I have been working with a new Spanish teacher for an hour every week on the phone, just conversing and talking about anything and everything. And it’s really helping me. Mainly by boosting my confidence.
At the same time, I am devouring Spanish language apps: Babbel, Rosetta Stone, and now, Duolingo. And they are all helping me immensely.
Last night, I got the chance to speak Spanish with a native speaker who lives in the US!!! In my long experience, Latinos who live in the states always prefer and insist on speaking English to Americans rather than listening to American’s lousy Spanish. At least this has been my experience. Last night this Latino man did not hesitate to speak Spanish with me the whole time of our interaction! That’s a milestone for me. In case you’re wondering, he was the grocery delivery person.
How familiar are you with all the tenses now? The most important ones being the present, the imperfect, the preterite, the future, future conditional and the dreaded subjunctive?
Verb drills is a way to get familiar with them. Get a pen and paper and get writing is my advice. If you learn the format then you can get familiar with the process.
I play etc… played, used to play, will play, would play, may play
You,
he, she, it (ud formal you)
We
You (plural)
They ( uds formal plural you)
As there are so many, it takes a lot of hard work.
Verb drills are boring, but they work. You can get a verb drill grammar book quite easily.