# How long does it take to learn German on a medium/semi-advanced level? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 25, 2019, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-does-it-take-to-learn-german-on-a-medium-semi-advanced-level/831528 "2019-03-25T21:31:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![JakeRS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3ab097/32.png) [@JakeRS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JakeRS)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2019, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-does-it-take-to-learn-german-on-a-medium-semi-advanced-level/831528/1 "2019-03-25T21:31:20Z")
This obviously depends mostly on where you’re from, what’s your native language,etc. , in my case I’m from a Slavic country in East Europe, however as you can see I speak English relatively good, I managed to learn Russian in just 2 years to a advanced level by mostly just watching movies and series instead of studying grammar books,etc. (though that’s related to me being slavic and languages being very similar), so if I wanted to learn German from scratch, how long would it take me if I actually studied instead of just watching tv like I did with Russian? I had German in my middle school and I learned some basics, numbers, my name is, I’m x years old and things like that, but I’m still not even at a A1 (lowest) level. ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2019, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-does-it-take-to-learn-german-on-a-medium-semi-advanced-level/831528/2 "2019-03-25T22:49:13Z")
The U.S. Foreign Service Institute says 750 class-hours (30 weeks with 25 hours of class per week, plus 3-4 hours of self-study per day). That is for a native speaker of English.