I am on my 30th day in a row using the Duolingo app to learn Spanish. I have the app set to where my daily goal is 20 minutes a day (50 XP), and I have reached that everyday, and most days have spent probably 30-45 minutes a day. I have no way of knowing if I'm on the right track and that my progress is where it should be. I cannot hold conversation in Spanish to any real degree. I know a lot of words and phrases now, but the few times I have attempted to have a simple conversation with someone in Spanish, I quickly hit a road block.
Everyone says it's about immersion, and getting the language familiar by lots of exposure. That all makes sense, but I'm not sure how to go about that. I've listened to some Spanish radio, podcasts, etc, and even watched a couple of movies in Spanish. I have no way of knowing if that's helping. The Duolingo lessons are teaching me a lot, I think, but there's a certain level of comfort and familiarity with the app, and how it presents lessons, that has me doing really well in the app, but when I go outside of that, I'm a bit lost.
I'll keep at it and see where it takes me.
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