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[Cyanatta]

It has???

Seriously??

What better excuse to learn Spanish, French, German, Italian, and Japenese!!
Seriously though?  That's just another 'fluke-up' by science and another lie I've lived with for half my life??

Yup, this article sums things up nicely: http://esl.fis.edu/parents/advice/myth1.htm (links for the studies at the bottom)

I was under the same impression myself, but just on a whim I decided to start learning German (and attempted a few others) a couple years ago with some free language learning apps (such as Duolingo, Memrise, and a nifty one I just found called HelloTalk, which pairs you with native speakers of the language you're learning, who also wish to learn your native language). Duolingo is probably the most popular, free, language learning app and my personal favorite as far as learning vocabulary and phrases. It's also extremely helpful with user comments below each question to clarify any confusion, and most of the time the best explanation is already up-voted to the top of the comments. Most of the languages available to learn are European (most popular being Spanish, French, and German), but there's a few critical languages they're adding. Esperanto was added not too long ago which I'm super pumped for, and Russian is almost ready for Beta testing 

If your focus is on conversation skills, which I'm working on now myself, I highly recommend HelloTalk and iTalki. You have to pay for iTalki but it's reasonable with its pay by session method, and of course package deals are cheaper but even a couple sessions can make all the difference with a native speaker. You basically "shop around" for a formal or informal tutor (less expensive rate) from an accredited school or university and hold lessons over Skype for 30 minutes or an hour.

Also if you have Steam you can purchase a game called Influent ($10 for one language, $5 for additional ones) which basically lets you walk around in an interactive environment (bedroom, kitchen, and living room) as you learn words for common objects and associated verbs that go with them. For example: you click on a guitar, it'll say the word, show the word/translation, and suggest the verb "to play" or something like that. I think it's a cool concept, but for $10 I feel like there could be more to it. I'm throwing this one out there just because there aren't too many free apps that offer Japanese (seeing as this one isn't either) but the game was originally designed for learning Japanese. Memrise has some basic grammar and beginner lessons for Japanese as well that are pretty useful, but as the name implies the app is mainly for memory skills, not so much interaction/conversation.

Sorry for all that spew, but I loves me some language learning.

Here's all the info and links if you're interested:

Duolingo (also an app): https://www.duolingo.com/
Memrise (also an app): https://www.memrise.com/

How HelloTalk works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Py9f_0n1L0 [1:22]
Influent gameplay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v94meofJaBk [1:26]