How should you learn a language on your own?

Duolingo helps.

You can get the basics by yourself, from online, books, apps, etc., but you don't really learn a language from a book. You have to talk to people who speak it, that's the only way it sticks.

There are international language exchange websites you can use, most of the people on those sites are up for Skype audio conversations and will exchange their language for English practice. It's a great way to make friends worldwide.

But the best way is to find a conversation group in your city. That way you can meet face-to-face with people and get some raw practice. Don't be afraid to make mistakes and guess work during conversation. They will happily correct you. :)

Are there restaurants in your city of the language you're learning? Marketplace? Do you listen to music in the language you're learning? All of these things can help.

Good luck.

Listen to songs and watch movies in that language. Try to communicate with the native speakers whenever you can. Set a daily goal of the number of new words that you want to memorize. Don't be afraid of making mistakes, and learn from them. Buy interactive language books and do grammar exercises on them.

Start watching movies in that language

Music (and/or movies) and children's book. Start with some tutorials on the basics first though. Depending on the language(s) you can even find good ones on YouTube.

have a few resources, stick to them, move forward on each book and app at the same time, make lots of sentences, have imaginary conversations with furniture, when watching something in ur target language try to have ur own response to what they say, have sticky notes all alaround around on difficult words/grammar, try and translate every word and number u see or hear to that language, even ur thoughts, even if it's one word inbetween or less.




don't expect Duolingo to be the answer.

finding someone native to help u through would be great

One thing I find is that it's good to get a number of books that cover the same material. Often fine points that may seem obvious to the author, though confusing to the beginner, are overlooked in one text, but covered in another. Regular interaction with a native speaker of the language you are learning could be very valuable too - even though you're learning yourself and not relying on them to teach, as such.

Speak it with others. Which language?

Buy one of those books for foreigners. Those contain words for the most common things and gradually increase with the grammar instead of a step by step method.

Keep working at it every day and spend at least 2 hours doing so...that's how I learned french, german,russian, and spanish...Klingon is more difficult

learning to read another language can be done easily, but to speak it well, you need to talk to someone in that language. immersion.

stick it notes with the names of things you use every day is a start

Go online, Google, YouTube... Get books!

To really learn a language one has to use it regularly. So living in a community, country or even with a family who speak it at home , with actions and gestures matching really is the key to success. Anyone can learn to read Shakespeare off a page. But its not until you see it performed that it comes to life.

Babbel? One of those computer courses?

Books I suppose

Computer program.

Audio lessons.

language as in Chinese, Japanese..etc
or computer programming language?

I subscribed to a language podcast and youtube channels