Introducing Will Hart, a British guy who learned conversationally FLUENT Chinese in 1.5 years.
And I’m not kidding about the fluent.
There are tons of Youtube…let’s call them exaggerators… out there who CLAIM to be fluent…but when you click on their videos, you get an earful of awkward pronunciation that immediately flags them as amateurs.
(And unfortunately, even if you HAVE been learning for Chinese for 10+ years, and you DO know your way around the language enough to converse with people casually, if your pronunciation sucks, you simply aren’t truly fluent)