ReadOasis Step 2

What's the best way to learn a foreign language? As a linguist, I hear this question all the time. My students are in Japan, and many of them want to learn English. So they often ask me, "What's the best way to improve my English?"

Students ask many other questions, too, like:

"Should I memorize long lists of words?"
"Should I buy a bunch of heavy books to help me prepare for tests?"
"Should I repeat many sentences over, and over, and over, and over?"
"Should I spend ...