better to practice mindfully for 15 minutes, than for 2 hours "automatically"

These sentences will give you a pretty good feeling for the language.

It became part of our culture growing up, the cartoons in the morning and after school.

After conversation, writing is key to your learning.

How are we expected to learn anything if we can't make mistakes?

What is the fastest you could learn a language, at least, enough for you to converse with a native? Years? Months? Weeks? Days? Hours?