The SECRETES behind language learning with Dreaming Spanish Founder
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ก.ค. 2024
- Summary
Pablo Roman, the creator of Dreaming Spanish, shares his language learning journey and the principles behind his comprehensible input method. He emphasizes the importance of learning through acquisition rather than traditional methods of studying grammar and doing exercises. Pablo discusses his own experiences learning English, Japanese, and Thai using comprehensible input. He also provides insights into when to start speaking in a new language and the challenges of building a language learning business. Pablo's advice to language learners is to do the easy thing and not make language learning harder than it needs to be.
Pablo is the reason why I can speak Spanish right now. Awesome interview.
Honestly its the same for myself
Super interview. Those of us who have watched thousands of DS videos feel that we know Pablo. We do trust him. He did deliver on his promises and not a high cost. We, the learners are in charge of how tense or relaxed we are. He said it out load. Relax, listen, watch and let the language wash into us. With 1700 hours I am on native content and continue 2 hours + each day. Pablo is the real deal. Thank you.
Yeah but you can’t communicate in your target language 😂 clown
Thanks so much for the support. WOW! 1700 that is huge. Have you started speaking yet?
@@Lukelearnsspanish Yes. One cannot stop it. The new language just comes out. I have not forced it. Like a little kid, it just come out of us.
@@user-ic9yq2mx3vlove this!
What an honor to speak with Pablo. ❤
Awesome work 👍🏻
Thanks so much. I appreciate the support.
I can't believe you got an interview with this legend. Great job!
aha yeah, I was thinking the same when I set it up.
Pablo is the GOAT! What a great interview. Thank you both.
Thanks!
The interview that Pablo did on Steve Kaufman’s channel is how I discovered Dreaming Spanish 👍🏼. I am now in level 4 🙌🏼
Very nice, I think interviews like this one and that one helps people discover the method especially when they are in english.
Just hit 150 hours today. Pablo and the whole team Andrea, Agustina, Alma, Michelle, Shel etc are all the Goats!
Very nice! 150 hours is a good achievement, you will really feel some big gains over the next few hundred hours.
What i like about learning with CI under Dreaming Spanish is i know what it is going to take. It is a major time commitment but that is obvious from the beginning.
Yep, no one everyone agrees it takes thousands of hours of commitment.
Pablo’s not divulging what his 2nd comprehensible input language offering will be!
Yeah aha I tried to get an answer
Brilliant interview!! I’ve been following Dreaming Spanish since July 2022 and have over 1200 hours of input, 50% of which is from Dreaming Spanish. I am so pleased with my level of Spanish and it’s all thanks to a chance discovery of Pablo and Comprehensible Input. Thanks for doing the interview and best of luck with your Spanish learning journey 😊
Thanks so much for the support! :)
Nice interview with this visionary man.....DS is a wonderful and fun resource! Thank you for this interview.
Thanks for the support!
Haven’t seen Pablo being interviewed for a while!
Yeah I was very happy to get him on.
Great interview. Dreaming Spanish is the reason that I can speak Spanish and have spanish speaking friends!
Yep, it’s a great platform. Helped so many people who never would of thought they’d be able to learn Spanish.
Exactly. Acquiring a language through CI really does work.
It worked for me for English and Japanese. Now I`m doing Spanish the laziest way possible, plus I`m cheating cause I`m Brazilian.
Spanish is fun.
aha nah work smarter not harder. Good luck with learning spanish, im sure it wont take you too long. How long do you think it would take to be fluent?
Four hundred hours on DS exclusively. Love it.
Very nice, well done
That can happen a lot. When you're speaking and a word or phrase just comes out that you don't even expect to say. they just seems to come out automatically without thinking about them first. Infants do the same after so much input, they'll start blurting out words and phrases, that are quite funny when they do it. Acquiring a language through CI really does work!! A question to ask the doubters is how did they acquire their local accent in their language. Did they acquire it through grammar books or through input?
Yeah ever since i started it just made sense. Like we have all acquired our native langauge before
Nice video with Pablo, you asked the questions on my mind about the DS method
Yeah i honestly wanted to ask some questions I wanted to know the answer too as well lol
Thank you guys
Me gusta ver tu canal mejorar. Primero un entrevistó con Mike y ahora con Pablo. Muy interesante y entretenido. Buen hecho, Luke.
gracias Chris!
Great interview. I learned a lot about his vision of Dreaming Spanish.
Yeah it was interesting hearing more about his backstory and why he started DS
Thanks a lot Luke. 2 very cool thoughtful guys talking a lot of sense. Hope you get to meet him for a beer someday.
