Many focus too much on understanding meaning, but what's crucial is also training your mouth and larynx muscles to form the sounds naturally. Yup, the value of

Many focus too much on understanding meaning, but what's crucial is also training your mouth and larynx muscles to form the sounds naturally. Yup, the value of simple vocal training part (combined with active listening, and occasional feedback on what one does day) seems to be greatly underappreciated. And the value of flashcard-based vocabularly training - generally overrated (beyond the very initial stages). That said, it seems difficult to even get to A1 without some actual formal understanding of the basic rules of grammar.