Well, after this weekend being an almost bust, I like to think I redeemed myself of nearly two hours of spoken Spanish, with one being face to face unexpectedly in a comedor (think public cafeteria) a block away from my apartment. I ended up sitting next to a young woman name Jean, and I managed to converse with her for awhile
It was slow, it was painful, but it was real, and it wasn't like I was checking a dictionary for words I didn't know, and there was some English involved (she wasn't fluent, but she knew some words that I didn't know in Spanish so it helped), but it was a conversation. I suspect thats going to be my favorite memory when I look back on Santo Domingo.
With some help from Brain Kwong on the +1 challenge, I managed to meet 3 new LangEx partners today, and managed half an hour in Spanish with the first one, and 45 minutes with the other. I'm still recovering from having an inverted sleep cycle, so I was definitely not on my A game, but I managed to sink my teeth in and get through it, though I would be lying if I wasn't revealed when we switched to English at the end of speaking Spanish.
Still, this is a victory, and I will keep pushing on. Once again, vocab is still my biggest headache, and I'm struggling to figure out how best to attack it. I have given Anki another spin, and find that I just struggle to get behind it. I think solving this problem will be my objective for tomorrow.
At this point, I'm just going to relax and winddown.
It was slow, it was painful, but it was real, and it wasn't like I was checking a dictionary for words I didn't know, and there was some English involved (she wasn't fluent, but she knew some words that I didn't know in Spanish so it helped), but it was a conversation. I suspect thats going to be my favorite memory when I look back on Santo Domingo.
With some help from Brain Kwong on the +1 challenge, I managed to meet 3 new LangEx partners today, and managed half an hour in Spanish with the first one, and 45 minutes with the other. I'm still recovering from having an inverted sleep cycle, so I was definitely not on my A game, but I managed to sink my teeth in and get through it, though I would be lying if I wasn't revealed when we switched to English at the end of speaking Spanish.
Still, this is a victory, and I will keep pushing on. Once again, vocab is still my biggest headache, and I'm struggling to figure out how best to attack it. I have given Anki another spin, and find that I just struggle to get behind it. I think solving this problem will be my objective for tomorrow.
At this point, I'm just going to relax and winddown.
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