Talk:This is Madness! Chapter I: Roma Delenda Est (Map Game)/@comment-38730394-20200313091930/@comment-34257708-20200313132657

You're not learning the language the traditional way, you're hearing it and trying to figure out what they're saying. Irish (which is a Gaelic Language), takes 4,400 hours of learning, though one will be able to speak it well enough to communicate in most situations with 1,100 hours. Keeping in mind that you have no tutor, and you just have to learn by hearing, we can bump the time up to 2,200 (A conservative estimate). Divide that by 5 hours a day, and we get 440 days, much more than one year. Now, you'll probably be able to speak somewhat conversationally within by may/april (maybe?). So just remember that you're still very much learning the language, and the challenges that come with that. Learning should be quicker afterwards, as you'll be able to ask the locals stuff for help, and it's mostly just more complicated words, phrases, accent, and grammatical structure.