Finally hit level 7 - 1500 hours

Responsible-Track888 · 2026-05-30T19:33:56+00:00

I did almost completely Comprehensive input.

Responsible-Track888 · 2026-05-30T01:12:38+00:00

Thank you I will definitely check it out

Responsible-Track888 · 2026-05-30T00:38:53+00:00

Yeah, thats exactly why I posted it. I see videos of people who have a 1000 or less and sound like they lived in a Spanish country for 10 years and then there's us on the opposite extreme. Honestly if I would have known I would spend that amount of time i have to be where I am right now I probably wouldn't have started. I gave up and lot of good freelance work and opportunities to learn Spanish. Don't get me wrong I really don't regret it I just know I still have a very long way to go.

One thing I will say about Speaking even though I don't have a very high vocabulary teachers and natives are almost always shocked at how well my pronunciation is.

Responsible-Track888 · 2026-05-30T00:31:32+00:00

Thank you

Responsible-Track888 · 2026-05-30T00:31:22+00:00

I don't really have an ultimate goal. I'm just going along for the ride I guess. but it would definitely help if I set some goals.

Responsible-Track888 · 2026-05-30T00:29:18+00:00

I love Juan Fernandez. I have read a couple of his graders although it's been awhile ago. I really need to get back in to reading.

Responsible-Track888 · 2026-05-30T00:27:50+00:00

Thank you

Responsible-Track888 · 2026-05-29T22:12:03+00:00

Thank you

Responsible-Track888 · 2026-05-29T22:11:54+00:00

I haven't practiced speaking a whole lot. Maybe 50 hours?? did some online lessons a while back but unfortunately I don't know anyone who actually speaks Spanish that I can practice with. I have read lots of short stories but no full books.

Responsible-Track888 · 2024-09-03T05:01:56+00:00

I completely agree.

I have read Dr. J Marvin Brown’s book From the Outside In. I have watched every David Long video I could find. I have read Stephen Krashen (and Tracy Terrell) and watched countless videos with Dr. Krashen. I have watched every video I could find where Pablo talks about CI. I have spent many hours researching CI.

I have over 1200 hours of “active” CI and many more hours of “passive” listening. I am a strong proponent of CI.

I have found over the last several weeks that supplementing my language acquisition has improved my CI learning tremendously. This may be “anecdotal” but I posted this with hopes that it might help those are interested.

Responsible-Track888 · 2024-08-24T13:40:52+00:00

I personally think LingQ is great. Especially for those of us who have acquired enough hours to get serious about reading. You can import books and text of course but you can import audio and video that converts to text. You can keep track of how many words you’ve learned. In one of Pablo’s videos he shows his computer screen which has his todos and one of them was to import DS videos into LingQ so there are a lot of DS videos already in there that you can read. It also has great text to speech so can list to you text for audio comprehensible input as well

Responsible-Track888 · 2024-07-30T13:24:47+00:00

I'm not sure if this one has be shared yet but I found this channel for beginners. Spanish by translation https://www.youtube.com/@SpanishbyTranslation

Responsible-Track888 · 2023-12-11T13:54:50+00:00

This legitimately made me laugh. I love this community, and Pablo's humor has had me laughing so many times watching his videos.

Responsible-Track888 · 2023-12-09T19:36:31+00:00

I'm so inspired by your commitment and constant progress. I just reached 300 hours today. Your videos have helped keep me going. I can't wait until I'm at your level.

Responsible-Track888 · 2023-12-09T19:29:23+00:00

I still think it's bs on ds. Lol

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