I learned 80% of my current (high) level of English when I was about 14 in about a year, besides the 3 or so hours at school I tried to immerse myself in the la

I learned 80% of my current (high) level of English when I was about 14 in about a year, besides the 3 or so hours at school I tried to immerse myself in the language any way I could, and I achieved a good reading, writing and listening level (spoken came with practice later), I did: - listen to songs and follow the lyrics - read simplified books or children's books - watch movies with subtitles in English - listen to American radio - read computer British magazines Picture dictionaries and regular English dictionaries helped too. Extremely important, as in anything you want to learn is motivation, I was really motivated to learn. My only "pro tip" is not to memorize vocabulary using isolated words, but complete sentences. This was before the Internet, now I don't know what the excuse would be...