nerdlinger wrote: ↑Sun Aug 06, 2023 2:44 pm
ផោមក្លិនស្អុយ wrote: ↑Sun Aug 06, 2023 10:06 am
If it took you 3 years for French, a language which shares components with English then I’d suggest you’d be looking at a much longer timeframe for learning Khmer.
For real, there’s close to zero overlap between English and Khmer in any of vocab, grammar, or writing. FSI reckon it takes twice as long to learn.
https://effectivelanguagelearning.com/l ... ifficulty/
I’m not a linguist and I don’t have experience learning other languages. But I reckon it probably took me the best part of 5 years before I was fully conversational. By that stage I was able to present in Khmer - but it still took me a heck of a long time to prepare.
I was functional but very basic within a year but it took a long time to smooth out a lot of the rough edges - of which many remain.
That said, after year 2 I was no longer being tutored and was just learning by living. So maybe someone with an ear for languages and full time studying could do much better.
The Mormons do well in language acquisition, I don’t know how they do it but they have an impressive grasp of the language in a very short period of time.