What if We Didn't Need 600 Hours in a Year?

If we made Spanish 1, 2, 3, and 4 the norm in our high schools rather than Spanish 1 and 2, I think most of our students would probably get close to fluency. Because their teachers are doing their best to use good methodology, good materials, etc., they just don't have enough time. If you did this during, for a one hour period, every school day for 12 years, what could a language teacher do with 2,160 hours? Well, I think pretty easily the student could learn something like Spanish, 600 hours.