Another day, another language learning guru lying about how long it takes to become “fluent” whatever that means
Benny Lewis and his idiotic fluent in 3 months book and his damn blog have done irreparable damage to our society
If somebody tells you that they learned fluent French in one week you have my permission to throw an egg at them. Not only did they decide to learn French which is bad enough but they’re lying to you about how long it takes. They’re lying to you through their teeth. And they’re also saying a bunch of memorized tourist level phrases through their teeth. It takes months to years to get good enough to have a proper easy conversation and anybody who tells you otherwise cannot be trusted. Should not be trusted. Will not be trusted.
The main thing that always has me calling bullshit on these is that they say you can learn “any language” in a few months. And languages aren’t all the same difficulty! If you speak English you’ll have an easier time learning German or French, than for example Hindi or Mandarin. Because those languages have similarities.
My language, Finnish, has consistently been rated one of the hardest languages in the world to learn, cause the rules are nonsense.
And you can not convince me that a random normal English speaking person can learn Japanese in a few months, learn an entirely new alphabet, language rules, and then vocabulary too?