<p>I can only tell you about Arabic which my son took every year in college including spending a year and one summer in Jordan (one semester in an immersion program). He would tell you he’s a long, long way from fluent, though I think he can probably get the gist of a newscast in Modern Standard Arabic (which is not spoken by anyone on the street) and he is quite comfortable in the Jordanian dialect. He can understand a fair amount of the Egyptian dialect which is the language of most movies. He can’t understand Morrocan dialect at all. And that is the problem with Arabic. You will be learning at least two languages. It’s grammar is quite different from Indo- European languages and they don’t believe in vowels in the written language. It’s considered one of the hardest languages to learn according to the US State Dept ratings. You will not be able to read any literature at the end of a year of Arabic. My son was a runnerup for the CLS summer program last year.</p>