Learning a language Learning a language when you are an adult is one of the most difficult thing to learn, depending on how your skills development, sometimes it could take you years to become an expert. Although living abroad make your learning experience easy, it doesn't mean that you would become fluently in a few years, in fact if you don't use one of your language skills, you will have a problem after. For becoming a language expert, you would have to spend hours studying and practicing, so the language would be something familiar, also making mistakes could be something you will have to work with every time when you are learning. Practice makes you better, so the more that you practice the better you will become.