I don’t know fam, most adults with very directed study/practice can become fully fluent in a language in about a year. Babies take like whaat, 5 or 6 years before they start to become regularly coherent? And their vocabulary still sucks for years after that.
You have the advantage of already knowing way more than babies so you’ve got more to build on.
3-5 years for the first language to a general level of fluency. The impressive part is that they can generally pick up fluency in a second language in a year with minimal instruction, and they can learn multiple at the same time.
Unless it’s the only thing you’re doing, you’re not going to be fluent in a second language as an adult after a year of study.
On a chemical level, children’s brains work differently to adults when they’re learning, it’s not a question of effort.
Nah babies are just able to dedicate most of their waking time to learning language, adults with jobs and responsibilities aren’t.
If we could lock you in a room for a year and all you could do was sleep and practice Chinese, you’d be way better at it at the end of a year than a baby after 1 year.
Babies have special brain shit going on the helps them learn super fast. My ancient and decaying brain matter is no match.
I don’t know fam, most adults with very directed study/practice can become fully fluent in a language in about a year. Babies take like whaat, 5 or 6 years before they start to become regularly coherent? And their vocabulary still sucks for years after that.
You have the advantage of already knowing way more than babies so you’ve got more to build on.
3-5 years for the first language to a general level of fluency. The impressive part is that they can generally pick up fluency in a second language in a year with minimal instruction, and they can learn multiple at the same time.
Unless it’s the only thing you’re doing, you’re not going to be fluent in a second language as an adult after a year of study.
On a chemical level, children’s brains work differently to adults when they’re learning, it’s not a question of effort.
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Nah babies are just able to dedicate most of their waking time to learning language, adults with jobs and responsibilities aren’t.
If we could lock you in a room for a year and all you could do was sleep and practice Chinese, you’d be way better at it at the end of a year than a baby after 1 year.
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