How many hours, in total, does one need to learn a foreign language?

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I have read somewhere that a Brazilian needs to study about 1.200 hours in order to speak and to understand English at an intermediate level.
Do you have any idea about the language you are learning, also considering your native language?

Asked by João on 20:39, 06/09/2008 - 147 views
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Depends of lots of things:
- Language the person wants to learn
- Language(s) the person already knows
- How well the person knows these languages
- Age of the person
- How much he works a day
- Motivation
- Health
- Memory, intellectual skills
- Whether these hours of study is studying lists of grammar or conjugation by heart (kind of pointless), or if these hours is serious practice

These are just a few I think =) I really don't think you can give an amount of hours. For one person, it could take 1000 hours, when for another person it could take 20000 hours.

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AhourA

I don't know how many hours is needed to learn english but I learnt english in one month since I moved to the US but definetly a french can learn english so easier than me 'cuz french has much words and phrases in common with english

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mike1988

I do not know exactly how much but it takes a lot of time.

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h. r a q u e l

I don't think there has to be a specific time for learning a language, everyone learns at his or her own pace

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hoda61

I don't think that it may be sized by hours !!
Do study in ur free time continously if it's posible then take a short break and so on..
Do enjoy learning by loving the material .
Earn any hour to study the maximum as u can.
As long as ur doing ur best u gonna develop ur level .
That's how to deal with any foreign language !

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Jura

Hi another interesting question Joao! Sometimes people take a lifetime to really master a language. Slang changes. Funny how some people think Australians still say g'day mate! Unless you have an intended goal [a job, relocation to another city, a foreign girl/boy friend etc] most people will just learn a language in whatever free time they can spare it. Joining/ forming an English speakers' group that meet at a cafe each week in your area may be your answer.Just make sure that you have at least one native speaker in your group.

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