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Show Notes
- Wikipedia
- Benny Lewis, Fluent in 3 Months
- Steve Kaufmann, Lingq, The Linguist (YouTube)
- Language Learning Timelines (Foreign Service Institute, US Department of State)
- What are the hardest languages to learn (Voxy)
- Five Factors That Determine How Long it Takes to Learn a Foreign Language (Study and Go Abroad)
- How to learn any language in six months, Chris Lonsdale, TEDx (YouTube)
- Omniglot
- A short passage from a movie in which a young Chinese guy enters a bar in Ireland, speaks Irish, and… (YouTube)
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- Five Factors That Determine How Long it Takes to Learn a Foreign Language (Study and Go Abroad)
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