If you don't know what Esperanto is or you're not sure you want to learn it, read up on it at http://www.esperanto.info . Once you are sure, consider the following regimen, which is bound to lead you to fluency in Esperanto really quickly.

Assuming you have ca. 1 hour per day to devote to Esperanto, otherwise you will need to spend more time and spread this out accordingly.

1^st month

Monday, Wednesday, Friday: Study the next lesson, make sure you understand everything and do the exercises. Enter the new vocabulary into a vocabulary program such as Anki (if your teacher didn't provide you with a vocabulary file) and spend 10-15 minutes going through the vocabulary Anki has scheduled for you.

Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday: Review yesterday's lesson and practice what you learned either by writing a text in Esperanto or using it in conversation / chat. Catch up on all scheduled vocabulary, no matter if it takes 10 minutes or 30.

Sunday: Relax, but play some Esperanto music, radio or dialog recordings in the background for an hour for some unconscious learning. Don't consciously try to understand them at this point.

By the end of this month, you should know all basic Esperanto grammar and you should have a basic vocabulary of at least 250 word roots. Ideally, you'd know all bold word roots from the list of basic vocabulary already (contact me for an Anki file with all of them).

2^nd month

There are four basic activities that will help you at this point, and you may spread them over the days or combine them as is convenient to you. Just be sure to spend 1 hour a day total, 6 days a week, and to do each of these activities at least once a week, so that your skills won't be too distorted.

A) Reading Comprehension: Read easy Esperanto, such as texts from the Lernu library, where you can see translations of unknown words just by clicking on them. The novel “Gerda Malaperis” is a popular choice. If words look useful, add them to your vocabulary.

B) Listening Comprehension: Listen to recordings of a course you haven't studied, to Esperanto radio, to songs (in order of difficulty) and strive to understand as much as possible of what is being said. When ironing, cooking, jogging or the like, you can also keep using these as background to your activities without focussing on understanding.

C) Active usage: Chat in Esperanto, either on Babilejo.org, with a tutor or on Skype. Look up any words you need to express yourself; these are invaluable. To make sure you don't forget them, add them to your vocabulary program or build a couple sentences with them yourself.

D) Correctness and Expression: Practise affixes, so that you can understand and use them in your sleep. Alternatively, look up the finer points of Esperanto grammar in the Plena Manlibro and practise correct grammar (an advanced learner's workbook or your tutor can help you).

By the end of this month, you should be able to talk about any topic in Esperanto, even if not fluently. Your active vocabulary should be at least 500 word roots and your passive vocabulary should be even larger.

Afterwards

Keep practising Esperanto with online Esperanto speakers or your local club. Ideally, you should embark on a 7-day immersion now, for example at an Esperanto event. A sample of such events you could go to: IJK, UK, NASK, JES, and many others, all over the world.

After attending one of these events, assuming you're not hiding out in your room, you will dream in Esperanto and you will speak it fluently. Mission accomplished!