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If you listen to the evening news on TV each night you will easily get up to 6 hours per week. Look up any new words in the dictionary.
by rjsw 8y ago
If you listen to the evening news on TV each night you will easily get up to 6 hours per week. Look up any new words in the dictionary.
- adrianN 8y ago10000 hours to proficiency divided by 6 is just 1666 weeks or 32 years. That's ignoring that just listening to the news is not the deliberate practice that is supposed to be accumulated for the proverbial 10000 hours.
- rjsw 8y agoI wasn't claiming that 6 hours a week was enough by itself to master a language, the parent comment suggested that people would find it hard to fit this much practice into their life. I can use myself as an example of doing this kind of thing, when I'm in France I don't watch any english language media, and seeing a big improvement in my French.
- delecti 8y agoIn addition to not really being hard science, the "10000 hours" thing is what it takes to achieve mastery, not just proficiency.