How long does it take to learn Italian?

[@italianoin7minuti]

davvero un bel video Bjorn, sono d'accordo con ciò che hai detto. Probabilmente farò un video simile, con i miei punti di vista :)

[@giovannipaglia4167]

Bello quel eccetera

[@estheregbujor1171]

I am in Italy so I need it now

[@mjs28s]

I think that those FSI hours, 600 for example, are classroom hours and do not count self study time, consuming media, reading, etc. There is no way that someone could be C1 in even the easiest of languages less they were already skilled at language learning or just hyper smart in the verbal / language center in their brain. Take the supposed hours from FSI and 4X them for the vast majority of people. You look at the students from the language school at Middlebury College, where once you walk in the door you cannot use any language except for the one that you have picked to study, and they are speaking, listening, reading, and writing for at least 600 hours even over the summer course and they aren't coming out C1 in their first time through. Even your personal example you said you are B1 and that is after AT LEAST your 636 hours later in this video.

[@eliasvaly2273]

At what level in terms of A1 A2 B1 etc would you say is being fluent. My goal is to be around a B1 level in about 2 years. I have learned a good amount in about 2 months by using Duolingo, youtube, google, and speaking to myself.

[@uknow7799]

Fluent is b2+/c1 . But it still depends on the person

[@BecomeAPolyglot]

You will start to enjoy your level of Italian already at the A2 level, and be able to make some basic conversation at the B1 level. For me it was a big barrier to start actually talking in Italian during my period of self-studies, but after many lessons on www.italki.com with a native Italian tutor I built some confidence to speak with my Italian friends (at a very basic level). Fluency is achieved at the B2 level or at the C1 level. Your understanding of *listening* and *reading* (input) Italian content will reach the B2 level far more early than your *speaking* and/or *writing* (output) abilities. Your language abilities (input and output) must be trained and achieved separately. In other words: The secret behind speaking a language is ... to *speak* it. I also believe that if you do not reach a solid B2 level in your Italian (B2+ I would say), - and you take a long break from the language -, you will reverse your abilities, and you will have to use some effort to rebuild your level. I have experienced several times throughout my relationship with the Italian language, and right now I am actually now working towards a B2+ level of Italian. I believe that once you have reached a level in a language where you can communicate fluently on a variety of topics with ease, then you will find it very hard to forget the language. It will be easy to re-activate the language after a long break.

[@josephtermeer5196]

Thank you. I thought I read if you plan to live in Italy, you have two years to develop a working language skill.

[@BecomeAPolyglot]

I have summarized it in a blog post: www.becomeapolyglot.com/blog/1970733_how-much-time-does-it-take-to-learn-a-new-language Based on this estimate from FSI: Let’s say that you are willing to put in 5 hours per week (1 hour per day Monday-Friday, for example). Then learning Italian, French or Norwegian - all of them a category I language - will take 120 weeks or 30 months. That’s equivalent to 2,5 years. If you can dedicate more study time, then you can achieve it even in 2 years (and even shorter).