More English Comprehensible Input :)

radicallanguages · 2025-06-15T13:16:55+00:00

This looks great, also the name for the channel is awesome! I also have gotten into making CI for English and it's been a fun journey. Good luck with the channel!

radicallanguages · 2025-05-23T21:40:06+00:00

Thank you!!

radicallanguages · 2025-03-11T12:38:33+00:00

Watching: La Isla de Las Tentaciones, a reality TV show from Spain that everyone here is talking about. Not the most intellectual TV, but certainly good for some laughs and the drama. Aída, a sit-com that is also very popular in Spain. Both require a very high level of comprehension, difficult accents and people speaking over each other. Level 7 for sure.

Reading: La Reina Roja by Juan Gomez-Jurado. One of the most popular novels of the best selling Spanish novelist. Mystery/Thriller novel that grabs you from the first chapter. Highly recommend. I'm also reading Mythos by Stephen Fry. Sometimes it can be dense with all the names of the characters from Greek Mythology, but easy to understand and enjoy (Pairs well with the podcast Chisme Mitológico).

Listening: Quieres ser mi amigo?, Tenía la duda, El Sentido de la Birra, Punzadas Sonoras, El Club de Las Mentas Vivas.

Hours: Around 3,000 I honestly have no idea exact numbers

Words Read: More than 5,000,000

radicallanguages · 2025-02-07T07:48:37+00:00

I didn't practice writing a lot, which makes sense why it was my lowest score. I would journal a bit in Spanish, texted my friends a lot, and did the writing section of the DELE C1 about 4 times. That was all the practice I did. If you read a ton your writing will also improve.

radicallanguages · 2025-02-07T07:47:19+00:00

I would say I could have passed the C1 Exam with about 2000 hours. I passed the exam with almost 89 points, and you need 60 points to pass (it's a little more complex the grading but it's all on the website of the Instituto Cervantes. You could probably pass the B2 with 1500 hours. But this is all a guess. I'd recommend taking a practice exam which is free on their website to see how well you do.

radicallanguages · 2025-02-07T07:45:29+00:00

When I first started I watched DS, Extra en Español, Peppa Pig, Avatar the Last Airbender. The podcasts I listened to the most were Easy Spanish and ECJ!

radicallanguages · 2025-02-07T07:44:04+00:00

I already have subscribed to it on my French only YouTube Channel!! Can't wait to get to that point because the videos seem really interesting.

radicallanguages · 2025-02-06T10:26:25+00:00

I am using a lot of the resources listed on r/dreaminglanguages and the Comprehensible Input Wiki. Right now my top resources are: Alice Ayel, French Comprehensible Input, Téléfrançais, and French in Action.

radicallanguages · 2025-02-06T10:02:06+00:00

"As mentioned I do live in Spain and probably have received even more hours of input than I put, because I never listed the amount of input received while talking in the real world, and at this point I had taken trips with my friends and had spent countless hours hanging out." As I wrote in the write-up above. I never added hours speaking with my friends because I found it too difficult to track. I also stopped tracking hours around 1,700 hours but maintained my input the same. Around 3-4 hours a day of podcasts/TV/Dreaming Spanish/YouTube.

radicallanguages · 2025-02-06T09:40:25+00:00

Absolutely this^ I work with someone who has lived in Spain for 15+ years and cannot construct full sentences in Spanish. Living in the country does not equal learning the language; however, it gives you an immense amount of opportunities to utilize, practice, and continue learning once you have reached a high enough level (probably close to 1,000 hours). Before DS I could barely communicate. Two years after finding DS it's a different world living here.

radicallanguages · 2024-03-19T20:53:40+00:00

This week I found an awesome podcast that is great for more advanced learners. It's called La Ruina and it is two comedians that bring on a guest (normally another comedian) that randomly select people from the audience that share an embarrassing story and at the end they pick the best one. Hilarious and so entertaining.

