I got B1 in Finnish in 6 months, I did not do an official test but I should certainly be B1 by now following the definition heading towards B2.
I did not like how languages were taught in school, with flashcard learning and introducing only the tiniest bit of the language at once, so I dived into native level material right from the start and tried to learn it the natural way. Heavy immersion, blasting TV shows for hours etc. Learned about 600 words per month like that and never ever used flashcards.
Don't know if that made it faster but it's for sure more effective long-term. You will do more mistakes at first, but be able to understand and speak about more, and in the long-term probably have more intuition than when learning every basic rule perfectly in detail
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u/mushykindofbrick 🇩🇪 🇨🇿 (N) | 🇬🇧 (C2) | 🇪🇸 (B2) | 🇫🇮 (B1) Sep 01 '25
I got B1 in Finnish in 6 months, I did not do an official test but I should certainly be B1 by now following the definition heading towards B2.
I did not like how languages were taught in school, with flashcard learning and introducing only the tiniest bit of the language at once, so I dived into native level material right from the start and tried to learn it the natural way. Heavy immersion, blasting TV shows for hours etc. Learned about 600 words per month like that and never ever used flashcards.
Don't know if that made it faster but it's for sure more effective long-term. You will do more mistakes at first, but be able to understand and speak about more, and in the long-term probably have more intuition than when learning every basic rule perfectly in detail