What do you do when you think you are failing in Spanish, about to fail in Spanish, or just not making progress?
I know how you feel because I used to have that feeling in math. I used to feel like I was never good at it. Nothing made sense except addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. That was it! As far as I’m concerned, that’s all I needed to survive in the real world, so who cares about anything else? Forget about algebra and anything else you are not using on a daily basis.
But what I mean is that not all parts of the math were challenging. I just found some sections and topics more challenging than others, so I had to find a way to overcome my challenges in those areas in order to pass it.
But in bringing this back to Spanish, I found parts of Spanish challenging and particularly listening to Spanish; learn to speak the language fluently and have a large vocabulary. Because of this, I had to come up with ways to deal with the challenges I was facing.
That was the only way it was going to happen.
So if you are failing in Spanish or think you are in danger of failing in Spanish, I advise you to do the following:
1. Identify the parts of Spanish in your Spanish course that you have difficulties with. What do you find most challenging in learning Spanish? Is it the vocabulary? verb conjugation; speech; listening; reading or writing?
2. When you have done so, try to come up with specific tips to help you improve in the area where you are struggling. So if you’re pretty good at reading, don’t spend any more time reading in Spanish. Spend time on the parts that are most challenging for you.
3. Spend an additional 15 minutes a day on those areas. And you’re not going to slave in these areas for 15 minutes either. You will find fun ways to improve in those areas. There are already enough tips on my blog that will help you stay more connected to the language and more engaged with it.
Anyone who feels like they are failing at something will start to feel disconnected from it, for obvious reasons, so you need to find inspiration to stay engaged and wanting to improve. When you have fun with something, you stop feeling like working or studying and you just learn or pick things up at record speed. That’s when you start to make progress.
4. Be consistent in your work to overcome your challenges. If there’s one thing you’ll hear me say over and over again, it’s to be consistent whatever your approach to improvement. Rome was not built in a day. A little effort over time is what will help you pass your Spanish and get a good grade!
You will not fail in Spanish and I assure you that if you start now, you will see an improvement in just two weeks because I have seen it happen over and over again.
So now that you know what to do, get down to business now!
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