Learning a new language - how fascinating and romantic does that sound!!  Quite a lot, does it not?  But how many of us at some point of time; have started learning and new language, and left it half way through. Because, it is tough.  Because it is frustrating, how awfully slow we make progress.  Because, how much we have to twist our tongues for the pronunciation to become perfect.  Because, trying to remember the grammar of new language, we almost forgot grammar rules of our mother tongue.  You can go to language schools, take language courses from affiliated institutes,  go for an online subscription of a language course,  use a 'learn Spanish in 100 days' book, or just learn it from a friend ...this arduous effort can have all these and lot more such 'becauses'. Tough part is, these are not mere excuses.

So here are some tricks that could make things easier.

1. Before you decide upon learning a new language, give it a good thought.  Its not just all fun and romantic. It is a rough and bumpy road ahead.  There would be times, when you would really want to quit.  It needs patience, determination, endurance and most important... love.
2. Be positive.  Look at not how slowly you are making progress, but how many words or grammatical functions you are learning every day (or every week for that matter).  Well it took you years to learn your mother tongue, with people around you speaking that language all the time.  I am not even considering here the scientifically proven fact that, children learn faster than adults, especially when it comes to languages.
3. Plan your language learning. The schools or books would always give guidelines about this.  As a rule of thumb, you should first learn words; say nouns and pronouns, then verbs, and then adjectives and adverbs etc etc.  Than should come basic grammar rules, simple sentence formations.  Next you can go for detailed grammar, and complex sentence formation.  There goes the rule, but you are the boss to decide upon which works the best for you.
4. Make use of a Notebook. Do not try to remember everything, believe me it is difficult.  We are so many things going on in our lives; work, family, friends, hobbies... we cannot use our brain to remember some new words with weird pronunciations we are learning.  Write down the words, grammar forms etc and have it handy most of the times.  Just open that notebook and go through it when you have some free time at work or when you are commuting. Write down when, you think of a new word, the translation of which you want to know to ask your teacher.
5. Try to learn the culture of the country/place this new language belongs to.  It makes the learning more interesting. Also you can get more familiar with the usage of the words or sentences you are learning.  Once you get a fair grasp on the language, try to learn the slangs of that new language.  It would bring you a step closer to the heart of that language and culture.

So keep these check points handy, and get set on a romanticendeavour.  Believe me, learning a new language is really fun!