Difference between revisions of "Learning Languages"

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* You're immersed in the language daily
 
* You're immersed in the language daily
 
* None of the above, but you're studying diligently from a book daily and many hours.
 
* None of the above, but you're studying diligently from a book daily and many hours.
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There may be modifiers if you have more than one of the above, whether your intelligence score is any good, and whether you have a crazy Read Languages score.  (Other things might apply, at the discretion of the DM, of course.)

Revision as of 14:48, 2 May 2005

Halifax's come up with a guideline for learning new languages which is thus:

 3% of a language per month.

You can sort of communicate after 2-3 months. After a year you can communicate ok. 1.5-2 years and you can haggle. After that, you're pretty fluent.

This applies if you're actively learning a language, that is one of the following:

  • You have a teacher
  • You're immersed in the language daily
  • None of the above, but you're studying diligently from a book daily and many hours.

There may be modifiers if you have more than one of the above, whether your intelligence score is any good, and whether you have a crazy Read Languages score. (Other things might apply, at the discretion of the DM, of course.)