Hard work is not sexy. While you are in the midst of it you may not seem to notice the progress, but all those little steps add up. That’s why I like to look back at weekly progress and see how much the daily work has added up to.

Overall I’m happy with my progress last week. What’s more, I loved it! I look forward to walking or running errands because they are an opportunity to study. I’m looking forward to new Coffee Break Spanish episodes – I like the continuity of them. Also its pretty amazing that I’m now at episode 45. When I started I didn’t think I would get that far.

I haven’t missed a day, and each day was at least 30 minutes, but on average almost an hour. Also I haven’t missed a day on Duolingo. This hits 2 of my initial goals for this mission. So far so good.

I’m a nerd, so next I will nerd out with the numbers 🙂

In the past week (week 1 of the second month of learning Spanish, so week 5 or 6 in total) I have studied Spanish for total of 387 minutes or 6 hours and 27 minutes. Or an average of 55 minutes per day.

Here is the breakdown:

• 209 minutes of Coffee Break Spanish in which I listened to 10 new episodes (36 to 45).
• 66 minutes of Duolingo in which I went from 881 XP points to 1094 XP points, but still Level 7. (Now at lesson Determiners 1/3)
• 112 minutes of Memrise in which I kept previous courses watered (324 Learn Basic Mexican Spanish + 108 El Menu course) and learned 114 new items in the Spanish vocab by frequency course 1 to 675.