# Five Hundred Hours

[You can learn an "easy" language in ~500 hours](https://www.state.gov/foreign-language-training/).

500 hours is ~60 workdays (8 hours each).

If you [scrounge for Between Time](/between-time) every day, you can accumulate 500 hours quickly:

| per day    | # of days |
| ---------- | --------- |
| 90 minutes | 11 months |
| 80 minutes | 1 year    |
| 70 minutes | 1.2 years |
| 60 minutes | 1.4 years |
| 50 minutes | 1.6 years |
| 40 minutes | 2.0 years |
| 30 minutes | 2.7 years |
| 20 minutes | 4.1 years |
| 10 minutes | 8.2 years |

There are plenty of rewarding ways to spend 500 hours:
- learn a foreign language      
- earn 3 months of full-time wages
- learn how to build websites
- change careers
- read 60 books
- listen to 750 music albums
- create an art portfolio
- write a novel                 
- watch 40 television seasons
- lose or gain substantial weight
- create an app
- write and record a music album
- build a basic video-game
- learn a musical instrument    
- launch a business              
- direct a short-film
- watch 250 films