Realistic expectations and unlearning

It would be easy (for me) to suggest what to do.
It would be just as easy (for you) to dismiss my suggestion.

I might recommend singing comics out aloud in the shower while chewing gum on both sides of your mouth and watching keeping your eye on a foreign sports commentary in the next room as the best way to learn another language. (Don't worry, I won't.) But most people would need some convincing before doing something dramatically different from how they were taught.

I don't see that as my role. Instead, I'd prefer to present my ideas as clearly as possible for someone to decide on their own whether or not it looked promising.

However, people have been schooled to expect certain outcomes from a language learning course. In their minds, they have certain fixed ideas about how the process ought to unfold. But to paraphrase Albert Einstein:

One is never going to solve a problem by thinking about them in ways that created the problem in the first place.

So for anyone to assess my method's worth, they are going to have to do some background reading around it with an open mind. They might need to undergo some 'un-schooling'.

Realistically . . .

• Learning another language takes time. However, that time may be pleasant, like the time you willingly spend in your basement on a hobby.
• You will forget things many times. That's how the brain is meant to work in order to get things from your short term into your long term memory.
• Getting things wrong is the right way. Failures aren't failures. They are partial successes getting gradually better and better (unless you become  upset by them and stop trying).
• You won't achieve the goals you set. Your brain will learn things at its own rate in its own order. If you force the issue, you will only get in its way.
• Input before output. It's cart-before-the-horse to try speaking and writing before you get the language firmly in place via listening and reading.
• Teachers may help, but no teacher can teach you a language. No one ever has. No one ever will. You do it yourself.
• You don't have enough will power to learn a language. We have a limited amount of will power to spread over our daily activity. It's better to make language learning a habit. It should be light, regular and stimulating.

On my blog The Play-fool Tongue you are welcome to dip into these and other aspects of language learning.