Here's the answer: about a week, and not the way most people try it. Fluency isn't learned in a weekend binge. It's installed in seven days of thirty-minute reps on your actual life. One theme per day: writing on day one, three real messages drafted and sent by you. Understanding on day two, the documents you've been avoiding, explained plainly. Deciding, planning, learning, creating, and on day seven, a review that names your personal top five use cases.
Each day keeps the same shape: ten minutes on the exercise, ten pushing the best output to be more specific and then more you, and ten logging one line about what worked and what you'd ask differently. That log becomes a personal manual no course could have written. And talk out loud when you can. Voice input makes you naturally give context and follow up, and fluency is partly just volume of natural conversation.
Now the two walls. Wall one: it's faster to do it myself. True on day two, false by day twenty, same as training any assistant. This week, hand over only tasks where a decent draft beats a blank page. Wall two: the answers feel generic. Generic in, generic out. The fix is six words of context you haven't given yet: one sentence about who you are, one about how you like things done. That habit is the seed of everything that comes next.
And log the misses honestly. A miss diagnosed teaches more than a win enjoyed.
The full seven-day plan is Volume 2 of our Claude Fluency series.
Same time daily. Real material only.