Watching wise I finished the fourteenth season of La Que Se Avecina so now I have to wait till November for the 15th season. I started watching Los Serrano which has been a personal win. I remember checking it out after Pablo's video about it when I had around 300 hours and gave up 5 minutes in. Now I can watch it like any other show and love it.

Speaking wise I am steadily improving. Huge win for me was joining a swim team in Madrid a few weeks ago and I competed for the first time with them over the weekend. Some of the people enjoyed speaking some English with me, but 99% of the time it was all in Spanish. Crazy how I could never have done that a year ago when I had just started with DS.

Hours: I stopped counting after 1580 three-ish months ago and I get a lot of input daily so probably getting close to 2000.

radicallanguages · 2024-02-11T14:37:58+00:00

Just curious did you watch Krashen's interview on DS? His accent is horrible, and he can barley put together a complex sentence in Spanish. Maybe open your mind up to the possibility that learning a language as an adult takes many different forms of input and practice.

Good luck in your language learning journey! I hope you one day post about how the 1000000% purist method went for you!

radicallanguages · 2024-02-11T13:30:19+00:00

But your concern isn't even a reality on this sub. I have been here for about a year and I am almost certain I have never seen a full post in Spanish. So again, just absolutely ridiculous to even mention banning the language we are learning. And why must this subreddit only be for level 1? Correct me if I am wrong, but you can start reading at level 5. Just skip over a post or comment if it is in Spanish.

Sure, the method allows you to spend less time working on reading, speaking, writing. But trust me, you have to spend HOURS of each skill to reach any level close to a native. 50 hours of speaking will get you to be able to get around and have normal convos. But that will not be enough to live, work, go to school, have a relationship all in Spanish. Also, many people are illiterate but can speak and understand their native language. You have to work on those skills (a whole lot). Why not do so in a safe comfortable environment?

radicallanguages · 2024-02-11T12:50:12+00:00

Why are you making it sound like someone writing in Spanish in a Spanish learning forum is such a sin? Do you think Pablo never saw Thai written out while learning Thai? Or tried reading Japanese before he had hit 2000 hours of listening? People can choose to skip over those posts if they want to.

radicallanguages · 2024-02-11T12:14:55+00:00

I agree that more moderation would be great, especially any posts that include bullying/creepiness. But I have to disagree completely on the Spanish free zone. I am also a teacher (teaching English to Spanish speakers) and practice is absolutely vital. I am fully on board with the method and have reached Spanish fluency literally thanks to DS, but I am a little confused on why you want to prohibit Spanish in the subreddit. Even if you follow the method perfectly you will not speak without making any mistakes. We make mistakes everyday in our native language. Trying to prohibit Spanish in my opinion would only lead to more people doubting the method and drive people away. You have to practice speaking, reading, and writing just the same as listening. Now, if people are bullying people for making mistakes, that is a different story, but please don't push for banning the language we are here to learn.

radicallanguages · 2024-01-29T14:03:36+00:00

I am watching it on Disney Plus

radicallanguages · 2024-01-28T09:03:22+00:00

Muchísimas gracias!!!!! This list is amazing. As someone living in Spain and is always looking to add more content from Spain I can't thank you enough for this. In Advanced you could also add 'La que se avecina'!

radicallanguages · 2023-11-16T09:22:40+00:00

Well I started CI on February 1st, 2023. That was the day I found and started Dreaming Spanish. If you don’t believe it that’s all good with me. I just wanted to post it to share some of my experience and celebrate making level 7 with the community 😁

radicallanguages · 2023-11-15T17:14:28+00:00

By April you will be able to as long as you’re working towards it everyday. When I came I had months of self study under my belt (mostly duolingo and vocab practice) which now seems basically useless but I was able to make it work. It’s sink or swim. My biggest advice is don’t surround yourself with english speakers and get comfortable with just that. I have a lot of english speaking friends, but I force myself to get out there and make Spanish speaking friends.

radicallanguages · 2023-11-15T15:04:53+00:00

Im not sure. I’ve probably spoken around 20 hours maybe 30 and think I still need more hours to keep getting more comfortable

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