How long have you been studying Chinese?

I started around 3months ago, Currently in my hsk 3....I am just self-studying and my main goal is to be able to read mandarin novels!

Ive been studying for a year, preparing for HSK3, have not taken HSK1 and HSK2 but I took A1

Four and a half years. Last December I took HSK 6 exam, I got a 240 on the test. I can communicate with Chinese people in Chinese Mandarin.
我学习汉语四年半了。去年12月我参加HSK6级考试，考了240分。我会用汉语与中国人交流。

I just started learning Chinese 5 months ago. I'm a guzheng teacher who doesn't know Chinese. So I'd love to be able to read Chinese a bit. Hopefully, I'll understand how to find the title of the songs I played.

I started like 5 years ago but I didn't do a steady study plan at first so now I'm still at an A2 level on reading and less on the speaking part.
I had simple courses for the 3 first years and then I decided to do a chinese bachelor with the non-beginner ( there's two classes beginner for those who did not know or few chinese and the non-beginner for those who studied it before ) and I achieved to pass that class by mostly my own study rather than the courses that I had wich was not going very far in it.

I started studying Chinese 3 years ago. Now I've just begun HSK 5 and I'm also taking some classes to improve my spoken Chinese.