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Break even study hours
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Poll Question: You will never learn a language studying
Poll Choice	Votes	Poll Statistics
less than 25 hrs per year	0	[0.00%]
less than 50 hrs per year	1	[2.78%]
less than 100 hrs per year	4	[11.11%]
less than 200 hrs per year	14	[38.89%]
other	17	[47.22%]
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michaelmichael
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Canada
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Speaks: English*
Studies: French

Message 17 of 17

30 August 2010 at 1:42am | IP Logged

Arekkusu wrote:

JPike1028 wrote:

For basic fluency I would say about 500 hours a year. If you follow
the 10,000 hour theory, you need to put in about 1,000 hours a year (3 hours a day) for
ten years to reach the 10,000 mark, so I figure half that would make you able to achieve
and maintain basic fluency.

Could you refresh our (ie. my) memory: what exactly is the 10,000 hour theory?

If you spend 3 hours a day studying and you aren't fluent in 5 years, something deeply
wrong with either you, or your method. I could never sustain such a regimen and I became
fluent in many languages in a fraction of that time.

I don't know the 10000 hour theory that well, but i know one of its hallmarks, is that 80% of the results comes from 20% of the effort (massive diminishing returns). 2000 hours is considered the level of a diplomat, just to give you an idea of what level , the theory claims, 10000 hours is suppose to be.

Edited by michaelmichael on 30 August 2010 at 1:48am

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