Here is a simple tip to help you to learn a language. This is a basic tip that applies to any language that you would like to learn, but many forget to apply it in the learning process. The tip is to take time to build relationships.
How will building relationships help you to learn a language? Well, it's quite simple. The more relationships you with natives of different backgrounds and cultures that speak your targeted language will help you to become more immersed in the language. There is something that natives of ANY language can teach you that you will never learn on your own nor from any textbook.
When you build relationships with natives you will be exposed to other ways of expressing the same thing in that language. For example, let's say that you would like to learn French. You can learn from French-speaking natives from Haiti, Senegal, Benin, Canada or even France just name to name a few countries. You can learn various ways to express different things as natives would in their respective countries. The benefit to this is that it will help you to widen out, expand your horizons, and become more proficient in the language. This is also beneficial in the event that later you would like to serve perhaps as an interpreter for the language. Now that have taken the time to learn and study French not only from some "textbook" or "one specific group" of native speakers, you will now be able to translate various idiomatic expressions that are used because you are familiar with them.
This is what really helps to make a person more proficient with a language. It's being exposed to every thing BREATHES speaking the language you want to learn. It's like learning to cook. You learn one way in the beginning. Then you learn from others that can teach other ways to prepare the same dish with a few additional ingredients. By taking the time to build relationships helps to achieve your very objective - to learn a language!
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