How To Actually Learn Any Language

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This is a summary of what I think is the best approach to learning a language, based on my experience mastering a foreign language as an adult.

Here you can download the software that I mentioned, Anki: https://apps.ankiweb.net/

Here is a page of links to word-frequency lists for German; similar lists can be found online for many other languages:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Frequency_lists/German

The cover art is from the painting "Before the Audience," which Jean-Leon Gerome completed in 1881.