so this video isn't really only about learning languages but there is this concept in language learning known as the intermediate plateau essentially it's when you start reaching a level where making progress becomes much harder to notice compared to when you were still a beginner and the reason this happens is because when you get started you obviously don't really know anything yet so everything you learn is going to have a significant impact on your overall comprehension of the language for example as a beginner you can easily double your vocabulary every few weeks but as you get more advanced learning a new word is just going to become another drop in the bucket and most likely the words you learn now aren't going to be anywhere near as common as the words you learned in the beginning this can create the illusion that you aren't making any progress which can be really demotivating as it may seem as if your efforts are in vain but well in reality you obviously still are making progress probably at the same or even at a higher rate compared to when you got started but you just don't notice it and another issue is that people who start learning a language for the first time you should have a pretty hard time imagining exactly how long learning a language is going to take which is why on the first day even reaching the first month of learning already seems like distant future and when you start talking about the first year or two most people feel like it's so far away that they'd probably be fluent by them but often what ends up happening instead is that the year goes by and they still feel like they are nowhere near reaching fluency which often leads to disillusionment and even quitting and that's because reality didn't meet their expectations if they had seen the intermediate plateau coming and had known how long learning a language actually takes they probably wouldn't even have started unless they would have in which case things like that wouldn't have hit him as hard and this is exactly why i find managing expectations so important and of course this doesn't only apply to learning things but also creating projects there's this saying in programming that the last one percent is the NUMBER_TOKEN which basically means that when you feel like your project is NUMBER_TOKEN complete most likely the last one percent will take just as long if not even longer than the first NUMBER_TOKEN this is also sometimes referred to as meat development hell which is very similar to the intermediate plateau in the sense that making noticeable progress will become slower than it was in the beginning and turns out that you need to do a lot more work than you initially expected and honestly there really isn't much you can do about it you either have the choice to keep on going as you did before or give up completely and abandon what you had worked so hard on for all this time well actually there is one more thing you can do which is to work more and harder than ever before in order to make your progress more noticeable which isn't easy but can actually reignite your passion for what you're doing and save you from slipping away i always like googling how long does it take to learn something and very often i'd see people mentioning the NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN hour rule which states that it takes around NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN hours to master something well luckily you can achieve quite a lot in much less than that but i like the fact that the time is counted in hours rather than in months or years and that's because people often ask about how many years does it take to become fluent but when it comes to such long time skills there is a
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