Hours logged by what you were actually doing — reading, listening, speaking, review — so the imbalance that keeps people at intermediate finally shows up somewhere you can see it.
Most learners have exactly one number and it is the wrong one. A daily streak says you showed up; it says nothing about the balance of what you did while you were there. That is how people reach year two with comfortable reading, decent listening and almost no experience of forming a sentence out loud while someone waits.
B2 by the exam in May is a goal with a date on it. The six-week grammar push, the novel you are reading through and the block of ten tutor sessions become projects underneath, each with a finish. It gives open-ended years a shape, which is the one thing daily practice on its own never provides.
Book the next four tutor sessions. Order the graded reader. Write the self-introduction you keep improvising badly. Re-listen to episode 12 with the transcript. These get forgotten because they sit outside the routine — give each one a due date, set the repeating ones to recur, and Today puts them in front of you on the right morning.
Daily review on one schedule, three speaking sessions a week on another, each with its own streak and strength score. The year-long graph keeps the whole picture, so a fortnight away shows as a fortnight rather than wiping out the eleven months in front of it. Link a habit to the goal and the daily thing is visibly attached to May.
Log each session with its minutes and what kind of practice it was. After three months the totals are usually uncomfortable reading: eighty hours of reading, forty of listening, three of speaking. That one comparison is the most useful number in language learning and almost nobody has it. Next month gets planned against it.
Create the goal with the date that actually matters — the exam, the trip, the conversation you want to be able to have. Add the projects that end, and the two habits you will genuinely hold.
Thirty seconds after each session: how long, and which kind of practice. Keep Anki, your app and your tutor exactly as they are. This is the layer that records what all of it added up to.
Once a month, look at the split by activity. Whichever number is embarrassing becomes next month’s plan. Plateaus break by moving hours between activities, not by trying harder at the same one.
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Reading, listening, speaking and review counted separately, next to the daily habit and the date you are working towards.
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