The Super Challenge - Why 5,000 pages, or 150 hours?
Posted: Sun Jun 25, 2017 6:08 pm
Recently, I've found myself wondering about the reason behind choosing 5,000 pages and 150 hours of native media as the size of the Super Challenge. Don’t get me wrong, I think the challenge is a great idea, and that going through that amount of ‘books’ and media is a great start in the pursuit of improving language proficiency.
I was just wondering if it was based on something like, “after 5,000 pages (50 'books') the average user will have encountered X amount of words Y number of times. This is the amount of exposure needed to naturally become familiar with the first 2,000 words of any language.”
Or, maybe it is based on results from the average forum member's experience after time spent on task, i.e., on average, that’s how long it takes to notice a perceptible difference.
Either way, I’m grateful for the challenge. I’m just curious to learn how we may have arrived at those numbers.
I was just wondering if it was based on something like, “after 5,000 pages (50 'books') the average user will have encountered X amount of words Y number of times. This is the amount of exposure needed to naturally become familiar with the first 2,000 words of any language.”
Or, maybe it is based on results from the average forum member's experience after time spent on task, i.e., on average, that’s how long it takes to notice a perceptible difference.
Either way, I’m grateful for the challenge. I’m just curious to learn how we may have arrived at those numbers.