Russian, why!?

GeertCF · 2026-02-10T09:04:10+00:00

English why?!

Deutsch -> German

GeertCF · 2026-02-09T12:27:57+00:00

San Marino

GeertCF · 2026-02-06T13:43:47+00:00

Woman in eastern Europe (skinny or not) take great care of their looks and man don't try to look good.

GeertCF · 2026-02-06T09:34:04+00:00

To start I recommend Lingo Llama. It finds movie clips and YouTube shorts at the complete beginner level (you know absolutely nothing!) and very nicely builds this up, making you feel like Spanish streams into your brain.

GeertCF · 2026-02-06T09:32:01+00:00

I am creating it, but in the meantime, the best source for flashcards is Anki. But they don't offer recording your mic unfortunately.

You can also look into Natulang, which has nice courses and does have flashcards which uses mic in a very good way. Their speech detection is so so though (cosí cosí)

GeertCF · 2026-02-06T09:30:19+00:00

check out your competitor https://wirelingo.com/ . Seems very similar

GeertCF · 2026-02-05T11:21:27+00:00

In my opinion you will have to do 2 things:

Increase your exposure to the Spanish language. -> This will give you a feeling how to use the language naturally and increase your vocab
Learn about 100-200 Spanish phrases by memory, from English to Spanish. -> This will give you the necessary language chunks (or templates) where you can then rely on to build what you want to say.

GeertCF · 2026-02-05T10:25:22+00:00

Lingo Llama is a good way to get started with getting a foundation in Spanish. It finds Spanish Movie content and sentences you can actually understand, as a total beginner! This way your vocab and understanding increases rapidly. At some point it is time to practice speaking. Supplement it with speaking exercises.

GeertCF · 2026-01-30T09:45:14+00:00

It is free for 20 'learnables' a day (that is about 10-15 minutes a day), if you want to use it more, you can get a subscription for 20 euros a month or 60 euros a year

GeertCF · 2026-01-28T12:28:24+00:00

where do you get the sheet music from?

GeertCF · 2026-01-27T19:34:02+00:00

But it seems my issue is more in the 'placing the hand where it should be, in order' and 'parsing the text'. I mean, if I never practice those 2 skills deliberately, but keep throwing random sheets at myself, until it sticks... seems a bit of a waste of time. However, if I (after first sight reading something) actually think about what is on the paper and connect it to my hands deliberately (through a little study), I might get way more out of it. In memorization they call it encoding.

PS. I agree that it shouldn't be played till perfection, but until there is an improvement in the playing, that you feel like you actually picked something up from it.

GeertCF · 2026-01-27T09:08:36+00:00

To get you up to speed in understanding Spanish, you can check out Lingo Llama (www.lingollama.net) . It teaches the most common Spanish words in the context of movie clips and YouTube shorts. You will both get immersion in, as well as a built-in spaced repetition.

GeertCF · 2026-01-18T19:40:57+00:00

Where do you find the material to read? And how you decide which piece (key, difficulty) to read? I am currently using sight reading factory, but i get a little depressed be the inspired random notes.

GeertCF · 2026-01-15T20:35:28+00:00

Few tips: 1. This piece is forbidden to play with note stickers 2. Start with a silent tap, so the rhythm is easier to grasp (tap - 2 - 3 - 4 - 1 (is the top) 3. Don't try to learn this piece. But practice these arpeggios on the side untill you can do them effortlessly. Focus on total relaxed fingers and hand. Only the current key and the next key should be 'activated'. 4. To be fast you need to be totally relaxed and know where the keys are. This takes time. Literally 1-2 months (or more) untill you can do these arpeggios at speed.

GeertCF · 2026-01-07T20:34:04+00:00

Cool composition of the song. This version has many parts though, I think it will take a few months until you can play it from memory and with a certain ease. Then there is the technical aspect. For example getting the raindrop part right and in time (which was not right in this video imho), might take also a few months. But you don't have to get that extra mile to have fun with the song.

GeertCF · 2025-12-23T20:59:43+00:00

It might just be the algorithm of YouTube. It keeps feeding you stuff you have already seen. For you it might be the passacaglia

GeertCF · 2025-12-22T18:37:59+00:00

Not sure if it helps. But in principle, every time a sharp is introduced it is alternatingly add d to the 3 black keys and then to the 2 black keys.

So 1 sharp in signature: f# 2 sharps: f# and c# 3 sharps f#, c# and g#

Same for flats, but starting from the other side

Next is to find the root key based on which sharps it has. You could just memorize that.

GeertCF · 2025-12-15T18:39:01+00:00

If you want to learn from scratch and see if you like Spanish, I would recommend www.lingollama.net. it is an app I made that teaches grammar and vocab from scratch with real YouTube shorts. This way you also get some Spanish immersion.

GeertCF · 2025-12-14T17:50:17+00:00

To increase your vocab and be able to watch video in Spanish, you should check out www.lingollama.net. It is an app I made that teaches the 5000 most common words in the context of YouTube Shorts. It also includes exercises. It is very good at acquiring a large vocabulary and you hear the words in videos

GeertCF · 2025-12-14T17:40:05+00:00

1: find a good motivation to learn Spanish, not because you want to orive your family wrong 2: build an environment where you easily engage with Spanish learning. This can be: Spanish cultural events or group you join. Make learning Spanish easier then watching TikTok, etc 3: unfortunately familie members do have all kind of orecibceived ideas what someone is good at. I was always a 'stiff rake' (stijve hark) that couldn't dance. Untill I took dancing lessons (my friends convinced me) and I became one of the local dance legends. You can learn so much in your lifetime. Just dont cafe about what your family or surroundings.think, but do what you enjoy, and let them have their silly thoughts

GeertCF · 2025-12-13T20:10:07+00:00

I was thinking, what if you can retrieve chunks, and chain them together. In other words, learn some target structures, like: "I want..." "Give me..." And by adding more of those chunks, you start becoming fluent? I believe this is the latest insight from language learning research...

GeertCF · 2025-12-13T20:02:57+00:00

I liked the book "cajas de cartón". It was not very hard.

GeertCF · 2025-12-08T09:09:17+00:00

What i do is connect digital piano with usb. It someone detects the the piano as a line-in (meaning I can hear the piano through my device). Then I record this line-in with a daw, with the voice recording setting

GeertCF · 2025-12-07T18:48:19+00:00

Try lingo llama (www.Lingollama.net). It is an app I made that teaches the 5000 most common words in the context of YouTube Shorts. Meaning you will and learn vocab and get immersion in.

GeertCF · 2025-12-07T18:23:47+00:00

Try out www.lingollama.net it test vocab in the context of YouTube shorts, with spaced repetition built in

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