How long does it take to read Intensive Course in Tongan?
Eric B. Shumway
Intensive Course in Tongan by Eric B. Shumway takes about 13 hours 56 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 13 hours 56 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1971. 760 pages, about 209,000 words.
28 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 23 hours 13 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 13 hours 56 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 8 hours 43 minutes |
The page count is the median across 3 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
This book is helpful/useful to those who are interested in learning the Tongan Language and learning the Tongan sentence structures, grammatical sentences, its provides Lessons that makes you form simple, to medium, to advance phrases. The book was written by a Former LDS (Latter-day saints) missionary serving in Tonga, he wrote this book to help other missionaries to talk to locals in Tongan. The book helps alot with conversing with others, and can also make you write stories and more, and it also provides reccomendations that will help you learn and remember the Tongan Language permenantly. This book also explains extras, such as pronounciation, and explains how "locals" or the "The people Tonga" pronounce their own words, the book will definitely advance your tongan. If your born of tongan decendants, and cant speak the Tongan Language, this book is a must-read.
Subjects: English, Polynesian languages
