iCongratulations for 258 hours!!!! Keep it going!!! I also use dreaming Spanish and found that I learn the most when I can find videos that are interesting rather than the level. I also read out loud transcripts of other podcasts and that helps a lot. I have been learning for about 3-1/2 years and probably have another 3 years before I will be happy with my conversational skills. I originally thought I would be fluent I. A year or two but for me that would not be possible as that would require near total immersion. Regardless, it is a super fun activity that I work on almost daily.

@8possibilities

5 күн бұрын

Thank you!! That's a great idea that you incorporated with reading transcripts out loud. You're doing great! Keep going!

Congrats, people including myself forget that it's a language we're learning and it takes time. Even someone like me that grew up with bilingual parents in Spanish has taken a long time. I'm at a real advance level and still working on my Spanish. Over the years I've learned it's OK to take time on the learning process, build emotional connections with the language.

@8possibilities

7 ай бұрын

Thank you for your words! 🤗

I thought you might demonstrate your progress level in speaking. But your advice to work at your own pace and not compare yourself to others is appreciated. Keep up the journey.

@8possibilities

5 ай бұрын

I'm planning on doing a video of my progress in speaking. Thank you! Keep up the journey as well! What has been your experience from your journey?

@sammyytube5999

4 ай бұрын

@@8possibilities I finally consider myself a high level beginner after 5 years on and off learning this complex language. Now that I can see the progress, the goal is to become intermediate o more conversational by the end of summer 2024. I study by learning spanish ballads, listen and repeat with different Ytube channels and spanish subtitles on movies. Being stuck on too much grammar does not work for me. Keep up the journey.

@8possibilities

4 ай бұрын

@@sammyytube5999 congratulations on being a high level beginner!! 🥳🙌🏽 That's great that you know what's best for you! Please keel me updated on your 2024 goal! Keep up the journey as well!!

Good job. I have also gone back to more basic stuff. I'm now doing 50/50 with dreaming Spanish and other stuff (mostly travel vloggers). Because I was understanding a good bit, I was moving away from dreaming Spanish, but I realized I still have so much basics to learn. And, I don't know if I just have now 'made friends' with the dreaming Spanish crew but I feel like the content is getting better and better. At the start I struggled to motivate myself to watch beginner videos. Now, it's not so hard.

@8possibilities

8 ай бұрын

Thank you! I totally can relate on going back to DS videos, it's like home base for me with it's one stop shop with all the levels of videos! And, yes the content has definitely improved, recently saw a video with a new teacher! Keep up the great work on your end! 🤗

Thank you so much for this video which contained just the encouragement I need right now: "no comparison with other language learners as we are on our own journeys". I also love number crunching so appreciated hearing the stats from the full year. Appreciate all your efforts and look forward to future updates.

@8possibilities

8 ай бұрын

Thank you! Yes, and I know you're doing the best you can along your journey! 🙌🏽 Keep me posted on how you're doing along your journey!! 🤗

Congratulations on your journey! I use a combination of Duolingo, Dreaming Spanish, and other KZread videos and podcasts that are in Spanish. At the higher levels, Duolingo is completely in Spanish. You learn Spanish in Spanish. However, I still believe that comprehensible input is the thing that has increased my comprehension the most, so I spend more time on that. I have a daily goal of 2 hours on the Dreaming Spanish website. I do count Duolingo in my input time, but I spend a maximum amount of 40 minutes using Duolingo and the other hour and 20 minutes with watching videos and listening to podcasts, so my listening exposure (comprehensible input) is always greater than my Duolingo time. I find this to be a useful combination, and I find that I encounter the words and phrases that I learned from Duolingo in the rest of my time while listening and vice versa. It really helps to reinforce those connections.

@8possibilities

6 ай бұрын

This is great info! 🙌🏽Thank you for sharing and breaking down your process! Do you have certain podcasts that you listen to regularly? If so, what are the names?

@erwinfelis

6 ай бұрын

@@8possibilities I watch videos on KZread on the channel Español con Juan. He has several videos where he is making a fool of himself and just being crazy, but in a good way. He knows how to make me laugh, which I find helpful to the learning process as it keeps me entertained. I mean he'll make a "phonecall" using a shoe as a phone. Then, you get to hear a more serious side of him in his podcasts by the same name (Español con Juan). I use Google podcasts, but I'm sure it's on other podcast platforms as well. Keep in mind that his podcasts seem to be a bit more advanced than his content on KZread and he's usually talking about more serious topics than on his KZread channel. I also watch How to Spanish, which is a podcast, but on KZread. They are a married couple from Mexico. I think an intermediate level is good enough to understand most of what they are saying. Besides the Dreaming Spanish KZread channel and website, these are the podcasts I listen to the most.

