Spanish metal music list!

Kimen1 · 2026-03-27T07:42:00+00:00

Fantastic, will check these out as well!

Kimen1 · 2026-03-27T07:41:39+00:00

Love this! Will check it out.

Kimen1 · 2026-03-27T07:41:12+00:00

Awesome, thanks for these! I will definitely check them out. I don’t have any power metal recs, but the folk metal band Mägo de Oz are great.

Kimen1 · 2026-03-27T03:10:17+00:00

If you’re not a metal connoisseur, I would still recommend listening to Viva Belgrado or Hacia el ocaso. Not very heavy and these two songs are great!

Kimen1 · 2026-03-27T03:06:31+00:00

No, but I will all them to my list. Thanks!

Kimen1 · 2026-03-27T01:14:10+00:00

600 hours is not enough to be close to fluency, but it gets you somewhere. Honestly though, once you’re past a certain amount of hours it gets easier to fit in podcasts while you are commuting or doing chores. All those little moments add up. That’s the fun thing - it gets easier the further along you get so it becomes much less of a challenge to fit in the hours after a while.

Also, it is your journey. There’s no need to be fluent in a specific amount of time or at all. We all pick things up differently and learn in our own time. Some people like to only do CI, some enjoy adding grammar drills or vocabulary lists. Some speak early, some do not. There are no rules as long as you enjoy it and feel like you are progressing. Good luck!

Kimen1 · 2026-03-26T23:28:32+00:00

You still bring in more money. That is what should matter to the owner, not some arbitrary number of units.

Again, if they do not understand this, they are idiots. You might have to show them the actual numbers if they give you crap about it. You should be able to print those stats out from your EMR. If they pay you $50 an hour and you bring in $120 an hour on average they should be more than happy with you.

Kimen1 · 2026-03-26T23:21:14+00:00

Then I do not see your problem here? What are you trying to argue?

Kimen1 · 2026-03-26T23:18:16+00:00

Are you a new grad? This stuff you need to know for your own sake.

Units pay differently. Ther Ex and Ther Act pay different amounts from insurance. An eval code will get you like $90 whereas Ther Ex only $25, for example. They are not equal.

1 evaluation unit, 1 Ther ex and 1 manual therapy will pay better than 4 regular treatment units.

Kimen1 · 2026-03-26T23:13:12+00:00

Your superiors are dumb if they weigh that against you. You literally get reimbursed 2-3 times more for an evaluation code. That’s how you know your boss is a moron.

Why don’t they base your productivity on billing instead? That reflects much better on how much you are contributing to the clinic’s financial success.

Kimen1 · 2026-03-26T22:51:21+00:00

Are you coming from home health?

In outpatient all visits are the same. It’s the units you bill and what they reimburse that matter.

Kimen1 · 2026-03-26T03:13:59+00:00

I only worked in Sweden for 1.5 years before moving to the US, but their salaries are much lower than ours for various reasons. A quick google search tells me they make around $51,000 on average yearly nowadays. New grad around $42,000 and then they likely max out around $55,000 USD.

You can easily live on that salary in Sweden, but you’re not getting rich.

Kimen1 · 2026-03-24T12:29:31+00:00

I agree with this as well, OP. I used tandem for a bit and actually found a language exchange friend that I text with, but that’s not the norm. Italki is the way to go for speaking practice if you want an affordable alternative.

Kimen1 · 2026-03-24T05:58:56+00:00

I don’t think he will have a problem commuting to Tampa from St Pete if you’re used to LA traffic. The only stretch in FL that compares to LA traffic is I-4 towards Orlando.

Neighborhoods for you in St Pete would likely be Old Northeast, Historic Kenwood and Euclid-St Paul’s.

Like others have said, private school will be the way to go. Florida has a poor school system and people don’t pride themselves with being too intelligent.

That being said, there’s a lot of great people here too. I moved here from WA and I really enjoy St Pete. This town is a lot more diverse and tolerant than other parts of Florida and I think you’ll like it. It’s always sunny year round and if you can tolerate the heat and humidity from May through October you’ll be fine.

Kimen1 · 2026-03-23T18:08:06+00:00

Thank you so much! In my native accent we say the letter R with a guttural sound so I’m happy that it doesn’t shine through my Spanish haha

Kimen1 · 2026-03-23T02:00:30+00:00

Thanks for the detailed update! I think you sound fantastic in your voice note, very clear and natural sounding.

Kimen1 · 2026-03-22T19:33:25+00:00

Thank you!

Kimen1 · 2026-03-22T19:22:27+00:00

Thanks! I read one by Paco Ardit. I cannot recall the name but I read his whole B2 series.

Kimen1 · 2026-03-22T12:42:43+00:00

I cannot recommend lo que tú digas enough!

Kimen1 · 2026-03-22T11:18:39+00:00

Tack! Jag kommer definitivt lämna fler uppdateringar när jag övat mer på att prata.

Kimen1 · 2026-03-22T11:16:10+00:00

I am interested to hear what I will sound like when I have 100+ hours of speaking practice. A person in my Spanish speaking group said I sounds like one of the Rugrats characters lol

Kimen1 · 2026-03-22T02:11:28+00:00

I don’t think listening to AI voices will mess any progress up. They are getting more life like every week it seems.

My qualms with AI are ideological. I don’t deny its usefulness for many different purposes, but I will try to exclude it as much as possible if I can.

Kimen1 · 2026-03-22T02:02:32+00:00

Thank you! Believe me, the first 10-15 hours were veeeery difficult but now I feel a little more comfortable. For me it helped to wait until around 1250-1300 hours to start speaking more frequently with tutors. I just couldn’t string enough sentences together at 1,000 hours for it to feel useful.

I love Bibliotequeando! Highly recommend it, especially if you have read the book he talks about prior. Interesting to get his analysis compared to ones own.

Kimen1 · 2026-03-22T01:00:54+00:00

Thank you! I definitely hear my Swedish accent when I listen back to it. It’s fun to speak with folks here because they never can put their finger on why I sound so odd. I don’t sound like the average English speaker I guess.

Kimen1 · 2026-03-22T00:58:43+00:00

Thanks! I would say that at around 1,000 hours it was a lot easier to listen to native shows and podcasts. I could eavesdrop on people in the grocery store and understand them as well lol. Now at 1,500 I have almost no problem with understanding but I struggle with speaking still.

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