This means if you spend 30 minutes a day you won't be fluent for years.
It takes hundreds of hours before you stop sounding like a baby, thousands for fluency. You can learn more in a 30 minute conversation than in hours of reading (after you have the prerequisite knowledge).ĭon't be discouraged if it takes a long time. Go to meetups, join discords in your TL, go on an app like hellotalk, italki, tandem, etc. That's why I advocate for doing it every day. Motivation will run out, then the only thing that propels you is momentum. Track your activities, set goals and milestones. Translate on your kindle, with lingq, or a dictionary. You should understand about 85% of the words on the page. You want to do everything you do for fun in that language if possible. Watch Netflix, follow YouTube channels, listen to music all in your Target Language (TL). This will help you distinguish the phonemes, and learn a few words. Watch children's TV (with subtitles IN the target language, not your own) and listen to music. Metrics are very important because language learning is very difficult to quantify and you never feel like you're progressing beyond the first few months.
Lingq is great because you can track your "total words" for a metric. Get books for toddlers on a kindle or on an app like lingq, where you can quickly translate new words. (Like duolingo) you should use this when you're on the toilet or walking to work, or on your lunch break (essentially time that's otherwise wasted).
Track this on a calendar and count your total hours. Make sure you're doing at least 30 mins a day, no matter what. If you want to learn a language you need to do whatever you can to get to the point where you can consume comprehensible input, then simply put in the hours.
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