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I've found as well that the only people that actually successfully learn a language either consume large amounts of media in the target language, or are immigrants/expats who end up immersed in their new country's language and have very strong economic incentives to learn.
Out of the people I met online while teaching myself Japanese and Chinese, the only people who made it to a reasonable level of fluency were the people who spent a large amount of time reading/playing/watching books/shows/games in the target language, and the people from the poorer South-East Asian countries moving to Japan and China for work who really needed to know the language to a decent level.
Realistically there's just not enough motivation from either side in American high school to teach and learn a language well when everyone knows its going to be pointless. English education in China and Japan is similarly shambolic.
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