A way to steal ten times as much from foreign language learning, especially for languages with orthography that matches spoken language, is what they call "exte

A way to steal ten times as much from foreign language learning, especially for languages with orthography that matches spoken language, is what they call "extensive reading." After you get Spanish verb conjugations memorized, for example, all you need is a dictionary to read. Reading an hour or two a day is powerful immersion - you'll notice yourself looking at the dictionary less and less, and the material that you're reading becoming more and more like the material you read in your first language. After a while you'll realize that you haven't looked up a word/phrase in days, and that you're annoyed when English language results come up when you know the coverage is better in your target language. You'll have your 2000 hours in a couple of years.