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Oh no! That looks painful!
Take good care of yourself! 😘

Bravo !! 🎉🎉🍾🥂

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Hope it's not too painful. Get well soon. 😘

This is heartbreaking to read. I'm so sorry this is happening to you. Unfortunately, those who are forcing life-changing decisions on others are often fit people who are not struggling.

This is a study by the University of Liège in Belgium.
Interestingly, the car was by far the most named object in this group.

The aim of the study was to determine whether there's a link between object personification and the practice of giving personal names to objects.

Merci à toi 🙏💜

Here's a paper on the influence of anthropomorphism on giving personal names to objects.
orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/...

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Chart showing the number of weeks atneeded for an English speaker to learn different languages to general professional proficiency, ranging from 24-30 weeks to 88 weeks, with intermediate groups of 36 weeks and 44 weeks.

Similar charts ranking languages by "difficulty" in function of the time needed to reach "proficiency" are regularly being shared on social media.
www.economist.com/graphic-deta...

Here's why they are to be taken with a mountain of salt 🧵

#langsky

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Sorry to read that. Sending you big hugs. 🌸💕 My DMs are always open if you need to talk. Your face shines ✨✨. Pink suits you well. 💜💜

Anne L’Huillier won the Nobel prize in Physics today in the middle of class, and carried on with her lecture after. Dedication! 😃🧪

Might give this a try. 😀

As always, please read the entire thread.
This isn't about "intensive being helpful" or not, but about the terrible way languages are being ranked in that chart. Of course, intensive or full immersion is great under specific circumstances, but generalizations and creating false expectations aren't.

6) Conclusion: more important than these time criteria is finding the method (or teacher) that fits the learner. There are a myriad of variables that can slow down or speed up your language learning that are NOT related to the supposed or perceived difficulty or easiness of a language.
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5) Every language journey is unique to the language learner and these comparisons merely serve to make language learners feel defeated, because they can never meet those time frames (for good reasons!)
#langsky

4) What is intended here by "general professional proficiency"? Fluency in reading and writing? Fluency in listening ? Fluency in speaking only? Fluency and proficiency in themselves are open to many interpretations.

3) There's absolutely no rational explanation for how languages have been grouped here, but maybe more importantly, there's absolutely no comparison possible between individual language learners, even having the same L1, because every language learner comes with a diff set of skills & difficulties.

2) Many factors other than the first language come into play:
- other languages known (have you learned other case, ergative, tone, or agglutinative languages before?)
- method(s) used,
- avalaible resources (e.g. Mongolian vs Turkish),
- emotional bond with the language
- etc.
#langsky

1) Hardly anybody studies a language "full-time" (as stated), i.e. 20-30hrs/week. It's not recommended either, bec. your brain needs time to rewire itself. So, brought back to hrs, "30 weeks" = in fact 600-900 hrs, which, at a rate of 3 to 4 hrs/w amounts to 3 to 5 yrs, which seems more realistic.

Chart showing the number of weeks atneeded for an English speaker to learn different languages to general professional proficiency, ranging from 24-30 weeks to 88 weeks, with intermediate groups of 36 weeks and 44 weeks.

Similar charts ranking languages by "difficulty" in function of the time needed to reach "proficiency" are regularly being shared on social media.
www.economist.com/graphic-deta...

Here's why they are to be taken with a mountain of salt 🧵

#langsky

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