Unless you have superhuman discipline specifically in the area of studying languages, there is no substitute for immersion. Book yourself a semester abroad (bu

Unless you have superhuman discipline specifically in the area of studying languages, there is no substitute for immersion. Book yourself a semester abroad (but not in one of the spoonfed foreign vacation programs most Universities sponsor -- find a program yourself). Or enroll in a language school. Choose a homestay, not a dorm. Stick with it for at least three months. Limit your English internet time and make local friends. Intense studying with flashcards for vocabulary is also important and should be done every day. There is no substitute for thirty minutes without fail each morning. If you keep it up for a year, your word power in the new tongue will explode. But it must be every day. Use native materials as soon as you can and make your vocabulary lists from them. A tutor can really help with that in the early stages. Get a tutor or some one-on-one lessons to sharpen your pronunciation. You're pronouncing things wrong and no matter what the studies of casual students say, serious learners can adopt native accents with practice at any age. It takes hundreds of hours of practice to make muscle memory work and you need regular correction. This is the only stage where instruction is indispensable. Practice pronunciation constantly. Do it on the way to work or school, in the shower, all the time. It doesn't take brains -- you could almost do it in your sleep -- but you need hundreds of hours of practice. Muscle memory. Arabic is really hard (and useless for picking up girls). You should expect it to take years and years. If you can't live abroad, it may never come to you. If you're only studying on-and-off, you might not have the discipline. Maybe consider an easier alternative. (Pretty much anything but Korean is easier.)