-JM- wrote:I don't believe in the time scales. Not everybody has the same understanding in languages or anything. Some people are better or worse at some specific things. I have never seen something like "you need 50 hours study to solve differential equations." Maybe I won't understand it in 100 hours and my friend will get it the first time he hears it. So I think the numbers are too abstract and they shouldn't be paid much attention.
It can be argued that language learning is more of a memory thing which doesn't require much intellectual input (something with which I don't agree). Then the numbers might mean something.
I agree. I think it also points to a very cookie cutter shaped model as opposed to an individualized one. For better or worse we don't all learn exactly like one another.