Is it to be able to understand the spoken language? Of a kid, an adult, for work, in social situations?
Is it to be able to speak it? For what purpose, how often, how well?
None of the tools for "learning" a language really address this. They are all kind of linear and very vague about what skills you are training. Most of the popular ones feel like just memorizing words and phrases.
In my experience, the only way to "fully learn" a language, is to be fully immersed, i.e. for months, pretty much exclusively, read/listen/speak the language - watch movies, read news, talk to as many people as possible, all in that language. Unfortunately, pretty much the only way to do that is to move to a country that natively uses the language and ideally have a native significant other that you interact with a lot. Also, usually the biggest barrier is being ashamed of making mistakes, most people stay quite because they are afraid of sounding stupid in another language, so they miss out on most of the best potential learning experiences.
Is it to be able to read it? At what level?
Is it to be able to understand the spoken language? Of a kid, an adult, for work, in social situations?
Is it to be able to speak it? For what purpose, how often, how well?
None of the tools for "learning" a language really address this. They are all kind of linear and very vague about what skills you are training. Most of the popular ones feel like just memorizing words and phrases.
In my experience, the only way to "fully learn" a language, is to be fully immersed, i.e. for months, pretty much exclusively, read/listen/speak the language - watch movies, read news, talk to as many people as possible, all in that language. Unfortunately, pretty much the only way to do that is to move to a country that natively uses the language and ideally have a native significant other that you interact with a lot. Also, usually the biggest barrier is being ashamed of making mistakes, most people stay quite because they are afraid of sounding stupid in another language, so they miss out on most of the best potential learning experiences.