- Swedish - 104,5 hours
- English - 104,5 hours
- Cantonese - 35 hours
- Russian - 34,75 hours
- Chinese - 33,25 hours
- Czech - 27,75 hours
- German - 25,75 hours
- Portuguese - 18,5 hours
- Esperanto - 13 hours
- Italian - 8,75 hours
- Scottish Gaelic - 5 hours
- Irish Gaelic - 5 hours
- Slovak - 4,25 hours
- Finnish - 2,5 hours
- French - 2 hours
- Hindi Urdu - 1 hours
- Norwegian Bokmål - 0,75 hours
I'm not surprised that Swedish and English got the highest positions. I read in both every day. The other high numbers (well, everything is relative) are related to the study (Cantonese, Czech), literature (Russian, German), semi-intense grammar study (Chinese, Portuguese, Esperanto) and the rest, well, wild ideas that lasted one month (or shorter). One of the languages which I in fact use (!) now and then isn't even on the list. It's Spanish.
Books in 2017
150 in total: 85 in Swedish, 30 in English, 21 children's books in Portuguese, 6 in German (including a couple of audiobooks), 3 in Russian, 1 in Norwegian (about Norwegian as a neighbouring language), 1 audiobook in French and finally I worked through 2 textbooks in Chinese and one phrasebook for Slovak. Still, even if I don't count the audiobooks, the children's books, the textbooks or the phrasebook, the number is... 121.
Achievements?
In one way, I'm shocked how little I've used these languages, and how little I've improved. Compared to the polyglots I've met during the years, I'm nobody. On the other hand, I'm not sure I had improved more if I just had focused on a few languages. (The world is full of people who study just one and still don't get anywhere.)
Anyway, now it's a new year! I have some realistic ideas and some wild ones.
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