For my learning plan I have tried to organize my exercises so that they correspond to my strengths and I made sure my plan takes into account what has worked for me in the past, and keeps in mind what has not worked in the past. As reflected in my personality quizzes I took the first week in this class, it reaffirmed my knowledge that I am primarily an auditory learner, then a hands-on learner. I focused my future studies on listening exercises like watching children's TV shows that are geared towards education. I remember that watching similar education based grammar teaching shows helped me acquire Spanish phrases and vocabulary. The interactive aspect of these shows also help me understand sentences and phrases first hand. Other listening activities include listening to SlowNews, printing out lyrics and listening to songs to hear the grammar in action, and finding both educational and cultural (more advanced, more for exposure than comprehension).
Then, I also have purchased a grammar workbook/textbook that goes over the systems and has exercises that follow units. This structure, especially being able to follow it at my own pace, has always been one of the ways I best gained comprehension. Also, simply rewriting the grammar structures and tenses in a repetitive pattern helps drill it into my memory. Other daily activities include reading/labeling objects in my room to help with conversational vocabulary. Also writing about my day in the diary to help with describing everyday activities. I think that these sorts of exercises help to identify conversational terms and phrases.
Ultimately, I think that the route of my learning plan is patience with myself and learning at my own pace. I know that in the past sometimes the pace of the course and the direction that the course takes makes it so that I loose the effort to truly learn the information that I am studying.
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