How fast can you read your 2nd language? This is mostly directed at those that learned Japanese as their 2nd language. However i'm curious for everyone as to if you have a second language, how fast can you read it and comprehend what it's saying? Personally i've got the hiragana down 90% and the katakana down about 30% . I'm at the point now, where Japanese doesn't look foreign to me anymore, however when I look at it, I see a wall of sylabels but can't seem to pull out words. I'm just curious as to how long it took others to reach this point and when was your first time being able to sit down and read something. If you don't speak Japanese, that's ok, just tell me what language you speak as your primary and your new language. Of course, English is my native tounge, I read it without even thinking.