General update/ Friday ramblings....
FSI: I'm still finding it useful, mostly just for showing my weaknesses. I'm not sure I've actually learnt anything new on the grammar front but I have learnt some fairly useless military vocabulary
. I'll just keep going as
Brun Ugle suggested, although I may start to note down the grammar I find less automatic and come back to it at some point for revision.
Past tenses: I only have a few pages of my Past tenses workbook left, I've been focusing on getting the tense usage correct with the book but it did shown me how bad my conjugation skills are in the pretérito. So I'll probably go back and run through the exercises again when I've finished the book. The second time will be mainly to practice the conjugations. Hopefully I'll see an improvement after the month or so I've spent trying to learn them properly.
Reading: Still not really enjoying but I'm definitely improving in terms of being able to read more quickly/fluidly. I've decided to read the Diario de Greg books. First pass extensively (no lookups allowed). Second intensively. Then onto the next book. I'll see how it goes, I'm about half way through the first book and it seems pretty easy compared with HP so the intensive pass shouldn't be too bad.
Listening/watching: I never have any problems finding content on YouTube or podcasts.
Writing: I'm thinking I might start this up again, since
eido suggested it as a way to practice and consolidate what I'm learning. I just need to plan how... I might just start translating a few times a week and see how it goes.
Speaking: I'd like to do more (actually any would do) but with all the above I'm running out of time each day. I may try and fit in some Glossika GSR just to keep a little practice in there somewhere. I also have an audio course where they ask questions and you have to reply. Both of these I suppose would be better than nothing but again there's a time issue.
I may have to start actually planning out my time more carefully or drop a couple of things until I've finished the SC at least.
Sorry for the long post, sometimes I just have to write it all down to make sense of what I need to do going forward.