Firstly, I’d like to point out a fascinating thread over at Reddit discussing this exact question that has a lot of interesting responses and turned into a great discussion: How did you become fluent in another language?

Secondly, if you haven’t joined the language-learning subreddit on that site, you should, it’s worth joining just for that alone (and the people on reddit are awesome for the most part, by the way): /r/LanguageLearning

Thirdly, if YOU have ever learned another language to fluency (we’ll say “conversational fluency”, basically just to the point where you could readily converse with the natives about whatever) then I’d like to hear from you in the comments about how you managed to do that!

That’s it!  Short post today – I’m working on the upcoming Shakira post, 3rd in the series, plus I’ve got an article on verbal manners in Spanish in the works, those should be out within the next week or two.

A Quick Note Before We End: If you’re interested in learning Spanish, read this…

Edit (September 11th, 2012): I’ve got two posts that I’ve put up that I’m recommending everyone interested in learning Spanish go read if they haven’t already (if you have, ignore this, sorry): How to avoid wasting months learning Spanish the wrong way (basically this is my “how to get started right in learning Spanish” post for complete beginners) and The Telenovela Method where I cover how to use popular media like movies, music, and books to learn Spanish.  Additionally you can check out the front page for a more complete list of my best and most popular posts.

Cheers,

Andrew

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