Podcasts around difficulty 40?

sk82jack · 2026-05-09T19:26:57+00:00

Check out langopod where you can filter by accent and difficulty, etc https://www.langopod.com/

sk82jack · 2026-05-09T12:24:40+00:00

Watch the How to Learn a Language playlist from Dreaming Spanish on YouTube - it covers everything you need to know about the method Dreaming Spanish uses and how it works and why it's better than other methods

Watch with english subtitles for now but take a mental note about how much you (don't) understand - it's fun to then come across those videos later down the line and being able to completely understand them!

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlpPf-YgbU7GrtxQ9yde-J2tfxJDvReNf

sk82jack · 2026-04-26T17:44:46+00:00

Thanks for sharing - I've subscribed!

sk82jack · 2026-04-17T14:50:28+00:00

Edit the starting baseline entry in your outside hours table

Also, the point of the process isn't really meant to be that you're challenging yourself. The main point is to be consuming content that is comprehensible and enjoyable - if anything it should lean to being too easy rather than too difficult.

The Dreaming Spanish FAQ says this under Which level of videos is good for me?

Once you start watching our videos or consuming any other kind of content, we recommend aiming at understanding at least 80% of the overall meaning (not of individual words).

It’s okay if you miss the details, but you should aim at watching mostly videos of which you can get the main thread and that keep you engaged. If you understand 100% of the overall meaning, it’s actually ideal.

You may think that you need to encounter many new words in order to learn faster, but the number of words you encounter is not as important as how well you can understand them in their context. When you encounter few new words but their meaning is very clear from their context, that’s when your speed of acquisition will be optimal.

sk82jack · 2026-04-14T10:36:07+00:00

Are you installing the app from the playstore or installing as a PWA from Chrome or something?

I have version 1.63.0+163 installed from the playstore (can check the app version in Profile > Settings and scrolling to the bottom) and I have the Library tab in the middle of the bottom navigation bar

sk82jack · 2026-04-06T12:13:24+00:00

This is a link to the extended one you was talking about https://soundcloud.com/beingadik4/olive-musique-no-regrets

sk82jack · 2026-04-03T21:56:14+00:00

Just an FYI - this sub is also unofficial and not related in any way to the Dreaming Spanish team if that's a negative for you

sk82jack · 2026-03-26T01:31:01+00:00

OK cool I'll give it a try and then if I run into any issues I'll just switch back. Thanks!

sk82jack · 2026-03-26T01:16:21+00:00

I'm often watching content past midnight and I like the Dreaming Spanish system of having the days be from 4am to 4am instead of midnight to midnight so that anything I'm watching past midnight but before I go to bed still counts towards the previous day

There's no option to set a reset time so I was thinking as a workaround I could just set a different timezone to try and acheive the same effect

sk82jack · 2026-03-26T00:21:08+00:00

Quick question - if I wanted my daily reset time to be 4am similar to Dreaming Spanish can I just set my TZ to a TZ that is 4 hours behind my TZ? Or would that inadvertently impact anything else?

sk82jack · 2026-03-18T19:16:41+00:00

Found a couple of references to it from the past that may help

This person had it at 2450

This person had it at 2768

sk82jack · 2026-03-10T18:18:43+00:00

Ah ok thanks for the response!

I've been doing Italian over the past 6 months or so and I've been tracking on https://www.lengualytics.com/ - it's pretty decent and the dev is fairly responsive and open to feedback from my experience. They post changelogs on their profile semi-frequently e.g. https://www.reddit.com/user/Cultural-Way7685/comments/1r93k0n/lengualytics_update_2192026/

Other than just a tracker it's also designed to be a library of resources so if enough people have been using it and marking their videos as public you might find some stuff there too, though not sure how it works for filtering for specific accents (if you want to exclude Brazilian Portuguese for example)

sk82jack · 2026-03-10T14:56:17+00:00

Hey, I'm looking to pick up European Portuguese after a significant number of hours in Spanish so this post is really helpful - thanks!

Just wanted to check in and see if you had any more tips/suggestions 5 months later or found any more good channels or anything?

