irishmaggot Newbie Ireland Joined 3552 days ago 5 posts - 7 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German
| Message 1 of 25 10 March 2015 at 2:19am | IP Logged |
Hey everyone, just wondering, how long per day do you guys spend studying languages and
do you study every day? =)
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smallwhite Pentaglot Senior Member Australia Joined 5310 days ago 537 posts - 1045 votes Speaks: Cantonese*, English, Mandarin, French, Spanish
| Message 2 of 25 10 March 2015 at 4:28am | IP Logged |
The 6-Week-Challenge Past Scoreboard will give you some idea. You can click into people's names to see detailed analyses of their studies.
Edited by smallwhite on 10 March 2015 at 4:29am
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robarb Nonaglot Senior Member United States languagenpluson Joined 5061 days ago 361 posts - 921 votes Speaks: Portuguese, English*, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, French Studies: Mandarin, Danish, Russian, Norwegian, Cantonese, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Greek, Latin, Nepali, Modern Hebrew
| Message 3 of 25 10 March 2015 at 6:16am | IP Logged |
Studying (i.e. the main point of the activity is to learn the language): About 1 hour 90% of days.
Watching movies, reading books, etc with full attention: About 2 hours 40% of days.
Listening to podcasts while washing dishes, cookin, riding the bus, etc: About 1 hour 90% of days.
Edited by robarb on 10 March 2015 at 6:21am
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garyb Triglot Senior Member ScotlandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5209 days ago 1468 posts - 2413 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, French Studies: Spanish
| Message 4 of 25 10 March 2015 at 10:26am | IP Logged |
From my understanding, the 6 Week Challenge encourages intense studying over a relatively short time period, so there's going to be self-selection bias: the participants are the people who actually have the time to commit to that. So I doubt that it's very representative of what most people do most of the time.
I'd roughly estimate that I do around 2 hours per day of activities where I'm focused: studying, conversation, listening, watching, reading. Plus some background radio/music, but that varies. Generally more background stuff during the week, more focused stuff at the weekend. My progress is very slow, but it's there!
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rdearman Senior Member United Kingdom rdearman.orgRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5238 days ago 881 posts - 1812 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, French, Mandarin
| Message 5 of 25 10 March 2015 at 2:37pm | IP Logged |
I second garyb. I probably do an hour a day most days, some days I'll do a lot more, some days less. But I always try to do something each day, even it is just watching a 15 minute youtube video.
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Michel1020 Tetraglot Senior Member Belgium Joined 5019 days ago 365 posts - 559 votes Speaks: French*, English, Spanish, Dutch
| Message 6 of 25 10 March 2015 at 5:26pm | IP Logged |
Zero minute but I do it many times every day.
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leroc Senior Member United States Joined 4313 days ago 114 posts - 167 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German
| Message 7 of 25 10 March 2015 at 6:11pm | IP Logged |
Usually around 1-2 hours. I aim for an hour and a half but sometimes I go over.
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jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6911 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map
| Message 8 of 25 10 March 2015 at 8:12pm | IP Logged |
On a bad day - nothing, on a good day - several hours of language-related activities (this may include grammar, exercises, structured studying, but is more likely to mean reading, listening and writing).
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