One of the benefits of learning a language for fun is there’s no pressure on you at any point. In fact, you’ll have to create some pressure on your own, lest find yourself slacking off most times from a lack of actual incentive to study.
If you can motivate yourself to work on a daily basis, a 30-minute a day session should be ample enough training to help you gain decent facility within six months to a year. By 30 minutes, we mean that’s all you’re really going to put in — no extra readings while riding the train, no passive practice when reading the news and no checking flash cards every 30 minutes or so.
You can break that 30-minute training into something like this:
- 10 minutes for listening
- 10 minutes for reading
- 5 minutes memorizing a new word or phrase
- 5 minutes speaking practice
The idea is those 20 minutes you spend listening and reading stuff in the target language will get you hands-on acquaintance with how the language is used. The other 10 minutes, which you’ll spend memorizing a new word and speaking can slowly build up your stock of the target language.
This approach is far from an ideal if you need to learn a foreign language in a short amount of time (a language training software can help you better with that). If you want a relaxed, pressure-free language learning experience, though, this 30-minute plan can do it for you.
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