>>63810469not the same anon but I would say that depends.
Over ten years watching anime over my belt and my knowledge barely crossed the most common shit like aho and arigato.
One year, just one year doing my damn best to undertand Matsuri and then I noticed that even I could not translate 1:1 what she was saying, I still got her words before lyger translated on chat.
I guess its just disposition and willingness to understand the other person.
The again, I also learned english in like one year playing games because I wanted to know the fuck they were sayin 