Personally, I found I cannot learn languages through apps like Duolingo, nor through regular education. What works for me: - associate words with their meanin

Personally, I found I cannot learn languages through apps like Duolingo, nor through regular education. What works for me: - associate words with their meaning. This means not trying to translate words into their counterpart in a different language. So no flash cards with words on both sides, but with pictures. - listen to music. This helps me develop a feeling for the language, where I understand the beginning and end of words, and intonations. - watch simple shows in the foreign language. Kids shows, cooking shows. Stuff where the context is obvious, so once again I am not secretly “translating”. - going on holidays or booking a conversation with a language coach. Because understanding and production are two different brain areas (wernicke vs broca), so there are languages which I can understand, but not speak.