I think this could be a lot shorter and tell you the same info. There are some good tips in there, but there's too much to read to get to it if you ask me. He basically says start speaking as soon as possible even if you don't know much of anything you can say in your target language, and gives some tips around making that work.

I liked the idea of when you are "talking to yourself" to start to do that as much as possible in your target language and have a bilingual dictionary handy so you can look words up as you are "talking to yourself." Might work sometimes, but other times I won't want to be looking up every thought I have.

I also like the idea of telling yourself a story about the word in the target language so you can more easily remember it at first. Seems like a lot of work tho so may try that or may just do the spaced repetition he mentions. Lots of links to his website.