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I feel a bit discouraged. Tried speaking and it didn't go very well. Think I'll stop trying to talk in day to day activities because it really took the fun out of it.

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[–] arxaseus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 4 months ago

The first genuine time I tried to speak Spanish with my GF she outright refused to speak back to me in Spanish, no hangups with her, she just didn't engage me with it and instead spoke English. That was also a downer for me, but at the same time I realized I could say a basic few words despite never doing it before, so at least that was a positive.

Progress recently, scraped by quite a few days, doing bare minimum, due to various factors like stress and illness and more stress. Only today was I able to study the full 30 mins in Japanese and Spanish. Still not over the hurdles life threw at me save the sickness, but at least I'm on the horse again for now. Or at least today. No idea what tomorrow might throw at me, so hoping for something less serious.

Today managed to be with the GF a fair amount too, managed to do a full 180 flashcards on MaruMori and still have another 20 to go. Then I spent a while on Duolingo and Migaku for Spanish. I've completed both languages at 30 mins a piece, but still don't feel satisfied. Also to add, I still have yet to finish the last of the N5 off, so should probably aim to do a few more of those before pushing for other stuff on the Japanese front. Down to about 15 cards now, but I tend to do 10 cards a day based on N5 then 10 cards on a random assortment of N4,N3,N2,N1 levels jointly together.

Might end up going back to Dreaming in Spanish later, as well as that Japanese site for videos... cijapanese, that's the site.
Otherwise I guess I could dive into Irish again, but I'd feel easier just focusing on these 2 languages for now, as I'm still trying to get into the swing of things again. I was doing so well for months then life happens, I guess that's just life. Still. Such a bummer.

Anyway, back to the grind.