and I really like translating into Korean. This is the fun part when I translate into Korean and I check it and it's right. I get a buzz out of that. I feel as if I've scored. It's my reward when I've translated right. It gets really addictive.
I think this is what readers of my book will also feel. They will feel they score when they translate right. They will feel really encouraged and get a sense of achievement.
I think that's why some people are addicted to learning languages - they become polyglots. They get a high from being able to say a complete sentence in the target language.
At the rate that I am learning, I am actually learning 100 sentences a day. That's about 3,000 sentences a month. In three months, that's 9,000 sentences. That's a lot. So in about three months, you can learn a language!
That's astonishingly quick.
No wonder those people are fluent after three years, four years. Obviously they are using the right methods to learn a language. Three years is plenty of time to become fluent in a TL. If you study three or four hours everyday, by the end of one year, you will have learned 12x30x60~20,000 phrases. That's enough to be fluent. More than enough. You would then spend the next two years practicing what you know and learning more words, phrases and so on. You might even pick up reading and writing.
It's a matter of getting those 10,000 chunks down. It's not that hard to do that.
Maybe about 10% of the book would be TL to NL but 90% would be NL to TL.
I think that's how the weighting goes.
