I have successfully managed to pass the second chapter of my beginner's spanish book after ages. I have a better rate at deciding when to use ser and estar but there's moments where I get them wrong. I'll continue to practise this. I recognise a lot of words now but I can't actually speak it on the fly. I have to write it out in english and then translate it. Very happy with that progress. I think I'll look into some telenovelas.