1. Focus on language content that is relevant to you.

2. Use your New Language as a Tool to Communicate from Day 1.

3. When you first UNDERSTAND the MESSAGE, you will ACQUIRE the Language.

4. You need to be tolerant of ambiguity.

5. Listen a lot

6. Get the meaning first before you get the words

7. Get a language parent (bed dictionary)

   1. Works to understand what you are saying
   2. Does not correct mistakes
   3. but confirms understanding by using correct language
   4. uses words the learner knows

• Direct connect meanings to words, not your L1 words to L2 words. Remember words are just IDs.

COMPREHENSIBLE INPUT

The best methods are therefore those that supply 'comprehensible input' in low anxiety situations, containing messages that students really want to hear. These methods do not force early production in the second language, but allow students to produce when they are 'ready', recognizing that improvement comes from supplying communicative and comprehensible input, and not from forcing and correcting production.

In the real world, conversations with sympathetic native speakers who are willing to help the acquirer understand are very helpful.
Stephen Krashen