OK Spanish progress report #1 : Fourth time's a charm

There hasn't been much interest in this OK Spanish project and I've had to do a more work-work to survive in society so I won't be giving any Spanish lessons but I'm still using duolingo to study Spanish and sharing some practice sentences with @pinaynomad in our Be Awesome - OK Spanish chat so this will become more of a progress report.

I don't know if these posts will be of any interest to anyone but posting them gives me more motivation to continue studying despite not being around any native speakers and being busy writing for steemit and my patreon , polishing up my music and practicing guitar, and trying to save up money to move. So these posts, like my Japanese blog, are slightly more self indulgent although I will share some useful ideas whenever I can.

My fourth attempt.

This is my fourth attempt at studying Spanish. The first was in junior high school and high school. Six years wasn't enough to learn a language and had me thinking it was the hardest thing in the world. I later tried learning Japanese on my own and learned that it was mostly an issue of motivation, study methods, and dedication, three things I was lacking. Now I know that learning a language can be a fairly quick and painless process.

Duolingo makes the process even easier. Each lesson incorporates previous lessons vocabulary and the lessons order is quite practical for every day usage. Still, my first three attempts, I gave up because I've been trying to keep my Japanese and Chinese up. I'm ready to try again with whoever wants to join and hopefully sharing my progress will make the fourth attempt, my final attempt.

Where I'm at.

I study about 2 or 3 times a week for thirty minutes to an hour, so not a whole lot, but I hope to be conversational in a few months. I've just reviewed animals and food and possessives and practicing I am/you are/she is etc. and basic verb conjugation in our chat.

Here is a list of the words I still need to review. If you've studied Spanish before try testing yourself

Naranja
Almuerzo
Desayuna
cena
Cebolla
Emperadado
Caballo
Cangrejo
Pajaro
Cerdo
Mono
Conejo

Practice sentences

Su conejo come humanos
Sus cerdos beben sangra
Nuestra bebe lee los diarios
Nuestra cangrejo no come almuerzo
Mis cebollas comen las naranjas
Si, es tu caballo, no es un cebolla
Los conejos son nuestros
El cerdo no es suyo
Su papa no es su papa

Thoughts

I think I need a little more practice with possessives. Chinese and Japanese have really simple possessives, no I/me/mine so I haven't studied this kind of grammar since I learned English as my first language. Animals aren't the most useful words but you gotta learn them eventually and it's easy to make fun ridiculous sentences once you know a bunch of animals.

Next up is clothing, question words, more present tense verbs and more foods. Tense is also much easier in Asian languages, not much conjugation needed for different subjects, so this is good practice. It's always good to look up some other words you want to know, some supplemental vocab. I've added blood (sangra) and humans (humanos). I'll use a lot more as I became more capable of making a variety of sentences.

If anyone is interested in joining @pinaynomad and I please leave a comment below.

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