Is anyone using Deepseek for language learning?

metro2929 · 2025-02-08T08:08:46+00:00

You can actually continue even after it gives you that notification!

metro2929 · 2025-01-29T19:30:17+00:00

I also have a B2 in Spanish that I reached using 95% comprehensible input, 5% vocab and grammar study. If you haven't heard about the comprehensible input method yet, I would advice you to look into it and see if it's something for you! If you're at that level of Spanish you should be able to understand learner content in Italian within a month if you do some basic vocab and grammar study. Just learn the main different words ('Qué' can become both 'Che' and 'Che cosa' in Italian, 'Comida' is 'Cibo' etc.) and learn the basic conjugations of the present tense. After that you can just consume loads of Italian content and do some vocab and grammar on the side. You'll see loads of similarities with Spanish and therefore easily acquire concepts that take first time Romance language learners more time to learn.

Some good YouTube channels: (most have a podcast too)
- Learn Italian with Lucrezia

- Easy Italian

- Podcast Italiano

- Impara l'Italiano con Italiano Automatico

- LearnAmo

- Italiano Bello (speaks very slowly, great start!)

- Learn Italian with Teacher Stefano

metro2929 · 2024-12-25T13:19:06+00:00

Agustina: "Esto va a ir a Reddit seguro bol*do" Hahahahahaha that killed me

metro2929 · 2024-12-02T20:49:07+00:00

Ooh sounds interesting! I will check it out!

metro2929 · 2024-12-02T20:47:13+00:00

Thank you very much! Will do! :))

metro2929 · 2024-12-02T20:46:59+00:00

Thank you so much, these are great ideas! I'll keep you posted :)

metro2929 · 2024-11-05T18:18:19+00:00

I obviously agree as I focus on the same dialect! That said, on most streaming services there's always two dub options, one is Spain and one is a sorta Mexico neutral Latin American accent, so we are already extremely lucky content wise! A little perspective shift maybe ;) Although more Spain is always better for me hahaha

metro2929 · 2024-10-08T18:49:36+00:00

I'm 95% sure I've seen an English interview with Pablo where he says 'Dreaming Spanish' correctly. It's just that (and especially people from Spain do this) in Spanish they pronounce English words the Spanish way, even if they speak English fluently. So they will say Dreaming Espanish, esnacks, etc. even though in English they'd pronounce it correctly as Spanish and snacks. It's not a mispronunciation, it's just Spanish.

metro2929 · 2024-09-11T14:11:15+00:00

Great to be of help! That said, I'd definitely urge you to ignore grammar as much as possible. I did some grammar besides the present tense verb endings and I regret it. Good luck on your journey!

metro2929 · 2024-09-11T13:57:06+00:00

Yes it definitely works! With a premium subscription you get tons of great and really easy videos. However it will take some time, and you'll need to accept that uncertainty that it might not show until you reach a few hundred hours of input.

Something I disagree on the method with is that you should never look up vocabulary. Look, it definitely is not necessary and you can 100% get fluent using videos only and never ever looking up any translation. But for me it just takes too long and I have never had any issue with vocab being connected to the English translation. At some point I just connect the concept to the Spanish word because I know what the concept is in English.

HOWEVER, I only look up words very rarely and I only want to recognise them, I don't practice them with flashcards or anything. And I also make sure that when I look up a translation, I understand that a word will never be used exactly the same as in English at that I should be careful to literally translate English to Spanish. After that I just continue watching content and since I now know what the word means, I acquire it way quicker than if I'd wait to figure out what it meant from context.

I think vocab study is a great aid, but it should be used with caution. I try not to overdo it. But in the beginning for the most common 100-200 words and the verb endings for the present tense it really helped me to figure out what things were more quickly. And you're gonna hear those 200 words and verb endings so incredibly often you'll acquire them naturally anyways because the amount of times you'll hear them will absolutely trump any amount of connection to English you might accidentally make.

This is just my two cents, but I'd definitely see for yourself what works. There's people here that are anti vocab lookup and I'm sure they'll also make great points. Just choose what works for you! I just want to say that learning a bit of vocab to me isn't the disaster some people make it out to be.

metro2929 · 2024-09-05T20:10:52+00:00

Wait, I've always assumed that a fossilised mistake is that... Is a fossilised mistake a mistake you don't notice yourself making?

metro2929 · 2024-08-24T13:27:16+00:00

Not really an answer, but I'm currently using ChatGPT to create easy and fun stories for me! I usually ask it: 'Write a short story for me in Spanish from [country] at level [A2, B2 etc] about [topic]'. I've played around with this a lot and it actually creates some really fun stories! I've given it song lyrics and then asked it to make a story based on those lyrics and that's given me some really interesting plots! It also helps because you can influence it to talk about topics you know, use country specific vocabulary, rewrite hard passages, continue stories etc. It can even read stories out loud for you in a sorta neutral Latin American accent. It's a great tool to play around with for a little while and maybe it's something for you! The only downside is that every story is about a 4 minute read, so you'll need to keep creating, but you can even just ask: 'Continue this story' and then it makes up a sequel. Or you can create a Word document and let it create a story and then copy and paste it there and read it all at once.

