I became fluent in English by watching TV shows, movies, etc without subtitles. I even picked up an American accent and people often ask me if I'm from the stat

I became fluent in English by watching TV shows, movies, etc without subtitles. I even picked up an American accent and people often ask me if I'm from the states :) I spent some time in Western Europe and I noticed that ,by default, they dub their movies instead of adding subtitles. I think this really affects the adoption of a foreign language as you are a lot less exposed to any other language than your own (outside of school, of course). On the other hand, movies are almost always subtitled in my home country, so a lot of people pick up basic English/Spanish/Turkish just from watching the TV. Anyways, I think you could benefit a lot from direct exposure to the language itself, without the 'safe zone' that a teaching environment offers. Getting out of your comfort zone and accepting that you don't understand every word being said in a conversation is an excellent catalyst that will force you to learn a language by association and body language analysis, not by just memorising words.