How do you learn a new language?

Question

IT education

I'm interested in how professionals learned new LP... and especially their 1st LP - how many pages per day did you go through or how many exercises did you do. How do you think to achieve the best result? (by what methods)

Answer 1

One of the best ways to do your project on the technology being studied.

Answer 2

Just like the old one, you work hard from day to day.

Answer 3

I will join @yttrium , the best thing is to do something on the technology being studied.
For example, I do this - first I pick up some work that tells the basics of the PL (the original documentation will be the ideal solution) and then when the knowledge in my head is already enough to be able to write at least somehow in the language, I start writing some project, trying capture the maximum range of tasks at least by the edge (well, for example, something that takes data from the web, shows it to us on the screen, analyzes it somehow, and then optionally writes it to the database or just a file). At the same time, it is necessary to write not in such a way "to work", but most of the time, Google on questions of how it will be correct and beautiful to solve a specific problem in this language.
For example, in order to understand why the last point is - let's say someone who knows only Pascal will start learning Java, and will write structural code there, with everything static) it will work, but in a particular language it is customary to write differently.