A polyglot marketed his method a couple years ago that makes sense to me. >But basically: buy a Lonely Planet phrasebook. Learn full phrases off, use them. Get

A polyglot marketed his method a couple years ago that makes sense to me. >But basically: buy a Lonely Planet phrasebook. Learn full phrases off, use them. Get courses like Assimil, Teach yourself, Colloquial and use that for a little bit more of a base. Use it. Practice a tonne. When you are somewhat comfortable in the language, then (and only then) study some grammar to tidy it up. Practice more.[1] I imagine starting with common phrases and pronunciation cuts through the learning curve. 1. https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/y70v0/by_request_i_ama_polyglot_multilingual_person/ https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/y70v0/by_request_i_am...