A certain local feline resident mentioned that we need a goals thread for next year, so here it is.
Go forth and plan. 
Goal Thread 2024 This was for all languages.
Goal Thread 2023 This one was Japanese only.
Feel free to put a link to your post in the wiki below, for easier navigation. 
| User | Link to post | Goals Summary |
|---|---|---|
| @Biblio | Link | Reduce TBR; daily habit; kanji study; |
| @haya | Link | Read 20 books & 40 manga; improve speaking & writing; watch 2 seasons of kakeru; read the 366 series; study N1 |
| @eefara | Link | |
| @暁のルナ | Link | 42 LNs, read all my physical books. SAO, 転生王女, 声優ラジオのウラオモテ, 薬屋のひとりごと, Fate/Stay Night & Zero. More hard stuff |
| @CatDQ | Link | improve all aspects of my Japanese, read more, listen more, study more consistently |
| polv | Link | Chinese first. More immersion freedom with Japanese. |
| @PrinceSugarBun | Link |  Finish 10+ manga, 1+ light/web novel, anything higher than L26, Shadowing Let’s Speak Japanese; Start Quartet II and NO. 6 #1  Literally anything + deck |
| @snowwater | Link | Leave my comfort zone and study for JLPT N2 |
| @Ddochii | Link |  13k pages read total  10 books in Spanish |
| @belerith | Link | Reduce 積読¬ make it worse.  Study more, read more, speak a little.  Study more, read more. Learn some basics. |
| @pashmina | Link | Read 6 novels, comprehensive vocab/kanji/grammar study for N2 |
Japanese:
My goals for 2024 were:
And I think I failed every single one of these goals. 
I am very good at this, aren’t I?
In theory, there is still time to catch up with some of these, but in reality, my schedule is full.
Glancing at my stats, I think I ended up listening to more audiobooks than actually reading books. I really need to put my focus back on reading with my eyes. My listening is slowly outpacing my other skills. 
My goals going into 2025
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)Could you link the previous goal post(s), so that people can easily compare, or copy-paste?
I planned to read 24 manga and all the novels I bought last year November (19).
Well, I read far too many manga (81 so far) and too few novels (14 so far) this year. Nonetheless I bought some more novels this year (only a new book is a good book) and started them instead of the ones I bought last year 
Concerning TV everything is going well, but they are re-creation. I will continue to watch about three episodes per day on average and one or the other movie in-between. Btw: I am thinking about counting manga as re-creation, too.
Goals: read more novels than I‘ll buy i.e. reduce my staple.
My 2024 goals were
An easy hurdle to clear when the number of books to beat is just 1 short Aozora essay
I did this a bit, but not as much as I had hoped It’s a bit hard to tell because of how some of them are categorized on Natively but I think I am at 29/30? So I should be able to clear this one by the end of the yearOverall I’m happy with how I did.
Goals 2025
I forgot where I put my 2024 goals so I will just write my goals for next year and mention what i remember from the previous year
1. Read 20 Books
In all my previous years I couldn’t read more than 12 jp novels. Not becuase I couldn’t but becuase I would spend my times on other books like reading books in english, study coding or read long jp books.
In 2025 tho, I want to spend more time on reading jp books and esp shorter books to boost my motivation.
2. Take N1 study seriously
The funny thing about high levels is that once you achieve your goal in this language (for me, the reason I started to study japanese is that I wanted to read books in japanese and play otome games) you longer feel the need to continue studying…
But in 2025, I really want to at least finish a few textbooks of N1 to make reading books and playing games easier.
3. Improve my Speaking + Improve my Writing
Since my goal is related to reading and listening, my speaking and writing ability aren’t that good.
I plan to take weekly speaking classes and for writing, I want to start writing blogs in japanese. A few lines on a specific topic every week then I will combine them in a blog and post it.
I may use this site for blogging.
