*Your brain needs an interesting challenge. If like many people looking back to your school days and your language classes, causes some stress and not 'fun' memories, you will need to trick your brain:
make sure you use different material to those used at school.
For example, if you used an exercise book, make sure not to use one now.

*Even small changes will make a difference.
Use blank sheets of paper rather than lined one. Use a new pen in an unusual colour.
It has to be an outstanding stimulus for your brain to be working most effectively, so write down new vocabulary in your favourite colour.

*When learning new words use different methods:
find out whether you learn by repeating the words out loud,
copying them over and over again or by sound.

*If you learn by sound, you might want to record the list of 'difficult' words with the translation onto a blank tape. Try to listen to it, just before falling asleep.
Research has shown that some people wake up the next morning with the knowledge of those words.
You might be one of them, it's worth checking out!

*Using 'word cards' can be a fun and different way to learn new vocabulary. It's easily done and doesn't have to be an expensive venture (so don't immediately buy expensive cards). Simply fold an A4 sheet of paper in a zigzag manner. Then fold the rectangular shape into half and into another half once more. When opening the paper, you will have the folded lines to cut out nice and easy,
leaving you with a perfect sized set of 20 cards per A4 sheet.
Now, write onto one card, say the German word for book, i.e. das Buch,
turn the card around and write down the English translation.
If you are not colour blind, make up your own colour codes for verbs, nouns, same articles, etc.
When you learn and check your vocabulary, you can now make a game out of it
(your brain will love it and therefore take in much more, believe me!). Make different piles of word cards, e.g. easy, didn't know, hesitated, will never learn.... now shuffle and repeat.

*The brilliance of word cards is also you being able to use those cards when being out and about without anybody realizing you studying, and more importantly even your brain being fooled into 'just playing a game' and not doing something boring. Try it!

*If you are not colour blind, use different colours when writing things down.
It will stimulate your brain more hence words will be learned much quicker.

*Make sure to do some revision (going over new texts, grammar points, learning new words and revising old ones...) on a daily basis. It is a known fact that several small intervals of learning are usually more effective, than a 3 hour 'one-off' study period which very few people will ever repeat.

*If you start right from the beginning of your new language learning experience, the fun will stay and it will be much easier than at a later stage, trying to cramp in missed knowledge from the start.

*Another good tip is using visual aids in the house.
For example, name objects around your house and put their foreign meaning on a sticky note, placed upon the item. Whenever you pass or use the teapot for instance, you will be forced to see/read the foreign language. Soon you will know the word, without having noticed the learning process.

*If certain grammar structures seem to be impossible to grasp or to remember, write a short summary or the actual grammar point on a sticky note and place onto the mirror in the bathroom or once again next to your teapot. Whenever you brush your teeth or make a cup of tea, you can read through it.
You will memorize it, without even realizing. Easy!!

 
*Should you run out of ideas for practising sentence structuring. Think of certain words and try to find a definition for them in the foreign language. So carry on writing.

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