<p>There's another option for learning languages -- language houses. Some liberal arts colleges have them. The people who live in them are all interested in the language and they are committed to speaking it as much as possible. For example, Macalester College has Chinese House, French House, German House, Japan House, Russian House, and Spanish House. (And those are actual houses <a href="http://www.macalester.edu/reslife/halls/Langhousepics.htm%5B/url%5D">http://www.macalester.edu/reslife/halls/Langhousepics.htm</a>, not a floor or section of a dorm.)</p>