4. Read 40 vols of Manga
I was planning to read 52 vols this year (1 every week) but I only read 3
40 still a lot but hopefully I can make it. I will make it a priority this year i swear 
5. Watch 2 Seasons of カケル
YESSSSS my fav activity I love nagase so much ughh I can’t wait to finish Season 2018 + 2017 (and maybe half 2016 if I have time since I am already halfway through S2018)
6. Finish the 366 Books (I have the yellow and the red one)
Now hear me out, this series is really boring BUT! it has a perfect variety of vocab.
I plan to read 2 random pages every day of the year and hopefully I will be able to finish them both before 2026
Thanks for putting this together this year @Biblio !
2024 Goals
Japanese
(currently 8184) (I’m at 2 and will likely finish a 3rd before EOY) (I’m at 40 and don’t plan to play catchup) (I’m at 250 but I’ve stopped tracking ) (I think I’m at 10?)Swedish!
2025 Goals
As I mentioned in my notes thread, I’m scaling back my language goals. I’ve been overextending myself and not leaving room for the other things I want to do. So hopefully this coming year I’ll be able to reach more of my goals, while leaving room for flexibility
Japanese
Swedish
2024 Goals
-Not only did I finish N3, but I made it halfway through N2 this year.
-Finished the last 70% of 魔法が消えていく within 4 weeks!
-Read all of the other books I intended to and then some
-I now work in a middle school, instead of elementary, so I think the NSFW one will be doable from now on.
-I played 7 games in japanese this year!
なつもん！２０世紀の夏休み (Switch)
クレヨンしんちゃん『炭の町のシロ』(Switch)
リヴリーガーデン (DS)
ムーミン谷のおくりもの (DS)
シアトリズムドラゴンクエスト (3DS)
スナフキン: ムーミン谷のメロディ (Switch)
夜庭三 (Switch)
Overall, extremely pleased with how well I did this year. I think I really nailed down studying regularly and making Japanese a part of my daily life.
2025 Goals
妖怪ウォッチ4: ぼくらは同じ空を見上げている (Switch)
ぼくの夏休み 2： 海の大冒険 (PSP)
ぼくの夏休み 4：整戸内少年探偵団 (PSP)
チョコ犬の不思議物語：ショコラの魔法のレシピ (3DS)
ココロノココロン (DS)
とんがりぼうしと魔法の町 (3DS)
おかえり！ちびロボ！ (DS)
放課後少年 (DS)
It’s a bit ambitious with the reading choices, but I finished my reading goals very early this year, so apparently I didn’t challenge myself as much as I could. I may add more books I plan to read next year, but I’m going to feel it out.
Edit: Idk why it says the google sheet is private. It’s not. Anyone with the link should be able to view it just fyi.
2024 Goals
I’ve got one bingo currently. This is still possible; I have a shorter book in mind that would net me another bingo, then all I’d need to do is read a debut… 
Looool. At least I had dreams at the beginning of the year. So counting the stuff I also bought this year, I’ve read 38 of my physical manga, and have 176 left to read. 
Ah well; I can get a couple more read after I get off on break from work this month…
Technically a no, but I think I finished all the audiobooks I Well, I watched 1 movie and finished 3 TV seasons, which is still an increase from last year, at least. That TV seasons goal could still be completed, but I’m not going to worry myself overly much with it, I think. This is a failure I’m happy about! I’ve still got plenty of F&B to read in the new year! 
And the series is coming out with volume 25 next year!! So excited!!
2024 Spicy Modifier: Only read books and join book clubs for books I already own :
No words needed here…Bonus 2024: Dust off that Spanish
Nice! I blew this one away, for once! I read 8 total books this year, with another possible two if I push a little bit. ^o^
2025 Goals
Looking back on what I accomplished and what I didn’t, I think I need to be a little easier on myself and any expectations I want to meet. This year, for better or worse, turned out quite different in ways I didn’t expect, and I have some newly-gained/re-gained habits and hobbies I’d like to nurture in the new year, which unfortunately aren’t compatible with many hardcore Japanese goals. I’ll probably go back to this and tweak it down the line, but it’s good to start thinking of things now and at least get some thoughts down on paper, as it were.
