I attended a new Duolingo class today, mostly for the sake of trying something new. I had gotten into a routine of attending the same classes every week and although it was fun, I lost track of whether or not it was the best use of my time.
Today's class was titled Songs, Poems, Tales Books and History from Mexico to Learn Spanish. It sounded promising, right? And it started out great, I thought Francisco was attentive to all levels of students. Although it was labelled as Beginners and above, the majority of students were advanced. And he spoke all in Spanish, so as a complete beginner I would think you would have had difficulty understanding what was going on. It was challenging for me as an advanced beginner.
My thing was the subject of the book. We literally read and translated one paragraph of one chapter of a Mexican history book. Not my area of interest, at all. History in general to me is pretty dry. And I realized that no matter how high my motivation is for learning Spanish, if the topic isn't fun and interesting, then it's not doing me any good. So my newly enforced motto
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