如果你还在上幼儿园。即使是成人，如果扎在洋人堆里，5年也应该没问题了。对那些和洋人一起生活的兔子们，估计有个3年就中了

89年来加拿大，读书四年，然后一直教英语。我想能教英语的人英语表达一定没什么问题的吧！

本文发表在 rolia.net 枫下论坛I am so confident to speak english almost as a native english speaker within no more than 2 years, even though my english is far from what is called good or fluent. if one be so eager to do sth well, and do properly. he would be sure to get such kind of goal as to speak english fluently.

I have the samilar experience in learning Japanese, just took less than 1 year, I have reached the highest level recoganized by official, and in those days that I had to speak in japanese 24 hours a day 7 days a week, by talking with me in a short time, even a japanese could not acknowledge that I am not a native japanese speaker. (a little pity, I forgot much of it due to without speaking for a long period of time). comparing with my foundation of english, basis of japanese could just be called nothing.

here, no one requires you to speak in english all the time, farther, it is not necessary and you also have no person to talk. they are the reasons why we cannot boost our english quickly. in another word, we have to creat a good environment in which we are forced to speak in english, consciously or unconsciously. I know that, for most people, the doing is not easy as the talking. so, the result that you can imagine, is that little people can reach their goal in a short time such as 1 or 2 years.

what you are asking is not so difficult that you should give up your struggle, just keeping to do it, you will and must win the war, not against terrorist but againt poor english.

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不要认为到了加拿大，呆上几年，英语就会自然提高(除非是小孩)。
外语学院的学生也不过学四年，如果你不断学习，五年只后英语会有很大提高。这之后，面临的是文化背景的问题。讲个故事，我刚来加拿大时，和几个中国同学、一个台湾教授在系上聊天。聊了一会，其中一人告辞，说要去考路试。我对他说 “一颗红心，两种准备”。大家大笑，台湾教授却一脸茫然。你认为这是语言的问题吗。

我去开我女儿的家长会,发现去的是家长理事会,几乎都是鬼子,还有几个香港人,她们的英语很好,我支个耳朵狂听,听了下句忘上句,后来散会后和一香港家长聊天,她问我来多久,我说3个月,她说你可以听懂?我说意思理解,但我说的不好,她说象她这样在加拿大呆了27年,要学好一门语言至少7年后来我帮她翻译会议摘要,有很多俗语,不好翻,我就问她,她觉得不可理解,这样的成语都不明白呀?其实每个单词意思都懂.连在一起就不是那么回事了.