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