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[midnight blade]

Please be patient

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[meager current]

a2-b1 took me about a month and a half

a2-b2 took about 2.5 months

This may not apply to you since I could already speak Spanish fluently before learning french so I had a bit of a headstart

[coral zinc]

A2–B1 would be maybe three months?

A2-B2 would be a few years

It's going to depend on the frequency and intensity of your studies as well as the languages you can already speak. Reaching B2 will take a year minimum from zero so from B1 maybe six months to a year?

B2 is like an island. There's a sizeable gap between B1 and B2, and between B2 and C1. B2 is basically the point where you've become so adept at the language that you can be considered 'fluent' but you lack the cultural expressions and ease that would be the mark of C1 learners.

[raven pivot]

b2 is that difficult? well i don’t mind anyway haha thanks for letting me know

[coral zinc]

B2 is the High Intermediate level. At this point, you're at the low end of fluency. You're able to spotaneously and clearly speak in the language, explain things, and participate in conversations – be they abstract or not – in detail with not that many gaps in your vocabulary

[raven pivot]

do you have any tips that helped you to actually begin understanding speech and saying sentences without planning it too much?

[coral zinc]

All of it is just consumption

Consume media but don't consume blindly

Try your best to understand

If you can't understand half of what's being said, you've gone too far