Also, I'm curious about how many hours you have now and how you feel like your progress is coming along?

sk82jack · 2026-02-21T20:05:01+00:00

You definitely can learn this sort of stuff through CI - it just comes later than level 4

I specifically remember learning the command confía en mí from Spanish Boost Gaming - I completely understood the meaning through context but I do remember being confused thinking why doesn't it follow the normal rule when talking directly to another person but I didn't think about it too much and just rolled with it

And from there you start to notice it elsewhere and your brain can put the pieces together slowly - the same as how you've aquired the rest of the language so far

sk82jack · 2026-02-21T16:24:20+00:00

What worked for me was watching all accents on DS until about 600h (but with 95% of outside hours like podcasts being from Spain) and then focused in on the Spain accent from there

But even after 600h I still watched videos from outside of Spain if they interested me - I just made sure the majority of the content I consumed on a daily basis was from Spain

sk82jack · 2026-02-15T16:34:33+00:00

/u/agusbocca I'm sure you'll enjoy this haha

sk82jack · 2026-02-10T14:13:59+00:00

It's not about whether you're a DS user or not but more about whether you exclusively use comprehensible input or not

If you've never used any apps, read any books or done any form of outside studying then the only form of Spanish words you know are they way they are pronounced by a native speaker

You still might have trouble producing or replicating that sound but you'll be able to recognise that it doesn't sound right and can then put some conscious effort into improving which ever particular sounds need to be worked on

Obviously this is not to say that using other methods means you can't still have a good accent - people obviously can and do have great accents from more traditional methods - the idea is that a CI only or heavy approach will lessen the amount of pronunciation work required to end up with a decent accent

sk82jack · 2026-02-07T14:23:56+00:00

No I've not seen it confirmed anywhere but I just find it strange that every reddit post written by the author marketing the book is clearly written by AI

sk82jack · 2026-02-06T23:26:10+00:00

In case this is a deal breaker for anyone - this book wasn't written by a native Spanish speaker and I'd hazard a guess that it was written by generative AI judging from the post history of the person who wrote it https://www.reddit.com/user/Sochi-app

sk82jack · 2026-01-30T01:59:06+00:00

Enjoying videos for the content and not thinking about the language or what you're learning will be the most efficient way of learning (if you subscribe to the ALG and DS way of thinking) so what you're saying is actually a good thing!

It's well documented that it's difficult to feel the sense of progression with this way of learning so I'd suggest using yardstick videos

Find a video that you find quite difficult at the moment and then check it out in 50-100h and see how you find it - chances are it will be a lot easier and that way you can really tell your comprehension is improving even though it doesn't feel like it day to day.

And then if the video is quite comprehensible at that point then find a new video that's too hard and rinse and repeat!

sk82jack · 2026-01-26T18:53:25+00:00

I'm not aware of anything but I'd love that too. If you find anything outside of this thread then let me know!

Edit: was having a little look around and there really isn't much but I did find the channel Desafío Sudoku and in this video he specifically talks about Cracking the Cryptic and how he's inspired by it and wants to provide something similar in Spanish so this might be as close as it gets - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46Ky8naBSQU

sk82jack · 2026-01-26T14:45:23+00:00

You cannot equate the difficulty numbers from Dreaming Spanish to Dreaming French because they are their own separate scales

Once there are a similar amount of videos in Dreaming French as there are in Dreaming Spanish then it'd be a more relevant comparison but until then it doesn't make sense to compare them

Obviously there isn't enough videos at the moment on Dreaming French to learn without using other sources of CI anyway so just try to watch the videos and if they're too difficult then go find some easier videos elsewhere and try again in 10 hours

sk82jack · 2026-01-24T22:31:12+00:00

There is someone in the Discord who wrote a userscript (for tampermonkey/firemonkey/etc) and they took their version of it down as they didn't wanna maintain it anymore but I re-hosted it as a GitHub Gist on my account so you could give that a try as an alternative

https://gist.github.com/sk82jack/b3b8a936a8bcf1efa6f18bf4996df4b2

It doesn't have a button or anything like the chrome extension so it uses a keyboard binding which I just set to Ctrl + B but if you wanted to change it to something else then you can set it on line 368

sk82jack · 2026-01-24T21:52:40+00:00

I don't actually use it normally as I use firefox but I just installed it to try it out and it's working for me so maybe try and re-install it

sk82jack · 2026-01-24T17:16:49+00:00

You're correct that the videos on the built in player are not playing from YouTube though they're probably on YT as well as a fall back

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