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1.) Genuinely, do you seriously argue that someone who took French for a year two classes a week would wrote something much better then that? Because from what I see, this is actually pretty motivating and good result after a year of painless causual learning.

2.) I really don't understand why your benchmark would be formal B1 test after a year. That is too high of an expectation. Most people do not reach it with the usual "a lesson with tutor a week or two classes a week in a year either.

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The post in French did not mention how long they had been studying. That came in a later comment, so that wasn't part of my thinking. I think you're right that B1 in a year would require more work than a casual 2 classes per week.

So I wasn't giving B1 as a benchmark for any amount of time, because no amount of time was given in the post I responded to. I was just answering the question about the quality of their French, since they had asked that in their post.