How long will it take to learn a language fluently?

Question

If I learn it for an hour a day.

Answer 1

It took me between a month to 4 months to learn the following languages from books & friends who speak the languages.

Mandarin - less than a month

Tagalog - less than 2 mths

Hindi - 2 mths

Thai - less than 3 mths

Tamil - about 3 mths

My next language to master will be Maori but I just cant seemed to find any language book on Maori.

It all up to your interest in learning the languages. Sometimes we may have the interest, but dont have the native speakers to practice talking the language to.

Answer 2

It depends on you... it took me over three yrs to speak french fluently...

Answer 3

hahahaha 10 years lmao try to practice more i learned spanish for 3hrs  a day for like half of year oh i also did homework and stuff lol so like 5hr a day  

Answer 4

It depends on 1) how much of a knack you have for languages, and 2) what learning program you're using.

I would recommend Rosetta Stone software if they have the language you're looking for.

Immersion in the culture is VERY helpful in learning a language. Living in a country where they speak it will force you to learn - and rapidly. But in the meantime, it's really up to you.

Answer 5

It depends I just took spanish 1 and I can't speak it very fluently but someone else in my class can speed through normal sentances in spanish

Answer 6

I'm an American who moved to Sweden to when I was 49 years old. I had started to study the basics of Swedish - learning basic words and phrases, building my vocabulary, and studying grammar - a few months before I actually moved. It was basically impossible to learn to pronounce words until I actually lived in Sweden, because I had very limited opportunities to practice "real" conversation (only when my fiancé would call and try to say a few words to me in Swedish).

  For me, and for most adults, I would say that it took at least a couple of years before I truly felt fluent enough in Swedish to be able to handle most conversations. Once in Sweden, I was able to attend government-paid Swedish lessons aimed at immigrants.  So, being among Swedes, and landing a full-time job soon after I arrived made a huge difference.  Children pick up a new language much, much faster, however.

  There's a lot more to being "fluent" than just knowing a bunch of words. You have to nail the pronounciation pretty well, otherwise people don't have any idea what you're saying. The grammar is often the trickiest part of learning a new language. And, even harder - each language has its own "secret language" - that is, nicknames, word play, and expressions that can take years to learn. I've been in Sweden now for almost 7 years, and I still learn something new at least once a day.

Answer 7

That depends on how motivated you are.  What will you use it for?  Do you want to be able to read and write only, or speak it too?  Some languages are relatively easy to learn to speak, but have complex writing systems.  Other languages are hard to learn to speak, but may have easy writing systems (Latin alphabet, for instance).  Also, it depends on the language.  For instance, if you're a native speaker of English, French will be easier than Chinese.  Russian will take longer than French, as will Arabic.

Answer 8

Depends how good your teacher is, how much extra studying you do etc.

I live in the UK, I spent about 6 hours working on languages per week for 6 years, and I still wouldn't call myself fluent in German but I'm quite good.

The best way to learn is to go and visit or live in the country.

Answer 9

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Answer 10

well if you are living in that country, it should only be a few months or so

after say 6 years of learning a language at school, people are almost fluent

but then again, some people can't even speak their first language english very well even though they have been learning it all their lives

Answer 11

1.try to think in that language.also try to write n live in related environment.

2.reading n speaking r gud things for learning a language.

3.use macromedia softwares for learning that language.

4.its all depend on your try.u cant learn a language in some days.

Answer 12

It depends of many things

How fast you learn.

How well you can reproduce what you hear.

Are you immersed in the culture/country that speaks the language you want to learn?  For how long?

How dedicated are you to become fluent?

How similar is that language to the one(s) you already speak?

Are you willing to keep trying, despite people laughing at your accent, people ignoring you for your bad start?  etc., etc.?

There are too many ifs, how's, etc.

If you keep at it, practice at every chance you get, be really dedicated, immerse yourself in that country ... in four to five years you should be in pretty good shape ... however, you probably will never lose your foreign accent.  To become really fluent, you may need 6-10 years.

Have fun!  :)