How does someone become fluent in a language that is not spoken in their area and that person cannot travel to where it is spoken?

Answer 1

Good Day!

Your goal in the early stages of a new language should be to focus on learning enough language to convey meaning and elicit new language without having to go back to your native language.

As soon as you kick off a new language endeavor aim to learn these things as soon as possible:

1. Pronouns and demonstratives.
2. Basic, most common nouns. These would include things like house, food, car, family, etc.
3. Simple prepositions. There are usually a lot of prepositions but focus on 5-10 basic, common ones.
4. Basic, most-used verbs. This would include verbs like walk, talk, go, come, sleep, eat, etc.
5. Easy adjectives. All you need are some common, very simple descriptive words like fast, tall, fat, good, etc.

You’ll pick up the antonyms over time.

Likewise you don’t need to memorize thousands of nouns. If you don’t know the word for washing machine for example, you could say “the thing I wash my clothes in”. Thing is a very handy word to know.

Arm yourself with enough basic language that you no longer need to rely on your own native language to communicate with people and you will be just as fluent as others!

I hope this has helped, just let me know if you have any other questions!