What's your way on learning a foreign language?

Your way of doing it is great. It is really good to start with the culture. For me, another way of learning the language easily is through songs. I just observed that when you hear a song in foreign language, even if you do not know the meaning, you can easily memorize it. So, if you know a song, you can start translating it and everything will make sense.:)

I read English magazines/newspaper and listen to English news. I also practice online,like doing exercise on vocabularies whatsoever. I practice my speaking with friends who graduated from English literature. when i was teenager, i started learning English by myself from music magazines and folktale books. It is very effective to build our vocabulary. Keep it up, guys!!

As for me, I'm not one who can study a foreign language only based on books or CDs. I can only learn if I go for classes especially classes taught by native speakers. I feel this may be the best way of learning a foreign language. The best is to practice, practice and practice.

Learning a language can be a time-consuming task. Worse still when one is not born a good learner. The only way to learn is to do it slowly. Nothing much can be learned with speed learning. I try to learn by having the knowledge source within my hands reach whether from books, dictionary or webpages. I read a lot day or night. I neglect the useless information. I repeat the whole process everyday until I finish learning a part of the foreign language. Its not necessarily that I master the language, my goal is to just be fluent enough to be able to converse what I need to say.

I speak tagalog, my native language, but I also learned how to speak English it's because it's aprt of our official language and we've been taught since we were little ones. I do love to learn how to speak other languages besides of English and tagalog, I wish to have foreign language classes but my time is kinda tight and the budget we have right now is intended for my major studies. So what I do, I go to translation machine online and try to type the words. I mostly translate English to spanish or french, those are 2 of the languages i really like to learn. With the spanish, we have already few words we knew because of the Spanish regime or reign in our country before but these ways aren't enough, i know that. It's hard to learn chinese, japanes, korean or arabic words using the online translator since the hand writing are on their native way. And also when I translate English to other language, there is this site where you can hear how they say it or pronounce it. It's really fun. I visited the site awhile ago and there was a problem something with their maintenance and I can't access it. I wish it will be fine anytime now.

mastering a second language for us Filipinos is not that hard because our very own country consists of so many local dialects and some groups of indigents dont even know how to speak Tagalog which is our national language. i belong to a certain group of tribe in southern Philippines, and we treat our local dialect as our primary language and, Tagalog which is our national language as secondary language. it is normal to us to have to adapt to many languages in a short time period in order for us to understand other Filipino citizens cuz we have different dialects for different tribal groups. people here learn English without even being taught because of televisions and reading materials. even kids who don't attend school understands English and can speak little but not fluently but when they grow up they eventually master it.

Learn basics and slowly build on. PRACTICE IS KEY!!!

I like languages very much. I have learned English, German and French at school and Italian in Italy, and last year I started learning Russian. I don't study Russian at a school, I have thought about taking a language course, but it is pretty expensive, and I can't afford it the moment, so I have decided to study on my own instead. At first I borrowed some books at the library, but they weren't that useful, and now I use the internet instead of books. I have found two great sites that I use a lot. One of them is a picture dictionary where and I can look at the pictures and listen to the pronounciation of the words.

you must first find a way to learn the basics. The ABC's and whatnot. After that, you gotta listen to the music. Translate them and get to know the phrases. Once you've got that down, read a lot, and at the same time, train the speach. You can learn anything in about a year or so, I beleive.