The goal of me doing / My goal of doing

[shb27]

The goal of me joining this course is to improve my speaking skills.

My goal of joining this course is to improve my speaking skills.

Are both sentences correct? Do they have the same meaning?

 

[Phaedrus]

My goal in joining this course is to improve my speaking skills.

 

[shb27]

How about the two sentences I've mentioned in my first post?

 

[emsr2d2]

Phaedrus has quite clearly corrected the second sentence in your first post so obviously the original was wrong. I don't find your first sentence natural at all. If nothing else, I would change "me" to "my". The (corrected) second sentence is much better.

 

[Phaedrus]

How about the two sentences I've mentioned in my first post?

Your two sentences don't work because an "of"-phrase modifying "goal" defines what the goal is, so you can't go on to state that the goal is something else.

Both "the goal of me joining this course" and "my goal of joining this course" imply that the speaker's goal is "joining this course."