1. When starting to learn, never give up. The worst thing to do is go into the project half-heartedly.
2. Try to be organized in your approach. Knowing to work from the bottom up helps, so don’t expect to learn by mastering phrasal verbs before you know the various verbs and are familiar with prepositions.
3. Remember to be focused on the grammar as you learn. Trying to be conversational without having a sense of what tense to use correctly or how modals can be used properly is being disorganized.
4. Learn for yourself not to make someone else happy. Too often people learn because they are worried about what people will say if they don’t. You do not need that kind of pressure and your learning should be based on your own will.
5. Buy a mono-lingual dictionary. This gives you an advantage over the bi-lingual one in that you are more immersed.
6. Apply a study method that is right for you. If you are a day learner, don’t attend a night course after work. Your mind will likely be on getting home among other distractions.
7. Try to avoid translating and where possible try to understand why you are translating. Certain words can be used between the English and French for example but expressions are different and should be understood differently.

These are but a few pieces of advice I would give to someone wanting to learn English. They are also useful tips as far as general study is concerned or learnig other materials.