You’re doing great! Keep on going! And thank you for making these update videos, it helps me stay motivated as well and I’m sure they help other Spanish learners too ☺️

@8possibilities

7 ай бұрын

Thank you!!!🤗🙏🏽 Keep going as well along your language journey!! 🙌🏽

Go Michelle! About to hit 150 over here.🙂 Thank you so much for sharing your journey.

@8possibilities

8 ай бұрын

Thank you! And, congratulations to you on your progress!!!🥳🙌🏽👏🏽 You're doing great!!!

Congratulations on 1 year of Dreaming Spanish. DS and comprehensible input is definately the way to acquire Spanish. - Dave

@8possibilities

6 ай бұрын

Thank you, Dave!

@LLAML

2 ай бұрын

What is DS

@tinynhhouse5467

2 ай бұрын

@@LLAML DS = Dreaming Spanish, a YT channel that teaches Spanish using Comprehensible Input.

I really appreciate your commentary and your insights. I have to smile, because I see you're developing quite a group of followers Your journey on many levels is something we all, as DS learners can relate to. I was taking a month off, as my wife was quite ill and in the hospital and I had been distracted and unable to focus on my DS time. . I am finding it is not taking me very long to catch up.now as I stagger onward once again. Your KZread posts are a good motivator for me and they remind me that using DS is the focal point for learning. Its is ok to use other mediums , but I want to do so less and use DS more. . Thank you for all of your efforts in helping us all keep a healthy perspective as we learn. Let us stay the course.

@8possibilities

6 ай бұрын

Hey Bill! Always great to hear from you! I hope your wife is feeling healthy and well! Thank you for sharing your journey! That is definitely progress with it not taking as long for you to catch up👏🏽👏🏽 You're doing awesome as you continue move onward! 🙌🏽🤗

one year! wow! im almost at level 2, though ive had a bunch of input that I havnt entered into my progress from outside DS.

@8possibilities

8 ай бұрын

Congratulations on your progress!! 🥳🙌🏽👏🏽

Way to go for one year! It made me wonder when I started consistently using DS. I guess it looks like January is 1 year for me. I think looking at others is helpful for inspiration, but it's a problem when we try to say we aren't good enough or as fast as others. I think the patience and the slow growth over time with DS has helped me build patience in other areas as well. I know exactly how you feel with wanting to be there yesterday! I have a new job and it's really hard. But I see others who have been working there 10 or 20 years and how amazing they are and I use it as inspiration that I will get there one day, but it won't be today or probably even this year, but I can make steady progress in the right direction as long as I don't give up.

@8possibilities

7 ай бұрын

That's awesome! Kudos to your commitment to your journey! 🥳👏🏽 Thank you for your words of inspiration! I'm definitely going to keep going! 🙌🏽

Hablas Ingles muy bien! Sin acento❤❤❤impresionante

@8possibilities

5 ай бұрын

Muchas gracias!

@embr4065

3 ай бұрын

😂😅😊

That's good progress in terms of hours of comprehensible input. I only started learning Spanish 3 months ago, and according to my stats (different language learning platform), I've put in just under 60 hours (listening & reading time). I know from my experience of learning another language, that the volume of CI hours will increase when my comprehension gets better.

@8possibilities

7 ай бұрын

Thank you! What other languages have you learned? Congratulations on your almost 60 hours of input 🥳 Keep me posted along your journey!

@Tehui1974

7 ай бұрын

@@8possibilities My other language is Māori (New Zealand). We had an exchange a few months ago. I'm enjoying learning Spanish so far. I'm looking forward to moving on to intermediate level content in about a month's time when I hit about 100 hours of CI. Hang in there with your Spanish. Just take it 1 day at a time and enjoy the journey (that's what I had to tell myself with my previous language journey).

@8possibilities

7 ай бұрын

@@Tehui1974 oh yes, I do remember our exchange! Thank you for your words of encouragement! 🙏🏽 I needed that since I recently felt kinda down when I was listening to Spanish speakers in a conversation and I wasn't comprehending everything 😩One day at a time, thank you!

