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This question can't be answered in specific terms, only in general terms. If an English speaker is living in a German-immersion context in a German-speaking country, you might learn to develop basic fluency in German in one year or less. If an English speaker is taking four hours of German classes a week in an academic context, it might take three to six years to develop basic fluency.

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A lot depends on motivation - on the desire to learn and put in the necessary work - and on the quality of the teaching. I learned German at school and after one school year (with five 45 minute lessons a week of excellent teaching) and lots of hard work I had a good, basic grasp of the language, but that was probably exceptional. In my second year of German I was already correcting the teacher - to such an extent that it became something of a joke.

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