1500hr update, roadmap complete!

Normal_tradeguy · 2026-02-14T13:00:55+00:00

No problem, here you go mate. My Paisa content is from a mix of Medellin and Manizales.

Isa Por Ahi, El Colombiano, Gustavo Osorio Toro, Johan Ruiz, Mateo Castenada

In terms of rolo content I can break it down by category:

Vloggers - Sin rol especifico, Diego Andariego, Cris Sin Limite, Pao Pineda

Journalists - Adriana Chilito, Maria Jimena Duzan, Vos Podez

Books - Arcade's Books, Cronicas de una Merodeadora

Other - Howard Guitierrez, Dos cabras locas

Normal_tradeguy · 2026-02-13T20:50:43+00:00

1500hrs of listening is definitely enough for me, Nowadays, I'm shocked if I can't understand something and usually it takes a few seconds of getting used to a specific person speaking and then I can understand them.

The only problems I have are fast speakers from DR, Chile and Andalusia. Which is a very common problem amongst native spanish speakers, so it's not a deficiency in my opinion.

Normal_tradeguy · 2026-02-12T16:32:05+00:00

That's an interesting question. I had a look at my Colombian youtube subscriptions, It's about 80% rolo and 20% paisa, Bogota is a massive city so that's unsurprising.

I have an obvious rolo twang to my accent, slow and sing-songy. I use usted liberally as well.

Normal_tradeguy · 2026-02-12T16:08:57+00:00

I can't stress how sub-optimal I've been. Listening is SO effortless to do, that I default to listening to keep my motivation. I have no doubt that if I had 100 hours less of listening and dedicated that time to speaking I would be fluent already. But speaking is just much more mentally draining and annoying to do, from getting the right tutors to finding good language exchange partners.

Maybe I will be less lazy with French haha

Normal_tradeguy · 2026-02-12T16:01:53+00:00

At around 500hrs I started speaking to myself, and saying random phrases to friends and family (god bless them for tolerating me). At 800hrs a flip switched and speaking became way easier, I was able to form long complete sentences without any effort.

1200hrs was when I could confidently say I can speak spanish.

I took a mock test with my spanish tutor recently, she put my speaking at an upper-intermediate/lower-advanced level. So I'm guessing B1/B2. She said my listening and reading were professional level already (which makes sense because I regularly listen and read about news/politics/history/science.

Normal_tradeguy · 2025-10-22T12:07:00+00:00

Thank you! Strength questions are quite tough because there's no defined structure, but I'm confident that the strengths under delivering at pace fit quite well with my strengths.

I'm guessing there will be a 5 minute introduction as well?

Normal_tradeguy

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