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| apparition Octoglot Senior Member United States Joined 6655 days ago 600 posts - 667 votes  Speaks: English*, Arabic (Written), French, Arabic (Iraqi), Portuguese, German, Italian, Spanish Studies: Pashto | Message 17 of 27 28 August 2010 at 3:21pm | IP Logged | ||
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Several hours a day at work. It's also my favorite hobby and entertainment, so it all
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| darkwhispersdal Senior Member Wales Joined 6045 days ago 294 posts - 363 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Ancient Greek, French, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Mandarin, Japanese, Latin | Message 18 of 27 28 August 2010 at 8:49pm | IP Logged | ||
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Usually I manage one hour in work every day during breaks and about 30min to one hour at home in the evenings. On weekends I can do between two hours to five depending on Open University work, family commitments, other hobbies, sports, etc.
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| Mooby Senior Member Scotland Joined 6110 days ago 707 posts - 1220 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Polish | Message 19 of 27 28 August 2010 at 10:23pm | IP Logged | ||
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About 4 -5 hours a day during the week, less at the weekends.
2 hours > audio drills (Pimsleur, Polish Conversation CDs, Polish Radio) 1 hour > course work (Po Polsku 1, Colloquial Polish) 1 hour > grammar (Basic Polish by Dana Bielec) 1 hour > vocabulary Plus reading Polish forums online. It's amazing how fast 5 hours study can pass. What I crave is conversational practice with my Polish friends...but they all want to speak English !! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| luhmann Senior Member Brazil Joined 5338 days ago 156 posts - 271 votes Speaks: Portuguese* Studies: Mandarin, French, English, Italian, Spanish, Persian, Arabic (classical) | Message 20 of 27 29 August 2010 at 12:23am | IP Logged | ||
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If I can't maintain about 4 hours a day I have lots of trouble getting started at all. ] find hard do get motivated if I can only afford about one hour a day -- I seem to learn, proportionally, a lot less, and I don't have time to watch tv series, which are my favourite language nourishment.
But I really have get myself to study everyday, even if it is just a little bit. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Mountain Goat Diglot Newbie Denmark Joined 5371 days ago 10 posts - 15 votes Speaks: Danish*, English Studies: Pashto Studies: Urdu | Message 21 of 27 29 August 2010 at 12:59am | IP Logged | ||
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I've really hit somewhat of a low point. :( Before the summer holidays I was actually doing very well, sometimes clocking up to 4 hours a day. This was going on a few weeks before my final exam of the semester, mind you. Two factors played a role in this: 1. I had just received a lot of new, exciting language materials 2. I was procrastinating a lot in the face of the impending exam, using time on the language instead.
The problem is that I haven't been able to motivate myself during the vacation. I went travelling for a month after the exam and, fair enough, I didn't get any studies done then. But the last few weeks I've been home and had every chance to sit down and learn a bit. Instead I've been procrastinating, putting it off. In the meantime I have 250 Anki reviews due and my semester is starting Monday which means I'll have less time for language studies. I think I'll just need to start slowly chucking away at Anki and setting off an hour a day for studies. Maybe even less, I think the more important thing is that you study every day, and not the amount of time you study every day. Better to study 30 min a day than 3 hours one day and then not doing anything for the rest of the week. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| leosmith Senior Member United States Joined 6555 days ago 2365 posts - 3804 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Tagalog | Message 22 of 27 29 August 2010 at 7:46am | IP Logged | ||
This poll seems to indicate that most people on this forum believe 30 min/day is not enough to reach fluency. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| The Real CZ Senior Member United States Joined 5654 days ago 1069 posts - 1495 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Korean | Message 23 of 27 29 August 2010 at 3:13pm | IP Logged | ||
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Aside from music and TV, probably 30-60 minutes in both languages every day.
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 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6708 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 24 of 27 29 August 2010 at 7:16pm | IP Logged | ||
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I have spent several hours today just mapping the derivations based on the root "пис" in Russian (as in "писать", write). One thing is ordinary learning, but when you get the idea to a 'project' then the time flies. Reading a good book or magazine can have the same effect.
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