Fluent in 3 Months: How Anyone at Any Age Can Learn to Speak Any Language from Anywhere in the World

Spend a Couple of Hours Preparing
You can find a pretty good selection of premade phrases in travel phrase
books. These books also come with a pronunciation guide, so you don’t
have to worry about the phonetics of the language yet.
Learn some phrases through free online courses or free phrase or language
books from your local library. 
Phrases to start with:
“How are you?”
“What’s your name?”
“My name is . . .”
“I don’t understand.”
“Could you repeat that?” (Or the shorter “Again, please.”)
“Can you speak slower please?”
“What does [fill in the blank] mean?” (Or “What does that mean?”)
Use the keyword method for individual words or set phrases like “Yes,”
“No,” “Please,” “Thank you,” “Hello,” and “Good-bye,” although it’s very
likely you know some, if not all of these already!
This isn’t such a huge demand on your first day of learning a language.
No conjugation tables, no lists of the top thousand most frequently used
words, no memorizing every possible sequence of sentences—just a few
phrases and words for a very limited first exchange. Even if you claim to be
a terrible language learner, you can manage this, especially if you apply
some of my memorization suggestions or an alternative you prefer.
Your First Conversation
The time comes and you have an opportunity to speak in the mother
tongue of your conversation partner for the first time! The curtains open,
the spotlight focuses on you, and all you have to do is say . . . “Hello.”

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The person replies with “Hello.” You return a “How are you?” which
may be followed by “Fine, and you?” Just take it one phrase at a time.
Perhaps you are able to follow three or four entire question-and-answer
exchanges based on the phrases you think are likely to come up, or maybe
it’s just two exchanges before the person says something you don’t
understand. This is not the point when you give up, but the point when you
say, “I don’t understand. Could you repeat that?” See if you can extrapolate
from what is said next.
Rather than feel like you failed if you have to stop at some point, think
of these early exchanges as your first successful conversations in a foreign
language. Maybe the exchange lasts twenty seconds, or maybe just ten. The
point is that you are at a very different stage now compared to where you
were before this conversation.
Appreciate this moment, even if you have to switch to English or
another language.