When taking french, I was given a book called "How to be a more Successful Language Learner" which gave some great advice. I checked it on Amazon and it is ridiculously expensive, but if you can find it at the library I'd recommend it.
When I was learning french, I took a journal with me to class. Half the journal was for nouns, half for verbs. Nouns were written with their genders, verbs were written with all conjugations.... and I mean ALL conjugations... past, present, future, near future, near perfect, etc..
My teachers always recommended watching french TV or listening to french radio and I thought that was the most foolish thing... if you don't understand the words, they are not going to magically come to you. The only thing it EVER did for me was teach me a few of the "neighbor" words - words that are the same in English and French. Though watching a film with the french subtitles on was good for picking up a few words.
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