A method for foreign language learning between a learner and a terminal, based on video or audio containing foreign language, particularly, to a conversation-based foreign language learning method using a speech recognition function and a TTS function of a terminal, a learner learns a foreign language in a way that: the terminal reads a current learning target sentence to the learner to allow the learner to speak the current learning target sentence after the terminal, when speech input by the learner in a speech waiting state of the terminal is the same as the current learning target sentence or belongs to the same category as the current learning target sentence; and the terminal and the learner alternately speak sentences one-by-one when the speech input by the learner is the same as the next sentence of the current learning target sentence or belongs to the same category as the next sentence.