Jaleel10 wrote:Bex wrote:Keep going... don't worry about object pronouns. Come back to them later. Just find an enjoyable way to spend time with the language and come back to studying when you're ready.
Gracias, Bex. Lo aprecio mucho por el consejo
At the moment I'm loving the Michel Thomas Method. I even managed to get a hold of all his courses. And started listening (out of curiousity
)to Arabic, Dutch, Russian, Japanese. I am not linguistic or a polyglot but the man was an artist. I have to contain myself and not burn through my entire Spanish course lol.
I'm just so tired when I get home from work. It's usually when I study from my grammar book and Assimil. I don't dislike it. But I rarely have the energy. I might move them to the morning. And maybe a build a habit of sleep early, wake up early. And do the Michel Thomas in the evenings when I want to rest. We'll see.
Maybe my pronoun problem is something you can help me with lol ?
https://forum.language-learners.org/vie ... 548#p97548
If something is really bugging me then I go to YouTube and blogs etc and watch loads of videos and read as much as I can about that single subject, I find it useful to see the same thing explained in many different styles. I concentrate on understanding first and don't worry about being able to produce anything, first I need to understand why something is used/said a certain way. Also you don't worry about being able to produce object pronouns because you can always say things the long way round
and so just being able to recognise them is enough. I try to use my frustration to push myself to understand.
If you read my original log you will see I had a lot of trouble sticking to my studies
https://forum.language-learners.org/vie ... 949#p49405If Michel Thomas is something you enjoy, just stick with that or to to quote
rdearman from my struggles to study in 2016 you could try to..."eat the frog"
rdearman wrote:...However, I've come to realise the people who really progress with this language learning stuff are the ones who put the time and effort in. So my advice to you is "eat the frog" which is basically a time management technique which says do the thing you dread doing first, and the rest of the stuff will get easier.
View the Assimil lesson as the frog you have to eat. You decide how many frogs a week you have to eat, 1, 3, 5, 7 and then you just sit down and do one and only one lesson. Then you've eaten the frog and you get up and you do something interesting to you. For me this would be watching a film or better yet a TV series in the target language...
I chose 1 thing to be my "frog" and I did it in the morning until I eventually finished the course, in your case I would recommend Assimil but it's your call. Save Michel Thomas until the evening, if you are too tired in the evening to listen to MT then it doesn't matter because you have "eaten your frog" already and if you do manage to listen to MT then it's just a great bonus.
Anyway that just my two cents worth, please feel free to ignore any or all of this, what helped me is not necessarily the right thing for you
Good luck.
