Poll: How long do you think it takes to become fluent in English?
How long do you think it takes to become fluent in English? |
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Votes: 1211
Comments: 24
Added: September 2003
Comments:
| Willbut - 5th September 2003 17:26 |
| It does depend on what you mean by 'fluent'. If you mean perfect and indistinguishable from a native speaker, that could take a lifetime. If you mean capable of doing anything in the language, then it could only take a couple of years. It also depends on age- children can pick languages up in next to no time. |
| Italianbro - 23rd November 2003 00:53 |
| It depends also, and it is the most important thing, on the person itself and its capabilities on learning languages, and even more important with whoom he passes most of his time, and on many other things, it is therefore a quite complicated question to respond to. |
| willbut - 29th November 2003 00:07 |
| It also depends on age- the biggest factor. |
| JT - 15th January 2004 02:01 |
| I'm a native speaker and still learning. |
| EvEr - 6th December 2006 10:39 |
| I agree with italianbro, JT & Willbut. It depends on a lot of factors. |
| Trish - 19th December 2006 13:35 |
| Well, it'll take you a lifetime to be fluent in any language even if you are a Native speaker. Nobody's perfect. There is always a room for improvement. We sometimes commit slips without us noticing it. Some may be acceptable in American English and some may not in British English. There is no such thing as absolute level. |
| gardemarine - 11th January 2007 01:57 |
| To me, fluency means that when you start talking, other people don't think you're not a native speaker. |
| HORNY TEEN - 6th June 2007 00:45 |
| moocho libre.. i dont understand english, but im working on it. it took me about a day to become a fluently horny speaker!! |
| MEHRIN - 28th November 2007 12:47 |
| IT ALL DEPENDS ON THE PERSON.HIS BACKGROUND AND HIS MENTALPOWER TO GRASSP A LANGIAGE |
| farhin - 7th December 2007 21:27 |
| i said 2-3 years because i learnt English in that span of time. how competent your teacher is ,plays a huge role and then how much concentration you give this task . |
| TONY RIZK - 13th December 2007 12:32 |
| I NEED VERY MUCH TO BECOME FLUENT IN ENLGISH BUT WHAT'S THE WAY |
| Sandeep - 17th July 2008 11:06 |
| Age factor and the environment in which s/he lives, plays a vital role in it. |
| Ghalia - 14th October 2008 21:25 |
| i havespent 6 yearsof my life in high education studying english language and litrature. i have finally had my diploma but in vain i don't feel any success in that. |
| harshana - 18th November 2008 04:03 |
| I think it depends on how we improve our language habits |
| Ahmed AL Iraqi - 22nd April 2009 14:15 |
| I think a main thing to you have a fluency in English language is by practicing this language with people that are spoken English, this very well language |
| farhan abdi kaar - 9th May 2009 23:41 |
| it depends how you practice in your daily life and your efort |
| Masaonicoff - 19th May 2009 02:53 |
| It highly depends on the environment really. It is generally said that about 3,000hrs speeking is needed for young person to become fluent in some language. |
| delta4ce1 - 4th November 2009 03:02 |
| The word "fluent" is a relative term. It's meaning depends on what you mean by it. A good understanding of it would be that if you can make yourself understood concering a topic, then you are "fluent" to that degree. To become as fluent as a well educated native speaker will take you longer than it too that person because you'll use your own native language as a crutch so that you won't spend as much time and effort at the second language. No one can become so fluent in 1 or 2 years but you can learn to communicate well enough to handle most situations within a couple of years if you really try and follow a few simple, though not easy, common sense laws of learning. 1. Read a lot in the language you want to learn because you'll expand your vocabulary mostly that way. 2. speak in that language with every chance you get or can make. 3. If you can listen to the language and read a transcript of what you're listening to at the same time, that will be very useful. 4. Try to get someone, anyone, to let you teach them some of what you're learning because it will cause you to remember it better and longer. 5. Don't bite off more than you can chew. That is, study and memorize only a little at a time. If you try to take on too much, you'll become discouraged and you'll slow your progress. 6. Don't think about the time it's taking to reach your goal. Just work steadily day by day and try to make at least a little progress every day. 7. Don't quit. But, if you do, be sure you just rest a few days and then start again with a refreshed spirit. Quitters never win and winners never permanently quit. |
| Chinatown - 3rd December 2009 23:43 |
| I must agree that I have a small pen*s |
| Vinny - 30th May 2010 04:33 |
| According to the poll. I think that there are many people that do not understand what fluent means. |
| Susan Rose - 12th June 2010 07:44 |
| I moved from Costa Rica to the United States two years and a half ago. I didn't speak English that all, so I start taking free English classes. I started it from level 0, you know, learning the basics...Now I'm attending ESl classes at college, and I still learning. I feel fluently in my speaking , but not in my writing. Eventhought I still working on it. English is a very difficult Language, or at least harder than Spanish for sure. ;-) |
| Almafuerte - 23rd January 2011 05:28 |
| I learned written English by myself in just under a year when I was ~14, using nothing but the internet and movies. After I started speaking, it took me ~6 months to get my pronunciation to a decent level (working for an english-speaking employer, over the 'net). My native language is Spanish, and I'm starting to teach myself Mandarin right now. :) Learning new languages is Awesome. German is next, I really want to read Nietzsche in original language |
| Vishwas - 4th September 2011 13:53 |
| There are so many varieties of English that it is difficult to master them all. Even phonetics have different interpretations. |
| attraction - 12th January 2012 09:26 |
| I voted "2 - 3 years", but it depends on the bent, motivation and preparation of the student in question.. |
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