Fluent in 3 Months: How Anyone at Any Age Can Learn to Speak Any Language from Anywhere in the World

several dozen flash cards, for instance, by watching a few minutes of a silly soap opera in the language you’re studying or reading a comic book in that same language. When it doesn’t feel like work, you can accomplish so much more.

Now that you know how to find native speakers and remember words and phrases, it’s time to actually speak your target language.

What will happen in these first days, though, is that you’ll get so used to saying particular phrases, they start to seem natural, and you can experiment with using new words and combining them with your previous sentences, replacing other, simpler words.

Way too many of us waste endless hours watching TV, browsing Facebook and YouTube, shopping, drinking alcohol, and countless other activities.

Successful language learners continue on despite the challenges. That’s the difference.

You don’t have to pick three months for your major end goal; I’ve also had missions of “conversational in one to two months” and “get by as a confident tourist in a few weeks,” but my successes have more often been with a three-month time line.

once you have that basic flow, it’s time to go to those book courses to start to get some solid footing in communicating formally in the language.

don’t try to understand an entire phrase in the early stages. Listen for any particular words or segments of a person’s speech that you can understand, and extrapolate what is being said from that.

The great thing about the site is that the nature of its members, being world travelers, means they are quite open-minded and much more likely to meet up with an interesting new stranger than other communities might.

Memrise.com.