This is a plan, not a completed streak.
Five to eight hours a week is enough to take the project seriously, but only if those hours include more than pressing “complete” on course lessons. I also want to learn Spanish for my own life, not merely produce a review.
The five-hour foundation
My normal week will aim for roughly five focused hours:
| Work | Planned time | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Three Rocket Spanish sessions | 2 hours 15 minutes | New instruction and guided practice |
| Two recall sessions | 1 hour | Retrieve earlier material without reopening it first |
| Two short speaking sessions | 1 hour | Shadowing, spontaneous answers, and correction |
| Canary listening | 30 minutes | Build familiarity with voices from Gran Canaria |
| Log and weekly review | 30 minutes | Record hours, problems, and what remains usable |
Total: approximately 5 hours 15 minutes.
The optional three hours
When energy and schedule allow, I can add up to about three more hours:
- a session with a Spanish-speaking tutor;
- a longer review of weak material;
- an extra listening session;
- a carefully defined real-world task;
- recording a checkpoint or explaining the week on video.
These are optional. The project should not collapse because one week cannot reach eight hours.
What counts as a study hour?
A logged hour must be focused and timed. Passive background audio, editing a YouTube video, writing an article, checking analytics, and managing the website do not count as Spanish study.
That distinction matters. This project has two separate workloads:
- learning Spanish;
- documenting and publishing the experiment.
Only the first belongs in the public study-hour total.
How I will protect the learning goal
The course is not merely raw material for content. If a video deadline competes with an essential review or speaking session, the Spanish session wins. Publishing can be late; the learning record should remain honest.
What may change
The weekly mix will probably evolve after the first 10 logged hours. If recall is weak, more time should move from new lessons into review. If understanding improves but speaking stalls, more time should move toward unscripted responses and tutor work.
Any meaningful change will be dated and explained rather than quietly rewriting the plan.