I'm a native English speaker, and know Spanish and enough Japanese to read novels. Since Dutch is a West Germanic language like English, how long do you anons think it'll take to get a comfortable grasp of it if I read/listen casually? Thing is, I spend most of my time with Japanese media (I like novels), but a good buddy of mine is Dutch, so I feel like it'd be chill to be able to engage with him and his crowd more. I pick up phrases/words here and there, but I always have a history of going into language learning too intensely, so I kind of hope Dutch would be chill and low stress enough to not be a big endeavor on top of my other languages. I don't even know how I'd use it besides chatting with my buddy and his friends/community.