Please don't speak too slow or too fast. As for an intermediate student. Thanks!
I grew up bilingual so I speak Spanish and Italian fluently. Actually, I can also speak English and French. I learned French at school and I really struggled with it. I am a bit embarrassed to speak it sometimes because I know I have a strong accent and because I am not very accurate. I am a polyglot in a way, but I wouldn't like to be a 'professional' one. First because you have to devote your life to that. Secondly, because I have other interests.
In fact, polyglots must learn and practise for thousands of hours, and not everyone is born to become a polyglot. They seem to possess excellent memories, and I doubt that mine is that good. I simply lack these natural advantages.
However, one can learn from polyglots that to learn any language you should be practical and look for opportunities to practise. If you don't have somebody to talk to, you can imagine conversations in your head.
In my view, to learn a language, you should read and listen to stuff you are interested in, and you have to spend a lot of time learning and practising. Besides this, you should learn vocabulary in context. For example, learn the expression "how far is it?", instead of learning only "far". If you learn isolated words, you will end up using them incorrectly.
