How To Learn A Language In
20 Minutes Per Day
How long should you practice a new language every day? We sat down with one of our linguistics experts here at Babbel to find out why our app gets you speaking a new language in only 20 minutes of study per day.
MAR 25, 2018
Karoline Schnur, linguistics expert at Babbel
As you might expect in a language learning company, almost everyone who works at Babbel is multilingual. I say almost because I’m not one of them (yet). Like many native English speakers, my attempts to learn a second language in school were in vain. I have now reached an intermediate conversational level in German, but it’s nothing compared to my international colleagues. Every day I hear people walking around the office speaking dozens of different languages, code switching in conversations with different colleagues, and translating their funny idioms into English. But even among the serial language learners at Babbel, you’ll never find someone poring over French 101 textbooks, cramming themselves to fluency.
That’s because the central principle of the Babbel language learning approach is that people should spend about 20 minutes per day studying a new language. This is surprisingly short compared to the length of time university students are expected to study a language nightly (~90 minutes). So how are people at Babbel picking up new languages even though they’re putting in less time than I spent cramming Spanish verb conjugation in high school? I sat down with one of Babbel’s linguistic experts, Karoline Schnur, to find out how 20 minutes of learning per day is all you need to become proficient in a new language.
The Babbel Approach
https://www.babbel.com/en/magazine/learn-language-20-minutes?bsc=engmag-a681-20minperday-xx-xo-can-tb&btp=1_can_tab_xx&utm_campaign=+XX_CANALL_gEN_cXO_20MinPerDay&utm_medium=CON&utm_source=Taboola&utm_term=kano-womensarticle
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