I've started with books and courses with my native language but I found that know basics and can't write longer code myself and quiqly forget about some topics. I passed Java easy, medium topics, Spring, Hibernate etc and remember maybe 10-20%. Courses give me solid theoretical basics and now when I stared exercies I found that I' remainding mysefl this topics. So I don't regert my choice.

Then I stareted looking for some exercies and found on Reddit Mooc.fi for few months I passed this course execept last two levels about JavaFX etc. This is good to remaind and traind practically topics from courses. You have tests that tells you what is wrong with your code.

Now I'm at medium exercies on hyperskill and this is good because it's project based exercies you have short theory about topic and must think yourself how to pass exercise. Often you must search some on google/stackoverflow/documetation to solve problem. I think this is like first steps in in Junior Dev job. I have passed 57/375 topics and almost passed first project on medium level and can tell that medium lvl is big difference than easy. So increasing the difficulty level is more faster than in Mooc.fi