Robb Learns Chinese

This site is my personal journal of learning Mandarin from absolute zero. My first 150 hours were pure input based on the ALG approach, and since then using Anki to mine and reinforce sentence patterns.

I also update my progress on Japanese, which is the first foreign language I have reached conversation fluency in.

Roadmap

Based on page 2 of the Dreaming Spanish roadmap

Distant Language Time to Fluency (hours per day)
Level	Hours needed	1	2	3	4	5	6
3	300	10 mo, 0 days	5 mo, 0 days	3 mo, 10 days	2 mo, 15 days	2 mo, 0 days	1 mo, 20 days
4	600	1 yr, 7 mo, 25 days	10 mo, 0 days	6 mo, 20 days	5 mo, 0 days	4 mo, 0 days	3 mo, 10 days
5	1200	3 yr, 3 mo, 15 days	1 yr, 7 mo, 25 days	1 yr, 1 mo, 5 days	10 mo, 0 days	8 mo, 0 days	6 mo, 20 days
6	2000	5 yr, 5 mo, 25 days	2 yr, 9 mo, 0 days	1 yr, 10 mo, 2 days	1 yr, 4 mo, 15 days	1 yr, 1 mo, 5 days	11 mo, 3 days
7	3000	8 yr, 2 mo, 20 days	4 yr, 1 mo, 10 days	2 yr, 9 mo, 0 days	2 yr, 20 days	1 yr, 7 mo, 25 days	1 yr, 4 mo, 15 days

English -> Spanish Time to Fluency (hours per day)
Level	Hours needed	1	2	3	4	5	6
3	150	5 mo, 0 days	2 mo, 15 days	1 mo, 20 days	1 mo, 8 days	1 mo, 0 days	25 days
4	300	10 mo, 0 days	5 mo, 0 days	3 mo, 10 days	2 mo, 15 days	2 mo, 0 days	1 mo, 20 days
5	600	1 yr, 7 mo, 25 days	10 mo, 0 days	6 mo, 20 days	5 mo, 0 days	4 mo, 0 days	3 mo, 10 days
6	1000	2 yr, 9 mo, 0 days	1 yr, 4 mo, 15 days	11 mo, 3 days	8 mo, 10 days	6 mo, 20 days	5 mo, 17 days
7	1500	4 yr, 1 mo, 10 days	2 yr, 20 days	1 yr, 4 mo, 15 days	1 yr, 10 days	10 mo, 0 days	8 mo, 10 days