Here are three tips. In your langauge learning different methods are more or less usefull depending on where you are. For first starting, choose the target language for a very clear reason: perhaps you're learning in ordeer to travel. If so, who do you expect to talk to? and about what? it may suffice to just go through a few online lessons and use a phrase book. On the other hand you may want to learn a language in order to read the literature. For example, if you wanted a really in-depth knowledge of a different culture you may want to read a first person autobiographical novel in the target language. The point is to know why you're doing this work from the beginning and to stay directed toward that goal -which itself may change. That's tip one.
Here's tip two: After you've gotten past the first month or so, look for televised quiz shows in the target language and for 'how to' shows on a subject you already know something about. For example, if you know how to care for a dog look for a show demonstrating that or perhaps one about car maintenance or about cooking. You can use a translating program to grab a word. When you watch the show have a bilingual dictionary on hand. Look up the words you don't know and say them out loud but don't bother to create vocabulary lists, the point isn't to create a word ladder in which each rung leads from one language to the other, languages don't work like that.
I promised three tips, now I'll keep that promise! Good beats perfect. A good try is better than a time consuming masterpiece. Aim for consistency in study. Keep your materials together and available in a location where you can really work on it without being distracted and do it the same time every day. I set a timer and study for exactly one hour a day. At the end of the hour I put my things in good order for the next day, then I reach over to a bag of M&M's I keep in a drawer next to my study. I eat exactly one of them every day and then try to glow a bit with the satisfaction that I have earned it. I suppose I train myself like one would train a dog!
Hope you like my tips! I'm fluent in Spanish and French, B-2 in German, A-2 in Portuguese and Italian.
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