Step 1: Go to the country of the language. Listen to how people talk. How do they greet each other? What are the sounds like? What do they say most often?
Step 2: Buy a grammar book. Read it when you're bored. Commit to learning 10 expressions a day. Use flashcards or fold a page of your notebook over and write English on the top, Language 2 under. Make everyone practice with you. Most local people love it, because it's a relaxed way to learn some English and they can correct your pronunciation.
Step 3: Predict conversations. When you travel, people ask you the same questions every day (Where are you from? Where are you going? Do you like my country?), so write down your answers and practice saying them. If you need to ask directions or go to the pharmacy, prepare your lines.
Step4: If you are serious, then find a local person who is patient, interesting, and willing to correct you. Then you can relax, talk about more than the weather, and actually improve.
Ta-da! Four months of Turkish this way trumped years of French in school.
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