I'm currently learning danish (and living in Denmark, so kinda cheating). I spent about 6 months trying out all the new apps, and have gone back to Anki. Back

I'm currently learning danish (and living in Denmark, so kinda cheating). I spent about 6 months trying out all the new apps, and have gone back to Anki. Back in the day I learned Japanese to nativish fluency using the Core Japanese vocabulary decks. Basically 10000 words all with example sentences and human audio recordings. After seeing that many sentences, new grammar has only so many places to hide. It's also a lot more fun to practice speaking a language when you have the vocab to talk about basically anything. I built a similarly formatted Anki deck using tatoeba.org, some web scraping and google translate. This type of structured rote learning works for me, but it's not "fun". I write out every word and all is conjugations on paper, and have notebooks full of just words. Unfortunately none of the "fun" methods work for me, but it is motivating that in 198 days I will have 4000 words of danish.