Realistic amount of time to learn spanish

Guacamole

A week.

Mucho anos.

4 semesters is not enough.

What kind of job?

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for a job

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Spain or Latin America?


Forget it, if you´ve got to work in the meantime.

You´ll most likely need total and complete immersion with no recourse to English, for at least one year (if you´re a phenomenon), if not two. Even then, in addition to difficult to overcome mistakes, the accent´s always going to be there.

Tres anos Mas a menos

If you can swing it, living with a family for a couple of months that speaks no English will do it. You just need to be very good grammar wise when you start.

I've had Spanish teachers say they aren't fluent again until being back in their home country for a week or two. I took four semesters and remember next to nothing. I can't tell you colors, numbers, nothing. Takes complete immersion. No English.

Good luck

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I've had Spanish teachers say they aren't fluent again until being back in their home country for a week or two.

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Or more. You don´t speak like you typically do, for quite some time (one gets a good grasp of the concept that language is a tool).