Robb Learns Chinese

This site is my personal journal of learning Mandarin from absolute zero through the ALG approach.

I also update my progress on Japanese, which I initially took a more traditional approach to, but have recently switched to input-only methods for a while.

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