Dan Sawyer
Dan Sawyer answered

The "exploratory and practice" subjects,( the Performing Arts), are not even mentioned. Those subjects balance and open up the academics and solve Schank's dilemma. In that he ignores them, he imitates no one so much as the economists who decry the Performance Arts as devoid of "utility." Schank's field, Cognitive Science, is now arriving at … Read more

Dan Sawyer
Dan Sawyer answered

If we can devote 10 hours a day to learning a language, then we will need 48 days to achieve a basic level of fluency and 72 days difficult. Excluding weekends, this equals two or three months. If you spend 5 hours a day, then it will take twice as long.
Is ten hours a day … Read more