Listening and reading have made up the bread and butter of my language learning since I was

13. My highly effective language learning method has developed from that.
The method is simple. I study every day (1 2 hours max). Shortcuts sound sexy and give you
a short-term buzz, but the effects fade away quickly. My method is efficient and gets you
fluent in the long term.
Quality of study in the initial stages makes the difference between an excellent and an
average student.
The four components
Four components are required to learn a language:
Listening
Repeating
Writing
Translating*
(* Translating from your own language into the target language (the opposite of what people
often do) is vital.)
My method allows me to retain 80% of what I study.