ASTRID
When I was learning French, once I knew a few basic words, I liked reading children's books. I found it very useful, because the sentences are very simple.
TOM
When I was learning German, I used to change the language on my computer games to German. Then I could pretend to my parents that I was learning, instead of playing. But it really did help me learn.
MASHA
When I learn a foreign language, I like watching DVDs in that language, er, with subtitles on so I can, er, pause and look in a dictionary what the word means and see how it's spelt. And also when I was in Germany learning German I changed the menu of my mobile phone into German, so that helped.