CameronJ,
As well as photoreading the dictionary grab and activate some teenage novels or books in the language. Even books like Tin Tin, Lucky Luke, You often find them in English and in foreign languages. Fun way to learn the language.
For the audio portion, grab any basic translation tape and have some relaxing music playing and listen to that to get the basics. From radio and TV record a 30 minute to 1 hour program and listen /watch that a couple of times. (Hide the subtitles if you can )
You could also hunt down the audio courses that they usually have for foreign diplomats to learn the language in 3 months. They are not short courses but effective.
AlexK
