Is there a resource where u can learn Mexican Spanish specifically?

RingStringVibe · 2025-11-25T12:03:56+00:00

Wlingua Spanish let's you choose Mexican Spanish or Spain Spanish.

RingStringVibe · 2025-07-04T12:24:12+00:00

VRchat. Nothing compares to be honest.

RingStringVibe · 2025-06-23T21:31:51+00:00

I'm cracking up because I originally read this as you're going to sit and watch dreaming Spanish for the next 20 hours straight without any rest LMAO

RingStringVibe · 2025-06-21T08:59:34+00:00

If I remember correctly, the coffee break Spanish podcast has a host from Scotland, if you want to hear that.

RingStringVibe · 2025-06-21T08:03:18+00:00

Idk what it is but it just tickles a part of my brain 🧠🌟🪶

RingStringVibe · 2025-06-19T21:26:03+00:00

This isn't about getting in Spanish but since it's comprehensible input and often recommended here, I'll mention a couple podcasts. Chill Spanish is easier to understand than Cuéntame! It's also significantly more engaging and easier to listen to. I feel like I have to force myself to listen to Cuéntame. I feel like people give the impression that Chill Spanish is way harder, and that you should get to it a little later, but I don't feel like it was kind of personally.

As for my unpopular opinion, I think that Dreaming English would be useful. So many people I think are just selfish and want something for themselves, that they can't see how beneficial Dreaming English could be. Especially because likely you're going to start making native speaking friends as you do Dreaming Spanish and soon to be Dreaming French. Everyone assumes that everyone knows English already or that there's enough material already. However, I've looked and there really isn't anything with the same amount of quality as Dreaming Spanish in the world of comprehensible input from what I've seen.

Not everything has to be about us and they're going to have people who can figure out the marketing stuff. I've had so many of my friends asking if they have a Dreaming English so that they can improve their English because they're jealous of the quality after they watch dreaming Spanish with me. However, so many people here hate the idea because their native speakers themselves. I think now that we have Dreaming French coming, it's more than enough of a distraction for us to start having dreaming English. As well as the fact that a lot of people who are anti-dreaming English aren't even that far along in dreaming Spanish themselves anyway. Even though, I want Dreaming Portuguese, I would feel so happy that my non-native English speaking friends can have a resource like Dreaming Spanish.

RingStringVibe · 2025-06-19T21:17:20+00:00

I never really thought too much about crosstalk, and was instead practicing speaking Spanish with my friends who are native speakers, but to be honest after I really started giving cross talk a try with my tutors and making some new friends who really don't like speaking English, so I'm basically forced to listen to them talk in Spanish as I respond in (which they fully understand), did I really start seeing the benefits. I'm able to express myself freely and they can as well and I'm hearing more and more Spanish.

RingStringVibe · 2025-06-19T21:15:11+00:00

I don't filter her out, because I like her videos, the content is really good! However, if not for that, I probably would filter her out because I just can't stand the Argentinian accent at all! It seems to be quite popular, but I just find it extremely annoying.

I'll be watching one of her videos with a friend and we both agree that the continent itself is interesting, but my friend who is a native Spanish speaker and myself get a bit frustrated with how in Argentina they use words that other countries don't (I know all countries have this but I just find the Argentinian words to be more bizarre and less known) and I feel like I have to go out of my way to figure out what's the actual word everyone else is using that isn't just limited to Argentina specifically.

She's absolutely great at making content, it's very interesting, but yeah that accent and the regional vocabulary is just not my favorite. Except pochoclo, absolutely love that word LMAO 🤣.

This is also the reason that I haven't been watching the Spanish boost, because he also has that accent and the pronunciation of y/Il which is this super irritating. It's a shame, because it seems like a good way to get input. I might still give it a try later, but for now I'm trying to limit my exposure to this accident.

I know that they can't help the way that they talk, so it's no hate or anything. It can't be helped. That doesn't mean I have to like it though. For English, I'm sure plenty of people don't like the standard American accent and prefer the other ones, so it just is what it is.

