User talk:93.193.96.139

Hi,

I would appreciate if you wouldn't remove my contributions to the article on Language Learning difficulty for English Speakers just because you personally don't agree even though I gave a reference. It's true that noone becomes fluent in Esperanto in 150 hours.. Nobody becomes fluent in any of the languages in the times listed on that page. Those estimates were really just for how long it would take to have a good feel for the language and 'basic proficiency' (that being, the ability to navigate the language with the use of a dictionary). If you see the link I posted, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto#Education, you will clearly see that it says:

2000 hours studying German = 1500 hours studying English = 1000 hours studying Italian = 150 hours studying Esperanto.

On the Wikibooks page, it says students need 750-900 class hours for basic proficiency in German. Presumably they would also then do some private study and also make use of German from time to time, so I figured that 150 hours of Esperanto = 750-900 hours of German class time as was listed on the page.

I was only trying to offer some insight. Learning Esperanto helped me to on my quest to learn other languages and it is a well-known technique among polyglots. For example: http://www.fluentin3months.com/2-weeks-of-esperanto/ (I would think that 2 weeks is not long enough for most people, but after all, that particular author was already a master polyglot).

I will add this to the discussion page and undo your revert. If you still think my contribution was out of place, you can respond on the discussion page. Kajaeo (discuss • contribs) 03:01, 7 February 2011 (UTC)