german2k01 wrote:If we have to "quantify" this "optimal input" in terms of hours spent for listening and reading or if you have any other metric to quantify it - please state so. As a ballpark figure, when learners are supposed to be really comfortable with outputting?
If we have to quantify it then we're totally stuffed, because its impossible to quantify.
What you'd end up with is just an Emperor's nose.
You can't get an accurate answer by averaging a whole pile of guesses.
Even the people who most actively push "silent periods" in learning won't quantify it, and there's got to be a reason for that.