smallwhite wrote:Voytek wrote:I just reached B2 in Swedish and I can say that it took me about 700 hours to get there:
- 100 hours to learn the pronunciation and prosody
- 200 hours with Anki creating a deck with 5000 words
- 100 hours to learn about 4000 words from it
- 100 hours for the Glossika course
- 25 hours learning from a basic Swedish course and the FSI one
- 125 hours of listening and reading (the TL/Polish).
- 50 hours of listening to the radio and reading articles also a bit of TV.
I love it when people give numbers
The hours look reasonable. Makes Swedish look very accessible. It's numbers like this that wake the evil that is wanderlust. "100 hours of pronunciation? I can handle that. 100 hours of SRS? I can live with that". And plop! I wander into yet another pool of quicksand
At least this time I'm safe 'cos I'm already in this pool of quicksand. I'm already studying Swedish and I have numbers for it as well. Got B2 in reading and listening in a recent mock test, but I can only say simple sentences (about Tom) at the moment.
111 hr Textbooks and grammar
088 hr Extensive reading
100 hr Vocab-mining and other vocab work, excluding SRS reps
068 hr LingQ for vocabulary and listening
021 hr TV
049 hr Speaking
016 hr Admin stuff
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453 hr
plus SRS reps maybe 80 hours and audio in the background sometimes
after good English and intermediate German
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This is not my typical study schedule, in case anyone was wondering.
I understand 95% from this video:
https://urskola.se/Produkter/195104-UR-Samtiden-Pulstraning-och-inlarning-Trana-for-din-hjarna
Now, I'm going to watch a lot of TV with subtitles since books which I'm interested in are still a bit too hard to me and I'll stick to the L-R method.
I recommend to you watching TV too. Here you can find videos from the Swedish TV (with subtitles):
http://www.dplay.se/kanal5/#!/play/program/226052/video/199366232|/program
https://www.svtplay.se/video/10958449/vetenskapsstudion/vetenskapsstudion-sasong-1-avsnitt-6
http://urplay.se/
Some videos are available only in Sweden but sill you can find plenty of them here.