Thirdly, we have the grammars. Although language is only about communicating, letting the other party understand the context of the speech, it's still essential to learn the grammar aspect if you want to go beyond oral communication. Next, live conversation. You can do this in parallel with the second and third step. The aim of this step is crystal clear. Your language shouldn't end in a note book/exercise book or scrap notes. Having frequent dialogues in the new language also helps you migrating the grammars and vocabularies from short-term memory to long-term memory part of the brain, thus leveraging the auto-identification and auto-response mechanism for communication in that language. Last but not least, reading and writing. By doing both, not only do you jog your memories, you also get more vocabularies. Reading also enables you to learn how the language shifts, the current trend in the language, by analyzing modification to its usage in modern society. You got double hits.. And I have shot on my foot by telling you this secret. I should now go back and apply what I've written here. Good luck ;)

Everybody may have different perspective based on his/her experience. When you decide to go with somebody's recommendation, the mileage may also vary. So, no one-size-fits-all situation in learning a language. But let me rehash what my naivete has guided me so far. I'll put them into 2 parts since this system is so economical with key strokes. Darn, they must have never expected Shakespeare to chime in and deliver his speech ;) Okay, I'll start right away.. First, you need to learn the very fundamental element of the language, the characters. Like other far-eastern languages, Korean language utilizes pictograms in their characters. For latin character-based speakers, this simply implies a different method in mastering and comprehending the language as a whole. Learning by translating the pictograms into latin pronunciation equivalents won't work in most cases. Your learning curve won't be that steep. Putting it in simple expression, you should know how to read and write the pictograms and make yourself comfortable with it. Secondly, we have glossaries. Reminisce how you groped new vocabularies when you were so young. Mostly, new glossaries streamed into the cerebrum when you visualized the object pointed by a speaker in your mind. Therefore, you associate the concept of an object with its language equivalent. You may also do the some when you learn a new language, combined with other memorizing techniques.