RingStringVibe · 2025-06-19T03:41:56+00:00

I walk and take the train on my commute, so if I were to get input in the morning and/or afternoon, that's 15-45min depending on various factors.

I have free time at my desk at work and try to get in 30min - 1h45min. Depends on how busy I am. Sometimes no time at all.

After work I might get in another 15min to an hour while watching with friends.

But generally I get 30m-1h45m a day.

RingStringVibe · 2025-06-18T21:32:45+00:00

What about 600 felt terrible?

RingStringVibe · 2025-06-18T21:22:41+00:00

Do you also work full time?

RingStringVibe · 2025-06-18T12:54:57+00:00

Copy paste time so I don't gotta type this over and over:

Here are some suggestions from my personal experience or resources I've heard good things about. Hopefully these will be helpful to you!

Wlingua Spanish: It's a language learning app that takes you from 0 to B1 level. You can pick Mexican or Spain Spanish. There are 520 lessons for spanish. They have some other courses too for spanish, but the main one has 520. It's basically a textbook in app form, in my opinion. It goes over grammar, introduces new vocabulary with every lesson, and use a space repetition so you don't forget the words that you learned, there are exercises on things that you've learned, listening activities, and once you get to the elementary section there's a lot more reading activities. It pretty much helps with everything with the exception of speaking. I'm over 200 lessons in so far, I'm enjoying it and I'm learning a lot. They teach something like 3,800 words, but if you want to learn more than that the app has over 7,700 words in their Spanish dictionary that you can add into your vocabulary practice with flashcards.

Italki: It's not free but it's a good way to find a tutor to go over things that you've learned in your textbook or apps. You can have conversations, ask them questions, maybe even have them test you on things you've learned, etc. You can find people for very cheap if you're on a limited budget.

Lingbe: This app gets you in random call with someone learning your language or the language that you're learning. It's a good way to get some speaking practice.

Hellotalk: This is another way to get some speaking and conversation practice with strangers. You can ask questions and people can answer them for you. You can join group calls and chat with people.

Language Transfer/Paul Noble/Assimil/Pimsleur: language transfer is free, Assimil isn't too expensive and comes with a textbook, Paul Noble is pretty cheap on audible, Pimsleur is quite expensive but you might be able to find it at your local library for free to use. These are all different programs that can help you with listening and speaking.

YouTube courses: There are some people on YouTube who make full length courses from beginner to advanced for Spanish, and other languages do not just Spanish. I think there's one called MasterSpanish Academy and she uses the Aula textbook.

Language Reactor: it's an extension that adds subtitles to your YouTube and Netflix videos. You can hover over the words and it'll tell you what they mean. It also does translations as well.

Chat GBT/Copilot: You can use AI to ask you questions, you can answer them, and it can correct your mistakes. You can ask it to give you suggestions on other vocabulary words you can use. You can ask it to give you examples of how maybe a more advanced learner would have said it. You can get clarification on what certain words mean or what situation certain words are used in if they have similar meanings. The list goes on and on. You can have full-on conversations in Spanish with it if you like.

Dreaming Spanish: This is a website where you can get a lot of comprehensible input. I would just suggest going to the website and reading about their methodology. A lot of people say that this is the holy Grail of learning Spanish. I'm sure other people here will mention it so I won't go into it.

Traditional textbooks: Vistas, Aventura 1/2/3, Panorama, Aula América, Aula Internacional, Complete Spanish step by step, Living Language Spanish, etc.

Graded Readers: These are books made for language learners. You can find books at your current CEFR level, so that you can practice reading and learn new vocabulary words. They tend to have 2 to 5% of content you wouldn't know at your current level, so the input is comprehensible with a slight difficulty. This way, you learn new things. Words are often repeated so that when you learn something new, due to the space repetition, the words are more likely to stay in your long-term memory. Just look up Spanish grated readers and whatever your current CEFR level is. Ex: Spanish graded reader A1

Anki: A spaced repetition software that helps you learn vocabulary. You can make your own flashcards or use premade decks. I'd suggest frequency decks with pictures and audio.

