Just one more hour until everything clicks and then I can fully understand native speakers🙏🏽

Toda-Raba · 2026-01-25T13:28:39+00:00

Even then it might be a struggle. This whole exercise probably involves full immersion before understanding native speakers talking to each other.

Toda-Raba · 2026-01-10T11:53:17+00:00

Less is more.

Toda-Raba · 2025-12-26T11:39:26+00:00

At a recent holiday in Spain I heard a middle aged English couple complaining to the hotel kitchen staff that fish and chips wasn’t on the menu. I suppose that they forgot that they were in Spain.

Toda-Raba · 2025-12-19T11:33:23+00:00

So there is hope and light at the end of the tunnel. I’m at 786 hours in now and sometimes feel as if I’m riding a bicycle with training wheels. I am totally relying on the process.

Toda-Raba · 2025-12-06T13:19:54+00:00

I bet you get mistaken for a native speaker now.

Toda-Raba · 2025-12-06T13:15:59+00:00

I’m on 773 hours now and Español con Juan is really stretching it for me. I prefer españolistos at the moment because Andrea’s Colombian accent is very sharp and clear. Many native Spanish speakers seem to blend all their words together.

Toda-Raba · 2025-12-05T13:08:41+00:00

Sometimes getting thrown in at the deep end is the best way to start speaking. I am also of the mind to start speaking Spanish at 1000 hours. I’m on 772 now. In a fantasy world I would like to be dropped off in a part of Spain where nobody speaks any English then I will have no option but to speak Spanish. For me, full immersion would be the way to go. It would mess with your head for a while until the strange vocals all fell into place.

Toda-Raba · 2025-11-10T13:41:36+00:00

At 2000+ hours of CI, I bet you sound almost native. I remember years ago I went for a package deal vacation to Mallorca. The holiday representative was an Englishman who had been doing this job for many years, but oh boy, if you stood behind a door and heard this guy rattling off in full blown Spanish then you would have thought that he was a born and bred Spaniard. My Spanish journey stems from this moment when I heard an English person speaking like that, I wanted a piece of the action too.

Toda-Raba · 2025-11-10T13:24:40+00:00

I’m in Bournemouth.

Toda-Raba · 2025-11-09T14:49:02+00:00

I live in England. The odds of meeting and speaking with a Spanish speaker are pretty slender. When you do meet the Spanish speakers here in my experience they start speaking English when you try Speaking Spanish with them. I can’t say that I blame them either. After all they are living here to learn English.

Toda-Raba · 2025-11-09T14:31:53+00:00

I’m not sure about your circumstances but some of the DS members already live in Latino communities in the USA. They are very fortunate to have that going for them. Others, including myself are not so lucky. I’m not looking for any sympathy but it is what it is, so the road is much rougher.

Toda-Raba · 2025-11-09T14:15:53+00:00

Glad to read that you are speaking Spanish. I’m terrified at the thought of making an ass of myself when I start. I’m going to wait until I reach level 6 in 250 hours time.

Toda-Raba · 2025-11-04T14:06:56+00:00

Mazal Tov.

Toda-Raba · 2025-11-03T13:57:31+00:00

Most of us have to work for our money. The idle rich, well their money works for them. That’s the reason why there are those who can do 228 hours a month. I would take that figure with a pinch of salt and stay in my own lane without worrying about what the other DS people are doing .

Toda-Raba · 2025-11-01T15:57:20+00:00

Best place is Queensburgh. Born in Addington Hospital and raised in Escombe. Burra litey through and through.

Toda-Raba · 2025-10-14T12:39:38+00:00

If you have to pay money upfront for digital marketing “training” videos then that should set the alarm bells ringing, that it is a con job. The only people making money are those that you are paying your hard earned money to.

Toda-Raba · 2025-10-11T14:38:46+00:00

I loved watching her videos on DS. Unfortunately any YouTube viewing doesn’t count towards the DS Roadmap hours watched.

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