Intermediate learners - how did you actually break through the plateau?

I've been learning Russian for a while and hit that wall around A2-B1 where every app stopped being useful but native content was still too hard. The cases kept piling up, verbs of motion made no sense, and I felt like I was just memorizing word lists without actually getting better.

What ended up working for me was reading short stories at my level where I could see grammar used naturally instead of trying to memorize tables. I also started saving words I didn't know into a spaced repetition system which helped way more than random vocab lists because I was learning words from context. After a while the right case endings just started feeling right instead of me needing to think through every single one.

The other thing that made a difference was figuring out where my actual weak spots were instead of just studying everything equally. Once I focused on the areas where I was making the most mistakes things started clicking a lot faster.

What about you guys? Did you hit the plateau and what got you past it? Specific method, a resource, just grinding through native content? Curious what actually worked for people.

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