Learn a Language: My Self-Study Plan

Short daily sessions are more effective than long, infrequent ones.
The weekly routine is the key: plan realistically; 15 minutes every day is better than 2 hours never.

Language: Lithuanian
Goal: simple everyday conversations (A2) by the end of the year
Why: I want to be able to talk at the bakery and at my club
Writing down your reason helps during periods of low motivation

Daily: 15 minutes with an app or vocabulary
Tue: 30 minutes of grammar
Thu: series or podcast in the language
Sat: 30-minute language-exchange conversation

Link apps, textbooks, YouTube channels, podcasts, and series with subtitles here
Tip: Edumaps language-course maps are also suitable for self-study

Find a language-exchange partner (university, apps, clubs)
Talking to yourself counts too: summarize your day aloud in the language

Collect phrases you often need here and learn them by heart

Words that refuse to stick: use one box per word as in a vocabulary trainer, with the translation in the content

First conversation entirely in the language: date
First series understood without pausing: date
Record small successes; they keep you going