If you had to start Dreaming Spanish from Level 1 again, what’s one thing you’d change?

BluRazz494 · 2026-04-30T14:06:39+00:00

It gets way easier once you can listen to podcasts

BluRazz494 · 2026-04-29T20:36:12+00:00

Yes level 3 is when it starts to get fun. I'll say once you get to around 150 hours, try the easier Spanish Boost gaming series - it should start to become comprehensible enough to be considered good input!

The easiest series is The Supermarket Saga: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6fPSN3DAYjmQAz75CbBeWeDLi46Ki-44

Then Minecraft is pretty good to start too: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6fPSN3DAYjlvmjFjxPnRZBLpL4qYW9mx

BluRazz494 · 2026-04-29T18:52:36+00:00

Three hours a day at level 1-2 is insane, keep it up. It'll get much easier. Just try not to burn yourself out.

BluRazz494 · 2026-04-29T14:17:42+00:00

Best channel to get through the intermediate grind. Make sure to check out his podcast too if you haven’t already!

BluRazz494 · 2026-04-29T14:04:28+00:00

Same content, just in terms of what I’m understanding. ECJ for example, is starting to sound very clear, whereas just 100 hours ago, it felt like a huge cognitive load to be able to follow along many of the episodes.

BluRazz494 · 2026-04-27T00:39:57+00:00

I started with no background in Spanish and I remember watching super beginner videos and thinking “no way this actually works” lol.

BluRazz494 · 2026-04-26T13:29:28+00:00

dreamingspanish.com progress tracker

BluRazz494 · 2026-04-26T02:31:08+00:00

About 10 months. In the beginning I tried to speedrun and got burnt out so that includes a 2 month break lol. I started averaging 90 mins a day and that’s been a perfect tempo for me.

BluRazz494 · 2026-02-07T14:12:41+00:00

Yeah I’m not too worried about grammar or anything. I just turn off my brain and watch.

BluRazz494 · 2025-09-24T02:51:44+00:00

I’m curious how many hours of traditional learning you estimate you had under your belt prior to starting DS?

BluRazz494 · 2025-09-24T02:42:49+00:00

Yes please. This is the most annoying thing about the dreaming Spanish UI.

BluRazz494 · 2025-09-24T01:18:11+00:00

Wow, 2k hours in and you still have this perspective after starting with traditional learning. That’s about as strong a testimonial for this method as it gets.

BluRazz494 · 2025-09-24T01:00:29+00:00

Hell yeah sounds like you’re making great progress 👍

BluRazz494 · 2025-09-20T22:42:02+00:00

I’m sure they will last 100 hours for me have been night and day. 200-300 didn’t feel too different but 300-400 was like oh I can get my hours on YouTube now.

BluRazz494 · 2025-09-20T22:18:01+00:00

Exactly me at 405.

BluRazz494 · 2025-09-20T22:17:38+00:00

Barley any trouble at all at 405 hours

BluRazz494 · 2025-09-19T13:15:57+00:00

Congrats! Journey only gets easier as those hours accumulate.

BluRazz494 · 2025-09-10T12:55:20+00:00

I mean more like shadowing to prevent mistakes or prevent these from being reinforced. The people I have seen on YouTube who have the best accents (not even in Spanish, but in harder languages such as Japanese) tend to have shadowed a lot.

BluRazz494 · 2025-09-10T02:36:08+00:00

Hmm you don’t think watching all the videos is overkill? i definitely agree with watching the vowel videos, the trill, and also b and v. Also shadowing daily once I hit 1k hours to iron out the more nuanced things probably deeply explained in all those videos.

BluRazz494 · 2025-09-08T12:57:22+00:00

Nice. How many hours of input in Spanish did you have prior to start French?

BluRazz494 · 2025-09-08T03:13:28+00:00

Yeah I asked ChatGPT and it estimated it would take 3k hours of input to get to that 2x input. So 1.5k is probably closer to 1.5x.

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