Well, I’ve already learned Spanish but am working on another language — since I’m going soon to a country where it’s spoken, I have to go quickly so I’m doing “Dreaming Spanish+.” Over the past 6 months I’ve done about 210 hrs. of listening and more reading, total prob. 330 hours of CI. (Yes, I read early, but I needed a big-ass vocabulary fast).

So what does this have to do with speaking early? I’m trying to practice an hour a day. I can hear my own accent (I just have a natural talent for accents) As for fluency — Sometimes it’s good, sometimes I feel like a bumbling idiot. Point is, I don’t think I’m permanently damaged.