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Oh hey another DS learner! Spanish is my 3rd language and the last time I studied spanish was for 30hrs almost 20 years ago in high school where I barely paid attention. I stopped translating in my head in the first 10-20 hours. Growing up my family spoke to me in one language and everyone else spoke to me another, so that might be why I don't need to take the scenic route when hearing spanish lol

Great job documenting your journey on all the different languages you're learning Jaci!! Would you be interested in being a guest on my language learning podcast and talk about your experience? ☺

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LOL @ the ice cream man xD

If you want to read I really recommend duchinese and heavenly path! I started duchinese from scratch last year and now I'm able to read writers like 余华 and 三毛, I definitely couldn't have done it without those two sites. You do have to put in the hours but it's really been fun along the way!

the pinyin is a sound chart its not like the romanisation in Korean I also tried to ignore it at first and quickly learned it was essential to my hearing. A more accurate is the IPA which shows you where to place your tongue. Zhuyin method or Pinyin can be used for typing so saved on learning to write later. This encourages me to definitely start logging my listening hours thanks for sharing. I also started in July. Please do the basic tones. Things will make so much more sense once you do it. It is definitely more input input input is what am being told will help me improve my speaking and making sentences.

I’m learning Japanese from near-scratch with CI and it’s a doozy. My first language acquisition experience too (not counting native). Obviously Japanese and Mandarin aren’t the same, but they’re both far enough from English that I feel the experience is gonna be similar to what you’re up to. I’m only around 6.5 hours in right now and I really can’t understand much of anything at all yet without the video, but I’m sure I’ll get there eventually. Thanks for documenting early stages, because those tend to be overlooked a decent bit. Good luck with your efforts!

Hello you are so beautiful thank you very much for sharing with this great content .Will you marry me 🎉🎉.

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Ah sneaky!! I’m glad/hope you are okay from your surgery ♥️ I can’t wait to start mandarin. I agree tho I def won’t be a purist (haven’t even truly been a purist in Spanish tbh lol) because the characters are my primary reason for being interested lol. Idk if you saw it already, but the roadmap was updated for 1.5x instead of 2x!

omg? thats exciting lmao i really hope u and ur sister are able to keep going and get fluent

Its very tough to stop translating in your head..try to translate onto pictures in your mind instead of your native language is a good excercise

Happy for you keep going. I’m around 120 I feel good about my journey

i feel the same way!!!! i can understand a lot and then i translate it just to be safe... a terrible habit, we've gotta build our confidence

estoy usando tu video como input comprensible para aprender mas ingles 😎😎

To be honest, I don't believe those who say on the reddit that they've stopped translating in their head after only a few hundred hours. Great vid BTW, I'm 100 hours behind you.

hahaha it's a bit like trying to re light the flame of love in a love relationship ! thank u for your vid, I dropped learning Spanish rn but im happy because it reignited my love for Japanese (which was never dead) so inspiring I'll try to incorporate Japanese in my day to day life like you do. Much love, Océane ♡ ps : thank u for the anime recommendation btw, will totally watch it hihi

wohooooo congrats my dear <3

¡Felicidades por este logro! 🤩🤩 Me hace muy feliz ver personas de todo el mundo interesadas en aprender mi lenguaje y también saber que este método te está sirviendo :D

Te entiendo completamente con los videos de gente jugando videojuegos! No me gusta jugar yo, pero esos videos son adictivos. Que otra persona se frustre si no le salen las cosas y yo me divierto 😅

oooooooo, I can't wait for the next video now! Great job Jaci! I love your honesty.

Congratulation on 800 hours! I recommend Lingq for reading the Spanish content is really good. There is a lot of content there! It cool that you and your partner are learning together! We and mine want to learn Spanish together after we move!

congratulations on 800! 🎉💗 i feel like that happened so fast!! and LOL, ambiguity, same!!!!!!

Congrats on 800 hours. HUGE accomplishment! And I'm like you - I live in a Spanish speaking country and I obviously speak when I need to and I try to always speak Spanish at stores and stuff, but I just don't feel ready to pour it on. I kinda got ripped on the subreddit for not taking the opportunity to speak here. But I'll do it at my own pace. I can see the progress, so I'm not worried (okay, I'm a little worried 😂). And oh my gosh yes...taking 4 hours to do 1 hour! If only I wouldn't get sidetracked I could be at 1500 hours by now (I'm at 750ish)!!! It drives me nuts how much time I waste because I get bored and can't focus. I spend way too much time looking at the DS website for something I think I'll like instead of just grinding through. So I'm a dingaling. I have that Chrome add-on and I use it to look at the levels and the upload dates on the DS website, but how do you get it to add your TH-cam hours? I feel like that would be a game changer for me. Keep up the great work!!!

