Halp.

I'm learning Japanese right now, and I'm wondering how long it should take, (approximately) to become fluent. I do around an hour or two a day.

Without actually going to Japan or taking courses, 4-6 years. But it really depends on how retarded you are.

Enjoy wasting upwards of 5 years of your life just to be able to read shitty kids comics in their original language.

>>3
u mad

>>4
nah just smart

>>1
For English speakers, Japanese is category 3. 2200 hours to reach proficiency (it's about 600 hours for the easiest languages).

Most of that shit is learning kanji.

>>6
This. If you're actually serious about becoming fluent, take a course AND visit Japan for a significant amount of time. My professor laughs at anyone who thinks they can become fluent without actually visiting the mother country of the language they want to learn. You can probably learn to read without actually going, but you won't be able to speak worth shit.

>>7
>>7
Your professor is stupid. I live in an area of the US where there are a ton of Hispanic immigrants, so I think I could get Spanish to a fluent level pretty well if I conversed with the spics in my area.
But for Japanese, where it's hardly spoken outside of Japan, I'd have to agree with him.

>>8
Obviously there's nothing magical about stepping foot on the island that consecrated the use of whatever language you're trying to learn, dipshit. It's about immersion and forcing yourself to communicate through a counter-intuitive method, not because you WANT to learn new vocab but because you HAVE no other choice and can't just get frustrated, abandon a group of spics, walk into a Wal-Mart and function normally. This is what someone with a Master's degree understands better than you.