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Welcome.I think it is doable. I began last November and I reached B1 listening, high A2 speaking, Low B2 reading. How:
1. Assimil....
A lesson 1 day.... with a bunch of repetitions until fully understanding the lesson. No Active wave. Lesson relistening nicely done will walking the dog
2. Anki all basic words.... Get from frequency table or back of Assimila book.... they will be about 2000 actives words ...
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2 Anki sets: Active (L1-L2) and passive (L2-L1). Active cards ONLY for the words that you want to use... take advantage of cognates the rest to passive. A good book is Essential French grammar by Seymour Resnick.
3. Basic Grammar book. Make Anki cards for rules examples ONLY and verbs forms. Anki cards for all basic verbs in present tense and the Compose. They are about 50 basic verbs. Use cloze deletion techniques.
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4. Listen at least 30 min of Ballades... Intensive listening and reading...All unknown to Passive card set.
5. Watch one Buffy episode a day. Do not worry much about not understanding everything. Just stick to it for 200 or more hours.
6. Read 30 min minimum.... But be careful.
7. Listening is fundamental and more important, in my opinion, than speaking. Watch out with reading. I suspect that it could become an obstacle to understand spoken language. I believe that spoken french is different than the written one.
Drop Italki. Join a French table or Meetup group and get to speak for free. After finishing Assimil, jump right into FSI Basic French. 2 hours per day will do marvel to speaking. Much better that Italki lessons.
It will take, of course, 4-5 hours every day. It worked for me. Of course, I speak Spanish which helps a lot. These are just my opinions. Good luck,