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How long to learn Italian for a Spanish and Portuguese speaker?

I'm a native spanish speaker I'm interested in learning a 4th language and later tackle french because I will find it easier if I know the other latin languages. How long will it take for me to learn Italian? I'm already a spanish and portuguese speaker. I learned portugues by my self in 1 year and a half with books language software and meeting natives. I'm planing to learn Italian but want to see how long would it take. when I'm done with italian and I move on to french how long will that take? thanks

Public Comments

1. less than italian because once u learn one foreign language, learning another is simple
2. not long depends on how deep you immerse yourself in the language
3. I timed this when I did it. 43 weeks. Japanese to Chinese: 172 weeks. Sucks!
4. Dude! thats awsome. Hunny Italian doesn't take long at all if your know both of those, it should take you at the least 6months and french is so much eaiser than Italian. I should know. ^_~
5. I learned Italian fluently in four months, but I was living in Italy and taking a language class. Italian is an easy language to learn and should be even easier being you speak Spanish. Don't know about French, I never ventured past "hello, excuse me and thank you"
6. I think one year and you'll be good enough!
7. 2 months