Any time you’re learning a new skill, be it Spanish, guitar, or basketball, it can be extremely frustrating when you reach a plateau in your studies, unable to make much forward progress no matter how hard you try. Constant forward progress are what many of us rely on to stay focused and motivated. Unfortunately, rarely on your journey to fluency will you see constant, incremental improvement in your skills.
As with most skills, improvement in Spanish competency tends to come in quantum leaps, not incremental gains. It is important to try to force yourself to remain focused when it seems like you aren’t making any forward progress. Rest assured, your brain is absorbing information every bit as rapidly as before, it just hasn’t managed to put all the various pieces together yet. Eventually, probably sooner than you think (especially if you follow my advice on pushing through learning plateaus) something will click in your brain and all of a sudden, out of the blue, you’ll see dramatic improvements in a very short period of time. Topics that seemed impossible to master just a few weeks earlier will now seem insanely simple. You’ll probably find look back and wonder why you had so much trouble to begin with.
For quantum leaps for your Spanish skills, click here.
