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Octoglot
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 Message 17 of 27
28 August 2010 at 3:21pm | IP Logged 
Several hours a day at work. It's also my favorite hobby and entertainment, so it all
adds up to fairly constant study.
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darkwhispersdal
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 Message 18 of 27
28 August 2010 at 8:49pm | IP Logged 
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
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 Message 19 of 27
28 August 2010 at 10:23pm | IP Logged 
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 !!


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luhmann
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 Message 20 of 27
29 August 2010 at 12:23am | IP Logged 
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.
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Mountain Goat
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 Message 21 of 27
29 August 2010 at 12:59am | IP Logged 
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.
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leosmith
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 Message 22 of 27
29 August 2010 at 7:46am | IP Logged 
michaelmichael wrote:
i was specifically interested in success stories of people who only studied approximatley
30 minutes a day

This poll seems
to indicate that most people on this forum believe 30 min/day is not enough to reach fluency.
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The Real CZ
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 Message 23 of 27
29 August 2010 at 3:13pm | IP Logged 
Aside from music and TV, probably 30-60 minutes in both languages every day.
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Iversen
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 Message 24 of 27
29 August 2010 at 7:16pm | IP Logged 
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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