o nice to meet you What are your favorite things ? <| sep |> Bottomed out , eh ? <| sep |> yes , but it is in pune now ! <| sep |> Do you trust the Voat admins ? <| sep |> As the blog suggested , it differs between each and every person , and also based on the definition of fluency ! Are you fluent when you are able to communicate ? Are you fluent when you are able to talk freely about most things ? Are you fluent when you are able to discuss politics , science and economics ? Or are you fluent when you are at an academic level at the language ? It took me personally around 56 years of studying Mandarin Chinese until I considered myself as being able to speak it . It took me about 89 years until I could say the same about Japanese . It still takes me a lot of time for other languages . I myself personally do not worry too much about the time it takes , as I don ' t care as much about the end goal as I do about the process . I enjoy it and can do it every day , all day if I have the option . I am motivated enough to continue working on the languages for many years , and after I ' ve put around 10 years in each language , they will just automatically click by themselves , without me worrying too much .