Originally posted by Lovely Blue Panda
A follower of mine asked me what are some realistic goals when you’re learning languages but before giving you 100 examples, I want to mention that you can have daily, weekly, monthly or/and yearly goals. If you get easily distracted and need motivation, set goals for each category; however, if you can focus and be motivated for a longer period of time, you might not need daily or/and weekly goals.
Also, the numbers/minutes/hours are an example, you can change them according to your time, resources, motivation, etc.
Daily goals
- Read 1 article in your target language.
- Learn 10 words.
- Learn 1 poem in your target language.
- Learn a song in your target language.
- Watch a movie.
- Read 1 page from a book in your target language.
- Sing 1 song in your target language.
- Talk with a native for 10 minutes.
- Learn 2 idioms.
- Translate 1 song.
- Translate 1 poem.
- Write 1 short text about anything.
- Watch 1 episode from your favorite show dubbed/subbed.
- Get 50 points on Duolingo.
- Make a vocab list.
- Learn 1 new grammatical concept.
- Think in your target language for 10 minutes
- Read to a podcast for 15 minutes.
- Learn 1 tongue twister.
- Spend 15 minutes on WordBrewery.
- Play on Babadum for 15 minutes.
- Use Clozemaster for 15 minutes.
- Listen to an audiobook for 10 minutes.
- Revise your notes for 20 minutes.
- Learn 1 vocab list.
Weekly
- Read 10 articles in your target language.
- Read 2 books for children.
- Learn 5 poems.
- Learn 3 songs.
- Watch 3 movies.
- Learn 10 grammatical concepts.
- Talk for 2 hours in your target language.
- Learn 5 vocab lists.
- Learn 100 new words.
- Finish 8 lessons on Duolingo. (I mean the entire bullet/dot/set of mini-lessons)
- Watch 10 episodes from your favorite show in your target language subbed/dubbed.
- Learn 30 idioms.
- Write 3 A4 pages about anything.
- Translate 5 songs.
- Learn 3 vocab lists.
- Revise with the help of some tests online for 2 hours.
- Change your phone settings to be in your target language.
- Make a summary of the books you’ve read.
- Read 10 pages from a complex book in your target language.
- Make 5 vocab lists.
- Write a motivational text of 10 lines for you in your target language about why you enjoy learning languages.
- Think for 2 hours in your target language.
- Translate 3 pages from a book in your native language.
- Translate 3 pages from a book in your target language.
- Discover 10 new songs in your target language.
Monthly
- Learn 350 new words.
- Read 1 advanced book in your target language.
- Finish a grammar book.
- Finish 10 stories for kids.
- Learn 80 idioms.
- Learn 20 vocab lists.
- Finish 35 lessons on Duolingo. (the bullets/dots/set of mini-lessons)
- Make 20 vocab lists.
- Watch 10 movies in your target language subbed/dubbed.
- Translate 10 songs.
- Learn 10 poems.
- Learn 5 songs.
- Talk to natives for 10 hours.
- Write summaries for every chapter/article you’ve read.
- Watch 15 YouTube videos in your target language.
- Make a story of 5 minutes while looking at a random picture on Google.
- Understand a song (that you don’t know) without checking the lyrics too often.
- Read 20 articles.
- Make a dish while reading the recipe in your target language
- Revise for 20 hours.
- Keep a journal with your daily progress and at the end of the month, read how many things you achieved.
- Read to a podcast for 24 hours.
- Think in your target language for 24 hours.
- Play babadum/clozemaster for 10 hours.
Yearly
- Be mistaken for a native.
- Know 50 poems.
- Be able to sing most Disney songs in your target language.
- Watch movies without subs.
- Learn 10.000 words.
- Read 10 advanced books.
- Finish Duolingo/whatever course you use.
- Be able to think in your target language effortlessly.
- Master irregular verbs.
- Have at least 5 native friends that talk to you in your target language.
- Be proud you didn’t give up.
- Study a bit daily.
- Finish 3 grammar books/workbooks/books for advanced learners.
- Have a decent accent.
- Be able to read without translating anything.
- Watch more movies in your target language than your native one/English.
- Have favorite YouTubers that are native to your target language.
- Keep a diary and read how your year has been.
- Be able to talk about advanced stuff.
- Have very detailed descriptions.
- Know the most popular songs in your target language.
- Read mostly in your target language.
- Know several new recipes that are cooked only in the country where your target language is spoken.
- Being able to say that you’re bilingual/multilingual/a polyglot.
- Learn your next language through the one that you mastered already.
