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The most effecient way to practice a language is to  speak with a native freind or surround yourselves by the language. But for some of us who live in a community where the language they are learning is not widely spoken, it gets a bit hard to practice.
For me, as I'm learning French, I find it boring to look at text books and read them since I'm still a very beginner. I try listening to French radio stations, or watch movies I've already seen dubbed in French (most recently Finding Nemo!). I even send messages to my friends who don't know any French. They find it quite annoying,
but i find it very gratifying because it means that I know enough for them to not understand! .. Or at least that's what I tell myself!

Do you have any creative ways of keeping track of your language learning? Please share! =)

Hi, I just wanted to tell you that recently i have found some kind of webradio which has every online(!!!) radiostation in the world so for those learning a language not frequently spoken it might help. please have a look at www.screamer-radio.com But please notice that it are only online radiostations! Hope this might help Greetz Kjell

As I took most of my Spanish in high school, I didn't do a whole lot of learning without formal guidance.  But, I found that watching TV or movies in Spanish really helped, especially with learning to differentiate between accents.  For example, the Spanish in the movie Pan's Labyrinth is the Spanish spoken in Spain, which is different in not only pronunciation but also vocabulary and a few aspects of grammar than the Spanish spoken in Latin America.  Where I live, near Chicago, most of the Spanish you hear on TV or in the city is of the Mexican or Central American variety.  I realize I'm digressing a bit...  Spanish radio is also helpful, and if you can't talk to someone else in Spanish, talk to yourself!  :)  Even just speaking the language to someone who doesn't necessarily understand what you're saying helps, because you'll start to self-correct. 

       --Caitlin

I've also found that if you re-read a book in, say French, one that you know well in your first language, you start to pick things up from just from the context.

--Caitlin

How about people learning stuff like local buildings? Can you help with this guys.. thanks

Watching movies is a good way of learning languages. Along with learning languages you also get entertained. It is good way to understand how to pronounce words and hearing them helps you register them in your mind.