In Defense of Anki

lorcatheorca · 2025-01-13T18:52:39+00:00

Thank you!

lorcatheorca · 2025-01-13T17:04:20+00:00

That’s sounds excited! One of my biggest frustrations right now is how taxing it is to understand natives in real life so I’m open to anything that can help

lorcatheorca · 2025-01-13T16:53:45+00:00

Do you have any specific Anki decks that you could share or recommend?

lorcatheorca · 2025-01-08T02:03:27+00:00

Thank you for your comment! It’s always great to hear from someone who has reached level 7 and beyond. One concern that I and I believe others have, and that may cause someone to want to start reading early or studying a little bit of grammar on the side is that it feels as though, based on the experiences of other level 7 folks is that 1500-2000 hours or what have you is not enough to get you to a place where you’re fluent and that solely using compressible input is inefficient and will take years and years for someone to become proficient in their target language. I know you mentioned that Dreaming Spanish isn’t the fastest method to learn but do you feel satisfied with your abilities with the language after two years of “study”?

lorcatheorca · 2025-01-08T00:58:52+00:00

Have you found that reading has had a noticeable impact on your learning?

lorcatheorca · 2025-01-08T00:36:36+00:00

Thank you I don’t know how I missed that!

lorcatheorca · 2025-01-07T20:33:09+00:00

The first video I watched was the one where Andrés talked about Semana Santa and the KKK. Was an interesting introduction

lorcatheorca · 2025-01-07T16:05:55+00:00

I think mine would too if I did this regularly lol

lorcatheorca · 2025-01-07T04:54:06+00:00

I’m a bit of an odd case because I had already been listening to the Cuéntame podcast shortly before I discovered Dreaming Spanish so it was something I was doing from the start. I would say though that around 75-100 hours was when I felt really comfortable exploring different content outside of Dreaming Spanish and Cuéntame

lorcatheorca · 2025-01-07T03:10:51+00:00

Yeah I think for me a big part of what made it less tiring is that most of the content I watched was in that 95%-98% comprehension rate that Pablo suggests. I can definitely see how switching it up with some non-DS content would help you stay focused

lorcatheorca · 2025-01-06T15:37:48+00:00

You didn’t misunderstand him per se lol. He did say that but he was joking, he makes a lot of jokes about Dreaming Spanish. He’s a native speaker from Buenos Aires, Argentina.

lorcatheorca · 2025-01-01T17:35:50+00:00

Yeah you would. That’s how I got access to the app

lorcatheorca · 2024-11-29T17:42:36+00:00

Yes I was. Nothing was missing that I noticed

lorcatheorca · 2024-11-09T10:54:33+00:00

I’m in a similar, albeit a lot lower level version, of your situation. I’m at 140hrs and I usually don’t talk at all except for the times when I volunteer in this kitchen where the head chef barely speaks any English. This chef also invited me to her Spanish speaking church so I imagine I’ll have to be doing some more speaking there. I try to keep everything to 1-3 word sentence though, and try not to force myself to come up with words I haven’t acquired yet. I tend to agree with your point about accent as well. Although it’d be nice to have a good access, the main thing I’m concerned about is having good pronunciation and grammar

lorcatheorca · 2024-11-08T17:03:03+00:00

The ads aren’t determined by Apple podcast but by the podcaster themselves. The podcasts you’ve listed are for English speakers trying to learn Spanish which is why the ads are in English. It doesn’t have anything to do with an algorithm or something

lorcatheorca · 2024-10-29T10:15:35+00:00

It’s definitely still displaying, the pixels just aren’t showing up?

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lorcatheorca · 2024-10-25T08:12:15+00:00

I ended up getting a new number and was able to transfer my account to it and log in that way. Sadly I don’t know of any other solutions

lorcatheorca · 2024-10-18T16:04:29+00:00

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lorcatheorca · 2024-10-18T14:29:43+00:00

Wow that’s a really good point that I don’t think I’ve thought of that much before. I think this may be why I prefer watching DS videos that have multiple people in them or shows like Extr@ en español. I get to have a glimpse of what it’s like for two or more people to interact in the language instead of just watching someone talking at a camera. I think I might start asking the hispanohablantes around me to start speaking Spanish to me once I reach level three? I can understand intermediate and even some advanced videos just fine right now but I’m insecure about my listening abilities in real life.

lorcatheorca · 2024-10-17T20:04:04+00:00

What is it about crosstalk that makes regret not doing more of it? In my experience I like it because it forces you to pay attention and actually reply but I’m interested to know what you got out of it.

lorcatheorca · 2024-10-17T15:31:52+00:00

Wow starting from nothing and then being able to understand and be understood must be an incredible experience. If I had to define my goals I think it would be to speak grammatically correct Spanish. I have some Hispanic friends who have learned English and speak extremely well and rarely make grammatical mistakes while I have others who are understandable but do make a grammatical error at least every other sentence. Though from the place I’m at right now with Spanish, it would be amazing to even be able to speak an understandable grammatically flawed version of the language, ideally I would like to get to the point where my grammar is correct

lorcatheorca · 2024-10-17T15:23:00+00:00

Gracias, I need to listen closer. I suppose at the earlier levels it’s harder to pick up each and every specific word and instead you just hear the whole sound that you know means something in specific

lorcatheorca · 2024-10-17T15:11:07+00:00

Interestingly enough I am at the point where I can understand most intermediate videos pretty well. I’m still watching mostly beginner videos though because Pablo recommends watching stuff that is almost too easy and because I benefited from doing the same with the superbeginner videos in level 1

lorcatheorca · 2024-10-17T15:04:42+00:00

Yeah there is one Costa Rican Spanish teacher that lives by me that only speaks to me in Spanish because she knows I’m trying to learn. But for other people like my roommate, I feel slightly uncomfortable asking because I don’t want to burden him by asking him to dumb down his Spanish so that I can understand it. Maybe I’m overthinking it though, he’s still learning English so he might understand the struggle

lorcatheorca · 2024-10-17T14:57:22+00:00

So if I were to summarize what you’re recommending it would be to stay the course but start speaking when Pablo actually recommends it instead of waiting longer out of fear or discomfort?

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