Here are my top ways that I found one can learn any language as fast as possible.
Pronunciation should be one of the first things you start focusing on.
You’ll have to learn many sounds that your native language does not have: like 英语, or English in Chinese, doesn’t have all the sounds that Chinese has. If someone says a foreign word sounds like… I have forwarded because the pronunciation is usually at training bit wrong. If you get the chance try listening to the native for pronunciation and learning a language. Of course a native is the best option for a teacher. You don’t want someone to teach you states.
Books don’t speak to you, so how could they teach you proper pronunciation. Using an audio source for learning pronunciation is tricky because our ears have never heard that sound before, so we might not know how to pronounce it quite correctly. It is good for playing back 1000 times and you can’t annoy them in learning the pronunciation: 地道口语 or spoken English (in Chinese) is a good thing to practice for that.
For some reason authors of books and learning languages teach you how to use vocabulary words incorrectly. I haven’t figured that one out yet. Learning vocab from an audio source can be okay as long as it gives feedback, and audio sources don’t give feedback. Learning vocabulary from the video is not the best idea unless it’s an native teaching you how it should be used. Even still feedback is great. A video can’t give you that. Learning vocabulary from a video’s okay if they teach you how to use it, and it’s important that it’s a situation you will need. You don’t want to learn a very formal vocabulary where the no one uses it.
If you truly mimic everything that you’ve ever heard a native say he won’t ever have to learn grammar rules. Some people try to start learning a language by learning the grammar. They think it can help them learn a bunch of the things that are common within the language and rules on how to speak. It’s usually not how people speak though. Usually grammar can explain the why’s of the language. However, not always.
You know, children just copy with older people say. That’s how they learn. Children are introduced to grammar when they start school, but they speak a language way before then. Have you ever noticed the child just repeats everything they hear and that’s how they learn? Children and everybody else make grammar mistakes. It’s okay as long as you’re saying it the way a native would. That’s how you sound like a native.
Young children practice a foreign language through copycating most people around them and also the things they hear them express. When you begin to acquire a language the most effective way to remember it is to study one particular thing you are interested in.
I certainly don’t have to use the alphabet every day to spell something out loud and tell them individual letters. Think about it: how often do people actually use numbers in real life situations? Not very often. Should you study a word list when learning a language? Absolutely not. You know a bunch of words but never know how to use them. Make sure you’re studying and focusing on things that you’re going to need in that language.
Say things in a conversation like manner out loud 10,000 times to learn the conversation intuitively without thinking about it. You have to say things and express them hundreds of times before you can say them without thinking about them. The goal is to get to where you can say it without thinking about it. This takes hundreds of times over of practice.
Just because you know five languages doesn’t mean the sixth one will be easier because there are more sounds to make; it maybe a different language family and different rules apply. But don’t just 学习英语单词 or learn English vocabulary (in Chinese) if you expect to learn a English. Languages take a lot of hard work even if you study for several hours a day. Always be reading in that language so you can find out and copy how a native would say it. I would suggest that you study things that are going to keep your interest. That is what you talk about with your friends anyway and want to know more about.
Keep studying things and in the end if you’re consistent and persistent it’ll work out.