Over the period from Jan 22 last year to Jan 21 this year, I’ve calculated the total time spent learning Japanese.
It’s 613 hours, which is equivalent to 1 hour and 40 minutes a day on average.
I’ve always felt there was no time to learn Japanese, yet the total amount was quite a lot.
Out of those 613 hours, 62% (about 367 hours) was spent listening to or watching something while multitasking such as doing the dishes or taking a shower.
Since the priority for learning Japanese is pretty much at the bottom of my daily task list, it was only about 30 minutes a day that I could really focus on what I was learning. Yet, accumulating it for 365 days makes it almost 180 hours.
I haven’t been able to spend as much time on Japanese as I wanted to and therefore I can’t speak Japanese as well as I would like to. Still, I would rather be grateful that there are more words I can understand and more phrases I can express now.
Given its priority, it’s great. Totally great.