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I started working on Norwegian pronunciation:
How much time is spent on learning a language
Michal Ryszard Wojcik (2001 July 27):
In the meantime, I was reading a textbook for beginner learners of Norwegian,
and I was reading a normal Norwegian novel.
The tape and the books were my only input of Norwegian.
Krzysztof Cichy (2001 August 02):
Your "only input" is I think quite big! I think that most people usually
have much smaller input of a foreign language and they also
tend to use less effective methods.
Hence, your progress must be quite fast, I suppose!
I have a feeling that you are fully devoted to Norwegian.
The effects you've had so far are quite astonishing!
You say that you sometimes listen to the tapes casually,
without full attention and your progress seems to be like
of a person learning with full attention for 10 hours a day!
Michal Ryszard Wojcik (2001 August 11):
Thanks for bringing my attention to the amount of time I spend on Norwegian.
Some people devote only four hours a week to learning a language.
And they say that they are learning a foreign language.
In contrast to them, I am speed-learning Norwegian.
The phrase is confusing, "to learn a language".
It is important how much time and attention one devotes to the language.
I must admit that I spend little time on Norwegian.
I used to spend much more time on English long ago when I was a beginner.
I treat Norwegian as a relaxing way of spending my time.