-Listen a lot, you should aim listen and understand almost perfectly standard day to day conversations, before worry about being fluent, You cant be fluent(and

-Listen a lot, you should aim listen and understand almost perfectly standard day to day conversations, before worry about being fluent, You cant be fluent(and correct phonetically) if you didnt ear the word many times, (and by diferent people). And you need to understand perfectlly, it means fast, if your brain is slowly thinking about how to speak, your mouth will be too, So listen and understand well first. -School might be good for the first basis, forget it soon (at least for easier languages). -Find something interesting in this language, about your work, about your hobby, looking local series helps a lot, language+cultural. -Be around people who dont speak your first language.