User blog comment:Razlem/How do you prefer to learn a language?/@comment-1883086-20100719230233

I find reading phrases and then their translations works really good for me, that way I try to piece part by part together. Of course, later it gets more complicated, especially if it's a language with cases and conjugations, but it's definitely a good start.

That, and I ask native speakers to speak as if they were speaking their language. So a phrase in Czech "Boli mě krku", would be worded "Hurts me throat" and I get a better feel for how stuff's worded. Good luck on learning whatever you're learning!