#polypath

lol did i do it right

Holá! Cómo estan?

Hello everyone! I’ve been wanting to make this  update, and since the year is almost over. How did it go? Did I learn Spanish in 3 months?

well...

the start

okay so, I started my spanish journey speaking very little but I got accepted into a A2 class (my course currently has 5 levels A1, A2, B1 and B2 combined, C1 and C2), I had never before spoken spanish but I studied really hard during the weeks before my class started to get comfortable with the present tense and some basic vocabulary

the class

It was really good! I really like my teacher but I had a bit of a struggle, because I decided really early on that I’d like to pronounce the ‘ll’ as an ‘y’ sound but my teacher varied in pronouncing it from ‘sh’ and ‘j’ and to this day it’s a struggle to remember that during class!

But I learned a lot of grammar and vocabulary

the problem 

After some time, I slowly became overwhelmed with my personal life and left the language learning community. I only studied the basics for my classes but didn’t go beyond that.

after some time I wanted to go back to spanish but couldn’t find enough motivation 

the hope 

I was able to get a trip to Argentina in January of next year and will probably update the experience here

so now I’m extremely motivated! Just this week I’ve listened to 30+ hours of Youtube in Spanish and it’s amazing how much I can already understand! I’m also practicing some regional and advanced words using pre-made Memrise flashcards

so, while I consider my experiment a failure, I still think it’s worth trying, so I’ll follow the same schedule and I’ll tell my experience on January 23.

My point is: it’s okay to fail as long as you understand why and take measures so that it doesn’t happen again