> > Also: Is the only way to achieve this fluency to live > in the country, or can it be done
What I can say as an English teacher is that fluency depends a lot on your ability to get rid of your first language influence and on the input you have. I think it'll help a lot if you look for methods based on corpus linguistics and teachers who apply them. Concerning pronunciation, English as a Second or Foreign Language books on pronunciation are very nice, but I'm not so sure it's the same about the teaching of other languages. I think it must be helpful for you to contact a linguistics department of a big university in a country that speaks the language you're will to study and ask about the material they use to teach their native students their phonetics. It's generally more helpful than any advice you can get from native teachers, since they generally take their pronunciation for granted.
Bye,
Caio Rossi
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