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Has anyone reached native level accuracy ?

Just_Jstc
I have been studying English for a very long time. I think I studied more than five thousand hours dedicated , thousand prive lessons , almost thousand class lesson in the UK ,a alot more self studying every resource on the internet claim that a thousand hours dedicated studying should have enough for C2 level but I feel I am far beyond C2. I don't know even it is archievable anymore , I am not sure if I can maintain my motivation a few thousand hours more before starting this journey I thought two years will enough but now I feel even a decade may not enough, my speaking pace almost as same as my native language and also my listening skilll good however I continuously do gramatical mistakes either on paper or while I speak I would like to hear , If anyone solved their language problem how many years did it take ? What did you throughout journey ?

3 comments

ProteusReturns•
More immersion = more fluency. Your pacing depends on the volume and frequency with which you use the language (and others around you also use it) and your ability to absorb it. If you surround yourself with your native language and merely study English, you're unlikely to achieve native English fluency. Therefore, to answer your question about years: it depends. By the way, there's an interesting (and simplistic) theory that 10k hours is what you'd need to achieve mastery in most skill domains.
Wanderlust-4-West•
After 25 years FT immersion in English, I am near-native, but still not native. You need to have talent to mimic other people.
zebostoneleigh•
Not to be too much of a downer, but I would expect fluency to take at least 5+ (perhaps 20) years of full-immersion living and breathing English all day every day in and out of work. 10,000 hours is a more likely minimum. Minimum (meaning it could be more). If you are still speaking your native tongue with any frequency, that’ll slow you down. If you are not living in an English speaking community, that will slow you down.