Think about how you first learned how to speak when you were a baby. First you mastered the phonetic structure: baba gaga, etc. You probably got the words that related to your self such as hand, stomach and foot. Then you moved on to other nouns that you dealt with everyday such as the items in your house, food, clothes, etc. Then you moved up to simple sentences and then finally to words that expressed abstract concepts. Unfortunately, most school foreign language courses expect you to master complex grammar and sophisticated concepts (so that you would be on par with your native conceptual level) very quickly.
I would get a picture book such as the first 1000 words by Heather Amery. It groups words by topic such as rooms in the house, food, airport, etc. Touch each object in the real world and say the word. Once you have a sizable vocabulary of concrete nouns, you will be able to relate abstract words and verbs to them instead of trying to force fit them to other English words that are completely unrelated.
If the language is based on a root system then it is a good idea to learn those roots and use them to make connections with other new words.