User blog comment:B214/Volume 23 discussion blog/@comment-28087053-20170320000237/@comment-10330822-20170320062222

Exactly, the more words you learn the better. Usually when learning a language, you try and do things like memorize and learn the alphabet, then work on vocab. After that, you work on simple sentence structure, putting words you've learned into sequence so they make sense in that language. This is usually much harder. After that, you work on even more vocab, which you can usually do by reading.

Ideally, the absolute best way is to get acquainted with people who speak it naturally that also speak something like English. That way, you can learn the big differences between the languages from them right away, because they've already had to bridge the language from the other side. I remember when I was learning German, German friends were best at explaining the main differences between where words go in German and where they go in English.