I've been working on the Spanish hard this week. With two days off of school, I've got the time. Yesterday, I finished the last lesson of 80 in the Coffee Break Spanish podcasts. Yes, 80 lessons. (Although I confess to skipping 1–9 as they were way, way too easy.) That's 26 full hours of Spanish-learning podcasts. And I was all ready to feel this great sense of accomplishment - and then, in the last lesson, they began touting their next series of 40 lessons, called Showtime Spanish, that picks up where Coffee Break left off.
Now, don't get me wrong, I'm glad to have more lessons, and hopefully, these will be more appropriate for my level. But still. There's no sense of accomplishment when you realize that you still have a TON more to learn.
It's kind of like parenting, or teaching, I guess. No matter how hard you work, how much time you devote, your work is never truly done. And while that's exciting (when I'm in the right frame of mind), it's also sobering (when I'm in the wrong frame of mind).
I guess you just have to take the little successes and remind yourself of those. For example, I wrote a really long essay - my longest yet, about 5 pages - and just got it back from the bilingual kindergarten teacher who was kind enough to correct it for me. So, either her Spanish is not as good as other's who have corrected me, or I've gotten a lot better, because she had very few corrections for me. So, yay me!
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