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Hallo, everybody. I’m a big foreign language lover and my goal is to learn more than 20 languages in the next 3-4 years.
I think this is totally realistic goal for me, and it’s also very empowering. I’m 18 and my native language is Serbian. I understand English and German, and I’m learning Japanese(I learned more than thousand kanji so far), Mandarin and Spanish.

The main problem for me is that I can’t see the end to my goal(for individual language), and cannot determine what time frame will I need. Learning English took me 5 years of learning everyday for a bit, but learning German took me 1 year and it was very fun to make huge progress so fast.

The best method I found is to buy a good textbook and learn the basics(grammar, sentence structure, vocabulary) for 1-2 months.
Than start reading articles looking up every unfamiliar word in the dictionary and writing it down.
As time goes by there are going to be less and less unfamiliar words until there are almost none.

Today I had an idea which I haven’t tried but I think it could possibly work.
Step 1. Learn the basics like I wrote above.

Step 2. You should have a newspaper, or a book in the language you want to learn because all words you need to learn are there.

This is the crazy idea
Step 3. Start reading and pay close attention to every word. Say it a few times and notice how it sounds and looks on the paper, although you don’t have a clue what it means.
Do this with every word in the book or the newspaper every day for 2-3 hours. You will become familiar with the vocabulary and you will notice the words that are frequent . Do this for a month or two and you will be familiar with every word you need to know.

Step 4. The previous step will make learning the meanings very easy as the words are already in your memory. Take a dictionary and look them up.

Tell me your opinion. Do you think this could work. Or is it a stupid idea.