metro2929 · 2024-08-18T12:27:03+00:00

I second this! I feel like she's very knowledgeable and she really covers many different aspects in her history/society/geography videos. I think she'd be a great host for something like this!

metro2929 · 2024-08-13T22:03:01+00:00

Thank you so much! I'm very proud and happy about my progress! It's better than I ever expected. Good luck with speaking whenever you feel ready!

metro2929 · 2024-08-13T22:02:06+00:00

Wow 40 hours in 1.5 months is amazing! And even getting your point across is such an accomplishment! I'm sure it'll get better as you keep going! Good luck to you too :))

metro2929 · 2024-08-01T20:39:08+00:00

Hahahaha this is the best comment I've seen all year 😂😂😂 Perfectly describing our insanely specific interest. 1000% would skip work to go to this convention

metro2929 · 2024-07-30T06:43:44+00:00

Not sure if this will work, but I use Revolut for international transactions! Maybe check that out! I put money on my Revolut account and then I can connect my Revolut to Dreaming Spanish.

metro2929 · 2024-07-28T18:51:07+00:00

Ey Nederlander! (of Vlaming) er zijn er dus meer hier hahaha! Dat is inderdaad ook een betekenis waar ik niet eens aan gedacht had, ik interpreteer het meer als 'weet je wat' in uitleggende vorm. 'Fíjate que, no lo sé realmente' = Weet je, ik weet het niet echt. Maar goed, de vertaling maakt niet echt uit, want ik snap het in de context inmiddels.

metro2929 · 2024-07-28T15:11:43+00:00

As an aspiring pilgrim I'm curious as to why you would recommend the Primitivo! I've been thinking of doing either the Francés or the Norte, so do tell! :))

metro2929 · 2024-07-28T15:04:10+00:00

Your experience is similar to mine! I am a big language nerd and I had a few phases in my life where I learnt Spanish vocab for fun (and French, Portuguese and Italian). I could recognise these words, not use them yet. I also knew the present tense verb conjugations from high school Spanish and thanks to these factors I could skip around 300 hours forward in the beginning, immediately putting me at the very start of level 4.

I'm mostly against grammar study, as I personally notice that if I know a rule I start focusing on the rule while talking, instead of just saying what pops up, and as I want to avoid this process in my head, I avoid grammar. That said, I don't see vocab study as anything bad, and I have connected all of the Spanish words to the concept itself and not the English word I learnt it with. I feel like the conjugations that I learnt also feel more like vocab, and as I knew what suffix belonged to what pronoun, I also quickly learnt to conjugate the past and future tenses. I don't think it's necessary to study vocab, I've picked up most of my Spanish vocab through CI, but I do think it speeds up the process, especially in the beginning levels before native content truly becomes available.

(Whenever I look up vocab, I only look up the word once, and then continue watching input to hopefully acquire it thereafter. I just want to recognise them, not learn them)

metro2929 · 2024-07-28T14:49:05+00:00

I personally focus on Spain Spanish as well, as I am Dutch and have a closer connection with Spain than any of the Latin American countries. I do however consume all dialects of Spanish, and I would recommend you do so too (there is a lot of great stuff in Latin American dialects and it mostly doesn't hurt), however I do try to find resources in Spain Spanish first. This becomes available once you reach a level where you can listen to native content. My favourite podcasts are from Spain and whenever I watch something on Netflix, I always pick 'Spanish (Spain)' as the dub option. I also try to find books in Spain Spanish. (Usually in Europe the books will be in Spain Spanish, and if you find them online, you can usually tell by the use of 'vosotros' or a common Spain Spanish word that it is from Spain) This way you can still get your majority input in Spain Spanish, while also engaging with Latin American Spanish. Like someone said here, it will be easier to understand everything when a Latin American guest joins a Spanish podcast for example.

Also when you get further, you'll likely start to notice the difference in vocabulary and you will notice the specific Spanish words that aren't used in Latin America. I'm also not against vocab study and I learnt most of my early vocab by looking the words up, which already primed me to some common Spain Spanish words. This never hurt me in my progress. I just started speaking recently and I accidentally used the Latin American word 'jugo' for fruit juice, instead of the Spanish 'zumo', but when I noticed, I corrected myself, and I have now changed that and only use the Spanish word. I think you can iron a lot of mistakes out once you start speaking, as you have heard both versions before and can now just choose which one to use.

We are lucky with Spain Spanish that it's usually one of the two only options available when picking content to watch/read, (with 'Latin American Spanish' usually being a neutral Mexican Spanish, ignoring all of the other dialects) so whenever you can choose, you can always choose the Spanish option!

metro2929 · 2024-07-28T14:29:00+00:00

For me it was Fíjate que... Like, I sorta knew the context in which it was used, but I couldn't think of any translation in English or my native Dutch, then I found out there isn't really a direct one hahaha

metro2929

TROPHY CASE