Happy New Year Everyone!
Okay so it’s a new year and I need to really need to get on my language learning I think I slack off to much last year. I hate to say it but I did. Is there a way I can stay on track with learning Spanish without getting off track? I have someone helping me on Skype but I need more than that. I listen to music in my target language but there has to be more for me to do to learn Spanish? Any suggestions?
Roz
Find content you like in the medium you prefer. Whenever my motivate lags I fall back on reading fantasy novels in Spanish. It’s my comfort zone. I don’t know what it is for you. There is more available than you probably realize. Maybe it’s watching a tv series on Youtube, lingqing your favorite novel, listening to lectures on a favorite subject, handcopying texts, flashcarding, writing a journal… whatever you find easiest for you.
Don’t know if you’re doing it, but many people limit themselves to material that is ultimately too stressful to be sustainable. It takes energy to force yourself to do something you find unappealing. If you feel the need to put yourself through that, then at least do yourself the favor of falling back on and rewarding yourself with the content and medium you do enjoy.
Many people also, while limiting themselves to material that doesn’t appeal to them, restrict themselves to material which is at a low level. When they switch to material they find interesting (vampire stories, maybe, or romances) they find they can tackle much harder material than they previously thought. The sluggish progress which they had assumed was due to their own incompetence is actually the effect of boredom slowing them down.
That’s why I hate the reading exercises in textbooks 
I don’t know about anyone else, but I am not a fan of listening to music to try and learn languages - mainly because I can find it difficult enough to hear/understand lyrics etc when they are in English and sometimes use very colloquial phrases which unless you are really advanced you have no hope of understanding. I’d recommend listening to newsreaders etc because they usually speak clearly and and you might know the content from the subject matter, though they can often be very fast.
I don’t know about anyone else, but I am not a fan of listening to music to try and learn languages - mainly because I can find it difficult enough to hear/understand lyrics etc when they are in English and sometimes use very colloquial phrases which unless you are really advanced you have no hope of understanding. I’d recommend listening to newsreaders etc because they usually speak clearly and and you might know the content from the subject matter, though they can often be very fast.
Well thanks for all your input. I am back on track and enjoying learning Spanish again I think i was just trying to many things at once and that is what got me to be unmotivated. Yesterday I was on here and I read a little Spanish paragraph so whatever I am doing I am on the right track. Thanks again