I'm going to give you 6 tips for progressing with your Spanish learning and finding more motivation to continue studying it consistently.
This is what works for me and, hopefully, I hope it can be useful for you too:
1. Have a clear objective
One of the keys to learning a language is to know what you want to learn it for. The reasons are many: for work, for love, to be able to talk to friends, family or neighbors, to be able to change countries, to have access to new educational or work opportunities...
You have to think about why you want to study. How do you see yourself in a year? And in five? How about in ten? What have you achieved with that language? Motivation is very important, because you will have to study and practice a lot a lot if you want to keep progressing with Spanish.
2. Don't be afraid to make a mistake
Surely you have heard that when you are little you learn faster. But do you know what children do better than adults? Don't be afraid of the mistake, don't be afraid of not being right. I recommend that you have a slightly more “childish” attitude: play on your tongue, lose your fear of what others think when they hear you talking, downplay mistakes. We learn by making mistakes and sometimes embarrassing situations will arise, but that's okay: you're learning. Get out of your comfort zone, expose yourself to uncomfortable situations using Spanish: try to make jokes, take every opportunity to speak it even if you make mistakes... Don't be ashamed!
3. Immerse yourself fully in the language you are learning
Live your life in Spanish. You will improve very quickly if you manage to immerse yourself in the language you are studying. And I don't mean that you have to go to another country. The change is mental. If you want to be consistent with Spanish, the best thing is to fall in love with its culture, history and cuisine. Surround yourself with Spanish, now with the internet it's very easy.
Read in Spanish, listen in Spanish, write in Spanish, speak in Spanish, feel and think in Spanish.
And, if you can travel to a country where Spanish is spoken, travel. This is not a requirement, but it is true that traveling we force ourselves to use the language we learn because we are within its context. This happened to me with English, and after living in Dublin for a few years, it improved a lot.
4. Regularity and consistency
You'll see faster results if you're consistent with your study and practice. Regularity is very important, a language needs to be used so as not to be forgotten. Never lose touch with Spanish for months, because you'll be surprised at how quickly you forget.
5. Focus on vocabulary
Learning the vocabulary of a language**** is the first necessary step to learn it and also to move from one level to a more advanced one. Also, studying vocabulary and recognizing it gives us a greater sense of progress than studying grammar (which is also important).
Get vocabulary from real materials: newspaper articles in Spanish, songs in Spanish, movies in Spanish... Another tip: don't try to translate new words into your language, try to explain what it means using words you know in Spanish or relating it to an image. And, if you take note of the new vocabulary, the ideal would be to group the words by topic and write down not only words in a list, but phrases containing those words.
6. Learn to keep what you've learned
After learning something new, it is necessary to keep practicing it if we don't want it to be forgotten. Do constant revisions, use what you have just learned to consolidate knowledge about it.
You can have an exclusive notebook for Spanish and take note of your findings to review them at the end of each week. This is something that works a lot for me.
Has it been useful to you? I hope so.
