Did anyone here achieve reading fluency in the Classical Latin corpus? If so, how?

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By reading fluency,I mean, the ability to sight read 95 percent of the pages you encounter of authentic Latin texts from the Classical period, say from 75 BC to 120 AD, roughly most of Cicero all the way to Pliny, Suetonius and Tacitus. If you did so, did you start learning the language before 10 years of age and go on through a whole course of classical education on steroids or did you start later?

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I don’t know if this would be of interest to you, or whether you’re already familiar with it. It’s the account of how one person came to be pretty much fluent in Latin.
https://indwellinglanguage.com/reading-latin-extensively/

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Thanks. It did interest me quite a lot. It is quite a feat when someone succeeds learning the language to a high level. It makes us learners-well me at least- think more highly of our potential and apply more.

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Yes, reading this article two years ago motivated me to try to do the same.

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or even more, I’d ask: seeing the symbol, hearing the sound, and comprehending the text (w/o skipping about looking for the verb or whatever) what we do when reading a modern language (Italian, French, Spanish)?