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| Akao aka FailArtist Senior Member United States Joined 5336 days ago 315 posts - 347 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Mandarin, Toki Pona | Message 1 of 10 06 May 2011 at 5:21am | IP Logged | ||
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I am truly sorry for all of my questions but I am curious...
How long do you think (with 1-4 hours of kind of organized studying a day, depending on the day) it would take to learn Swedish? If you can't gauge how long it would take me with that study schedule, how long would it take an average English speaker to learn on their own? Not a standard for me to set, but really just a generalization so I can get some kind of idea of how long it could take because for some reason that question itches in my mind. Also, can you tell me if you're being optimistic or pessimistic with your guesses? I don't mind either way. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ellasevia Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2011 Senior Member Germany Joined 6142 days ago 2150 posts - 3229 votes Speaks: English*, German, Croatian, Greek, French, Spanish, Russian, Swedish, Portuguese, Turkish, Italian Studies: Catalan, Persian, Mandarin, Japanese, Romanian, Ukrainian | Message 2 of 10 06 May 2011 at 5:57am | IP Logged | ||
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According to FSI, "easy" Category I languages like Swedish should take approximately 575-600 class hours to learn. I don't know if that helps you at all, though...
For me personally it took me about a year and a half to get to what I'd call basic fluency (about B2 level on the CEFR scale), but I don't know how much time I spent on it on average since I've only kept a good record of my time in recent months. I also had a background in several other languages before starting Swedish, including German. However, does it really matter how long it's going to take you to learn Swedish? Much of the fun for me is in the discovery process of learning the language itself, so if it takes you longer to learn, that just means you'll have more exciting discovery time with your target language. Just study however much you like and try your hardest and you'll get to the best level you can within the given time. Asking us to guarantee more than that for you is almost impossible. Lycka till och ha det roligt! Edited by ellasevia on 06 May 2011 at 6:05am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Akao aka FailArtist Senior Member United States Joined 5336 days ago 315 posts - 347 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Mandarin, Toki Pona | Message 3 of 10 06 May 2011 at 6:02am | IP Logged | ||
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I don't consider class hours an accurate gauge because of the amount of time they spend
trying to get everyone to be on the same page. Also, I understand you can't really guarantee any time, but I was wondering if it would take somewhere around a year or somewhere around 3 years. Either way I'd learn the language, but if it was 3 years I'd throw in another, simpler language as well because I really am itching to learn Italian or perhaps an Asian language. I would do Spanish but school really turned me off. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Alexander86 Tetraglot Senior Member United Kingdom alanguagediary.blogs Joined 4981 days ago 224 posts - 323 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, German, Catalan Studies: Swedish | Message 4 of 10 06 May 2011 at 8:55am | IP Logged | ||
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It will take between 1 to 2 years depending on your frequency of study, your access to
listening and visual materials and your success. Swedish is quite "easy", although I use that term with some reticence. I studied it for three months from scratch while watching the Swedish crime series "Wallander" and after a few months I could follow the dialogue, pick up a lot of new vocabulary and understand many parts, although obviously not all. A year should see significant progress, and before 3 years you should be quite fluent - given you follow a rigorous and steady studying pattern. Ha det bra! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tracker465 Senior Member United States Joined 5352 days ago 355 posts - 496 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Dutch | Message 5 of 10 06 May 2011 at 3:14pm | IP Logged | ||
I believe that with a bit of diligence, one could learn a great deal of Swedish in one or two years. To give a better estimate of time it would take you, I think we would need to know whether you studied other languages previously, if you speak another Germanic language, etc. Whenever I decide to take the plunge with a Scandinavian language, I hope to dedicate about a year to get to a fairly reasonable level. On another note, if you didn’t like Spanish, you probably won’t like Italian. Also, from what I have seen, Swedish is a very simple language in itself, and is probably “easier” to learn than Italian as well. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Akao aka FailArtist Senior Member United States Joined 5336 days ago 315 posts - 347 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Mandarin, Toki Pona | Message 6 of 10 06 May 2011 at 5:39pm | IP Logged | ||
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Swedish is my second language. I study for about 1-4 hours a day depending on the day.
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| davidwelsh Heptaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 5529 days ago 141 posts - 307 votes Speaks: Lowland Scots, English*, Norwegian, Esperanto, Swedish, Danish, French Studies: Polish, Sanskrit, Tibetan, Pali, Mandarin | Message 7 of 10 06 May 2011 at 5:56pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'd agree that one or two years is a reasonable estimate, depending on how much time you're able to spend in
Sweden or otherwise immersed in the language. I took Norwegian classes (about 5 hours a week) for two years, and then lived in Oslo for 8 months. After that I was pretty fluent. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Akao aka FailArtist Senior Member United States Joined 5336 days ago 315 posts - 347 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Mandarin, Toki Pona | Message 8 of 10 06 May 2011 at 6:06pm | IP Logged | ||
Sounds good. I'd assume I could get to B2/C1 in 14-16 months at my study rate. Unless something gets in the way. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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