<p>Those who are fluent in a language (not your native one), how long did it take to become fluent? What language(s)?</p>
<p>eng n hindi (native)</p>
<p>grew up learning both together so yeah.....fluent at both......
tried learnign chinese now but suck at it.... :p</p>
<p>I used to be rather fluent in american sign language (took three years of it) but in the past couple years I haven't practiced...</p>
<p>any online material for language learning?</p>
<p>bbc lang learnign, it tends to sume u know some stuff but is still pretty gd......</p>
<p>I learned French because I was put in a French-Belgian school in second grade and had no other choice.</p>
<p>I learned English in a similar way, five years later (I did know some beforehand, but not much).</p>
<p>For a less drastic approach? I honestly wouldn't know...</p>
<p>My Spanish teacher said that if you want to become fluent in a language, get a boyfriend or girlfriend who speaks it and only knows minimal English (or whatever your native language is).</p>
<p>I speak the following (fluently or fairly fluently):</p>
<p>English
French
Chinese</p>
<p>Those are my main ones. I also know a bit more sparsely different languages such as German, Russian, Italian, and Spanish because they are somewhat similar to French and I have also been to all of the countries for each language :)</p>
<p>I used to speak Russian when I was younger, but I forgot nearly all of it after I moved from Moscow (at age five). I speak Spanish to some degree, though not nearly fluently, and I can read and understand both Danish and Norwegian (they are similar to Swedish). </p>
<p>I'm a diplomat kid/Swedish expat, by the way...thus the somewhat eclectic mixture.</p>
<p>English, Polish (native) and French. I learned French because I was in extended French for 4 years (half day French classes). I was fluent after 4 years, but then continuted in high school for 4 years. Now I'm going to study Japanese in college as well as Spanish (which I have been learning on and off for a few years but am not yet fluent).</p>