literally this! I speak 7 languages, and I could learn another just enough to have a basic conversation in a week or two. opinion: Most language teaching apps

literally this! I speak 7 languages, and I could learn another just enough to have a basic conversation in a week or two. opinion: Most language teaching apps and schools are pointless, and most just want you to keep using them. You need to remember how you learnt your language as a kid, you picked up on the basic vocabulary, tried to make elders understand using a single word along with gestures. grammar came much later. Do not ever start with grammar, Grammar is just a set of artificial arbitrary boundaries drawn by linguists with thousands of exceptions and spoken grammar is also very different from written grammar. do not use the apps or schools that teach grammar, they are a waste of your money and time unless you plan to give an exam. If you are a foreigner in a country, the natives wont care if you have bad grammar or no grammar at all as long as you put in the effort and are able to communicate your points. you can literally communicate in any language knowing just the top 100-200 hundred used words along with a bit of English and hand gestures. 1000 words and you understand most of what they are speaking and with 5000 words, people will think you have lived there for a few years.