Fastest way to learn a language

I need to learn full-blown Italian in one year, and I already know alot of French and some Romanian. Halp?

What are you doing here then? STUDY, NOW.

uhh...you already know a lot of french and some romanian so you should ALREADY know how much work is required to learn italian in a year. why dont you HALP us learn some goddam language. christ.

The quickest way to learn a language is to find a girlfriend who speaks only that language.

who teh gsck needs a girlfriend? the best way is to speak it. move to italy, or start a language-per-skype service. i'm sure 99% of italy's population would love to talk to some random dude, and learn him a few tricks.

lol, >>4 has a good point. Best way to get used to a language is total imersion (as in, moving to Italy, but that sounds like it's what you're doing). Short of that, hard study and partial imersion.


Once you get basic italian down, (which shouldn't be hard if you already know french and english) try to find a forum or MMO with italian only boards/servers. Reading a lot will help, and talking to actual italians will keep it interesting, not to mention you'll learn things from a native speaker that you won't learn from a text book (Slang, history which will be useful when you're actually in italy, pop culture which again will be useful for conversing)

IRC could work very well too. Just be sure not to act like an idiot.

>>1
I need to learn full-blown Japanese in one year, and I already know alot of Kanji and some Romaji. Halp?

>>7 Learn Katakana, then Hiragana, then start with basic kanji.


Kill yourself next january because you're fucking insane to try to learn japanese in one year.

>>7
Study abroad if you think you can handle being in a world completely different from the one you were raised in.

>>7
http://pepper.idge.net/japanese/

>>10
haha fucking signed

seriously, watching foreign films always helps.

>>12
seriously, living in the country for a while helps.

fixed. If he's serious about it.

hay guyz if i wach animay all day i'l lrn jp super fzt!

>>10 wins hard

>>13
it's not really effective if he's starting from scratch, which from the sounds of things he is. otherwise he'll just get screwed over in DIVE country.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy

>>17
Nigger.