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“There’s no point to it if you can’t dedicate at least an hour per day.”
“Everyone can make time for at least thirty minutes.”
“You’ll never be fluent by just doing that little.”
Ever heard any of the above? I certainly have. And while I’m sure they’re things people say about other stuff too, the places I’ve heard these kind of things most in is language learning communities.
A lot of people seem to have this idea that there’s no point in doing something if you just can spend a little time per day on it. That doing something for five or ten or fifteen minutes is just meaningless when you don’t have thirty or sixty.
And guess what? I think that’s wrong.
I’m not going to give any lengthy arguments for why.
All I will do is give a personal and numerical example.
When I started learning Japanese(at least the time I actually stuck with it), I didn’t have the time or stamina for spending a lot of time on it left after doing everything else I had to.
So I spent fifteen minutes.
Fifteen minutes per day. Nothing more, nothing less.
Ten minutes of studying kanji and vocabulary with spaced repetitive software. Five…