I’m at the intermediate level and I’m feeling stuck. I don’t feel I’m making progress. What can I do to continue improving?

We have two different pieces of advice depending on what your situation is.\nIf you got to the intermediate level by doing a lot of traditional studying (grammar, vocabulary, etc): You could be dealing with what’s commonly known as the “intermediate plateau”. We believe this is an artifact that occurs once traditional language education can’t keep up the illusion that you are learning anymore. We explain this in more detail in this blog post: The fictious language learning plateau. In short, traditional language education mostly focuses on teaching grammar and vocabulary that can be easily explained and tested, because it’s the way students can feel they are getting something from it. And of course because it's easy for teachers to grade. But traditional language education can’t explain more complex grammar, or grammar that hasn’t been even discovered by linguists. It also has no means of making you memorize thousands of words with all their nuances and their usage. Once you get to this point, the only way forward is to finally start acquiring the language by getting comprehensible input. However, progress with comprehensible input feels radically different. Instead of going home every day feeling you learned a new concept, you are only improving your understanding of each word by a little bit, or getting a little more used to certain sentence patterns. You can’t measure the amount of words that you learned or the amount of grammar rules you learned. When going from learning about a language to acquiring a language, you need to readjust your expectations to the way actual acquisition works. We recommend you also read the answer to It takes me a long time to learn a word.\nIf you got to the intermediate level mainly through comprehensible input: If you got here through comprehensible input, you know what it feels like to make real progress in acquiring the language. You probably already expect that getting from beginner to intermediate took fewer hours than to get from intermediate to advanced. The amount of words you need to learn for that to happen is higher. Try focusing on noticing all the new words that you can understand now that you couldn’t understand last week. If you can’t notice any, it may be time to change the content you are consuming. If the content is too hard, you may not be understanding enough new words to be able to acquire them. If the content is too easy, it’s still helpful to help you cement sentence patterns and word usage, but this kind of progress is harder to notice, so you should try looking for something that will challenge you a little (and I mean a little). That can be either more advanced material, or content about topics that you aren’t too familiar with yet.