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Originally Posted by Realism
No it's not.
That all depends on how you learn....you take it slow, do it on and off....then yeah...it will take you a long time.
BUT, if you just surround yourself with Japanese all day-everyday with absolute immersion then you'll be near fluent in about 1.5 years.
People don't want to take the time to do it though.
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I know people that have lived in Japan for many years, and they could write the words they know on a sheet of toilet paper.
One gentleman I know lived there for over a decade and his daughter was born there. In her five short years of life she learned more Japanese than her older-than-average father (and keep in mind she wasn't even speaking at all the first two years of her life).