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On Friday, I went to a local bookstore and got Benny Lewis’ book Fluent in 3 Months.   I decided to take the day off in terms of my usual blogging about project management, and set forth my goals in general and for the next month in terms of language learning.

This is because over the weekend I was reading Fluent in 3 Months, and after reading the chapter on why people should be endeavoring to be fluent in multiple foreign languages, he starts the next chapter by challenging people to set actual goals that are specific and to post those goals in a public place (like a blog post) in order to make oneself accountable for them.

1.  Multilingual level goals

I am fluent in five foreign languages if you measure that fluency in terms of B1 level or higher on the Common European Language Framework.

So for those languages, I have put my goal to become one level higher by 2017.

For the languages I have been studying but which I have not achieved fluency, I am also putting my goal to become one level higher by 201

For those languages I have not studied before, but which I want to study in 2016, I’m putting the target as BEGINNER (A1).

Although I put all languages on my level goal list, certain languages have higher priority level, which translates into studying frequency.   Also, although my ultimate goal is to speak with native speakers, my intermediate goal  is to use textbooks in order to prepare for proficiency tests.

2.  Multilingual goals–method, priority level

3.   Multilingual goals–March 2016

Here’s my goals for March 2016.

Those languages which are in bold are high priority, those that are in regular font are medium priority, and those which are in italics are low priority.

Let’s see what I accomplish in the month of March!

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