2023
I randomly found Natively this summer from a link on Reddit. I accidentally ended up reading *checks stats* 139 days, 4 books, and 20 manga (so far). If you would have told me that at the beginning of the year, I would have said you were crazy. Suffice it to say that while I didn’t have any goals at the beginning of the year, I far surpassed any that I would have set.
2024
Echoing a lot of other people, I don’t do well with rigid goals, but I do worse with no goals, so here’s my loosey goosey goalsetting for the next year:
Read comfortably at about level 30, listen comfortably at about level 25
My biggest focus right now is to get my listening level up closer to my reading level. I’d say I can comfortably read materials without excessive lookups at about level 25 right now, but with no text/subs, my listening is somewhere around 20. Ideally I’d like to tighten that range, but I’m also ok with just increasing them both 
Read more days than not
Pretty straightforward, and another one I’m sandbagging a little on to make sure I don’t get discouraged by setting a read every day goal and getting discouraged by missing one day and then knowing my goal is blown for the whole year.
Finish 3 book club books
This honestly feels like I could probably bump up the number here quite a bit, but I also don’t want to set myself up to fail.
Finish 3 Switch games
I bought a ton of second hand games in Japan in May and haven’t started a single one of them. 've also been stuck on the first few hours of the second Famicom Detective game since around the same time (I blame Tears of the Kingdom for sucking up all of my gaming time when I had started it).
Bonus points for:
French
Being in Canada for the next few years (even though it’s not close to the French speaking part of Canada), it feels like a missed opportunity to not work on my French.
I’m a solid A1 right now, but would love to get somewhere around B1 by the end of the year. If we get Natively for French ( 
) I’ll want to have some book goals, but for now, keeping it kinda nebulous on purpose.
German?
French leapfrogged over German for “language mistress”. I was at high A2 level when I stopped earlier this year and would like to at least maintain there if possible, but not really a priority.
Mandarin????
So there’s a channel, Comprehensible Mandarin, and they have more than 700 videos, and it really feels like if I could just get to where I could follow what people are saying I’d be able to really take advantage of it, but I have no real motivation for learning it other than it’s there, I do already know kanji so that will help, and it would impress people. Which aren’t great reasons to learn a language 
Start a language blog?
I sorta want to start a blog for English learners. Probably intermediate level since I love that sort of content and you just need so much. But also, won’t people just rather consume all of the content that already exists in English? Everyone is learning English, and so many people already exist in this space (although, I would argue, lots are grammar focused and pretty boring). 
2024 plans:
Here’s what I was able to get done last year:
