How to ACTUALLY learn a language from scratch

I have studied a dozen of languages in my life and now I can confidently say that I speak four

or five of them with a quite decent level fluency so I'm often surprised how learning

a new language seems impossible to so many people and how people give up halfway through

the process when the hardest parts are actually behind them today I want to share with you how

I go about studying a language from scratch and some of the challenges you might be facing when

studying a language and how you might want to go about overcoming them so first let's start

with the basics you would obviously start with the alphabet from my experience there are some

alphabets that are easier to learn like the Korean hunger but some are more difficult

like the Arabic alphabet in which the shapes of the letters change according to their positions

in the word or like Hebrew or the celic alphabet which have basically two sets of alph alphabets

printed and cursive there's the Chinese writing system which is actually not an alphabet but a

system composed of an enormous amount of local graphs and you will have to remember hundreds

if not thousands of local graphs before you are able to read a passage but you can always

start with P an alphabet created for beginners or children to study Chinese characters it's

the same in in Japanese if you run into kzi you could always start with or KAG you would

also be exposed to the basic phones of the language when studying the alphabet as well

as some some basic pronouns like I or you or he or she or this or that some languages like

Mandarin uh or Vietnamese or or taii have are tonal languages they have different tones that

my takes some getting used to at the beginning you will have trouble telling the differences

between those tones but after a while your brain will get used to it it after that there's

grammar besides subject pronouns like we mentioned um there's also going to

be we normally start with the present tense and other simple grammatical Concepts like

gender like in French or Spanish there's the the masculine gender and The Feminine gender

and other basic case particles like in Korean and Japanese and as well as in Russian um wiger

that I've studied there are cases some are more complicated some are are easier and after that

you will be able to say an enormous amount of things like he is a professor she is a doctor

is or things like they make

dinner

and adding on to that you will start studying more complicated

grammar like other tenses for example past tense or the future tense and also to Express location

or direction or time and in some languages there are more complicated case structures in English

it's really simple it's just like I and me but in languages like German or Russian the

case system is way more complicated so this part might be a little challenging some grammatical

structures might be counterintuitive a little bit hard to understand and hard to memorize

but remember practice makes perfect do the grammar exercises in the textbooks memorize

some phrases and sentences with these grammatical structures if you do enough of these the grammar

will be internalized and will become natural so at this point you will be able to express

way more sophisticated ideas like he was walking to school and got hit by a car

and despite of how how many things you're able to understand and Express at this stage this is