help: to learn a foreign language well

Learning a New Language may cause some difficulty in the beginning,but once you have a core vocabulary and the basics of grammar and sentence structure,it does get easier.I Learned Some French in School and College,German as part of my Job,and Currently work with French,Spanish,and Eastern European staff..My best recommendation to learn would be to immerse yourself in the Language until you can think in that Language.Good Luck with your Studies !

No I don't feel it strange when a foreigner speaks my language... I encourage it. Having been raised with people from all different cultures, i.e. Asian, Spanish, European, etc., I am probably more common to lingual challenges then most others. Even in this language (English), for example, the truth is: I don't speak English, I speak Americanlish... a distinct and lively subset - aka dialect - of the root English. I know this because I have English friends and family and find it a bit challenging to understand their cultural references. For example, until I realized what a dumbwaiter was, I felt it rude to call a waiter dumb - especially given the tone and frequency of the usage. Similarly, and per your profile, as someone of Chinese descent, you should understand what I am conveying here better than anyone as Chinese history shows so much difference in language and culture from village to village, even neighboring villages, especially in the past, that each village was nearly an island onto itself! Through my meager and haphazard attempt at studying Asian languages - including Mandarin, Japanese, and Vietnamese - I learned that these languages still retain a wide variety of dialects so the collegiate study of said languages is as ineffective and borderline pointless as is the collegiate study of Spanish. My collegiate Spanish studies taught me formal, professional Spanish that is spoken only in Spain - assumedly - but does little to help converse with the less formal dialects of Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, Cubans, etc.