Today I've got a very good question from Kasia and she asked "How much time do I need to spend every day to learn English?"

今天卡莎問我一個非常好的問題 : 我每天需要花多少時間去學習英語？

So how much time do you need to spend every day to learn English? It's a very good question.

每天究竟需要花多少時間去學習英語，這是個非常好的問題。

But it's a little bit of a difficult question to answer because it's kind of like the question "How long is a piece of string? " It's as long as you want it to be.

但回答這類型的問題是有點難度的，因為這種問題有點像「一條繩子有多長」，你想要它多長都可以。

Put another way: it really depends on your goals, your schedule, how much time do you have and how fast you want to improve, and how much you want to improve, and by when.

換句話說：這其實取決於你的目標、規劃、你有多少時間、多快、多想及何時進步。

So really you have to be very clear on your goals.

所以你必須對自己非常明確。

And this is something that I talk about a lot in the Doing English daily newsletter and in a lot of detail in Doing English Plus.

這就是我在學習英語的每日快訊中很常談到的事以及在學習英語 Plus 著墨的部分。

But the more specific you are about your goals, what you want to achieve and by when, the easier it will be to work out how much time you need to spend every day learning English.

但你對你的目標愈明確，你想達成什麼以及何時達成，愈容易算出一天中要花多少時間學習英語。

This said, here is my kind of general advice and this something I do myself with language learning.

話說回來，我來提供一個總體的建議，以及我在語言學習上做出什麼樣的準備。

Work out how much time you have each day to learn English. Then, divide that into four.

算出你一天中花多少時間學習英語，然後，將時間分成四等份。

Spend one quarter of your time studying English that is really focused, intense study.

將 1/4 的時間拿來學那些需要非常專心、認真去學的英文內容。

It could be using a grammar book, or a textbook or studying vocabulary or audio lessons or anything. It doesn't matter, however you do it.

可能是練習文法書、教科書或上聽力課程或任何東西，無所謂，做就對了。

But a quarter, twenty-five percent of your time should be very focused, very intense study.

但在這 1/4 、你時間中的 25%，你必須非常專注、認真學習。

And then for the other three quarters, the other seventy-five percent of the time just use English in whatever way you can.

接著另外 3/4 、75% 的時間就用任何你想要的方式使用英文。

Read books in English, read articles on the internet in English, read magazines, watch TV shows, watch Youtube videos, listen to podcasts, listen to audio books, anything.

閱讀英文書籍、閱讀網路上的英文文章、看雜誌、看電視節目、看 Youtube 上的影片、聽播客、聽有聲書，任何方式都可以。

It doesn't really matter, whatever you can do to just be using English.

用什麼方式使用英文真的無所謂，但你就是要使用英文。

And unlike your study time, try and make this very relaxed.

跟你的讀書時間不同的是，試著在使用英文的過程中保持輕鬆。

This is not about you kind of focusing and really studying, this is about you enjoying using English and just getting as much kind of exposure to English as you can.

使用英文的過程不需要專注以及真的去學習，這只是要讓你去享受使用英文以及盡可能暴露在英文底下。

So it's kind of a twenty-five, seventy-five percent balance.

就是一種百分之 25、百分之 75 的平衡。

Twenty-five percent very focused, very intense study followed by seventy-five percent of your time just very relaxed, enjoying using English, in whatever way you can.

百分之 25 的時間非常專注、認真學習，搭配著百分之 75 的時間用任何你想要的方式放鬆、享受使用英文。

You could be speaking to people, talking to friends, talking to people on the internet, on Facebook or you know, listening to the radio or whatever. It doesn't matter.

你可以跟他人講話、跟朋友說話、跟網路上、臉書上的人談話、或收聽廣播，都可以。什麼方式都無所謂。

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別忘了，如果你還沒準備好，你可以透過點擊影片下方連結加入學習英語的每日快訊。加入後，每天將會在收件夾中收到各種事物的秘訣以及建議。