How long will it take to reach my goals?

The time it takes to reach your goals depends on a number of factors:

• How closely related the target language is to your first language or other languages you know
• The areas of complexity in the language
• How many hours a week you devote exclusively to language learning
• The number and quality of language learning resources available
• The motivation you have

The Language Learning Troubleshooter contains a tool that helps you estimate how long it might take to achieve different levels of proficiency, given favorable conditions. You may go there now.

• Generic module: How long will it take to reach my goals?
• In overview module: Information to help you make a strategic plan
• In modular book: Managing Your Language Learning Program, by Carol J. Orwig
• In bookshelf: Language Learning

This page is an extract from the LinguaLinks Library, Version 3.5, published on CD-ROM by SIL International, 1999. [Ordering information.]

Page content last modified: 15 September 1998

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