I took Italian for two semesters, an hour a day five days a week, and was pretty good by the end of it. It took me three years of Hebrew two days a week and th

I took Italian for two semesters, an hour a day five days a week, and was pretty good by the end of it. It took me three years of Hebrew two days a week and then a month in Haifa to get to the same level. If you only care about conversation and not reading or writing, a foreign girlfriend can work well too, if she's sufficiently patient.