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What exactly do I need to be fluent?

This might sound dumb, but what do I have to learn to be fluent?
Thousand of Kanji and thousands of words.
And gramma.
And I should be able to just talk, without thinking about it. Making it a normal thing.

Don’t get me wrong, just that is so much work.
But I feel like I’m missing something.
If I learn Vocabulary and gramma for 5 years and also talk the language often, I might get fluent?
I feel like there’s gotta be something to make this harder.
I want to be completely fluent I should mention. I want to make this language my Job in the future.

6 comments

  2. 3000-5000 characters, tens of tousands of words, hundreds of grammar points (can pick most up naturally).

    You’re right, its simple, otherwise every person alive wouldn’t be fluent in at least 1 language. But it will take time, you need you spend thousands of hours using the language to get used to it.

    >And I should be able to just talk, without thinking about it. Making it a normal thing.

    Yeah, you would be able to think in both languages and understand without any English

  3. I mean. Talking is talking. Technically you need 0 characters to “be fluent”. People can be illiterate.

    What you “need” to be fluent is:
    – Rich/comprehensive vocabulary

    – Familiarity with basic grammar rules

    – Familiarity with sentence patterns

    – Good or at least decent pronunciation. Not necessarily native-like, but internally consistent

    You gain these by studying grammar, reading a lot, listening a lot, doing SRS. Obviously you’ll have to learn Kanji if you want to read a lot but like, in theory you could also read furigana editions of everything and still get fluent

  4. >Don’t get me wrong, just that is so much work.

    Indeed, learning a language to a proficient level is a lot of work. Welcome to the club, glad to have you here 🙂

    If you just wanna talk, you don’t necessarily need Kanji. But it can be really helpful to be able to read.

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