How Long Does It Take to Learn a Language?
How long it takes to learn a language comes down to three things: how close it is to a language you already speak, how many hours you put in, and — most of all — your method. By the traditional translate-and-memorise approach, most adults need one to two years to hold a real conversation in an easier language. And that number is only for the very small percentage of people who push through the extreme difficulty of that 240-year-old approach. With a brain-based, meaning-first method, conversational fluency becomes a realistic six-month goal. The short answer: it depends on three things The honest answer to “how long” is “it depends” — but it depends on knowable things, not luck. The first is overlap: a language close…