Language Learning Methods

Probably in getting used to the forms of the language, but for best results you will want to stay near things you can almost understand. I had two relevant experiences: (1) graduate school advisor told the lab to copy down one paper per week by hand. After a while you learned to copy mindlessly and stopped learning from it. (2) listened to the same second language content 100+ times while commuting and it really helped to build an intuition for what was being said and how to say it.

I can only tell you what worked for me: it's input. Read. Start using any brute-force method to learn the basics, like the 100 most common words. Then start reading stories aimed at toddlers (or especially written for language learners, there are apps), and keep going to more complex input as you progress.Do not worry about grammar; you will learn it intuitively as you move from simple sentences to more complex blocks of text. Do not worry about learning word lists after you have the bas

Yes. First bootstrap yourself with enough vocab and grammar that you understand the majority of the words (due to Zipf's law that will be a relatively small number of words).Then talk to native speakers, for hours a day, so that you internalize it all and can consume and produce sentences without thinking.

I agree. At the moment I am studying a new language and am following one of the guides produced by Assimil [1]. Their method is exactly what you are suggesting, and I verified its effectiveness when I learned from scratch a new language in 3 months.[1] https://www.assimil.com/en/

how often do you get to learn an unfamiliar language? is it something you need to do every day? so this use case, did it save you much time overall?

You might want to try Listening-Reading method. Requires a book in both languages and audio in the target learning language. Google "Listening-Reading method"

The method that worked for me: A 90 day course for learning the basic of the grammar and some thematic vocabulary (better than duolingo as it has whole conversation, both written and spoken). An awful lot of reading book, listening to shows, sporadic speaking and writing. Learned English that way without ever travelling to an English speaking country.

Haitian here. I basically had no face to face interaction with English native speaker. What I do is immersing. I only read English book, set up all my accounts in English, consume English youtube video, and write in English - docs and the like. While I still have difficulties with pronunciation and spelling mistake, I had a few people say that my vocabulary was quite extensive (most of it comes from Fantasy books).

People overthink language learning. Use Language Transfer[0] for lessons and Anki[1] for flashcards. Both are completely free. You'll be at a passable level within 3 months, which is an amazing rate of growth.[0]: https://www.languagetransfer.org/[1]: https://apps.ankiweb.net/

Speaking frequently absolutely helps a lot, but I’ve found in my on-an-off language studies (as time allows) that vast amounts of input is also effective if finding speakers isn’t practical.Reading content a bit above your level with a dual-language dictionary in hand as well as watching native content while actively trying to understand what’s being said paired with SRS of vocab you’ve picked up while reading will do vastly more for language acquisition than any app/subscription or text