When you want to learn a foreign language! you often wonder how long it will take to see the first progress. Let’s find out together in this article!
For Language Training Centers! three factors influence the ease and speed of acquiring a new language:
the type of language studied!
the conditions of learning!
personal involvement.
Regarding the types of languages! the American Department of State* ( The Foreign vietnam email list Service Institute or FSI ) proposes a classification of languages according to their difficulty and deduces a learning time necessary to master them. This work is carried out for internal training needs and with the aim of occupying a job in an Embassy abroad. Even if we do not all plan to work abroad! this classification allows to have an idea of the difficulties of learning languages and their affinity with English. The classification is carried out for a person who would take to have no prior knowledge of the subject.
* The equivalent of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs which manages! among other things! Embassies.
Difficult languages and easy languages
A first group distinguishes the easiest languages to learn. We find there the languages of Latin influence with which English ultimately has many points in common! linked in part to the Roman and then Norman invasion (1066). These improve your english during the toussaint holidays languages include Spanish! French! Italian! Romanian and Portuguese . Other languages with often Anglo-Saxon roots are logically part of the group: Afrikaans (South Africa)! Danish! Dutch! Norwegian! Swedish.
According to the Foreign Service Institute ! mastering an “Easy” language can take 23 weeks (or 575 hours of study in total). By organizing your learning at a rate of 20 hours per week! this gives 7 months of study.
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Other languages form a “Medium” difficulty group : German! Indonesian! Malaysian or Swahili . From 30 to 36 weeks seem to be necessary to master them! or between 750 and 900 hours! or from 9 to 11.5 months (at a rate of 20 hours per week).
