How To Learn Any Language

Kids are often touted as better language learners than adults are. Hundreds of language learning products purport to facilitate learning like a child. Implicit within this assertion is that children learn organically and with minimal conscious effort. This is an enticing prospect for budding language learners, but is learning like a child really desirable?
Adult learners should not be underestimated. While it may take around six years for a child to be linguistically fully-functional (albeit without specialized vocabulary), an adult — with the potential to use both explicit (conscious) and implicit (subconscious) knowledge to his advantage — can reach an advanced communicative capacity in as little as one year. Perhaps that sounds bold.
The key to learning so many languages has been knowing how to combine the implicit skill development favored in childhood with the explicit acquisition of knowledge favored by adults. We can achieve the best of both learning styles by adhering to the following 5 key principles to learning vocabulary in any foreign language.
Contrary to what we may have learned in school, languages are not something that can just be dissected and memorized, like subjects in a textbook. Languages are complex human phenomena which demand the use of both explicit and implicit learning in order to be internalized and mastered. This is especially true when it comes to learning vocabulary, and every learner has potentially millions of words to choose from. With the five­ step system I have outlined above, you have the tools necessary to:
1) Choose the words you want/need to learn.
2) Relate them to what you already know.
3) Review them until they’ve reached your long­-term memory.
4) Record them so learning is never lost.
5) Use them in meaningful human conversation and communication.
It is through applying these principles that, most of adult people, have been capable of learning more than eleven languages to a high level. You can do this too. By following the above steps, you’ll be using your brain in a more efficient and effective manner, and you’ll be able to boost your learning in a way that you never thought was possible.