I would say, when I left Korea, that my ability was somewhere in a low-intermediate. This combination of factors meant my Korean wasn’t at the level I had gotten to with Chinese, Spanish or Portuguese. Korean is a difficult language, we had very minimal preparation, and the weight of having to repeat an immersive language learning process four times in a row burned us out. Korea was the last of the four stops on Vat and my language learning trip. I want to improve my Korean language abilities with only committing five hours per week (one hour per weekday). I want to try to undo some of that bias by trying a different kind of project, one that is decidedly part-time. They are more compelling because most people focus on the total duration of the project, and not the number of hours. Yet, I occasionally get emails from people asking whether it would be possible to do the challenge on time while also juggling a full-time job.ĭue to this bias of months over hours, I often pick projects with intense full-time schedules. I put in 50+ hours a week for nearly a year straight to get through it. Most baffling to me was some of the responses I got from the MIT Challenge. People asking how long you’ve been learning a language always ask it in terms of months or years, never hours. However, when evaluating the success of others, this factor of hourly time investment is often ignored. Devoting fifty hours per week is going to have much faster progress than fifty minutes each week. One of the most important variables in any learning project is simply how much time you devote.
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