919: How to Invest in Your Children at a Very Young Age, Part 8: Develop Multilingualism
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FSI Language Learning Timelines
- The Foreign Service Institute (FSI) has extensive experience teaching languages to English speakers.
- They offer publicly available charts on state.gov that rank languages by learning time.
- These timelines are based on weeks of instruction and class hours, categorizing languages from one to five.
- FSI defines proficiency as achieving a "professional working proficiency", equivalent to a speaking and reading score of three on their scale.
- Timelines are averages and actual learning time varies based on individual factors.
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