Have you learned a new language? How long did it take? How did you study?

Answer 1

i think learning a foreign language is a life-long process. i am a native english speaker, but am fluent in spanish. its taken me nearly 20 years and i am still learning. i teach spanish for a living.

i learned french too and that took several years and a lot of determination. i am not fluent, however.

time, desire, and studying...again, its a life-long process

Answer 2

I have been learning Russian for 4 years and still struggle with it. It is a beautiful language and I enjoy studying it. I took college level classes at a local Jr College and learned the basics over a 3 year period of time. Now I study on my own and belong to a Russian club and seek out friends who are native speakers. I understand quite a bit of the language but still struggle to speak it properly.

Answer 3

Well, there is no exact definition for what it means to say you have learned a language, it's very subjective. So when you say how long did it take, how long did it take till what? I will consider myself still learning German until I am on a native level, which will probably never come.

I've been learning for 5 semesters, I think I have good vocab, but then I think about all the words I don't know and realize how far I need to go, I can read novels in german, I can write academic papers, so far the longest is 4.5 pages, I still make mistakes though and speaking still comes difficult to me.

Answer 4

Esperanto

Three months and I was conversing like I had been talking with it for years.
Since then I now have friends (amikoj) in England, USA, Canada, Australia, Germany, Sweden, Ireland, Turkey, Iran, China, Japan and last but not least, South Africa. I talk to these people I would say on a monthly basis, (some more than others).
I'll be going to Germany in a month, and will be staying with an Esperanto Family.

I studied on-line at the site below and other free on-line courses.

Gxis

Answer 5

I was born in a three-lingual family.
It took 8 years to learn French, 6 years for English, 4 years for Italian, 2 years for Latin, 6 months for Portuguese, 7 month Bulgarian....

The more you know the easier you learn a new language. The time needed is also relative to a level of knowledge one wishes to attain.

Answer 6

Slim my native language is Irish, So we here at school do French and German. But have learnt Spanish it very easy language to learn. I want to learn Italian next.

Answer 7

I learned spanish 1 & 2 in high school each one was a year, but it was easy, I used flash cards

Answer 8

I learnt English at school in 4 years. I studied with my teacher and reference books.

Answer 9

Ive been studying Russian for awhile, I'll tell you what, if you go at it by just reading manuals and hard text, you'll get so bored and dissappointed that you'll just give up, try this new product, forget what its called, its something "stone" if that helps, but I guess it works really well..

Answer 10

it took me 5 years but i guess that a person that is diligent enough will learn it in 3 years