Thank you!!
Luke!!! Keep up the amazing interviews!!🎉🎉🎉
Thank you! Will do! and good luck with your own spanish journey. I will continue to follow along.
Amazing!!!
Thank you! Cheers!
Great interview. He said he listened to Japanese for 16 hours a day for 6 months, that's crazy lol. I wonder how he stayed tuned in or what other resources he used during those 16 hours or if it was just Japanese.
Yeah I know right pretty crazy
Great interview! Back 2 back guys I wanna hear from with Mike Ben and Pablo
Thanks for the support :)
@@Lukelearnsspanish No problem man! Looking forward to the future videos
Wow 😮😮😮 congratulations Luke ❤🎉
Thank you!
It feels weird hearing pablo speaking english
Yeah i know right aha
i love it
Thanks
Great video! What is your experience in hitting almost 300 hours or having 300 hours or more in Dreaming Spanish? A lot of the intermediate videos, I still have a difficult time understanding. Recently, I went back to the super beginner and beginner level because it is easier. According to dreaming Spanish, I am intermediate level, but discouraged because I cannot fully grasp the intermediate videos. Also, what is your opinion in listening to videos that we do not understand most of the time? If we watch videos that is not our level and we understand some stuff, would that still help our input and understanding?
I am for sure not an expert or anything on CI and the science behind it all. However I had the approach of if you can understand what is going on and are somewhat able to be entertained by it.
I'm a big believer in comprehensible input and watch Dreaming Spanish videos everyday (150 hrs so far) as well as Spanish podcasts while driving. Heres a question though.
A lot of times I find myself not concentrating on whats being said and am really just day dreaming and not really consciously listening. Do you think thats still beneficial to me? Is part of the brain still soaking in that Spanish or once I lose concentration am I wasting my time?
Its hard for me to gauge because while my Spanish is definitely improving I still use other forms of learning too. Italki once per week, lessons with a teacher once per week. Pablo would be horrified but I even work on grammar, Lol.
So I cant really tell whats been most beneficial in helping me improve. I suspect all of the above but I do know that comprehensible input out of all those is the most important.
But just curious what other people think about the benefits of comprehensive input when one has temporary 'switched off' and isn't always actively listening to whats being said.
"Pablo would be horrified ..." - He'll be showing up at your house with a SWAT time in the next few hours ;-)
It's much less beneficial than active listening and you should try really hard to refocus as often as needed but in Pablo's 1500 hours he factored in that listening rather than doing Cross talk 24/7 is less effective. You should be good. As long as you're doing it you're in the right track.
Thanks for the comment. To be honest I really don't know what the answer is. If i had to guess passive input I think would still help but times when your more engaged would asisst more.
was he in a house fire recently?
Snake oil Salesman Pablo
Explain why you wrote that?
I don’t mind being a polite voice of descent. I completely disagree with Pablo and his method. Comprehensible Input is yet, just another British Snake Oil sold by a monolingual who was childishly overjoyed with discovering a feature of language learning and then, rebranding it for sale, regardless of its usefulness. What annoys me most is the current tide of Spaniards who hate all things Spanish and love all things English. They are super frustrated with their own government, unemployment and see Britain and America as some form of success, not realizing that what burns 3x faster dies 3x faster. I am now a competitor in Spanish teaching however, I don’t offer that as my reasoning for hating CI. It’s that it doesn’t work and it's nonsensical, just another attempt at assimilation by the English language. Truthfully, I couldn´t be more happy that Pablo is successful. I want that for all Spaniards. I just wish they could stay Spanish doing it. Their way is superior.
You're obviously trying to pull Pablo's acquisition method down to divert people to your method and book.
You can't learn a language with just vocab. All your method is, is memorizing words and phrases. That is not acquiring a language. By the looks of it, there are thousands of phrases in your book that would all need to be memorized. Do you really think people could memorize and retain all those?
There is no other way to do it than your memorization method? Children learn how adults learn? So children acquired their native language using your method? You acquired your native language using your memorization method as well? No, children acquire their native language through input, which is acquisition. Do you know the difference between memorization and acquisition? Do you know the difference between conscious learning and subconscious acquisition?
You've no idea that CI doesn't work because you've never tried it. We, the people that use the acquisition method know what the snake all is really is, and it's not CI. Ask the people that have wasted so much time on grammar books, phrase and vocab drills. They'll tell you that they're are a waste of time.
How did you get an interview with pablo?