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| sunny Groupie United States Joined 6250 days ago 98 posts - 128 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: German, Russian, Welsh, French | Message 1 of 6 20 June 2009 at 6:50pm | IP Logged |
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I am writing a Rogerian essay on Bilingual education for uni. And I am needing one small bit of information.
On this page: http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/e/languages/english.htm l This is written: "...two years of moderate study should be sufficient for all but the most lazy people, and you can definitely learn it in 6 months. As to the number of hours, I think that 250 hours is a safe estimation. " Do you have a source for this information about time needed to attain fluency in English? or is it from personal experience? Thank you, Sunny 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Paskwc Pentaglot Senior Member Canada Joined 5679 days ago 450 posts - 624 votes Speaks: Hindi, Urdu*, Arabic (Levantine), French, English Studies: Persian, Spanish | Message 2 of 6 20 June 2009 at 7:25pm | IP Logged |
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Hi,
I'm not sure about whether there is a citation for that figure, but I suppose you can cite the US Government's National Virtual Translation Center. I've put a link for it below: http://web.archive.org/web/20080204023830/http://www.nvtc.go v/lotw/months/november/learningExpectations.html If you go to Language Difficulty you will find time approximations. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| sunny Groupie United States Joined 6250 days ago 98 posts - 128 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Russian, Welsh, French | Message 3 of 6 20 June 2009 at 8:35pm | IP Logged |
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Thank you VERY much!
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| reineke Senior Member United States https://learnalangua Joined 6449 days ago 851 posts - 1008 votes Studies: German | Message 4 of 6 20 June 2009 at 9:12pm | IP Logged |
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The links do not work (gov, not go v formatting issue). However you should keep in mind that most online language difficulty tables including this one concern native speakers of English aiming to learn other languages.
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| sunny Groupie United States Joined 6250 days ago 98 posts - 128 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Russian, Welsh, French | Message 5 of 6 20 June 2009 at 10:06pm | IP Logged |
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well it does group the languages according to the closeness to English. so it can serve my purpose.
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| Britomartis Groupie United States Joined 5811 days ago 67 posts - 74 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Mandarin | Message 6 of 6 21 June 2009 at 4:42am | IP Logged |
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Not on closeness to English, but it is based on the premise that the learner's native language is English if I remember correctly. You could probably find some other source that states how close a language is to English, then compare the two.
Edit: Agh! I misread your question, sorry. The hours needed would of course depend on the native language of the learner. I wonder if the chart could be flipped though (i.e. it takes as long for a Chinese speaker to learn English as it does for an English speaker to learn Chinese). It'd be interesting if it were true. Edited by Britomartis on 21 June 2009 at 4:48am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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