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will never be used. If anything, just watch a whole lot of foreign dramas and slowly incorporate the meanings that come with sentences or words. Later connect these words to it’s written form and boom, you learned a phrase that would ( or would not ) be used in daily life. You could probably break apart that sentence and use pieces of it in other sentences. Just keep doing it for every sentence (if it’s fun for you, because having fun is the best way to stay motivated) you want to know, and you’ll eventually have things down in concrete. Think to yourself, “what would be a cool thing to say in this language?” And put those thinking caps on and the internet ready for research. Learning a few sentences every week in both speech and written form could be a goal of yours, and by learning about 6 sentences every week (which actually isn’t that much, only about 2 hours a week or to make it seem even smaller, nearly 1/4 of an hour a day) for a year, you’ll have near fluency (of course this is exaggerating, but 312 sentences is more than enough to get by, as long as there’s variety in word usages). In truth, I didn’t even use that many words, only about 400 unique words are in this article currently and look how long it is! By

knowing 312 sentences with about 4~5

unique words in each, you’ll have an

easy time going through books

of that new language.