Well… now, for the READINGS, it’d be interesting to go for a comic book.. - in these the idea is that, when encountering a unfamiliar word, even before going for the dictionaries you, some times, get its meaning by the “context” in the drawings.

Another interesting approach to the language would be ‘children’s books’ as mentioned by “Jennifer” ..simply ‘cause most of them have pictures/drawings and, above all, the level of grammar used is very oversimplified. And also, and best of all in my honest opinion, ‘graded books’…cos they come also simplified grammar(according to specific levels of knowledge of the language), for beginners to intermediate they’ve got pictures, as well; moreover, and certainly one their most interesting features is that most of them come with audio in CDs. There’s more, but I would certainly go for ‘Macmillan’ and ‘Penguin’ readers.. two of my favourite ones) : )

I hope I’ve been of some help. : )

Of course, there’re always remarkably gifted people scattered throughout this vas planet with at/on just about everything we can think of.. so, eventually, you’ll stumble upon someone who’s a ‘live translator’ or simply have fun translating every single word/collocation/idiom/clause/sentence/speech they encounter in their path.
If you’re one of them, go for it! : )

The other ‘technique’ I’ve mentioned is a very well-known one.. and it’s called ‘immersion’.

Basically, it is compound of two separated, yet very intrinsically connected processes called ‘output’ and ‘input’.

‘Output’ – comprehended as the concept of “generating” the language.. and the way(“process”) you should use it is – using in your writing(notebooks, journals, reports, etc…) and speaking(at least, when ‘thinking out loud’ or the so-called ‘shower talk’(which is basically talking to yourself about what you’re feeling at the moment and what you’ve done/made in the day so far and, then talk to yourself about your future plans, goals and how to best approach them, if you he any of course)) as much as possible or as much as you can.

‘Input’ – comprehended as the concept of in-taking information by means of reading or listening.. as much as you possibly can, just as well.

To better illustrate it.. for example, when looking up the word “storm” in the dictionary.. you’ll find something like: “very bad weather with strong winds and heavy rain”(cos at this point you’ll probably already know the words – “bad, weather, strong, winds” and “rain”.. and be able to infer the meaning of “heavy” in a new context.. and if not? Then you look it also up and, in the Oxford dictionary, in the second entry it’ll come up as: “more or worse than usual in amount, degree, etc”.. then, if still having trouble with the word “amount”, you’ll look it, also, up and, again, in the second entry it’ll make it very clear as the dictionary states - “a quantity of something”. So that whenever you want to generate(write or speak) the concept of “storm” ever again.. your brain will take you to those words AND NOT another translation, thus putting the mother tongue “farther and farther” behind. In this way it creates a chain of reaction upon each and every word. this combined with another technique proved to be the very best approach to fluency. : )

A2 – still at this stage, depending on your IQ(“how capable you are in learning languages”), it’d be helpful to keep on translating the language to your mother tongue(native language) and vice versa.. so that when you have a more or less the knowledge to understand most of what’s given to you when looking up a word in a official native online dictionary(i.e. Oxford, Cambridge, etc…) you should stop doing it and henceforth use only the dictionary of your preference – thus, making connections(“wiring”) in your brain from the newly acquired knowledge from the target language to the very same language itself back and forth.. which creates a far smoother and more native-like “performance” when generating(both writing and speaking) it.

This is going to be a bit long.. sometimes I wrote in a intermediate level, but I tried to write it at my best- so that, you’ll have this comment as a future reference till you reach the advanced level. It was my pleasure to take this whole time to write this at the best of my current capacity to help you and, of course, the others that will visit this page.. cos when I was at your stage/level I didn’t have anyone to help me.. therefore, I learnt the language pretty much alone. And, on top of it all, I had very little clue on how to use the internet to study languages properly. But, I made it for I enjoyed it so so much.. that to this day it has never been boring.. just tiring. So, here you go. Hope you guys enjoy it. And as “Nadezhda” said: “And don't worry about making any mistakes, we are all people”. : )

Well… I see you’ve rated your English knowledge as a “A2 – elementary”.. so, I’ll commence by addressing that specific stage/phase.

Great question!! It clearly shows you've already made the first, and probably the most important, step which is to WANT to study therefore progress/enhance/improve...

Now, regarding your question... well, such advice is really extensive, as mentioned by 'Greg' in the first comment - so, for each and every stage of a language learning process(commonly as well as mainly referred as 'basic', 'intermediate', 'advanced' and the so called 'pre-' or 'pro-' that, at specific times, come in between. Nonetheless, I'll try my best to make it as much useful as I possibly can. : )