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| DaraghM Diglot Senior Member Ireland Joined 5971 days ago 1947 posts - 2923 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Russian, Hungarian | Message 1 of 11 12 April 2012 at 3:33pm | IP Logged | ||
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My plan is to study 1,000 hours for each of my languages. I'm trying to estimate how far that'll take me for each one. If my current levels are,
Spanish - B2 (lower) French - A2\B1 Russian - A2 Hungarian - A1\A2 Italian - A1 What would be the effect of a 1,000 hours study on each of these levels ? In other words, if I studied Spanish for another 1,000 hours what level should I reach, considering I'm at the lower end of B2 ? Edited by DaraghM on 12 April 2012 at 4:46pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 4829 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 2 of 11 12 April 2012 at 5:03pm | IP Logged | ||
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I think it could take the low levels to B2, perhaps higher B2, and Spanish to C1. Or
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| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5201 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 3 of 11 12 April 2012 at 5:32pm | IP Logged | ||
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I can't see why 1,000 hours shouldn't take you to C1 in all of them.
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| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 6976 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 4 of 11 12 April 2012 at 5:52pm | IP Logged | ||
If I were you I'd start with this updated assessment from FSI and adjust the required time as needed since you're not starting from scratch in any of those languages. Look at pp. 51-52 on the .pdf (pp. 45-46 on the scanned pages) for a summary. It also seems that FSI organizes languages' difficulty for its students in 3 categories rather than 4 as some of us have learned about them from older descriptions. 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| geoffw Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4508 days ago 1134 posts - 1865 votes Speaks: English*, German, Yiddish Studies: Modern Hebrew, French, Dutch, Italian, Russian | Message 5 of 11 12 April 2012 at 5:53pm | IP Logged | ||
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I don't see why you couldn't, in theory, get to C2 in Spanish and French with that kind of time, execept that it can be hard to get the specific kinds of hours you need at that level when you aren't in an immersion situation. I don't hear too many stories about people getting to C2 without living in country. I would think that you could at least expect to get to passive skills at C2 without doing anything too crazy, if you put in 1000 good hours starting from the B level.
The bigger question is, where are you going to find these 5000 study hours? Best of luck! 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4527 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 6 of 11 13 April 2012 at 12:04am | IP Logged | ||
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You should be doing pretty well at anything given you just spent a 1000(!) hours practicing it.
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| DaraghM Diglot Senior Member Ireland Joined 5971 days ago 1947 posts - 2923 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Russian, Hungarian | Message 7 of 11 13 April 2012 at 9:56am | IP Logged | ||
Thanks. This is very good information. However, for a language institute, I don't think they should create neoligisms like 'superhard'. It sounds like something from a Michael Bay film, "Ok, people, we've ranked this language learning mission as superhard." 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 6976 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 8 of 11 13 April 2012 at 4:30pm | IP Logged | ||
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This could also reflect the vaguely sensationalist nature of slang as used by the "new blood" in FSI. It seems a bit unprofessional here and conjures an image of what I hear among some teenagers describing their latest test (e.g. "Oh my God! That algebra test was superhard! I so failed that one!")
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