There's a lady who has been translating disney songs into latin. Find her on Youtube. Singing is considered to be a great method for enhancing language learning along with movement while speaking. Reading, a lot, is also recommended.
Like physical sports, stay at a low level so you start to feel the flow rather than struggle with too many words you don't understand. Teaching skiing, I found the worse thing beginners and intermediates could do was to ski on terrain that was too hard rather than go faster on the easy slopes. It could put them back years. When you're in that place, though, you can't see it for yourself.
Fluent language is a matter of prediction. That's why a fluent speaker can sometimes try to finish your sentences, even if they don't get it correct, they have a pattern to predict from (in their head) Each word, in a linear fashion, begins to limit what can be said next.
Like physical sports, stay at a low level so you start to feel the flow rather than struggle with too many words you don't understand. Teaching skiing, I found the worse thing beginners and intermediates could do was to ski on terrain that was too hard rather than go faster on the easy slopes. It could put them back years. When you're in that place, though, you can't see it for yourself.
Fluent language is a matter of prediction. That's why a fluent speaker can sometimes try to finish your sentences, even if they don't get it correct, they have a pattern to predict from (in their head) Each word, in a linear fashion, begins to limit what can be said next.