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Originally Posted by elnina
Get you books and tapes from Berlitz ( most big bookstores has them ) for the basics. Then travel. Nothing compares to learning "live". You can spend tons of $$$ on learning in the best Language School ( Berlitz again , but if you don't plan to travel so soon you finish it and practice ( read, listen while you there ) you will forget most of what you learned. If you don't want to travel see if you can join any club/group of people that speak this language.
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The way to learn a language ...
The best way is *Total immersion*, but is also the most difficult to engage in.
So the next best way is to do like all other things learned.
1 - Read (see what you learn)
2 - Speak (hear your own voice)
3 - Listen (to a source, other then your own voice)
Thus Elnina has one of the best suggestions, tapes and books.
You definitely need some grammar, and then just a vocabulary of about 500 to 1000 words (Memory). Then after that practice, practice, practice.
I realise, Rosetta is pricey, but I think Microsoft has one in French, not so pricey, and is a good start.
Elnina and I are polyglots, so learning another language is rather easy for us. Still the (1,2,3) methodogy above, is the same.