#learn a language fast

Before I start I want to mention a few things about this post.

1. The easiest language will always be the one you like learning, because if you have fun, it’s not really hard. Also, if you are motivated you will learn much faster.
   
2. This post will show you how long it will take to learn a language based on their difficulty. That just means, how DIFFERENT it is to the English language. More different = “harder”. It does NOT take into account if you are interested in a language or not. The condition of these groups are that your interest in these languages are ALL THE SAME!
3. The numbers I will give you are “just around this”numbers.
4. Based on which other languages you already speak, some languages will be easier (means faster) for you.
5. There are many factors that can change the pace of your language learning journey. (I will also make a post about this topic soon)

So first we will take a look at the groups. Which language are the easiest and hardest for English speakers?

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Group 1 (575-600 hours): the easiest languages because they are very similar to English. This are languages like Italian, Spanish, French, etc.

Group 2 (750 hours): still similar to English. In this group is just one language. German. (I guess because our articles are a pain in the ass. Seriously, I have friends that came here 10 years ago, don’t even have an accent anymore but still switch up some articles.)

Group 3 (900 hours): different to English. In this group are languages like Indonesian or Swahili. 

Group 4 (1100 hours):  significant differences to English. In this group are languages like Bulgarian, Croatian, Finnish, Hungarian, Polish, Russian and many more.

Group 5 (2200 hours): very different to English. In this group are languages like Chinese, Japanese and Korean.

I made a post about many more languages, so if your target languages is not mentioned here, you can look it up on my other post here.

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And why did I tell you about these groups? Because the thing we care about are the hours it takes to learn a language from one of these groups! 

But that’s not all, we also care about the amount of words you have to learn to be fluent in a language. I also made a post about this, so if you want to know more about how many words you need to be conversational, fluent, etc. or if you are A1, A2, B1, etc. then you can check it out here.

So based on this post we want a vocabulary of 5.000 words. You also have to keep in mind to study listening, speaking, reading and writing to cover everything up. If you just learn a language from a textbook you probably won’t understand native speakers at all and you will also won’t find words when it comes to speaking it. The following numbers are for people who want to be fluent. Like REAL fluent like a (low educated) native speaker.

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How long will it take to learn a language from…

Group 1 (600 hours):

• studying 1 hour per day: one year and 235 days.
  
• studying 2 hours per day: 300 days.
• studying 3 hours per day: 200 days.
• studying 4 hours per day: 150 days.
• studying 5 hours per day: 120 days.

Group 2 (750 hours):

• studying 1 hour per day: 2 years and 20 days.
  
• studying 2 hours per day: 1 year and 10 days.
• studying 3 hours per day: 250 days.
• studying 4 hours per day: 188 days.
• studying 5 hours per day: 150 days.

Group 3 (900 hours):

• studying 1 hour per day: 2 years and 170 days.
  
• studying 2 hours per day: 1 year and 85 days.
• studying 3 hours per day: 300 days.
• studying 4 hours per day: 225 days.
• studying 5 hours per day: 180 days.

Group 4 (1100 hours):

• studying 1 hour per day: 3 years and 5 days.
  
• studying 2 hours per day: 1 year and 185 days.
• studying 3 hours per day: 1 year and 2 days.
• studying 4 hours per day: 275 days.
• studying 5 hours per day: 220 days.

Group 5 (2200 hours):

• studying 1 hour per day: 6 years and 10 days.
  
• studying 2 hours per day: 3 years and 5 days.
• studying 3 hours per day: 2 years and 4 days.
• studying 4 hours per day: 1 year and 185 days.
• studying 5 hours per day: 1 year and 75 days.