Tim Ferris has good ideas on how to quckly learn any language

Check them out here:

http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2009/01/20/learning-language/

http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2007/11/07/how-to-learn-but-not-master-any-language-in-1-hour-plus-a-favor/