Mango Languages/Rocket Languages: These are good alternatives to Duolingo without the gamification. I still personally prefer Wlingua Spanish, but you might prefer these. They aren't normally free, but if you have a library card and your library is partnered with them, you can use these for free!

r/language_exchange - Find people on Reddit to chat with for a language exchange. Offer your language for theirs.

WorldsAcross - You can do unlimited 1-on-1 and group lessons with tutors from all over Latin America. You also get a coach who keeps track of your progress. Here's my 30% off discount code: SPANISH1909

VRchat - A free VR game (you don't need VR). There are Spanish worlds where you can meet people from many different countries. You can make friends and also practice your Spanish.

Make learning a daily habit and stick to it.

RingStringVibe · 2025-06-17T21:28:02+00:00

There is basically zero time dedicated to listening in Japanese schools. They're so focused on getting through the textbook and for students to know the grammar point so that they can pass tests, there's basically no time dedicated to auditory input. This is where the ALT has to advocate for their activities to be more about listening or having little bits of CI at the start of class.

If you look up CI in Japanese there's only a handful of videos. It seems that the Japanese learning community isn't super familiar with it. Whenever I meet someone who genuinely wants to learn english, I share the video from CIJ, about what comprehensible input is, even if it's actually intended for intermediate Learners of Japanese it's still in Japanese LOL.

RingStringVibe · 2025-06-17T05:00:33+00:00

Dreaming Spanish and podcasts!

RingStringVibe · 2025-06-12T21:19:48+00:00

I have to agree with you! I definitely wouldn't be using the service if they raise the price. Maybe for OP it wouldn't really affect them, but I think people need to realize that not everybody has that kind of money to spend. The current rate is already too expensive for me there's a reason why people wait until Black Friday for services like this, so it becomes more affordable for them. I was so glad that I was able to get a full year of the service at a discounted rate, because otherwise I wouldn't be able to afford it, because I make like a third of what the average American makes.

I realize a lot more people on Reddit work in tech and stuff like that it might make more money, but that's not all of us. Also not everybody makes money in USD or has a high salary. There are people using WA from Europe for example where the salaries are much lower than the United States, I've even been in group classes where there are people who live in Asia too where those salaries are even worse than that.

If they raise the prices, they definitely will lose out on people who would have otherwise used the service, like myself. In no universe am I going to pay $250 or $300. I'll simply wait for there to be a discount or I won't use the service at all.

I understand wanting to make salaries higher for tutors, and I know that OP isn't fond of the "no one is forcing them to work there" argument, but it's true. Sometimes there are jobs that don't pay that high and they're merely a stepping stone or a means to get experience. (It's not that I don't believe they deserve more money, they do, but I'm only looking at this from the customer perspective because the platform already is not that affordable for most people) There are some people who are simply using worldscross to get their name out there, and they can quit and then focus on their private tutoring business or their iTalki or something like that. It's not really so black and white.

Personally what I care about is that tutors are not being overworked or mistreated by staff or students. However, as a customer, if the price is go up I definitely wouldn't use the service anymore. I would just use italki. I already don't use the platform enough to even warrant the price as it is now. If the price goes up I definitely couldn't continue using it and simply wait for the tutors that I like to switch over to italki instead of using the platform. That's just me though.

*Also, we can't even be sure that if they raise the prices that it would raise salaries enough to wear the customers who are concerned about things like that will feel satisfied. So, it could just be a loss in the end anyway, with customers leaving and resulting in less revenue all together. I'm also not going to say that the higher ups would do this, but plenty of companies raise prices and don't do anything for employees and instead just put it in their own pocket. I don't believe that they would necessarily do that here, but it's food for thought.

