the eleventh week – eighteenth post

Muscles:

When you train a muscle, you make it perform a task, such as lifting something heavy, and give it a rest period to repair itself. The brain is also a muscle and this suggests that downtime is needed.

I have been high and low with regards to my motivation and therefore to the amount of studying done. This idea of rest period is an excuse, true. But consider this: without much practice and much passive study and almost no chance to speak Spanish (I get paid to speak English with people), I feel that a large portion of incoming language is understood. I cant verbalise all the small times I smile due to the occurrence of something random happening and people using the language...and I know what they have just said :)

Re-arranging

This makes me think that I could rearrange the schedule of study to reflect this.

Step 1: 2 months to establish a reference bank

Step 2: 2 months to expand knowledge in things such as functional expressions and more advanced grammar

Step 3: 2 months drowning yourself in as much spoken language as possible. Videos, friends, etc.

Anyway, here is the late video (sorry, it slipped my mind last week. Oops)

till next week