There are many good ways to learn a language. The path I will outline in this website is one of them. There are also many bad methods, and I hate watching students struggle down those dead end roads. But if you follow all the steps in this program, I can guarantee you learn that language. As you read through this website, you may want to modify my process in your own way. That is fine. The important thing is that you learn how languages are learned and avoid making the same mistakes I did.

I studied Spanish rigorously from 8th grade until my first year of university. But after all those years, I still couldn't hold a basic conversation. That's because studying a language is one of the least effective methods of learning to speak it. If you've wasted countless hours memorizing verb conjugations, prepositions, spelling rules, exceptions to those rules, and exceptions to the exceptions, you probably ended up like me.

This website is a comprehensive how-to guide. It will give you all the information you need to get started learning any language, and continue on until you have mastered it. The key element you'll notice is that (with a few exceptions) we learn languages by using them, not studying them. What do I mean by that? We can break down language usage into four separate skills: Speaking, Listening, Reading, and Writing. These are the only four skills you need to practice.