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All languages divide into groups. It's always easier to learn foreign language of your group.
For example if you are an English speaker, you can start with German. Then look at Dutch. They have more or less same grammar rules.
After that if you've had enough zeal and curiosity, you can probably understand main rules of forming words, split unknown words into lexical units and morphemes.
That said you can move to the next level - French, Italian and Spanish. Italian and Spanish can be learnt simultaniously. It's hard, but as the languages have a lot in common, it will be interesting. My native language is Russian. I can understand and speak Ukranian, Belorussian, Chech, Serbian. Just because they have a lot in common. And vice versa. But not always... Well the only rule to succeed as already mentioned is to dive into language. People who move to other countries usually learn to speak foreign language within several months. But as far as we live in Internet you can learn whatever you want without actually moving. Every day we read thousands of sentences and 10s thousands of words. You can read the same in the language you want to learn. Facebook, twitter, google, newsfeeds, search for the information you want in the language you want to know and read articles. The more you read the more you learn and soon you'll be able to form your phrases. As soon as you can form phrases and understand what you read without searching every word in dictionary, you're ready to dive into grammar. Learn grammar as fast as possible now. That's the hardest and the most exhausting part of my method, but it is obligatory. Learn rules, draw tables with tenses, declension rules and so on. Find grammar exercises and do them all. Thus you train your brain to form phrases the right way, to spell the right way. Next part is fun part - pronunciation. It's fun because in real life you sometimes can't understand your neighbour, and dialects divide your country to sort of "language provinces". In russian language there's no English sound "th". It transformed to 'f'(Theodor - Федор) and 't' (thriller - триллер). So placing tongue between teeth is a hard but funny part for newbies. It's also funny to learn to pronounce 'r' in German, English and French. You will learn a lot about your tongue and jaw. Last part is a "separate thread" part because learning new words is a constant process. Sometimes it's also a funny part. For example in chech the word hallway(chodba) is pronounced exactly like russian word ходьба (walking) and german 'Herr' (Mr.) is pronounced like russian 'penis', so "Herr Ivanov, sitzen Sie bitte" sounds funny. And spanish 'huesos' (bones) is the transliteration of 'хуесос' (dicksucker). Apart from that there are a lot of words common for all european languages. That's what I do. It's a slow and silent method for learning foreign language on your own. It's like progressive jpeg. The harder you work the better the result. But every next language is learnt faster than previous. |