Input first, and lots of it
Reading and listening to content you can mostly understand is the foundation. It builds vocabulary, grammar intuition, and listening comprehension faster than drills. The more hours of enjoyable, understandable input you get, the faster you progress.
Review so it sticks
You forget most new words unless you meet them again at the right time. Spaced repetition schedules review just before you would forget, which is dramatically more efficient than re-reading. Saving the words you meet during input and reviewing them closes the loop.
Skip the guilt machine
Streaks, daily nags, and gamified pressure boost short-term metrics but burn people out and rarely build real fluency. A sustainable routine you actually keep, built around content you enjoy, beats a stressful one you quit. That is the philosophy behind LingoBinge.