Re:It’s Hard to Learn French in Middle Age
by adrianN on Tuesday April 30, 2019 @12:34PM
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You can redefine fluency to be something that is achievable with dedicated study in six months, but most people probably wouldn't call themselves fluent with the very limited vocabulary you can acquire in that time. Elementary school children know in excess of 20k words. I really don't believe that you can remember over a hundred new words every day without forgetting a single one.
No dedicated study. Basically zero effort on your part is required, you just need to spend some time on it everyday. Your vocabulary will build itself over time if you keep engaging with the language. It takes ten years to mastery, just like with everything else. Six months until you can communicate in the new language. English is my second language and I speak from experience.
Learning a language requires next to no effort (compared to 30 words per day) and can be done at any age within six months. The strange thing is that nearly everyone does language learning wrong. I think it's because schools set everyone up for failure by teaching how to learn a language in a way, that's just so very inefficient.
If you care for the easier way: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0yGdNEWdn0