Learning A Foreign Language

[ck1]

Other than living in the country, what's the best way to learn a new language?

[woofgang]

practice practice practice

[ummmm]

My son is learning French. It's a free app.

[Old_Geezer]

Befriend an immigrant who has it as their native tongue ?

[carolegif]

Speak it as much as you can. Future Learn has free language courses.

[rockyracoon]

As Woofy says, but also watch films and read newspapers and books in the language. Join internet forums to speak with other learners

[1ozzy]

Surviving by it

[AZardoz]

Perhaps your library system offers this as a free service. Mine does.
https://mangolanguages.com/

Some good advice above.

[ichkeria]

Buy and study a good grammar book, whatever else you do

[Old_Geezer]

I checked out that Future Learn site. Strange. It tells you about some courses yet seemingly tries to hide others. There was a limited list of languages courses shown, but further down the page two reviews were referring to a Dutch course, which patently was not on the list. Turned out I had to use the search function to find the hidden courses !

[woofgang]

ich I don't think grammar matters as a primary thing....understanding and being understood come first

[Gizmonster]

I started learning Spanish approx 16 months ago and couldn't speak a single word when I first started (apart from the obvious hola, gracias, etc).
I'm using Duolingo .... it's free and it works .... I can personally vouch for it :)

[jourdain2]

I used Duolingo to learn a bit of Italian before I went there a couple of years ago. It's free and it does help basic vocab.. I can certainly recommend it (the bit about the boy eating a bee is a bit odd - and the same sentence arises in the French version). You need to understand the grammar as well though.