Happy New Year! Happy New Year! I hope that 2015 will brings happiness and prosperity for you all. With it being the beginning of a new year and all, I feel like I should write a post and join in with the festivities. Why not, eh? I have a few goals for the coming year, but first of all I would like to highlight my language goals as I believe it’s most probable that I’ll be going to university in order to study languages, perhaps with business, this September. I have decided that the languages I would like to be able to speak really very well in the future are Dutch, Chinese, Japanese and German. I expect Asia to play a far greater and more important role in the future and therefore want to make a good decision career wise (regarding languages), but I am already convinced that I will thoroughly enjoy them once I get into them properly – and by that I mean being able to read real books and being able to have real conversations with real people over genuinely interesting topics. I plan of having my first conversation in Chinese in September, and I am working on the assumption that I will be ready by then; I would like to have my first conversation in Japanese, if I chose to major in this at university (something that, in England, is decided before one goes to university), in September as well; I would like to have my first conversation in German (again, if I choose to major in it at university instead of Japanese) in September, and; I would like to have reached a level which is boarding on C1 in Dutch (in terms of grammar and how I express myself, not necessarily in terms of vocabulary as I’m not sure that I’ll have enough time to acquire a vocabulary of such size). Moreover, I pledge to devoting time every single day of the coming year to listening to these various languages as this is something I deliberately put off (as I don’t understand them and find it somewhat irritating). This will undoubtedly help my in achieving my goals. I would like you, too, to change yourselves this year. After all, aiming high and falling slightly short is far better than going nowhere. You can achieve your dreams if you really want to, and I intend to prove it.