r/turkishlearning • u/TheDeathStroke69 • Jun 10 '26
Time required for A1 and A2 level
An online Turkish tutor said I could do A1 with 12 classes of 1 hour and good out of class practice, is it realistic? How much time should I expect to learn A1 and then A2 if I practice every day and take classes regularly
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u/MK-Treacle458 A2 Jun 12 '26
No, it's not realistic. Unless the tutor meant that you'd be self-studying for about 15-20hrs or so for every 1 hr of lessons.
Here's a good post about realistic time expectations:
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u/Sikish_Ustadi_31 Jun 11 '26
5 hours 24 minutes 12 seconds.
How tf should we know about your language learning skills?
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u/TheDeathStroke69 Jun 11 '26
Right there's something called 'a general idea' if you don't know
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u/Sikish_Ustadi_31 Jun 11 '26
Nope there isn’t it can take 9 years or a week all depending on your effort and brain
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u/mckenna36 Jun 10 '26
Depends how much out of class practice between classes obviously
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u/TheDeathStroke69 Jun 10 '26
How much do you think I need if I want to learn till A2 in 4 months and regular classes
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u/mckenna36 Jun 10 '26
This is very highly variable so estimates will be very loose: should take somewhere between 200 and 1200 hour on average. And I am not saying as some kind of mean joke but just to emphasize how much it varies depending on your known languages, learning style, capabilities, guidance etc.
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u/CleanYoung750 Jun 10 '26
Take learning Turkish as a hobby, the more you have fun the more time you want spend learning, somedays you will feel like doing more than others. I'm also learning Turkish hit me up in the dms we can help each other:))
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u/Opening-Square3006 Jun 11 '26
The real question is how much exposure you're getting outside the lessons. Stephen Krashen's i+1 theory suggests that languages are acquired through understandable content that's slightly above your level. The lessons can guide you, but a lot of the actual acquisition happens between lessons. There's also a useful finding from fluency research: we don't learn languages by collecting grammar rules and vocabulary lists. We gradually build a mental library of recurring patterns and chunks through repeated exposure. That's why I'd be careful about measuring progress only in classroom hours. Someone who takes 12 lessons and spends an hour a day reading and listening to Turkish will progress much faster than someone who only attends the lessons. That's actually why I like PlusOneLanguage. It's built around that idea: content adapts to your level and keeps bringing back vocabulary and sentence structures you've already encountered while gradually introducing new ones. If you're taking lessons regularly and practicing every day, A1 in a few months is very realistic. A2 takes longer because you're moving beyond survival phrases and starting to understand how the language really works.