Mother tongue is Swedish, and I had done some school Spanish when I was younger. However I feel the Spanish was more in the way than actually helping me at the time.
I think french is estimated to require about 600h of study, or something like that, for an English speaker, and that is probably a bit more than what I did. But it seems ball-park right.
Edit: Na, thinking about it, I think I did do about 600h, maybe even a bit more.
Yes, maybe. I would say maybe 4h per day on week days, and some more hours on weekend. And then the last couple of weeks I spent even more than that, maybe upwards 10 hours, or more. But then I was at an immersive course, where we where only allowed to speak french.
When I travelled France I also lived a couple of days with an old retired wine consultant. He only spoke french, and when I got back from day trips in Provence, I would sit with him and just talk and drink wine. That also helped a lot.
In the few years I've been studying Spanish, I've found that the (take your pick of) wine/mezcal/sidra always helps a lot with my ability to speak.
This comment is certainly a bit tongue-in-cheek but being able to relax the nerves a bit and just give it a good effort sometimes goes a long way. Sounds like landing with a wine consultant who doesn't speak your native tongue is about as good a scenario as possible!
I think french is estimated to require about 600h of study, or something like that, for an English speaker, and that is probably a bit more than what I did. But it seems ball-park right.
Edit: Na, thinking about it, I think I did do about 600h, maybe even a bit more.