What did you do to learn how to communicate with the others? This is, for me, a really strange question.
"What did we do?" is the wrong question, don't you think so?
I think that the "right" (Cause I don't know what is exactly "right") question is "Why did we do it?".
Learning a language... Sounds beautiful until you actually get into it. Until you go deep at the learning. Until you start seeing that you're not that good.
But, because there's always a "but", it actually is like rambling. You don't know where you're going, you don't know if there is a "place" where you HAVE to get to, you don't know how to get to it... You only listen people saying "I got there asking stupid questions" or maybe you're that person who asks "Where should I go first to? What should I go through Is this the right way?" or, again, you only watch people, trying to catch some knowlegde.
You know what? Nobody knows if this is the right way. Nobody knows if you're doing it right until you actually do it.
Make your own way and ramble on it.