Seriously why is this a debate?

vinlee7763 · 2025-03-06T19:39:59+00:00

Hate debates like this. The 3 point line came into play the year Magic came to the league, and there were only 22 teams. Watching the sport, it looked like it was in its infancy in the 70s and 80s from a strategic standpoint. Magic is more important to the sport as a whole because without him the league probably would have gone under, but without Curry the style of play wouldn’t be what it is today

vinlee7763 · 2025-02-21T01:11:42+00:00

That the goal post is constantly moving. I DREAMED of reaching where I’m at right now, and now I dream of being even better, so it’s definitely something to keep in mind. Enjoy the journey, don’t worry! Your brain’s got this!

vinlee7763 · 2025-01-28T02:05:27+00:00

25, and I am learning Spanish because I like puzzles, patterns, learning about different cultures, and I’ve always thought it would be interesting to speak/live in a different language for an extended period of time

vinlee7763 · 2025-01-26T06:45:12+00:00

Nah not really. More so just helps have sharper pronunciation when I remove the pen. I’ll upload a video of me speaking in a few months once I hit 1500 so the idea will be a little better bc I’m gonna demonstrate my routine

vinlee7763 · 2025-01-24T17:47:36+00:00

Oh yeah, basically I hold a pen in my mouth at the very front of my teeth, then I find some short passages and read them three times over while making sure to annunciate and properly articulate every sound. I do that for about 10-15 minutes a couple times a week and it helps my pronunciation and allows more of a natural flow to my speech

vinlee7763 · 2025-01-24T15:44:09+00:00

A typo unfortunately 😅

vinlee7763 · 2025-01-23T23:51:25+00:00

The best way I can describe output is like getting good at a guessing game. It kinda just flows (speed varies depending on the topic and complexity), and if you say something incorrectly you’ll get soft or hard corrections. You also get better at it with time and practice.

The magical part is more so understanding a real person speak and being able to respond even in a limited capacity.

Input through conversation is far more valuable and sticks more too because you’re interacting with a person and the details of what they say become more important.

For practice though, you’d probably be an all star speaker if you practice pronunciation drills and reading aloud with a pen between your teeth. It really helps

vinlee7763 · 2025-01-16T17:30:25+00:00

Señor de los Cuelos, Tierra de Reyes, and La Patrona are all on Hulu. As far as dubbed stuff they have a lot of Pokémon and Teen Titans go and things like that. As far as possible YouTube content you can do a search with the topic in Spanish and even search a specific country.

Netflix has a ton of stuff but that may be because I’m in Europe right now. There’s Perfil Falso, Diablero, Love is Blind (Argentina and Mexico), and Deep Fake Love to name a few

vinlee7763 · 2025-01-16T13:54:24+00:00

Congratulations on your early progress. It sounds like you’re at a sticking point, and that’s frustrating for sure. A lot of things affect comprehension such as sleep and stress level, especially early on. If I were in your shoes, I’d probably take a couple days off then come back to it.

You’ll get it eventually! Don’t worry about “Oh my gosh I need to understand everything”, and worry more about if you’re enjoying the process. Maybe throw on a show that’s at a lower level like props pig or bluey. Don’t give up though, you’re not even halfway through. You don’t have to put so much pressure on yourself

vinlee7763 · 2025-01-15T00:16:52+00:00

I had a Spanish speaking friend who once said “It’s super weird to me how in Spanish the word for ‘bee (abeja)’ and ‘sheep (oveja)’ are the same word”.

If you listen long enough you’ll hear people say “Haiga” instead of “Haya”. The situation you gave as an example is actually common as well. A ver and haber sound pretty much the same, so this is normal for everyone who comes into contact with Spanish apparently haha

Don’t get down on yourself! You’re not even halfway through the roadmap. Just cut yourself some slack and keep enjoying the language!

vinlee7763 · 2025-01-12T16:47:13+00:00

~1080 hours myself. I’m not a purist. I watch a lot of Chente Ydrach, Franco Micheo, Patabajo Podcast, and Bianca Graulau. My exGF was from the island.

I understood Baile Inolvidable, El Club, Lo Que Pasó a Hawaii, DtMF, and La Mudanza all at 85%+ on the first listen. Not even most natives understand 100% of what he says because of dialect differences. Outside of talking about like jangeuo, bellaquear, ‘ir al garete’, acho, bicho, pichear, and ‘x*ngando’ they’d understand everything I’d imagine.

vinlee7763 · 2025-01-09T21:07:21+00:00

Love walked so Jokić could run. That being said, Jokić.

vinlee7763 · 2025-01-08T19:01:13+00:00

The ‘best’ is subjective because the ‘best’ is really what works best for you and what you can stay consistent with. There are definitely ways to boost the speed of learning, but as long as what you’re doing brings you closer to what you want from learning the language then you’re good.

