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Step 4: Be Patient and Prepared to Put in Effort

As goes with any undertaking, learning a language is hard work. It asks for a lot
of serious commitment from a person before they are able to even begin to reap
what they sow. An individual learning a foreign language should prepare to give
all that and more - even if their aim is only to be able to speak at a
conversational level. That means a ton of elbow grease; constant memorization,
practice, and practical usage. Patience goes hand in hand with learning a
language, like it does with most things.

Unless a person is superhuman, they should not expect to develop fluency
overnight. Without any diligent effort on their part, they should not expect to be
able to speak a language in a few years even. It takes a little more than just a few
hours of study every day. If a person does not put the skills they learn from
books to use, the knowledge will only expire and not flourish. Putting one's self
out there and taking initiative to learn the language is the only sure-fire way to
become fluent.