gorgeous?!)

To finish RTK by Christmas, even December if possible (I'm slightly over half-way now). Doing about 20 per day, but some days I'm bad and don't do anything except some reviews...:/

Also, finish Core 6K vocab in 1 year (after finishing RTK), and finish JFE in 7 months starting this January.

These are certainly doable, but will my willpower be consistent enough? That's the real difficulty

Be able to live stably in Japan.

I'll likely be going to study there for 2-5 years starting next year, so that's a good start.

Want to be able to understand Japanese well enough to understand phonetics, speech modeling difficulties, etc. Bonus would to be able to read academic papers in my area - Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR).

Cool thread. My ambitious Japanese goal is to achieve the language level of a smart high school student over the next 3-5 years. I figure it's a good yardstick, because smart high school students can basically talk or write about any subject to an extent, even though they may lack the sophisticated vocabulary of an adult. Then over the next 5-10 years my aim is to reach the language level of a smart uni student

Oh, and I would like to live in Japan for at least a couple of years.

Hi, I'm new here and have been lurking around a bit. This seemed like a good place for my first post

Big Japanese goal - eventually translate a book I have in my field that's not yet available in English (hopefully noone will do it first, but it's going to be a long time till I'm ready!)

More goals along the way...
-finish RTK1 (this is part learning and part review since I'm coming back to Japanese study after a long time off)
-be able to read books with much less dictionary use
-be able to converse fluently
-pass JLPT N1 (I did pass the old 2級 several years ago but couldn't pass it right now)