Haha it’s so funny, I saw 800 hrs and I was like oh she’s moving so fast! And then like the first thing you said was how slow it felt 😂 I’m so excited for you to start chapter books! Are you in the minimmersion discord? 👀

I think the biggest advice to stop translating in your head is to just ignore it. Don’t actively do it, but don’t actively try not to do it because then you are still focused on that in a way. I have 15+ years of off and on Spanish learning prior to DS and at ~640 hours I still translate in my head some but the more input I do, the less it gets over time. I also notice it way more when I try to watch stuff that’s a bit too hard. I’m confident it will work itself out in time if I keep going with input and don’t try to push myself outside of what comfortable for me (some new words and stuff but still like 98% or more comprehensible).

Learning Chilean spanish so I can talk to my grandparents from Chile. I plan to travel there one day and embrace the culture I recommend this kid's show from Chile called 31 minutos!

❤ love this. what’s the website you used to watch Brujería?

Bien hecho!!!🎉👏🏽👏🏽

Hey Jaci! I totally relate with you on this video. I do have moments when I watch something in English, I feel that I instead should be getting input in Spanish. This includes driving as well. I've learned to allow myself to be because it brings me joy.

I agree. Learning Spanish is a sacrifice at times. Balance is key 🔑 I used to only listen to Spanish podcasts when I am in the car, but I started to miss my car dance sessions to my favorite (English) songs. Like you said, it feels good to just be able to enjoy what you normally enjoy in our native language. Thanks for the reminder to just enjoy the process. I am wishing balance for you! Love your videos, thanks for sharing your journey. 😊

Yasssss! Buen trabajo! 👏🏾 Estoy muy orgullosa de ti. Lo estás haciendo. Tú español suena genial. Eres una inspiración 🥹🙌🏾 Un día estaré donde tú estás en mi viaje. Gracias por compartiendo!

thanks for sharing; the main takeaway for me is that you’re making great progress 300ish hours is a drop in the bucket too. youre going to be an amazing spanish speaker before you know it

heyy, u have an ig or mail I can contact u with?

If people around the world want to living in chile and Chilean society. should understand our values not foreign traditions, Chileans traditions, if people want to be accepted by Chileans citizens.

Love your video as always! I have been having such as reading slump for a while now and it took me saying "okay im going to read this in english and im only going to read" instead of always forcing myself to read in another language or only listening to audiobooks when im making language resources for myself or whatever, giving the book my full attention without it being a "language learning activity" has brought back my enjoyment of reading. Since language learning is my favourite hobby too I often put pressure on myself to spend a lot of my free time doing languages, especially because there's a voice in my head saying "if you learn more languages you need more time for all of them" and honestly its important for me to also take a step back sometimes and remember being balanced in my life is actually what i need. This week I have been drawing for the first time in years, and funnily enough it has made me enjoy language learning more because now they both feel like hobbies rather than language learning being this all-encompassing monolith of a chore. Looking forward to your next video!! <3

Kittttyyyyy ❤ man I need this too, I need the spark back 😳 such a cute vlog!

i love your videos omg ur so sweet and gentle and very refreshing to watch😇😇😇 im finally fluent in spanish and have started french this month and i love watching your journey!! may God bless you in your journey🙏🏾♥️

Thank you for explaining the 300 hours thing. I have done a good amount of Spanish practice and I am at the point where I understand most high beginner videos (40-50) and some low intermediate at 27 hours… 😂

Colombianos, venezolanos, dominicanos etcétera etcétera can’t pronounce “R”‘a . Dolor becomes dolol. Ojo! Thats not Spanish. It’s Caribbean

hiciste un buen trabajo, estoy emocionada de ver más videos tuyos en español

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Awwww thank you for watching my channel!! <3 good luck with chilean spanish! it's kind of difficult sometimes 💌

Thanks for making this video. Have been feeling like this lately and when I saw this video I was excited I wasn't alone! I had extremely low screen time before starting Spanish and now I feel guilty for how much time I spend just watching youtube. Thanks again

La casa en mango street is toda una trampa 😂 pocas palabras pero muy difícil lol.

so exciting to see you doing a whole video in spanish! i loved it + you sound so good! you def warmed up during the video ☺️. hope to see more of these!