I have hit a complete wall.
Other Spanish learners- did/do you feel the same?
I had to split Challenge 13 up into two sessions and after about the 23-minute mark (whenever diga and dijera were introduced) I couldn’t complete any sentences before the first narrator and after about 27 minutes I could not answer any of the prompts at all.
I’m so confused and wondering if Spanish was too ambitious a goal.
Is this normal? I think I need to learn the tenses and conjugations (especially querer and decir) before I go any further.
I seem to recall Welsh had an infamous challenge 13. Perhaps it’s the same thing? Just keep on through to the next challenge and the rest won’t be so tough?
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Yes, I remember Welsh Challenge 13 all too well also! 
I’m just worried that if I carry on I’ll still not know the certain phrases.
Lately I’ve been pausing, checking my written notes and repeating the phrase.
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Try going on a couple of Challenges and see if it starts to become clearer. Often it’s more exposure that you need, but not the same sequence over and over that you get if you repeat a Challenge too many times.
There have been studies with scanners etc, which show that the brain produces more activity when something is presented in a novel way, but with each subsequent presentation in more or less the same way, it responds less, as if it’s paying less attention to what it’s processing. The danger with repeating a Challenge too many times is that you encourage that to happen, whereas pushing on means that you’ll hear the same phrases, but not in the same order, mixed in with different sentences and that keeps your brain on its toes, so to speak 
Once you’ve gone on a bit further, you can always come back and have another run through. That’s a good technique to get through those phrases that just don’t seem to stick, and they happen to everyone - not always the same phrases!
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