This week we're answering a question from Eva about fluency and my thoughts on videos where people claim to be fluent within weeks. Here are my honest opinions.

The Hungarian news interview I mentioned can be seen here: https://lifetv.hu/teljesadasok/2021/...

For videos I've made about fluency before, take a look here:
When are you fluent in a language?    • When are you fluent in a language? [P...  
How long does it take to be fluent?    • How long does it take to be fluent in...  

What are your thoughts?

Timestamps:
0:00 Intro and life updates + Hungarian TV interview
1:52 Today's question is...
2:50 My thoughts about fluency
3:19 "Fluent in 1 week" videos are misleading
4:48 Progress in a week versus in years
6:16 How should we measure fluency?
7:24 How should we think about languages

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