Being immersed in another culture is a known method of acquiring fluency fast, but I take into account that it might not be for everyone. Having said that, one

Being immersed in another culture is a known method of acquiring fluency fast, but I take into account that it might not be for everyone. Having said that, one of the easy ways (as in approachable, maybe not so much efficiently) of taking advantange of such contact with another culture, in my experience, is to watch movies based in the country (or countries) with a subtitle on the same language; of course, a transcript is better than an adaptation. That way you not only get access to context, which I think is a great way to assist in understanding, but also learn a bit about manneirism and varied pronunciation. Two things that are hard to grasp in courses and instructional videos. Just for disclosure: I'm Brazillian. If you rate my English skills poorly, bear in mind that I've never took a course whatsoever. OTOH, American/English content has influenced my childhood (and culture actually) to such a degree that makes me biased, but the argument for movies as a tool in this case doesn't seem so far off to me, TBH.