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[dynow]

Hello Spain Forum,

I am currently living in Poland and am a regular poster on the Poland forum. Within this forum, we are currently having a debate about the difficulty level of Polish vs. other languages in Europe. Here's my question:

What are your speaking/comprehension abilities in Spanish? For those of you that have been in Spain for a year or more, would you consider yourself an intermediate level speaker? Two years or more? How much studying/course work did you need to do in order to achieve your current proficiency level?

I would also be curious to hear from those of you that have spent time in other countries and have achieved an intermediate level speaking ability or better and how long it took you to achieve it.

Your replies are much appreciated, and thank you!

-Dynow

[Insubordination]

Am in Spain ,am fluent.

However, I learnt when I was 18 years old in Chile. It took about 10 months to be fluent but I was going to Chilean high school every day and living with a host family who spoke no English whatsoever. There was no internet back then and learning Spanish was kind of an emergency for me. I�m not particularly talented at languages. I learnt though studying, watching TV and practising communication in all kinds of situations. I still had loads of problem with writing and incorrect grammar. Didn�t refine it until I went to Uni a bit later.

[dynow]

thanks for the reply.

really looking forward to others' responses.

[cstevens]

I lived in Mexico for 2 years and I would say that it took me about 6 months to become conversationally fluent. Right now I am living in Azerbaijan. It took me about the same amount of time to become completely conversationally fluent, but I don't know even 1/3 of the vocabulary I knew at about the same time in country in Mexico.

Consider also that this is my second foreign language and it is an agglunative non-IndoEuropean language. Spanish is cake compared to Azerbaijani.

Hope that helps.