
Originally Posted by
Bahamut2000X
Get a text book teaching English. There's loads of books/websites dedicated to just learning languages.
I myself self taught myself a little German from an old textbook my mom had from college. And I taught myself one of the Japanese alphabets and a good bit of vocabulary just from an English to Japanese dictionary.
I'd say if their starting from scratch then get a text book or a dictionary and build up some understanding of vocabulary, context, and basic grammar before trying to read story books and such.