https://www.hackingchinese.com/the-10000-hour-rule-blood-sweat-and-tears/ A better way of learning Mandarin Sun, 30 Mar 2025 00:46:58 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.hackingchinese.com/the-10000-hour-rule-blood-sweat-and-tears/#comment-130725 Sun, 30 Mar 2025 00:46:58 +0000 http://molndrake.nyvald.se/?p=1191#comment-130725 […] https://www.hackingchinese.com/the-10000-hour-rule-blood-sweat-and-tears/ […]

]]> https://www.hackingchinese.com/the-10000-hour-rule-blood-sweat-and-tears/#comment-127453 Mon, 20 Jan 2025 11:21:07 +0000 http://molndrake.nyvald.se/?p=1191#comment-127453 […] The important thing to understand is that mastery requires a truly massive time investment, far exceeding a normal university degree or the ten thousand hours Malcolm Gladwell talks about. […]

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]]> https://www.hackingchinese.com/the-10000-hour-rule-blood-sweat-and-tears/#comment-111050 Fri, 25 Aug 2023 18:02:20 +0000 http://molndrake.nyvald.se/?p=1191#comment-111050 […] If you want to be able to use Chinese professionally and be able to communicate about a wide range of topics in both spoken and written Chinese, without language being a major issue, you should expect to spend at least ten thousand hours. That’s full-time studying for five years, or a lifetime if you spread it out much more. This estimate is only meant as a baseline, because you would need considerably more than that to approach a near-native level, but you can get away with much less if the topics you need to deal with are limited. I wrote a bit more about investing a lot of time into learning Chinese here: The 10,000 hour rule – Blood, sweat and tears. […]

]]> https://www.hackingchinese.com/the-10000-hour-rule-blood-sweat-and-tears/#comment-50804 Mon, 12 Aug 2019 08:32:34 +0000 http://molndrake.nyvald.se/?p=1191#comment-50804 Great post and you are right that it’s 90% plus effort, endurance and 10% Talent. It sure takes a lot of time, but I believe it is possible to shorten the timeframe from 10000 hours – if you can transform some of the ”learning” hours into pleasure such as listening to music, watching films for one or thinking in the language time while day dreaming (on a train or during commute) or while sleeping and dreaming the language (better). I have found this to be possible (dreaming) quite early with some foreign languages but have so far not got there in Chinese due to the high hurdle.
Thanks for you blog, it is truly motivational not to give up with learning this tricky language.

]]> https://www.hackingchinese.com/the-10000-hour-rule-blood-sweat-and-tears/#comment-46906 Mon, 22 Apr 2019 10:50:57 +0000 http://molndrake.nyvald.se/?p=1191#comment-46906 […] and talented.Article one: Can you become fluent in Chinese in three months? Article two: The 10,000 hour rule – Blood, sweat and tearsThis is a summary article from my YouTube Live Stream. If you want to watch the full unedited […]

]]> https://www.hackingchinese.com/the-10000-hour-rule-blood-sweat-and-tears/#comment-29316 Thu, 16 Nov 2017 11:01:05 +0000 http://molndrake.nyvald.se/?p=1191#comment-29316 […] people say that it takes over 10,000 hours and based on my experience I would say it takes even more to really perfect […]

]]> https://www.hackingchinese.com/the-10000-hour-rule-blood-sweat-and-tears/#comment-1072 Sat, 22 Nov 2014 12:57:48 +0000 http://molndrake.nyvald.se/?p=1191#comment-1072 Now that the gray winter days have arrived I’m spending 8-10 hours a day learning Chinese. In the spring and summer period I only have an hour or two to spend. Your November project of intensive reading is really what I was looking for. I recently purchased all volumes of the Chinese version of Harry Potter. In January I can start with my reading of Vol.1. Yout 10 000 hours article was very good.

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