Japanese
Other Languages
…And I think that’s all I want to put down at the moment. Like I said, I’ll need to ponder this all in a bit more depth, but maybe getting back down to super basic goals would be best.
I didn’t have any specific goals for 2024, other than reading and listening as much as possible. Although I hadn’t planned on it, I ended up taking the JLPT N1 in December.
2025 Goals:
I also want to read more in English and start creating Anki cards for it again.
2024 Goals
Well it’s looking like I’ll only have completed half of them by EOY, failing yet again.
The problem with frequency based goals is that once something comes up, it’s over.
I did finish WK60 and Bunpro N3 tho! This next year I will be minimizing SRS, except as tailored to what I’m reading. My vocab is currently trailing kanii and grammar by a LOT.
Let’s…start small and add if I actually get close to completing this time. 
2025 Goals 
Japanese:
Read 6 books, focusing on L27 and below in my TBR pile (current: 0/6)
Read 20 manga, focusing on TBR pile and Bingo board criteria (current: 0/20)
20 hours of listening (current: 0/20)
Korean:
Finish Lingodeer Korean 1 course
Finish 100 days of code course (current: 14/100)
Oof… here comes my walk of shame.
2024 Reading/Learning goals
(I read only in the first three months and then almost nothing 
)A solid 0/6! Nice! But honestly I’m not ready to give up yet so most of my goals for 2025 will be quite similar since I think the main problem really wasn’t my goals but rather my priorities and (lack of) habits. Especially since it’s not like I didn’t read at all, most of it was just in German or English.
Language goals 2025
There’s still time 
Hehe I’d been debating starting it, but figured I’d give it another day or two. Thx for making the thread
If by some odd chance I make the 2026 thread, I’ll be sure to use the Cait-Sith version of my avatar, to keep the feline thing going 
Time to catch up with the advent calendar
My goals were super vague, so it’s hard to make much evaluation of them
I’m gonna try setting some more concrete goals this time around:
ラノベ:
If I actually manage those, that will just about cover my 42 LNs goal
漫画:
読みたいノベル:
アニメ:
日常:
Writing/Speaking:
2024 went decently, but I’m hoping to achieve a better ratio between my languages in 2025. I’d prefer to have an equal amount of English vs. Japanese read in the future, and I want to incorporate more Mandarin and Korean now that my level is better in both of those languages.
2024 Goals:
Read 50 LN/novels → 33/50 read (this was very ambitious, but I since I only read 22 books last year, this is a good improvement and the year’s not over yet)
Read 50 volumes of manga → 69/50!
Finish 3 novel series → I finished かくりよの宿飯, mostly caught up with ティアムーン帝国物語, and went from 8/33 volumes to 24/33 volumes of 本好きの下剋上 read, so I’m feeling pretty good about my progress here
Do 100 hours of listening practice without subtitles (because I read instead of listen 
) → I listened a lot, but I stopped tracking the type of listening (subs/no subs) early on, oops
Read 20 TBR books → Met and exceeded!
Read 2M characters (all time)
Read 2 physical books
Read owned manhua (~9?)
Small goals for Mandarin, but they worked!
2025 Goals:
Japanese
Mandarin
Korean
I actually managed to hit most of my 2024 goals this year, thiugh I did miss a few of them.
All in, considering the trials and challenges I have faced this year as well as the burnout and physical health issues, I feel I’ve managed not too badly. There’s just under a month left so I might manage to squeeze a few more books in as well as some more reviewing of MNN blue textbook before next year.
I haven’t set specific time goals or number of books (aside from finishing the Zenitendo series) just because I don’t want to overwhelm or disappoint myself if I don’t manage them so these are a bit more flexible. With the Zenitendo series I was reading one in just over a week so 18 books across the year should be totally doable without any issues.
