Learning a Language - How Many Hours Does it Take?

How long does it take to learn a language? I get asked this often. Another frequent question is whether it is a good idea to learn more than one language at a time. Here I answer these questions.

Timelines:
0:18 Can you learn 2 languages at the same time?
0:52 It takes a long time.
1:48 US Foreign Institute Language Difficulty Rankings.
3:02 What are your objectives in language learning?
3:32 How much time Russian and Czech took me?
4:28 How many hours does a language require?
5:23 How much time Chinese took me.
5:53 How much time you should spend studying per day.
7:12 Reaching the comfort level is not the end.
8:08 Do what you enjoy.
9:02 Listening, reading and grammar.

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