Look at what you did about the language last year.
Probably: some input, some intention, a period of consistency, a drift. Understanding improved slightly. Speaking didn't move.
Now look at the plan for this year. If the components are the same, the outcome will be too — and there's no version of trying harder that changes that.
Same Inputs, Same Outputs
A boring point, and the one that actually decides things.
The result you got wasn't caused by insufficient effort. It was caused by the composition of the activity — all comprehension, no production. Increase the volume of that composition and you get more comprehension, faster. You still get no production.
So "I'll be more consistent this year" isn't a plan. It's the same plan with more of it.
What Has to Be Different
Exactly one thing. Something in the week where you produce language out loud, repeatedly, until it's automatic.
Not more of it. A different kind. Everything else can stay — the podcast, the app, the reading — because none of it conflicts. The change is additive and it's small.
But it does have to be there, and it currently isn't.
Why It Should Be Small
Because large changes fail. A plan requiring you to restructure your evenings has a predictable lifespan of about three weeks, and you've already run that experiment more than once.
The change worth making is one that survives a bad week — something in time you're already spending, requiring no decision, that you'd do while tired. If it needs willpower it won't be there in March.
The Test for Next January
Write down what will be different. If the honest answer is "more of the same, but properly this time", you already know how that ends, because it's how the last three ended.
One component, added, that produces speech. That's the whole difference between this year and last year.
About Outputly
Outputly is that one component — production practice, in hours you already spend, requiring no decision and no schedule. Everything else you're doing can stay exactly as it is.