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If so how did you do it and how long did it take? I want to move to Miami, but it's necessary to know Spanish to get a job. I've had a lot of classes in highschool, and plan on taking classes in college this next year, but I'm no where near fluencey....Realistically what is it going to take?

[/ QUOTE ] living in japan for almost 9 months now, going to school for 5 hours a day and have a job

I'm no where even near fluency.

If you want true fluency, about 15 years. To simply get very good and understand all of tv, about.. maybe 2-3 years if you study.

But it's different depending on the hardness of the language

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Interesting. I hear japanese is MUCH more difficult to pick up however.

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Not at all. It's one of the easier languages to learn to speak. I've been studying for about 6 months and I can hold a conversation pretty well.

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wow that's ignorant.

yeah it's not hard to pick up enough to hold a conversation.

I'd say 3-4 months and you can open/hold a conversation for a long period of time in any real social setting.

When you watch the news in Japanese, how much do you understand, honestly?

right now I understand about 95% of dramas and 80% of japanese news.
Keep in mind, I go to a japanese language school in tokyo, 5 hours a day, and I have a job completely in japanese, for 8 hours a day.