@Tehui1974

7 ай бұрын

@@8possibilities I remember feeling similarly frustrated when I was at a A2-B1 level in Māori. I felt like a baby who could crawl but was not yet able to walk. LOL. Eventually, after a lot of daily listening and reading to content I found interesting, I reached a B2 level where I felt comfortable, and could hold a conversation and talk about most topics. If you continue to put in the work, you'll get there. I'm going to be keep an eye on your updates and will be supporting you from the other side of the world. 👍

@8possibilities

7 ай бұрын

@@Tehui1974 omg 🤣 that definitely sums up how I feel... a baby who can crawl, although not able to walk yet😄 I will continue to put in the work. Thank you so much for your support!!! 🤗

That speed thing is a strange experience, when using this method. As long as all words are known, the speed becomes completely irrelevant. A few new words and I'm lost for several sentences afterwards while trying to recover and get back on track, but still. The speed immunity is of course natural, as all work is being done by the same "translate sounds into concepts"-module in the brain that has been doing its thing for decades. So sometimes faster speaker is almost easier to understand, because then my "translate words between languages and consider inflections and whatnot"-module immediately gives up and hands things over to the correct part of the brain. At least that's what it feels like.

@8possibilities

8 ай бұрын

Yes, I can relate when new words happen and I'm lost for a bit then I hear something I know and I'm back on track. Thank you for sharing!🤗

Hello, I have been following you for a while and I enjoy your content. I am learning Spanish as well. But I wanted to know are you speaking Spanish or just listening? Thanks in advance

@8possibilities

8 ай бұрын

Hi 🤗 thank you for watching! I'm just listening now. I may say a phrase or words here and there, but my focus is listening.

Im currently at 190ish hours and im struggling with the jump from beginner to intermediate. Sometimes my comprehension is 60% at most and other times, 20 %. Its hard to stay motivated

@8possibilities

3 ай бұрын

Congratulations on your ~190 hours of input!🥳👏🏽🙌🏽 I felt the same way when I started watching intermediate videos. I did feel frustrated at times because I thought I had made this jump to another level and yet wasn't grasping as quickly. All I can say is, "Continue watching and listening!" It will get easier. You got this!!

Are you now able to watch the news in Spanish or tv shows without much difficulty? I’m at 67 hours. I am taking Spanish classes though. I hope they don’t interfere with my progress though. I’m still working on getting as much input as I can.

@8possibilities

7 ай бұрын

Currently, I would not be able to comprehend a news broadcast or a novela at 100%. I'll say I'm not there yet!🤗 Continue to implement what you feel is best for your Spanish learning journey. How do you feel after taking your Spanish classes?

@deecee9479

7 ай бұрын

@@8possibilities I enjoy it but I am starting to notice that CI is easier and less stressful. I don’t mind doing worksheets and grammar but the class presentations are a little nerve wracking and I wonder if they are really all that helpful in the long run. I’m following two of you who are only doing CI so I’ll be watching and anticipating your results and experiences 👍🏼

@8possibilities

7 ай бұрын

@@deecee9479 same, I can relate. Before I found Dreaming Spanish, I was taking iTalki classes and reading a grammar book. CI feels easy and I'm experiencing progress.

Such a good tip! Thank you for sharing :) I agree with the fact that the amount of input per day/week/month is very important. That is why we offer online lessons with native teachers that can help people to learn Spanish very fast.

@8possibilities

5 ай бұрын

That's great!

@GlobalSpanishPortuguese

4 ай бұрын

@@8possibilities Follow us to know more about our methodology :)

Awesome. I’m curious about output. Are you able to speak in Spanish now? Thank you.

@8possibilities

4 ай бұрын

Thank you! My output is not at the level of my current comprehension. I recently had to have multiple conversations with someone who only spoke Spanish. I can form choppy sentences, although him and I can "talk" for 10-15 mins., which I applaud myself for. 👏🏽 I'm not a fluent speaker, although I believe it's been easier that I can get by due to my growth in comprehension. I plan on making a video of me speaking to track my progress over time.

Cool

@8possibilities

2 ай бұрын

Gracias!!!

Is DS the only teaching you are getting?

@8possibilities

8 ай бұрын

Yes, majority of my time is spent using DS. I'll listen to podcasts or watch shows for input. Although, input is my only teaching method as of now

🎉🎉🎉🎉

@8possibilities

6 ай бұрын

Thank you!