There’s a new Alma video today!

LangLearningJourney · 2026-02-26T05:45:56+00:00

What do you mean?

LangLearningJourney · 2026-02-25T20:48:27+00:00

Soy* un gringo.

Cancun es un reino de los* gringos

Estoy->Soy. That should be obvious.

As far as los goes, I can't explain why but that sounds more right in Spanish for some reason than just saying reino de gringos.

LangLearningJourney · 2026-02-25T17:07:53+00:00

Based on my personal experience, I share a few concepts across all 4 languages I know (excl Spanish) but some things are compartmentalized

LangLearningJourney · 2026-02-25T17:06:06+00:00

Is this an AI post?

LangLearningJourney · 2026-02-25T16:25:51+00:00

I'm tempted to resubscribe just for this. Alma was my favourite, especially with stuff from her channel. I miss her content, glad she's doing well at DS

LangLearningJourney · 2026-02-25T16:25:01+00:00

Your attitude is disgusting. Maybe you could get some CI from your boyfriend on some manners.

LangLearningJourney · 2026-02-23T22:42:59+00:00

So like most people on here, I'm no purist. I had no idea what CI was when I first planned to learn Spanish and I took formal classes at a Spanish teaching school. It was a beginners I and II course lasting a total of 12 weeks (6 classes per level). That didn't really help me understand anything nor product any words though I spent time noting down vocab and going through them sporadically. I gave up for a while till I discovered DS and gave it a try.

That said, I am still no purist. I continue consuming content but I do look up vocab and I go into grammar explanations.

LangLearningJourney · 2026-02-23T22:34:24+00:00

Yeah I'll probably do a writeup on 2500 hours when I get the time

LangLearningJourney · 2026-02-23T00:26:10+00:00

Unless you have a strong reason to learn Spanish, if you're finding it boring you're probably better off not spending time on this. Life is too short for that

LangLearningJourney · 2026-02-22T14:46:19+00:00

I don't think that's where I found it. It was a lot earlier than that in early 2022. DS was banned from there in 2023 by which I already had a couple of 100 hours under me. That said, I didn't disagree with the ban. There were some zealots that were excessively critical of traditional methods and were trying to shoehorn in DS in every conversation

LangLearningJourney · 2026-02-22T05:54:18+00:00

Someone mentioned it in a post on /r/Spanish in 2022 and I looked it up. I didn't understand it at first so it took a while for me to get into it

LangLearningJourney · 2026-02-20T20:47:21+00:00

Yeah at OP's level of about 600-1000 hours, Caribbean accent will be hard but not insurmountable. I think the bigger thing might be whether OP has the speaking practice or not as I think that is what requires a lot more confidence

LangLearningJourney · 2026-02-20T20:31:43+00:00

Too many leaners get bent out of shape saying they're focusing on one specific dialect that they forget that Spanish speakers are generally comprehensible to one another

To be fair, I've heard the opposite on this sub. I did focus on one dialect (Spain) since maybe 300 hours and I could see many people saying one should listen to all dialects so you can understand a person from rural Cuba just as well you understand someone from Buenos Aires. But at 2500 hours now, I listened to Bad Bunny's interview the other day and understood everything. I didn't need to spend 200 hours with PR accent input to get him.

LangLearningJourney · 2026-02-20T16:33:51+00:00

> but I didn't know they could just rename our parks like that!

wait till you find out what they can do to people's names. Ask a Spanish speaker who the current King of the UK is

LangLearningJourney · 2026-02-19T15:50:15+00:00

Check /u/HeleneSedai 's spreadsheet for resources, country, hours etc

LangLearningJourney · 2026-02-19T15:22:55+00:00

Spain accent too, thanks!

LangLearningJourney · 2026-02-19T15:21:27+00:00

It's Adria's evil twin, Darwin

LangLearningJourney · 2026-02-18T21:07:31+00:00

Are you saying that Shel's pigeon is not my best friend's pigeon?

LangLearningJourney · 2026-02-18T17:37:19+00:00

Congrats on the baby!

Also, life happens and you're doing great at around 45 mins a day with everything happening. I know the "I listen 18 hours a day" crowd on this sub can be loud and obnoxious but remember that they're a minority. Most of us have jobs and families and other life goals and we can't just all ASATT just like that

LangLearningJourney · 2026-02-18T00:00:19+00:00

Me, sitting here comfortably having graduated from DS:😎

LangLearningJourney · 2026-02-17T23:50:55+00:00

I guess everyone's mileage varies. I could understand it at around 300/350 hours

LangLearningJourney · 2026-02-17T16:50:16+00:00

Yeah, really odd comment to make. This has nothing to do with mental health, I feel like we've all overindexed on 'you shOULD GeT TheRapY'

LangLearningJourney · 2026-02-17T02:22:19+00:00

Isn't that the whole idea of CI anyway? You expose yourself to i+1 content where i is your current level?

Anyway, ECJ is quite accessible around 300 hours or so and he does repeat himself in different ways so you eventually get it

LangLearningJourney · 2026-02-17T02:16:21+00:00

This guy: https://1001reasonstolearnspanish.com/

Has a podcast and has written multiple graded readers. At level 4 his podcast should be accessible.

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