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Re:The Canadian Housing Boom Fueled by China’s Billionaires by piva00 on Wednesday August 03, 2016 @03:03AM (#12216157)
It's still a big effort, learning a language properly is not something you do for 2 hours on the weekend and get proficient at it.

Even more so if you don't plan to use that language for anything else afterwards.

It isn't that hard but isn't that easy either.

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Re:The Canadian Housing Boom Fueled by China’s Billionaires by ivoras on Wednesday August 03, 2016 @04:58AM (#12216635)
> It's still a big effort, learning a language properly is not something you do for 2 hours on the weekend and get proficient at it.

There's a big difference between being really proficient and knowing enough to be productive. In any case, like other skills, everyone gets better by actually doing it, but they need to start first.

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