What are the steps to achieve fluency in English in 6 months?

Answer 1

Fluency in any language is going to have to happen among native speakers. That is where you will get the current colloquialisms, idiomatic expressions, cultural references and day to day vernacular. English might be one of the hardest languages to master in that way. It is spoken in so many places and the dialects, accents and local slant on it are so numerous as to render fluency in one English speaking country unhelpful in another. If you want, "the King's English," go where they speak it and immerse yourself. Depending upon your innate facility at absorbing a new language, you will achieve fluency in whatever time it takes. Then let's define fluency. Is fluency to be able to communicate adequately in non scripted interchanges with native speakers of the language? Is it mastery of the language such that you could express whatever you want whenever you want to whomever you want, be understood and respected? Is fluency, to you, being able to survive in an English speaking environment and come home alive? English might be one of the hardest languages to master for non native speakers because it's such a polyglot of other languages. Irregularity is regular, if you know what I mean. However: in the age of the internet, you probably can find others to speak with in real time who will be happy to correct you and keep saying, "What?" when need be. If you can, gather a crew of English speakers on a visual communication platform and work at it. Still, that doesn't provide the pressure of absolute necessity that total immersion does. Six months? Define your terms and go forth.