Other then going about studying a language for hours and hours what are some of the other methods that push you further or has saved you a lot of time in learning a laguage?

I find that most of the posts and comments suggest to spend hours and hours just studying the language and sure, the most important way to learn a language is to just spend hours on hours practicing and studying it. But I feel there are more ways to help accelerate it. I was wondering if some people would be willing to share some of their methods other then spending hours and hours studying the language.
Some of the ways that I've heard people go about it is ignoring the basics, like learning one word or number at a time, like apple, or your 1-10s. But rather go in a way that you strategize what would be the most basic sentence for conversation that you can have, kind of like how your mother or father would teach you, by asking if you want to eat an apple, or you could go about it in a way where you learn something basic like, "I like to eat Chinese food". By doing so you've planted a seed that can grow many branches such as, "I like to eat American food", ect. Another way to go about in the same manner is thinking of what the most basic conversation with a stranger in that native language would be, simple hellos, nice to meet you. they'll probably ask how you learned, and you learn the sentence to respond accordingly, building and growing from natives.
Another method was somewhat helpful was from a YouTuber named Nathaniel drew, doing the "Solar System Theory" where you basically make a list of x amount of most common words, then the next list of the next most commonly used, and through conversation you build your grammar more structurally.

Apologies for my horrid English grammar, was my third language.

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