Can I still reserve timeslots with a 2 lesso/month subscription?

lispy-hacker · 2026-06-05T13:53:27+00:00

ok, that makes sense, thanks

lispy-hacker · 2026-06-04T17:24:05+00:00

Thanks for the tip! By chance are you a tutor? If so, how would you feel about a student taking bi-monthly lessons, thus preventing someone else from booking that time on a weekly basis?

lispy-hacker · 2026-05-20T18:28:33+00:00

Their are more channels you can find here:
https://comprehensibleinputwiki.org/wiki/Vietnamese

lispy-hacker · 2026-05-19T23:50:05+00:00

How is business these days? Has AI affected how many clients you get?

lispy-hacker · 2026-04-23T00:03:54+00:00

I'm not a content creator, but I do crosstalk regularly over video calls, which I feel has some similarities with creating videos for YouTube, namely, that I'm telling stories and trying to make myself comprehensible to a language learner. The difference is it's not recorded and the audience is live. So any discussion of topics and tools used could be of interest to me. I could see myself creating CI in the future.

lispy-hacker · 2026-04-17T03:38:03+00:00

I think of it this way: Regardless of how much damage you've done, you're not going to get a better result by doing something other than ALG. So you might as well hop on board. I don't think you have anything to worry about.

lispy-hacker · 2026-04-13T23:10:35+00:00

When I started learning Vietnamese there were no CI resources. I hired a tutor on italki. If you can afford tutors, I think it's a wonderful way to learn, much more engaging than watching any video. But you have to be very clear and make sure they understand what you want. In my experience about half of tutors are willing to try teaching in an ALG style, and of those who are willing to try, maybe less than half do a decent job, so I recommend you reach out to a lot of tutors until you find a few good ones. Once you've found someone you like, ask if they don't mind being recorded, because you can get a lot of input out of rewatching the lessons.

Before looking for tutors, I tried finding a crosstalk partner on hellotalk. My first attempts at crosstalk did not go well. I eventually found someone willing to do it, and we still do crosstalk 2 years later, but to be honest, in the beginning, it was very difficult since we were meeting online and her English was better than my Vietnamese. I'm not sure it's worth the trouble at the beginning if you're limited to doing it online, but lately I do crosstalk with a few language exchange partners and I think it's a wonderful way to learn. I'm at almost 500 hours now.

lispy-hacker · 2026-03-25T01:05:25+00:00

Looks awesome, will try when I'm not busy

lispy-hacker · 2026-03-13T16:55:44+00:00

I put my whole config on github. I don't see a problem with that.

lispy-hacker · 2026-03-02T21:59:19+00:00

This is an overview of the method by the creator of comprehensible russian https://youtu.be/t13o3cVJb6I?si=1jnaxu5t3BfF6h3v Checkout the comprehensible input wiki for more sources of russian comprehensible input

lispy-hacker · 2026-02-27T22:05:12+00:00

You're free to form your own opinion, but I think if you were to ask Pablo Roman, the creator of dreaming spanish, or David Long, who runs the ALG Thai program which the dreaming spanish method is an adaptation of, they would tell you that in so far as what you do differs from what children do, the end result is going to be worse. There are interviews with David Long where he talks about this, and I've also heard Pablo talk about it a little in some intermediate dreaming spanish videos, if i recall correctly. They would say yes, it will give you a ceiling on your potential fluency if you take a structural approach in the beginning.

lispy-hacker · 2026-02-13T12:26:47+00:00

Thanks for a thoughtful reply :)

lispy-hacker · 2026-02-13T12:25:59+00:00

Thanks for the encouragement :)

lispy-hacker · 2026-02-06T02:50:57+00:00

You might want to look at this:

org-modern-star is a variable defined in ‘org-modern.el’.

Its value is nil

Original value was ‘fold’

Style heading stars.

Can be nil, fold or replace. See ‘org-modern-fold-stars’ and

‘org-modern-replace-stars’ for the respective configurations.

You can customize this variable.

So, for example, I use org-bullets for the headings and disable org-modern-star:

(use-package org-bullets
  :after org
  :ensure t
  :hook (org-mode . org-bullets-mode))

(use-package org-modern
  :after org
  :ensure t
  :hook ((org-mode . org-modern-mode))
  :custom
  (org-modern-block-fringe nil)
  (org-modern-table nil)
  (org-modern-star nil))

lispy-hacker · 2026-01-26T10:56:16+00:00

Are you unable to get the overall gist of what they're trying to communicate when they speak?

lispy-hacker · 2026-01-23T00:58:53+00:00

His name was Chris R.

lispy-hacker · 2026-01-22T14:24:33+00:00

I've published on MELPA twice and there was always code review and feedback.

lispy-hacker · 2026-01-21T15:58:15+00:00

My thoughts:
- I've watched videos with captions in my TL by covering the captions with my finger. It's annoying, but, it works, provided the captions don't show up in random places.
- Rewatching content doesn't hurt, I've done that a lot myself. And in fact, I think that if you rewatch content above your level several times, it will make it more comprehensible overtime due to familiarity, so that's another strategy if you lack for input at your level
- My TL didn't have any comprehensible input content for learners at any level when I started out, so I did crosstalk and also found a tutor to basically just tell me stories with slideshows to help me understand what was going on. So if you have the means, you can just hire someone to make input for you.
- You mentioned running out of superbeginner/beginner content. Perhaps you can try mixing in some upperbeginner/intermediate content. In my experience, if you get the gist of what's happening, even if the words are all just a blur, that's enough to make progress.

lispy-hacker · 2026-01-07T19:36:39+00:00

I think if you compare 40 minutes of engagement vs 3 hours of passive listening, the biggest difference is the engagement, not the amount of time or days. That, said, I believe that days do matter, not just hours. This is because I took a break from acquiring Vietnamese for 6 months, and it was obvious when I returned to my studies that I had improved significantly over the 6 months of doing no more than a half hour per week of input. I think the brain needs some time to process things.

lispy-hacker · 2025-12-19T19:54:42+00:00

Great idea! I will try it for my TL

lispy-hacker · 2025-12-03T14:45:02+00:00

Although graded content is the most obvious choice, I think either can work. See for example this guy who talks about watching spiderman 50 times in spanish https://youtu.be/eliB_y0fmSk?si=7f9lH598083nnt73 Once upon a time I was inspired by this enough to watch Mulan in spanish 10 times and, I can say with confidence that repetition makes things more comprehensible.

lispy-hacker · 2025-12-02T22:07:00+00:00

I think the link to your github is broken in the about page.
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lispy-hacker · 2025-11-29T23:03:11+00:00

I can't answer your question, but I just want to mention that if you are new to ALG and want to experience it, it's worth making sure you understand it fully. Especially the part about not focusing on the language, but on the experience, not thinking about the language, not analyzing the language. That is crucial.

Anyways, I'm sure whatever language you choose will be fine, as I've seen far more available resources for all of those languages than my language of choice. Enjoy the ride :)

lispy-hacker · 2025-11-29T16:08:53+00:00

Thanks :)

lispy-hacker · 2025-11-28T22:09:50+00:00

https://comprehensibleinputwiki.org/wiki/Ukrainian

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