in a language and my

point of view in regards to fluency is that

people just need to calm down about fluency already

Ok? it's like people are just like

first how long how long? How long is it going to take me to become fluent?

in, in whatever language. That's

like, a lot of people's main concert. It just reminds me as well

of a story that

about my, the days of my youth

I think I was three years old and my mother loves telling and retelling the

story just to show

people how impatient I was as a child.

I started judo

okay? When I was three years old and

my mother's right, I was never a patient child

Never. Um... So

You know, I went to like three, three lessons I think

and then I was already like well

was thinking when... When do I get this black belt?

You know, I've come three times

I want the black belt! And

so apparently I actually asked the "Sensei"

I went to the Sensei and I asked: "When do I get the black belt?"

You know, this is taking too long already! And

in... in my eyes (in my eyes)

I think that that's what a lot of people are

like in terms of learning languages: "When do I get the black belt?"

You know, when do I get fluent in the language? Two months? Three months? Five

months? A year?

A decade from now? First, there's so many factors

so many factors that are gonna

influence how long it's gonna take. Whether or not you already

know a language similar to the one that you're learning

because that's obviously going to help. For instance if you know Portuguese really

well

learning Spanish

will be, will take a lot less time than learning Chinese

it has a lot of similar vocabulary

Second how much effort you put into it

in the end if you're using really efficient methods

of course you may speed up the process

in terms of months and years, weeks, whatever

if you... it's also gonna depend on

how much... how many hours you put in

like every day or every week or whatever. If you're...

if you can only spend 15 minutes a day learning the language

well, it might take a while to get fluent in it

the if you have eight hours a day to

spend learning a language then hey

you may language in record time and become fluent. In the end, I think that the most

important is for people

to just enjoy the process, you know?

to relax a bit really and really be more zen

in terms of learning a language

and accept that it's not gonna happen overnight

it's going to take effort, it's going to take dedication and

but hey the most important thing is that it can be an enjoyable process and you

should make it

should make it an enjoyable process. That way you can learn faster anyway. You can become

fluent faster

if you enjoy the process than

if you hate it. If you don't like it and you think it's painful and you think: "I can't wait to

get done with this

finally learn this language". Then, you're not going to be learning as quickly.

That's.. That's the thing