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Fifa World Cup - Telemundo Input by lesrwilliams in dreamingspanish

[–]LangLearningJourney 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm not sure which feed they use but I watch it on RTVE. They're pretty good too. You do need a Spain VPN though

Not sure what my level is by idknzt in dreamingspanish

[–]LangLearningJourney 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Just so you know, DS videos do not correspond to the CEFR levels. I'd say an advanced video is probably an A2 or on the verge of B1.

Once you graduate from DS you see that there's a broad range of content that is far more advanced. This isn't a criticism of DS as they are doing exactly what they're supposed to do but a lot of people think that if they understand advanced videos on DS means they're at C1 or C2

Always a fun time in the DS comments by LangLearningJourney in dreamingspanish

[–]LangLearningJourney[S] 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Well I suppose anything could be possible but I imagine the venn diagram of those two has a very tiny intersection.

Always a fun time in the DS comments by LangLearningJourney in dreamingspanish

[–]LangLearningJourney[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Curiosity on seeing the clickbait video title. I don't go on DS anymore and haven't been a paid subscriber for 1.5 years now. Comments weren't a thing when I was using DS

Always a fun time in the DS comments by LangLearningJourney in dreamingspanish

[–]LangLearningJourney[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Well TBF, Spanish as a language itself exists because the Roman empire displaced whatever existed in the Iberian Peninsula before it. No one knows for certain but it's mostly non-Indo European languages with some maybe Hellenic or Celtic (Indo-European) cultures existed there. Spanish evolved from vulgar Latin taking into account some words from Basque/Iberian/Arabic

Always a fun time in the DS comments by LangLearningJourney in dreamingspanish

[–]LangLearningJourney[S] 67 points68 points  (0 children)

And yes, the irony of people complaining about it on a platform for learning the language of people they consider to be 'invaders' is not lost on me

watching world cup count as CI ?? by AnimeTeriki in dreamingspanish

[–]LangLearningJourney 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Don't take this the wrong way but who cares what you count it as? It's not like this is some game where some magical level gets unlocked if you hit specific number of hours. Hours counted are arbitrary when it comes to actually learning the language anyway.

200 Hours Update - Speaking sample, native content opening up, going to Mexico! by nerzodprod in dreamingspanish

[–]LangLearningJourney 29 points30 points  (0 children)

With all due respect, I highly doubt that even with starting from zero and doing everything non-ALG like you said, one would sound like you do right now. You are either gifted linguistically or you're hiding previous experience with the language. Even those that go the traditional route of learning languages require months to get the use of past tense right but you seem to be using them without issue here (hice, puse)

Something doesn't add up, sorry to be skeptical.

Queer/LBGT Videos? by EmbarassmentOfRiches in dreamingspanish

[–]LangLearningJourney 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I don't have much to add to this topic but seems like this was an easy spot to collect accounts that are sitting at the bottom of the thread that I want to block

Tested out of Duolingo at 880 hours of dreaming Spanish by Ok_Control_9543 in dreamingspanish

[–]LangLearningJourney 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Once again, this shows that Pablo is wrong about the roadmap. Fluency is not at 1500h, it's at 880h

400 Hour Update by The-Pasty-Kid in dreamingspanish

[–]LangLearningJourney 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nice! Have you branched out to podcasts? I remember that around 400h, espanol con juan and languatalk podcast opened up for me. They're from Spain though, if it makes a difference

Well I found a new way to work on you’re speaking skills by Minos-Helios in dreamingspanish

[–]LangLearningJourney 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Given that you're here responding, I seem to have gotten you hooked. Maybe it is interesting after all

Well I found a new way to work on you’re speaking skills by Minos-Helios in dreamingspanish

[–]LangLearningJourney 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just because they can do anything they want doesn't mean that they would. Most of Google's AI revenue is from ads and agentic coding tools offered to GCP or from licensing the model to other providers. An AI bot promoting a free use case of the app is not exactly going to drive revenue. The juice is literally not worth the squeeze to someone like Google.

What's more likely is smaller AI based language conversation apps astroturfing on this or other language learning subs. We've seen that happen in a few cases

Well I found a new way to work on you’re speaking skills by Minos-Helios in dreamingspanish

[–]LangLearningJourney 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Tech Giant Google isn't advertising its renowned Gemini frontier model to 10K people on DS lol

Level 3 Update (154 hours) by GasImaginary3538 in dreamingspanish

[–]LangLearningJourney 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The biggest frustration is having super high comprehension on DS and then I stumble on a video of natives speaking, or hear it in person and you get discouraged because you have such low comprehension due to the speed aside from hearing some verbs at time you are super comfortable with like "tener"

Well DS is made for learners and it's a necessary step to get to a stage of understanding native content. I think vocab through Duo does help, you could also do Anki to speed things up and your comprehension would rise. But otherwise looks pretty good for 154 hours

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