My main downfall throughout my language learning escapades is definately trying to remember new vocabulary that I've learnt and trying to remember the writing systems as I almost always manage to choose a language that has a different writing system to english! It seems sometimes that I spend hours learning words, phrases, grammar points, and sentences, but always seem to forget it all the next day and need to relearn it from scratch again!! It can be quite disheartening at times. I suppose it's just practise as I've found, with my better known language, I can learn new things quicker and easier then my newer acquired ones. Overall, I would say it perhaps comes down to physically using and speaking it aloud that will allow me to remember new items, but it's hard to get up the courage to do it. Does anyone else struggle or have any particular tips or methods to remember what they've learnt?