Another day which I struggled; I didn't even have much in terms of Spanish conversations today; just a brief 30 minute one where I felt like an idiot for the vast majority of the damn thing. So it goes.
Frustratingly, while with Brain's help, I *have* found a fair number of language partners, they're all in awkward timezones to my sleep habits, so if I don't speak right first thing in the morning, it doesn't happen. I need to get myself into better habits in this regard. I do count lessons I do with tutors (which are entirely in Spanish) as speaking for a day, which helps, but I seriously need to buckle down on doing this.
I suppose the optimistic bit of me will go on how my sleep issues for the moment seem to be resolved (though time will tell for sure on that). I have a lesson with Auri tomorrow, so I can get a decent feeling on how far I've progressed.
In other news, I kicked Determinators ass on Duolingo, and now have a fairly good grasp on the difference between 'esto', 'este', 'ese', and 'eso'; the mental trick I used is that esto/este have a t in that, and "I should remember this fact". As for o/e for singular/plural, I just remember it, no trick onthat one.
I suppose the last thing is I still need to record that damn Spanish speaking video, but I find it rather unappealing.
Deep sigh. Oh well, I knew what I was getting into, no sense complaing about it now.
Frustratingly, while with Brain's help, I *have* found a fair number of language partners, they're all in awkward timezones to my sleep habits, so if I don't speak right first thing in the morning, it doesn't happen. I need to get myself into better habits in this regard. I do count lessons I do with tutors (which are entirely in Spanish) as speaking for a day, which helps, but I seriously need to buckle down on doing this.
I suppose the optimistic bit of me will go on how my sleep issues for the moment seem to be resolved (though time will tell for sure on that). I have a lesson with Auri tomorrow, so I can get a decent feeling on how far I've progressed.
In other news, I kicked Determinators ass on Duolingo, and now have a fairly good grasp on the difference between 'esto', 'este', 'ese', and 'eso'; the mental trick I used is that esto/este have a t in that, and "I should remember this fact". As for o/e for singular/plural, I just remember it, no trick onthat one.
I suppose the last thing is I still need to record that damn Spanish speaking video, but I find it rather unappealing.
Deep sigh. Oh well, I knew what I was getting into, no sense complaing about it now.
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