>>70964Lol, I wrote that post 6 years ago and I've learned a lot since then.
Anki is tedious BUT if you manage to learn like 500 words and start reading something, you'll feel like you're making progress and that helps a lot. Also, I learned a bunch of "optimizations" that helped me cut down time in Anki (see
>>65531).
Another approach, that works well if you can read the language right away i.e. latin alphabet etc. you can just install something like Lute and start going through super simple texts and working your way up. Re-reading the texts is natural spaced repetition and helps you acquire vocab much better than Anki.
Anyway, since that post, I've made great progress in several languages, a lot of my intuitions were correct but too much theory crafting in the beginning was a mistake, effective language learning is something you figure out through experience and experimentation, not following someone else's recipe or thinking of elaborate methodologies.