Which method suits you?

Five questions. Your target and your deadline do most of the work; the last two decide the close calls. Nothing is sent anywhere — this runs entirely in your browser.

1. How good do you want to get?

2. By when?

3. How far is the language from ones you already know?

4. Which is closer to true?

5. Four months in, you still cannot say anything. How does that feel?

How much to trust this. Questions 1, 2 and 3 rest on something solid: your target, your time and how far the language is from ones you know really do determine what is reachable.

Questions 4 and 5 are my judgement, not research. Personality correlates with how people perform in a language, but no study says extroverts should pick a different method. I include them because the method you will actually still be doing in month seven beats the one that is theoretically optimal — and that is a claim I am willing to defend.