1. Put in your head that learning a language isn't so hard, you just need lots of time on your hands and patience, that's all😅.
2. You can absolutely become fluent, but it's easy to get disheartened if your goal is something that'll take years to achieve. Setting achievable, measurable goals is crucial to successful language learning. You wouldn't go out on your first jog with the aim of running a marathon. So, when starting a new language, think about tangible, short-term goals that will give you a sense of achievement.
3. Don't listen to anyone telling you you can't, most people around you don't speak more than one language and have some fixed mindset about language learning which prevents them from being open to learning and improving. You know you can become very good.
4. Don't rely on professors to teach you. A language is a tool of communication. It has to come from you and you have to be proactive to apply what you learn and improve fast.
5. Find the best book to learn the language you target. Just one book is enough. Don't fall into the "Application" mania. An application or a dictionary is just a tool, a "helper".
6. Every day, take 30 minutes to read that book until you finish the book. Go slowly, do all the exercises. On closer inspection it is not that simple, but who said it'll be easy.
7. When you have some very basics and you know few phrases, find some friend speaking the language and go practice what you learn. Don't be afraid to fail or to speak incorrectly, no one will laugh about you. Everyone speaks incorrectly before speaking correctly. Just think about babies: If a baby was waiting to have the perfect grammar to start speaking, he would never say a word. Ask others to correct you. Then improve.
8. When you understand few phrases and you feel you are okay to present yourself, start to watch dramas and series in the language you target. My advice is to watch dramas with subtitles in the language of the country language, not yours. The purpose is to listen. When you don't understand, pause and search in the dictionary. Make lists of words. If you don't understand 100%, that's okay. Try to understand the gestures and you will see that after some time, you will start to understand more and more.
9. Go to the country and study there. Speak with locals, be curious about the culture😄.
10. Repeat all those steps: find more books, dramas, friends.
Following these tips, you will definitely make a good fist in learning the language of your dream.
Good luck 💗
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