Your best way to learn to speak a language

Hey guys, first discussion for me here =)

 

For those who learned to speak a new language, what methods and material do you use?

 

For me:

1.  Create most frequently used phrases that I want to learn to speak with a teacher and enter it in a memorization software.

 

2.  Learn and memorization the phrases with memorization software and practice creating new phrases.

 

3.  Practice speaking what I learned with a native speaker.

 

You?  =)

 

Brian