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| EnglishEagle Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4573 days ago 140 posts - 157 votes  Studies: English*, German | Message 1 of 6 29 July 2012 at 12:00am | IP Logged |
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Is it possible to become fluent in Esperanto in 6 weeks, with a couple of hour studying each day, in your spare
time? I was planning on visiting some family for a couple of weeks, but thats rescheduled for a later date. So I now have a lot of free time on my hands. What is achievable in 3-4 weeks of learning for an hour a day? How far can I progress? I was starting to learn it a few months ago, but some things come up such as some mock GCSE exams and it was put too the side for a while. Thankyou :-) Edited by Fasulye on 28 September 2012 at 10:38pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6595 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 2 of 6 29 July 2012 at 1:13am | IP Logged |
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Do a 6 week challenge! Esperanto is a popular choice and it's entirely possible to reach a very high level in it.
For true fluency you'd need more hours of input (listening, reading) than it's possible to have in 6 weeks. 4 persons have voted this message useful | |
| kujichagulia Senior Member Japan Joined 4845 days ago 1031 posts - 1571 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Portuguese | Message 3 of 6 14 August 2012 at 1:59am | IP Logged |
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It depends on your definition of fluency. With a few hours a day and good materials you
should be able to grasp all the grammar and pronunciation rules within a week. However, some things we are not used to in English, like the -n object ending, are solidified only through practice. But if you think about fluency in terms of how much vocabulary you know, then the answer is "No way." Even though you can get by without a lot of words if you master the use of prefixes and suffixes, you still need a lot of vocabulary to read, listen, speak and write without the use of a dictionary. That's too many words to learn in 6 weeks, I think. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| audrey Triglot Pro Member ItalyRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4860 days ago 3 posts - 3 votes Speaks: French, Italian, English* Studies: German, Spanish, Esperanto Personal Language Map | Message 4 of 6 06 January 2014 at 4:34pm | IP Logged |
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I started a course in November, two hours a week only, plus studying approx an hour a day at home. Contrary to
most, I don't find Esperanto that easy, with its accusative, correlatives, suffixes etc - so I would say it would take six months and not 6 weeks. Maybe I am the only one on this site to find this language tougher than 'declared' but my teacher in Rome also admitted that he had students who left when it came to the famous table of ,kiu,kial,kiom, etc and the use of the accusative. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6907 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 5 of 6 06 January 2014 at 7:18pm | IP Logged |
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Most learners don't have photographic memory;thus they will have to be exposed to enough examples of the various endings, and then practice for a while. This isn't unique to Esperanto, but some might assume that an easy language should pose no problems at all, require no memorization etc.
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| audrey Triglot Pro Member ItalyRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4860 days ago 3 posts - 3 votes Speaks: French, Italian, English* Studies: German, Spanish, Esperanto Personal Language Map | Message 6 of 6 06 January 2014 at 7:34pm | IP Logged |
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As we are talking about Esperanto is anyone organising a 2014 TAC for this language?
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