> Best way to learn [to understand] a language is to watch tv and movies.

There's no replacement for having to dig into the "vocabulary bag" and pull out a word when you need it, or the "fluency" that comes from having someone ask you a question that you have to string together multiple vocabulary words _in the right order_ to answer

It's like any homework: it's the challenge that solidifies the pathways, otherwise just sitting in a calculus class would be all one needed to become Laplace

I do 30 mins to an hour of a language every day. After I’m done in Duolingo I work my way through a news story on a local news aggregator (I.e. dumbed down) website using Google Translate to figure out things I don’t understand by picking out words. I find trying to identify phrases in the articles useful as it’s starting to give me a sense of basic idiom.

Feels like a good way to consolidate and push forward. It also gives me a bit of culture since news articles are revealing of the way people think.