How long does it actually take to learn Spanish?
The figure usually quoted for an English speaker is around 600 to 750 hours to working proficiency. What that number hides is more useful than the number itself.
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Occasional writing about learning Spanish, and about learning in general.
Latin American or Spain Spanish, and which to learn
The differences are smaller than the internet suggests, and they sit in three places: one consonant sound, one verb form, and a list of everyday nouns.
Why ten minutes a day beats two hours on Sunday
Spacing is not a productivity trick. It is the one finding about memory that has survived a hundred and forty years of people trying to knock it down.
These three are written and go up with the launch. They are not linked as though they were live, because they are not.