Well there's a few ways, you can go to a learning centre or learn the language on a website on the internet though some require fee's to learn.

At school and if that isn't possoble then probably something like an online course

Pint wrote At school and if that isn't possoble then probably something like an online course

Thats the annoying thing ive finished school now but when i was learning French i just pissed about every lesson and didnt pay attention plus my best friend was fluent in French and he sat next to me so i had an advantage now i regret not paying attention.

English was a language I had to learn when I moved to America, from Russia. I have had almost 9 years to continue speaking the language but up until about 4 years ago, I was still struggling badly with it. I ended managing by being in public school where everyone spoke English, which made it easier for me to pick up on dialect and how certain words were spoken (thank god slang wasn't too big a thing at that school or I would have been screwed over.) Also watching TV in English with English subtitles helped me. I would spend online reading the alphabet, to help me with reading. I won't deny it became overwhelming, mostly because I felt I had to learn it as soon as I could, being in a new place and everyone here speaks that language. I had one classmate who spoke a little Russian, which helped with translating at the start, after that, it was just constant studying and hearing how words sound until now, where I feel I am fluent in English, despite now and then it becoming broken when I'm not really thinking about it.

My tips for it, would be start off with learning the alphabet, how they're pronounced, are there any hard/soft sounding letters you should be aware of. Once you get that down, I would take some practice tests online for the language, if you get a lot wrong, that's okay, you're learning. Watch a show on your computer or TV in that language, but with English subtitles at first, so you can try to follow along, after you start getting the hang of the language, see if you can find it with that subtitles in that language. Find books, listen to streams, take tests once you become comfortable with it. If you can find someone or even multiple people online who speaks the language you want, ask if they can help you.

A friend of mine used these sites for I believe Japanese.

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If all else fails, you can see about finding a language tutor or classes near where you live and go from there, but learning the alphabet of that language before going there, will make things a lot easier for you, so you don't feel stumped with all of this info happening at once.

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Father-Doug wrote What would you say is the best way to learn a language that does not include going to a country that speaks the language?

Everything TaigaAisaka said was completely correct.

My Finnish friend told me he learnt English by watching movies and TV shows and over time he began to understand things and what they meant.

My cousin can speak fluent French and Spanish and she learnt it all with a school textbook on each subject and just writing out the meanings of the words and learning them.

Whatever works for you buddy