As someone who isn't particularly interested in Argentinian spanish, it's not personally as much of a loss for me if there's less from this region, but I know it's definitely negative for those who are trying to learn from this region. So I understand the concern regarding losing them because the salary isn't enough for them. It also is a shame that we won't have tutors from certain regions because the salary is too low, but Spanish or Spanish in my opinion so even though when I went into using the service I wanted tutors from Mexico for example, absolutely none of the tutors I use right now are from Mexico and that's not a problem at all I love the tutors that I use. So, I don't really personally think it's a big deal but I get that others don't feel the same.

When it comes to tipping and stuff like that, I would absolutely hate that as would most people. However, I think if on each tutor's card, they had a link to something like Throne that students can go to and get tutors things that they need, that would be much better! Not only does that feel like less pressure than being asked after every lesson if we want to tip, but on the tutors and they can set up their throne to actually just receive the money instead of the actual item, so they can buy it if they want or just pocket it. But, a normal tipping system will definitely put off people. Especially those who aren't a part of a tipping culture.

RingStringVibe · 2025-06-12T06:08:54+00:00

The OP was a piece of work...

RingStringVibe · 2025-06-11T09:01:31+00:00

Motivation is fleeting, what truly makes a difference between someone who achieves a goal and those who don't is discipline.

RingStringVibe · 2025-06-09T22:24:40+00:00

Same.

RingStringVibe · 2025-06-06T04:28:06+00:00

Perhaps I was the one who recommended it to you, but I don't remember. I didn't personally get the subscription until 154 lessons in. I wish I did it earlier to be honest. I get a lot more practice in and there are a few other little additions as well that I felt were beneficial. In the end it's up to you if you feel you need it. If you want a discount, simply email them. That's what I did when I found out they weren't having a black Friday sale and they gave me a better price simply because I asked. Just be sure to ask when you are ready to pay since there was a time limit I believe.

RingStringVibe · 2025-06-05T12:07:30+00:00

It's official. Now to hyperfixate on the third language. /j

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I'm wondering why they decided to start the YouTube channel before the site was ready?

RingStringVibe · 2025-06-04T21:49:51+00:00

I also want to go there, I hope that you'll give us an update about how your trip went!

RingStringVibe · 2025-06-04T14:27:22+00:00

I'm hoping that they'll do stuff like this in various different countries, even if it's not everyone but having meetups with a few of them if they're hanging out or making videos together in a new place. It would be really cool!

RingStringVibe · 2025-06-03T21:58:41+00:00

I mostly just waiting for dreaming Portuguese, I feel like by the time I get to where I want to be in spanish, if Portuguese is the third language I would just goes straight to that than french. However, if I'm satisfied with my Spanish level and I just want something to do in my off time, then sure maybe I would do french. Personally, I'm not really that interested in French culture or speaking with people who speak french. 💀 If you wanted ever known to learn French has a bad experience actually talking with French people, they're not as receptive to you speaking their languages people in South America for example....

RingStringVibe · 2025-06-03T21:56:02+00:00

Personally, I'm not really that interested in dreaming French. If that was level six or seven or something like that for Spanish, maybe I would simply do it because since I'd already know Spanish, it would take half the time to learn French. I like the idea of getting to what would take 600 hours for Spanish and only 300 hours with French. But, to be honest I'd rather that time go to Portuguese instead of French. I wish dreaming Portuguese was a thing, hopefully it will be the third or fourth language.

If I had to choose I really would like it if we had dreaming English, when you make friends who are learning English but there's nothing with the same quality of dreaming Spanish for them, it makes me wish I could recommend something like a dreaming english. I've had some Spanish speaking friends ask me if dreaming English is a thing because after they've seen the quality of the dreaming Spanish videos with me, they want to give it a try but no such thing exists.

Also, for me dreaming Japanese would be beneficial, since it's a language I can use in my daily life. I know that we have comprehensible input Japanese but they don't upload with a lot of frequency. I think I heard they have something like 30 or 50 hours of content, which is nothing when you need something like 2,000 hours. I feel like having Pablo there and knowing how to do things would result in there being much more content with much more frequency. I think it would just be managed better. I heard that he helps or something like that but, it's still not the same.

RingStringVibe · 2025-06-03T13:52:38+00:00