If you’re an English speaker, Japanese is considered a very difficult language to learn.
The US Foreign Service Institute (FSI), which trains American diplomats and government employees, categorized Japanese as a Category III language in a paper called “Lessons learned from fifty years of theory and practice in government language teaching” (Jackson & Kaplan, 1999)—grouping it in the hardest of the three categories.
According to the FSI, adult learners with strong language-learning aptitude typically needed around 2,200 class hours (about 88 weeks of intensive study, including self-study and considerable time spent in-country) to reach Level 3 on the ILR scale in Japanese.
How long it takes to learn a language is a very difficult question to answer, so this is just an estimate.
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If you’re an English speaker, learning Spanish is relatively quick compared to many other languages.
The US Foreign Service Institute (FSI), which trains American diplomats and government employees, categorized Spanish as a Category I language in a paper titled “Lessons learned from fifty years of theory and practice in government language teaching” (Jackson & Kaplan, 1999)—placing it in the first of three categories, among the languages considered easiest for English speakers to learn.
According to the FSI, English-speaking adults with good language-learning aptitude usually needed around 575–600 hours (roughly 23–24 weeks of intensive classes plus self-study) to reach Level 3 on the ILR scale in Spanish.
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A learner’s dictionary is a type of dictionary designed specifically for people learning a language, rather than for native speakers, with definitions written in the target language.
For example, in an English learner’s dictionary, all the definitions are written in simple, clear English. These dictionaries are a valuable English language learning resource because, as well as featuring easy-to-understand definitions, they also include lots of example sentences and helpful information (e.g., words that frequently combine with the headword and common learner mistakes involving it).
A learner’s dictionary is a monolingual dictionary rather than a bilingual dictionary that provides translations.
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