Thanks. I feel like the hard part is over now that I can read and watch Spanish tv and follow enough to enjoy it. Bootstrapping myself by cramming the first 1500-2000 words or so of vocabulary felt like a lot of work.

I almost never practice speaking and writing because I don’t want to become fluent in my mistakes.

I like the way [antimoon](http://www.antimoon.com/other/myths-mistakesbeg.htm) writes about this aspect of language learning.