As you know I've been really down as well about my progress over the last few weeks. You gave me some good advice suggesting I look back to see how far I'd come
I am coming to the conclusion that I will stop pushing myself for a while, I think that the pressure, amount of time on task, perceived lack of progress and so on, have all come together to produce great frustration when faced with native materials.
I'm going to just try and flood myself with the sound of the language, sometimes really listening and trying to understand but sometimes just background noise. And I'm going to stop "studying" for a while just to release some of the pressure and frustration.
If I don't understand I'm going to try and just let it go. If I
really,
really want to know I'll look it up - both purely to minimise frustration.
Still that's my plan because I have no idea what to do, and I don't want to give up. Do you have any thoughts on what you'll do to move forward? Or are you thinking of taking a break?
If you can read in your target language, I assume you got good at reading by reading? And that it took a lot of reading?