10,000 hours of practice

I read some articles that say that you cannot really master anything (such as painting, writing) unless you take training on it for at least 10,000 hours. So how many hours do you think have you put on English? I take the example of myself: As I mentioned in my previous notebook, I never tried my best to get English down. So even though it seemed I learnt English from the first grade of primary school, I really did spend too much time on it. I guessed it was about 1,000 hours before I went to the USA. In the America, even if I need to speak English everywhere, I do not speak it every moment. So it is about 4 hours per day. I had lived there for 2.5 years. So the hours is 3,500 hours. The total hours I spend on English is less than 5,000 hours. If I sincerely want to master English, I need to additional 5,500 hours. How many hours in a year? It is 8760 hours. If we reduce the necessary time that used for sleeping, eating and something that must have been done (presume that part of time is 14 hours), the available time is 3650 hours. We also need to reduce some days that are used for family meetings or friends' gatherings. After considering many other factors (such as use Facebook, read news or Sth), the available time is 3,000 hours. So, if I am a full time English learner, it costs me at least two years to be a real good one. So do not be hurried up, slow down. Never believe that your English will be a quick process, even if the English test scores might.

[Very good work.  You've used your time well, it seems.  Did you also include the time you spend dreaming in English? ;-)]