Method Of Learning A New Language

Duolingo is definatley a great app when it comes to learning languages.

If you choose not to use that then the best way is to start by learning the 500 most used words, then expand your vocabulary from there, Ultimately learn to put the words into sentences and gramma. It's alot easier to learn the gramma onve you've got the vocabulary down.

Also when learning the vocabulary try to make images in your head that correspond to the words, this will make the learning procces a lot faster, if nothing comes to mind then just imagine the object with the word written on it.

When it comes to using a free translator service use yandex translator instead of google translate, it is far supperior, but still not perfect. I belive the link is translate.yandex.com otherwise just google it.

if you want to learn multiple languages, I'd suggest first learning one then others that has the same origin, for instance if you learn spanish then both portuguise and italian should be alot easier for you to learn.

And finaly once you've learned a language, keep practicing it, reading news in that language, wathing news in that language and so on. But be carefull with songlyrics and poetry as @Irminsul said, because often songwriters and poets uses a fair bit of linguistic creativity in their writing, plus especially with poems it's important to keep in mind that languages evolve over time.

 

Yeah dutch is a funny language, for a lack of a better word. I undrestand most of it, but I don't speak it, it's kind of like a combination of german, and the scandinavian languages (Danish, Swedish and Norweigen) mixed together and then an occasional english word is thrown in

Yeah quarentine just made a mess of too many things.
In reality I suppose the easiest way to learn a new language is just like how you learned your native language, problem htere ofcourse is most people don't remember how they learned that

 

Learning languages can be really entertaining: you can watch your favourite series and cartoons on the language you are learning. Of course, the choice of the episode should depend on your level and it shouldn't be too hard.

 

I think you might be right threre, at least from what I know about the method

 

I think we are born with language . There are dialects that emerge . And then dialects become codified until there is
alienation from the essential and natural meaning . Example : two words that sound the same may come to have
different meanings . It gets too weird .

Grin and bare it .

 

Don't know if it will work for you but there a bunch of Russian language videos on YouTube .