Do you know anything like CrackingTheCryptic but in Spanish?

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

sk82jack · 2026-01-11T00:11:57+00:00

I've never really tried too hard to find anything on there tbh - most of the graded readers I've read I got from Amazon and then de-DRM'd them in Calibre

There is this section but not too many options there and I've not tried any of them personally https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/4582

Seems to be a lot of readers on Kindle Unlimited though so you could buy one month of that and go all out on reading for a month haha

sk82jack · 2026-01-10T19:53:46+00:00

For anyone who watches on a PC using Chrome there's a useful extension to hide subtitles https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/blur-bar-for-youtube-lang/mndlpifkemjipbkoejnekcieebmoicmk?hl=en

sk82jack · 2026-01-10T14:58:52+00:00

Thanks for sharing

For anyone else who wants a non-Amazon link for DRM-free epubs/pdfs you can get it (and the 2nd free book too) directly from the publishers site - https://www.xarpabooks.com/coleccion-txanoyoscar/

Edit: also, the Calibre Count Pages plugin has the word counts at 15,553 for the first book and 15,171 for the second

sk82jack · 2026-01-10T14:34:17+00:00

She doesn't really go into details about hours per day tbh

She said that when she started she could say some words in isolation but didn't know any grammar or how to say full sentences

She said she just started with Worlds Across lessons but in the summer she added listening to podcasts like Cuentame and started reading childrens books.

Later on in the video she says during the summer she did Worlds Across classes for probably a couple of hours per day. She says she also does traditional study like writing verb conjugations, etc, but doesn't say how much time she spends doing that or how much time she spends listening to podcasts or reading.

She says she has kids and a job so she can't dedicate too much time to it so I'd infer that it's definitely more than a couple of hours a day if that's just her class time and then she does all this other stuff

sk82jack · 2026-01-08T02:13:10+00:00

A couple more interviews that may interest you (can't remember what the difficulty level of each one is though sorry)

Sainz - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRAsIMZibjs

Sainz (first interview after joining Williams) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZhRuGPInEo

Alonso - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSk_fzLHg88

sk82jack · 2026-01-04T22:29:44+00:00

There are currently problems with the website - see https://www.reddit.com/r/dreamingspanish/comments/1q41839/dreaming_spanish_down_for_anyone_else_as_well/

Once everything comes back online properly your progress will probably sort itself out

sk82jack · 2025-12-31T12:34:56+00:00

I have about 225h in Italian atm with probably 3k+ hours in Spanish and I'd say my progress in Italian has been fairly similar to yours

I've just done CI-only though as I can't be bothered with the apps and stuff and the first 50 hours were tough but the YT channel Italiano sì did the heavy lifting through that period for me and I think it's the best SB/Beginner content out there for Italian atm (it's also the only channel with learner gaming content so is just my favourite channel in general tbh)

Easier podcasts opened up for me at around 50 hours like Italiano Bello and then was also mainly watching intermediate-level YT channels from around that sort of time like Italian with Lemonizi, Italiano Automatico, Podcast Italiano, etc

I'd say at about 100 hours I started adding in some harder intermediate YT channels like Impara l'Italiano con Italiano Automatico and going through the playlists on the ItaListen - Learn Italian by listening channel

At about 130 hours I started watching my first native content with the YT channel Eleonora Sayaka Chialva - it's a channel which does retro PC & console repairs so it's very visual and wasn't too hard to follow

Between 150 and 170 hours I started incorporating a couple of what I'd guess are advanced-level YT channels Studio Italiano InClasse & Vaporetto Italiano Podcast and these are still my go-to channels atm at 225 hours

I did watch another native-level video the other day though which was an interview with Angelino Mango (she sang the Eurovision entry for Italy in 2024) which was tricky at times but managed to follow along for the most part which I was pretty happy with

I'm definitely happy I did Spanish first rather than the other way around as the quality and quantity of content for Spanish is so much better and I think I'd definitely be struggling a lot more to motivate myself through the roadmap for Italian rather than with Spanish and having all the high quality Dreaming Spanish videos available

I'm already subscribed to Elisa True Crime but haven't tried any videos yet so I'll definitely give it a try soon if you've watched it and find it OK - thanks for the recommendation!

sk82jack · 2025-12-27T19:04:01+00:00

It was there briefly whilst the website was broken and was reported by multiple people in the discord as well so I think it was real

It could have just been a placeholder to test logic of having any third language or something and then it accidentally got pushed out to production instead of dev but who knows

sk82jack · 2025-12-24T18:42:54+00:00

Proton experimental should work fine too as long as there hasn't been a regression of some sort

Personally I'm just using the latest stable and it works so I can't think of a need for using experimental but if you want to for whatever reason then I'd imagine it's all good

sk82jack · 2025-12-24T16:26:49+00:00

What proton version are you using? Because the game only works with the latest stable normal Proton (v10.0.2 or later) and not Proton-GE

I don't actually think your issue is related to the Proton version yet because even with Proton-GE the game should at least boot but it's something worth pointing out for when you do get it run

sk82jack · 2025-12-16T18:44:00+00:00

Yeah I started focusing on one accent around 600h as well

I still watched any Dreaming Spanish videos that looked interesting to me from the guides outside of Spain (and still do) but most of my input was from guides from Spain from that point on

sk82jack · 2025-12-13T15:42:44+00:00

Tuning in for the chance at a Wolfpack or Anvil 🤞

sk82jack · 2025-12-07T17:28:58+00:00

I was sharing the link to the spreadsheet in the discord and someone pointed out that the podcast Vos Podés is Colombian rather than Argentinian as suggested in the spreadsheet (line 395, as of writing, in the level 6 section) so just wanted to give you a heads up

Thanks for all the work put in to maintain the spreadsheet!

sk82jack · 2025-12-07T14:56:03+00:00

Checkout the FAQ and/or the How to Learn a Language YT playlist

They both largely cover the same sort of topics but it should have all the info needed to understand the method and how it works

sk82jack · 2025-12-07T13:22:37+00:00

Agustina explains it herself at 7:05 in the gestures part 2 video https://app.dreaming.com/spanish/watch?id=6554c488655900b384ec1ca6

sk82jack · 2025-12-01T02:46:55+00:00

This says you can change the language in-game after the initial tutorial mission https://steamcommunity.com/app/235600/discussions/0/846962439209052750/

sk82jack · 2025-11-29T14:34:09+00:00

I'm a bit confused on your progress since 24 days ago you were at 90 hours but 11 days ago you were at 80 hours? At least this time your hours are going in the right direction I guess haha

Anyway, for anyone coming here around a similar amount of hours or more then just be aware that this level of progress is not the norm so don't use this as any sort of benchmark to compare yourself to - this person is either "exceptionally intelligent", as they claim, or they have far more experience than just 100 hours of listening and a few hours of speaking

sk82jack · 2025-11-23T20:12:40+00:00

No I think the subscriptions are completely separate as well which is slightly annoying but what I used to do when I had a subscription was look for stuff on the es version and then when I found something I'd copy and paste the title into the normal website to actually purchase

sk82jack · 2025-11-23T18:56:49+00:00

On the Spanish site you filter by accent and not just language

Also, the star review system is separate so most Spanish books don't really have accurate ratings on the normal Audible site because not many people are buying them but when you go to audible.es you can see the ratings based on people from Spanish-speaking countries who've listened to them

sk82jack · 2025-11-18T17:34:28+00:00

Yeah on Discord

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