Time to become fluent

The further from Tokyo the better.

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i have plans to go to waseda to study japanese over there?? good idea??

Good thing is I do have some friends who live there, i met a lot of them in my computer animation classes. Anyways, they told me just to e-mail them and we can go out or something, or they can help me with japanese. ^_^

As a number of people have said- it's a very individual thing. I have the misfortune of being a painfully slow language learner. Despite living in Japan and soaking in the language, despite having Japanese family, colleages and friends- it takes a long long time for most aspects of the language (vocabulary, grammer) to make some sort of sense, and then longer still before I can use them with any confidence in conversation. It's certainly not from lack of trying, but I have a terribly slow ear and that makes everything difficult.