Hi. I'm currently learning a new language, too. In the past 4 months, I helped my husband learn a new language (one that I know and he didn't at all). I also used to be an immersion language teacher myself. So, tell me more about your learning approach. What resources do you have or plan to get?

In general the best thing would be to work consistently for short periods each day, say half an hour a day. When you can concentrate more, you can go longer, say up to 2 hours. Another good tip is integrate it into your life - post words and phrases around your home, for visual learning and repetition. You can also make little matching and memory games with cards. That can be for pronunciation, meaning, making a sentence - you can build up more complex tasks with the same little card set. (I use small bits of cardboard, making a set of 20 pairs by cutting up just a couple of small filing cards.)

What are your goals? Reading? Listening? Speaking? Think about how you are going to use this language, because that shapes how you should learn. A natural way to start is with greetings and then common functions such as counting, shopping, getting and giving directions, finding your way around town and on transit, all the kind of stuff you'd find in the back of a travel guidebook. But if you want to learn Roman and classical Greek, I'd take a different approach. Certainly it always helps to have audio recordings to train your ear. My public library has joined the Mango service (which is why I started studying just now) and it is great for getting you started. Perhaps you have access to something similar in your community.

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