What is the best way to learn a new language?

Ok, remember how they used to teach kids to swim? lol. Toss yourself right in to the water and swim. I learned a bit of two additional languages just by being imersed in people who spoke it natively. The first of wich is spanish. I worked at a world famous resort here in my areaa for a few years, people came litteraly from all over the world to work there too. I worked with a bunch of college kids from Puerto Rico, most of whome spoke mostly spanish. I was out numbered by a long shot, so if I wanted in on a lot of the conversation, I figured i best get to learning a little. They would adress me directly in english, but there was still a lot of inside things and jokes, general conversation in the room, eyc that i missed out on. I actualy found spanish extremely easy to learn. Second one would be French, or more acurately, Quebecois' . I live 60 miles from the quebec border, we get a lot of tourism from there and I also travel up there a lot. In order to even go in to a tim hortons and order a coffee proved tricky if you spoke only english. Especialy in the rural areas it seems. Now, take the french you probably learned in high school, and toss it in the trash, it won't help you much. The dialect is so different, the accent is so different as well as the grammar structure and slang infusion. Whew. I did manage to learn enough to order that coffee, get basic directions, and know when I am being talked about, lol The thing with learning a language this way is you not only get contant practice, you get real life usage. You also learn the various short cuts all languages have, the slang, the cliche's and other nuances you don't get in a class room. Note on Rosetta Stone. My daughter used it in her senior year in highschool, through a language lab there. She spent a year on it and managed to become pretty fluid in gaelic with it.

Learning a new language should definitely be with the interest of the person. First step to learn a new language would be to learn alphabets, vowels, and numbers. Then start with common words and followed by sentence. When learning sentences its important to know the usage of gender. I guess there will be books available to learn letters, numbers, sentences. After this, person should practice speaking in the language with other ppl who are familiar with that language. This process will definitely be nice way to learn a new language.

The best way to learn a language is to speak the language with those who are very familiar with it. I have seen a lot of foreigners who are in my country and after a year or so, they are very fluent in speaking it. And when i investigate, I have known that they are with the people and using the language on a daily basis, first with an interpreter, and later on their own!

The best and cheapest way would be to listen to it. Research has shown that listening to the language is easier and fun for most. I wrote an article on it, a draft copy is on my blog http://palwashacyra.blogspot.com/2009/04/learn-japanese-with-bleach-anime.html

being with native speaker.and It's better to be that country.