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| Rosen93 Diglot Newbie Denmark Joined 4405 days ago 34 posts - 42 votes Speaks: Danish*, English Studies: Mandarin | Message 1 of 20 28 January 2013 at 12:53pm | IP Logged | ||
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Please excuse me, if this question has already been asked, but I will like to know how much time you guys spend on studying your languages per week and how you manage to fit in your studies with school or work. I go to school full time and work part time and sometimes I find it difficult to find time to study.
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| daegga Tetraglot Senior Member Austria lang-8.com/553301 Joined 4526 days ago 1076 posts - 1792 votes  Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Swedish, Norwegian Studies: Danish, French, Finnish, Icelandic | Message 2 of 20 28 January 2013 at 1:23pm | IP Logged | ||
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Define "studying". Would you include the time you use the language as study time, or only the hard part like vocabulary learning, grammar exercises etc?
When I did my degree in Scandinavian Studies, I used 10-15h (including class time) for 3 languages, but I received credits for most of it, so time was no problem. If you include watching TV in English (without subtitles) in your study time, I did a lot more at times. Now I'm more in the 6-10h range I think (while doing full-time studies in a non-language subject), and most of it is done during my commute to and from university and in the breaks between lectures. I use mainly audio books, TV, Anki, classes and sometimes I read books, most of it can be done during dead time. edit: Some stats about how much I'm able to do when there are no exams around here. As you can see, most of it are passive activities though. Edited by daegga on 28 January 2013 at 3:50pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Rosen93 Diglot Newbie Denmark Joined 4405 days ago 34 posts - 42 votes Speaks: Danish*, English Studies: Mandarin | Message 3 of 20 28 January 2013 at 2:46pm | IP Logged | ||
Thank you for your fast replay, Daegga. I mostly meant the active part such as going through a chapter or lesson, studying vocabulary learning, grammar exercises and such. Personally, I don't count the passive studying such as listening to music as actual studying as I don't look up new words from every song. I just like to listen to the sound of the language, but I don't feel that I learn something from it as when I go through a chapter in my textbook. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| BaronBill Triglot Senior Member United States HowToLanguages.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4694 days ago 335 posts - 594 votes Speaks: English*, French, German Studies: Spanish, Mandarin, Persian | Message 4 of 20 28 January 2013 at 4:27pm | IP Logged | ||
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I generally am able to spend between 1 and 2 hours a day on studying. Most of this is 10-15 minutes bursts on breaks from work, or 30 minutes of pod-cast or course listening on my iPod while grocery shopping. I can usually find 20-30 minutes right before bed that I can devote to reading and/or studying as well. It is rare (with full-time work and a wife and 3 kids) for me to get more than about a half hour of uninterrupted time to study so I have to create my own opportunities throughout the day.
Bottom line, it's about using all of those 5-15 minute "dead-times" throughout the day and being very creative about studying. 5 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| stifa Triglot Senior Member Norway lang-8.com/448715 Joined 4878 days ago 629 posts - 813 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, EnglishC2, German Studies: Japanese, Spanish | Message 5 of 20 28 January 2013 at 6:22pm | IP Logged | ||
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Anki reviews and Anki related: About 5 hours.
Immersion and stuff like that: 15-25 hours. English is not counted as a foreign language here though... 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| hrhenry Octoglot Senior Member United States languagehopper.blogs Joined 5135 days ago 1871 posts - 3642 votes Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, ItalianC2, Norwegian, Catalan, Galician, Turkish, Portuguese Studies: Polish, Indonesian, Ojibwe | Message 6 of 20 28 January 2013 at 6:32pm | IP Logged | ||
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I usually set aside anywhere from a half hour to an hour per language that I'm studying.
I don't always use that full time, but there are other times I go over. It just depends on what I'm actually studying and how difficult things are at that moment. I spend a LOT of time passively with the languages, though. Whether it's TV, radio, streaming off the internet, whatever. Something's always going in the background, if possible. R. == Edited by hrhenry on 28 January 2013 at 6:34pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| arturs Triglot Senior Member Latvia Joined 5276 days ago 278 posts - 408 votes Speaks: Latvian*, Russian, English | Message 7 of 20 28 January 2013 at 7:12pm | IP Logged | ||
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About 8 hours per week. Mostly listening or reading something while I'm on the bus. When I have at least 1,5 hours of free time I do an interesting language session where I don't sit hours with one language, but do 4-5 languages in this 1,5 hour period, usually it looks something like this (this is actually my language combination now) :
20 minutes - French (I always start with French) Listening and reading (mainly i get transcribed podcasts from RFI) 10-15 minutes - German (mostly I do Top Thema mit Vokabeln, but sometimes I add in some vocabulary or phrase drills) 20 minutes - Yiddish (one Assimil lesson) 10-15 minutes - Swedish (one lesson in a textbook written by a swede specially for Latvian speakers, so don't ask what kind of textbook) 20 minutes - Italian (Hugo's in 3 months lesson - usually it takes two rounds to get through one unit). French, Yiddish and Swedish stays in the same place, Italian and German are interchangeable). I saw this kind of method by one guy in Youtube, I gave it a try and it's quite good for fitting a whole bunch of languages in a short time and what's interesting I get good results from this, because I don't get frustrated by drilling one language for 2 hours in a row. 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Rosen93 Diglot Newbie Denmark Joined 4405 days ago 34 posts - 42 votes Speaks: Danish*, English Studies: Mandarin | Message 8 of 20 28 January 2013 at 11:31pm | IP Logged | ||
I admire you for studying this many languages at once. Right now I'm studying three languages, but want to add a few more when the first half of the year has passed. Great to see that you're getting good results from this method, it sounds like it could be worth a try. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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