> I got to fluency in Japanese in roughly 6 months to 1 year while living there Your experience is not the norm, not according to research and not according to

> I got to fluency in Japanese in roughly 6 months to 1 year while living there Your experience is not the norm, not according to research and not according to most people who've tried learning Japanese. Either you have a talent or you had a more effective method for learning, but it does undermine your judgement as something generalisable to others. Let's hope it's the method and you share it.