Plain answers to the question every learner asks: how long will this take? Every figure in these guides comes from the U.S. Foreign Service Institute's data, adjusted for people studying on their own, and matches our calculators exactly.
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How Long Does It Take to Learn a Language?
How long it takes to learn a language, from FSI data adjusted for self-study: hours to B2 by difficulty, and timelines at 30, 60 or 90 minutes a day.
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How Many Hours Does It Take to Learn a Language?
How many hours it takes to learn a language to B2, language by language: FSI class hours next to realistic self-study hours, from Spanish to Japanese.
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How Long Does It Take to Learn Spanish?
How long it takes to learn Spanish to B2 as a self-taught English speaker, with timelines at 15 to 120 minutes a day and where most learners stall.
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How Long Does It Take to Reach B2?
What A2, B1, B2 and C1 mean in practice, how many study hours each CEFR level takes, and a calculator for your own timeline to B2 in your language.