Quote: (09-08-2012 04:57 PM)lavidaloca Wrote:
Lets be realistic here. Anyone whose ever actually learned a language knows that your certainly not going to learn a new language in 6 months. You may know quite a few words and have a remote sense of grammar. But when you speak you will have a difficult to understand accent, your use of words will not be great nor your grammar. There are exceptions but realistically 99% of people claiming they speak a language fluent speak like 3 year old. Learning a language to the point where you can converse continuously for hours will not likely be done in 6 months. Especially a language as difficult as russian. Maybe, if you were really devoted you could get reasonable at spanish in that time period but even then 6 months is not much time.
Are you talking about immersion or studying part time? I heard some have a pretty good grasp after 6 months of immersion. By good grasp, I mean being able to hold conversations at a pretty high level.
Fluency seems to be a pretty objective term.