My strategy is: - buy a textbook with exercises (usually extra thin book) - buy flashcards with basic vocabulary - buy a more than decent grammar reference f

My strategy is: - buy a textbook with exercises (usually extra thin book) - buy flashcards with basic vocabulary - buy a more than decent grammar reference for the language - Randomly flip between doing exercises and flashcards and checking the grammar book when something comes up. - Subscribe to news in that language and browse them on my ipad. Still, before covid I used to take classes (of Polish, in German) at the Volkshochschule (community college). IMO in person classes give some good motivation to do the exercises and not want to be ridiculed.