Anyone gained fluency in a second language?

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[keikiwai]

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[Barretboy]

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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.

[LionelHutz00]

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What kind of job are you looking for where you have to speak spanish?

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Finance, banking, or real estate.

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So did some other Texan tell you, "If you wanna get a jobby job in Miami, you gotta learn to speak the Spanish cause that's all they speak over there."

[bigt2k4]

I am quite fluent in jibberish

[highlife]

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[highlife]

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You ever searched for white collar jobs in the city of Miami? Or spoken extensively with natives? It's a requisite you ignorant fuq.

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Yes I have, and you are wrong.

[holland3r]

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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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Bah, I think I'm fluent in Japanese just from watching anime. Domo, Kilillan-san.

[Barretboy]

O-tearai wa doku desu ka?

[Jay Riall]

Yah, I've been told Japanese takes absolutely ages for English speaking people to learn. I imagine any Latin-based language is not going to take particularly long to learn (comparitively obv).