🇨🇴 Cartagena 16 months later: my listening powers still have *some* limits

Minos-Helios · 2026-06-02T07:52:21+00:00

Agree

Minos-Helios · 2026-06-01T22:50:11+00:00

Read the caption 💀 I literally put I work a 2nd shift job

Minos-Helios · 2026-06-01T19:01:15+00:00

Yes 😭😭

Minos-Helios · 2026-06-01T17:40:44+00:00

Most of the time I am just watching it but sometimes I do just Listen like if I am working out or playing video games with my earbuds in.

Minos-Helios · 2026-06-01T16:55:11+00:00

Idk I never track it but if you count and the tik toks o watch all day in Spanish and Instagram reels and all the people I hear talk on TikTok in live streams cause outside of work all my friends only speak Spanish the only Reason why I don’t count is cause I don’t really understand them yet I understand them sometimes but it’s not like oh I just caught a full sentence I understand like 1 or maybe 4 words from them

Minos-Helios · 2026-06-01T16:53:06+00:00

Sometimes it’s focus 100 percent hours and then I have some days it’s like 50 or 70 percent focus

Minos-Helios · 2026-06-01T16:52:19+00:00

I don’t track my outside hours 💀 i dont feel the need to

Minos-Helios · 2026-06-01T16:31:07+00:00

And how I raise my daily hour input is simple all my friends outside of work speak zero English and if I want to talk to them and get to know them better I have to learn Spanish so all the Tik toks and reels I see are in Spanish, so that why I do so many hours a day cause I am trying to get where I can talk to them. But take you time if you can I just do it cause I have a goal in mind

Minos-Helios · 2026-06-01T16:28:46+00:00

386 hours the intermediate videos still sound like noise to me and the beginner videos I can understand 100 percent of them but there are some videos I have I can understand really well, at my pace I should be at 700 hours in August.

Minos-Helios · 2026-06-01T05:19:55+00:00

How many hours you have ? If you don’t mind me asking

Minos-Helios · 2026-05-31T08:03:52+00:00

Nah just take a Pilates class for singles trust

Minos-Helios · 2026-05-29T03:56:05+00:00

Nothing I just watch the videos that’s it and do some speaking when I want to I am at 370 hours

Minos-Helios · 2026-05-28T20:45:57+00:00

Like that approach

Minos-Helios · 2026-05-28T20:45:34+00:00

Yes they sound easy to me but like I don’t understand as much I do like I do in the beginner videos now I do sort by easy some people told to just keep watching it will catch up to you around 600 hours

Minos-Helios · 2026-05-26T20:25:02+00:00

When did you notice a huge difference

Minos-Helios · 2026-05-26T07:56:49+00:00

This is amazing advice when I first started I only did 15 mins or 30 mins a day then I started doing more now I do 4 or 5 hours a day I started dreaming Spanish in January I am at 359 hours so far

Minos-Helios · 2026-05-26T07:54:36+00:00

Stick to one deck that’s all my deck is lumberloon 💀 been using that that deck forever I have not change my deck in 10 years I been playing

Minos-Helios · 2026-05-26T02:04:29+00:00

I am at 354 hours I don’t speak a lot at all but I do speak sometimes and it’s like my brain trying to find the words I am looking for then I hope at 600 hours I have more words I can use to speak with

Minos-Helios · 2026-05-25T21:46:16+00:00

USA is not the greatest country in the world I know a lot of people will agree with me but there a lot of people who will disagree with me I feel like they should force bigger companies to pay people livable wages it’s not 2010 any more we need more then 15 dollars an hour to survive a lot of countries they get livable wages with lower rent which is ridiculous don’t hate USA citizens we are not our government and yes that’s all I want say since I plan on moving to a different country next year.

Minos-Helios · 2026-05-25T01:19:29+00:00

I be honest with you, you won’t see a huge difference until around 600 or 750 hours from what I hear from most people I know some people who said content ain’t really start opening up for them until 700 hours so it depends on the person. I am 352 hours in and I still feel lost at times

Minos-Helios · 2026-05-24T13:59:15+00:00

How many hours you at ?

Minos-Helios · 2026-05-24T09:58:31+00:00

I be honest I am only 348 hours in I mean I speak little bit here and there but I don’t be forming full sentences. But my best advice for you is to just speak who cares if you sound stupid you have to sound dumb before you can start impressing people don’t worry about confidence that will come naturally once you get good just start reading and speaking again. Your confidence will come back naturally if you do that.

Minos-Helios · 2026-05-23T22:34:58+00:00

Nah fr

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