lpetrich
Contributor
The numbers again,
How long to learn Spanish as an adult - Spanish language learning forums
The closest I could come to a source was
L'enseignement des langues étrangères comme politique publique - Rapports publics - La Documentation française
and then
L'enseignement des langues étrangères comme politique publique - Google Translate: "Foreign language teaching as public policy"
François GRIN
Professeur, Université de Genève
Directeur adjoint, SRED
GIving source
Flochon, Bruno, 2000 : « L'espéranto », in Gauthier, Guy (ed.) Langues: une guerre à mort, Panoramiques. 4 e trim. 48: 89-95. - Google Translate: "Languages: a war to the death."
I also found Learning curves in "easy" and "difficult" languages - Open Forum - LingQ Language Forums - but the Wikipedia articles on Esperanto and the Paderborn method have been updated to edit out these claimed results.
- I (24 weeks, 600 class hours) Afrikaans, Catalan, Danish, Dutch, Galician, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Swedish
- I' (30 weeks, 750 class hours) French
- II (36 weeks, 900 class hours) German, Haitian Creole, Indonesian, Malay, Swahili, Javanese, Jumieka
- III (44 weeks, 1100 class hours) (most languages)
- IV (88 weeks, 2200 class hours) Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean
How long to learn Spanish as an adult - Spanish language learning forums
Awaken said:1000 hours is probably a decent guess for English to Spanish I would say. From the Esperanto studies (probably a little biased, but useful nonetheless).
The Institute of Cybernetic Pedagogy at Paderborn (Germany) has compared the length of study time it takes natively French-speaking high-school students to obtain comparable 'standard' levels in Esperanto, English, German, and Italian.[30] The results were:
2000 hours studying German = 1500 hours studying English = 1000 hours studying Italian (or any other Romance language such as French) = 150 hours studying Esperanto.
The closest I could come to a source was
L'enseignement des langues étrangères comme politique publique - Rapports publics - La Documentation française
and then
L'enseignement des langues étrangères comme politique publique - Google Translate: "Foreign language teaching as public policy"
François GRIN
Professeur, Université de Genève
Directeur adjoint, SRED
GIving source
Flochon, Bruno, 2000 : « L'espéranto », in Gauthier, Guy (ed.) Langues: une guerre à mort, Panoramiques. 4 e trim. 48: 89-95. - Google Translate: "Languages: a war to the death."
I also found Learning curves in "easy" and "difficult" languages - Open Forum - LingQ Language Forums - but the Wikipedia articles on Esperanto and the Paderborn method have been updated to edit out these claimed results.