English is like one night stuff?

[Anonymous]

Once my ESL teacher told me "Keep studying and you will be surprised someday in the future that you can speak English when you wake up." Is this true? I have been studying English for half years and have accumulated thousands vocabularies, but I still don't have that sensation.
How long would it take me, an ordinary person with no extraordinary talent, to be able to understanding every word appear on regular TV?

 

[Tdol]

It does take a while, but you should be able to follow the TV easily within a couple of years of starting. ;-)