How to Calculate Time to Learn a Language

Polly Glott
4 min readJun 5, 2021

The key is knowing the distance between your “home” and “destination” languages

When you start learning a new language, do you think about how long it would take to master it? Do you imagine or calculate the time commitment in terms of school semesters or months? If you’re on Duolingo, you’re familiar with crowns — but does each crown take the same amount of time?

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