My 2025 in languages: reflections and plans for 2026

2025年的语言思考:对2026年的反思与规划

Learn Languages with Steve Kaufmann

2026-01-02

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Happy New Year! In this video, I reflect on 2025 and share my goals for 2026.
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  • Hi, happy new year or at least we're just about going to hit 2026,

  • the end of 2025, a time to reflect,

  • a time to renew our energies and plan what we're going to do in the coming year,

  • especially when it comes to language learning.

  • So I want to talk to you about my plans for 2026 and review a little bit of what I did in 2025.

  • So, where do I want to be in the year 2026?

  • As I open up my link page, I see where I have been for much of the year 2025, which is in Farsi.

  • I'm quite pleased with what I have achieved.

  • You can see the percentage of new words in these lessons is quite low.

  • It's comfortable for me to read them and listen to them.

  • and as I'll show you I stepped up my speaking

  • as I became more comfortable in Farsi I began speaking more so there's a sort of snowball effect you know you get better and better

  • as you understand more you want to speak more you get better at speaking and so forth but in the new year I've decided that I'm going to move into Arabic

  • as I shall explain so if I look at this And I look at my year in review,

  • you'll see that actually I dabbled in a lot of different languages.

  • Just curious, you know, we have Punjabi.

  • What is that all about?

  • But really I was only studying Persian, Arabic, Turkish, a little bit of Italian.

  • But overwhelmingly, Persian.

  • And I was in the top percentage of Persian learners.