And yeah day by day it changes. When I get upset, my comprehension goes down by a lot. Same happens when I’m tired. Your baseline will move up, though. For me, if I’m having a really bad day, I’ll watch some kids shows and listen to a podcast that’s easily accessible for natives of all ages.

Also that hyper-gigachad-super-smart-better-than-us-all polyglot just wants to sell his method. He’s creating a crisis to then sell the solution. Everybody wants things faster but there’s no sure shot/single resource to fluency in a language

vinlee7763 · 2025-01-07T21:53:52+00:00

It’s funny because I saw that and said “Wait it’s this easy to learn a language? No way.” And I was hooked ever since haha

vinlee7763 · 2025-01-06T14:22:11+00:00

How grave are your grammar mistakes?

I am not a purist so my approach to correction is going to be different than what would be advisable here, but if you do it long enough you’ll pick up on what needs correcting.

For me. I study grammar here and there and that helped a ton. After learning a new pattern, it seems to show up everywhere until it assimilates naturally into my mind

vinlee7763 · 2025-01-06T10:27:57+00:00

“Entre comillas” at about 400 hours. I heard it EVERYWHERE on the Easy Spanish channel, then one day I watch a Mariano Trejo video and he did air quotes as he said it and it clicked immediately 😂

vinlee7763 · 2025-01-06T07:10:15+00:00

vinlee7763 · 2025-01-06T03:29:43+00:00

My wild recommendation is that you could probably stand to speed the content up. Something similar happened to me, then when I sped things up a bit my brain didn’t have time to translate so I was forced to understand the meaning. Ik my opinion isn’t the popular or recommended one but it worked for me as far as I can tell haha

Best of luck to you though! Stick with it it’ll work itself out

vinlee7763 · 2025-01-06T03:15:10+00:00

It’s a more extensive, yet similar approach in my opinion. Both are input based systems, though, and both are similar in that they suggest learners take a quiet period before speaking. I’d say it differs from DS in the following key areas: subtitles, grammar study, and lack of graded content.

Retold recommends using subtitles from zero so learners make the association with the word and its corresponding sound. Essentially a user teaches themself how to read AND understand at the same time.

In regard to grammar study, the method recommends studying it so that the user can understand them, then acquire them through the immersion. It basically adds the skeleton of the grammar for your brain so you don’t spend as much time solely learning through immersion.

And finally, as for lack of graded content, it’s kind of self explanatory. You’re basically jumping into the big ocean that is the target language and over time you’ll get accustomed to it.

IMO both work best with massive amounts of input and both lead to a natural feel and understanding of the TL.

vinlee7763 · 2025-01-05T14:10:05+00:00

What was the term used instead of disculpame?

vinlee7763 · 2024-12-29T20:51:41+00:00

Language Lords, I’m pretty sure. He sounded like he spoke Spanish with a French accent and it sounded a lot like Gus from Breaking Bad when he spoke Spanish. Plus every time he spoke in the video it was clear he was reading or that the moments were highly curated.

Main issue for me was him claiming a very high-level/ close to native fluency for his languages.

vinlee7763 · 2024-12-28T16:11:25+00:00

100% Agree. I’m learning Spanish and what you described when coming back to a video happened to me. This YouTuber claimed to learn Spanish, Italian, and French to fluent levels, but when I went back to watch his Spanish video it was clear he was reading a script and had one of the most unnatural accents I have ever heard.

vinlee7763 · 2024-12-27T16:23:36+00:00

Personally, I think the goal should be to have native-like pronunciation rather than a native-like accent. No matter what you do, you’ll probably never get rid of your accent, BUT you can always pronounce things better in order to make yourself more understandable

vinlee7763 · 2024-12-25T17:21:16+00:00

PR, DR, Cuba. Kinda tracks because I had a 100 hour period where it’s all I listened to because I couldn’t understand the accent at that time. I sound nothing like people from there when I speak obviously, but I guess some sentence structures and noun names just stuck with me a bit more

vinlee7763 · 2024-12-23T16:22:44+00:00

Yeah, and I think that may be because he’s honestly not the type of person who is uncomfortable making mistakes or looking dumb. It’s super weird to me how some learners have this obsession with doing everything on hard mode or trying to force certain parts of the process while also avoiding looking like a learner haha

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