>>1038051
>Immersion is key?
it's not everything. seeing things in the wild in context, figuring out what situations an expression is used in, and recognizing patterns from experience is nice, but drilling greatly speeds up the acquisition process. for example practice sentences with a structure, like A代わりにB (A may be true, but on the flipside, B)
>このカメラは安い代わりに、画質が悪い (while this camera is cheap, its it takes poor quality pictures)
>このスマホは高機能な代わりに、値段が高い (this phone may have high specs, but it's quite expensive)
>この町、暮らしやすい代わりに、遊ぶところがない (while this town is pleasant to live in, there are no places to have fun)
of course, sounding natural is another goal, and I don't know of any ways to attain that other than just imitating natives (and don't just mimic media blindly)
and your second biggest enemy will be figuring out how to say what you want to say (phrasing, words, expressions, etc.) and discerning the differences in usage between similar words (e.g. 適宜, 適切, 適した, 相応, ふさわしい)
>>1038599
language learning is not a cumulative process where everything builds on what came before. people have their priorities, but there's no reason you have to learn "in order"
>>1038934
for grammar the strategy is generally to look up stuff in reference material as you go