He Spent 2000 Hours Learning Spanish with Comprehensible Input - Here’s What Happened!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 มิ.ย. 2024
- Conversation with Joe Sema about his Spanish Language Journey.
/ @realjoesema
Time stamps
0:00 Motivation and Strategy
3:25 The First 300 hours
12:45 Understanding Native Content
25:58 Managing Burnout
34:46 Future Plans
Thanks for having me on the channel, Luke! Really enjoyed the conversation and look forward to more in the future.
Yeah thanks for coming on Joe. I think everyone enjoyed your insight.
Solid. I enjoyed the deep dive on the details of motivation, progress, and chill. The progress comes. Its funny. Most of us are conditioned in our educational journey to work hard studying things. We struggle, we fight boredom, we keep studying. It is how we were trained for years. When we get to CI, we question, "what's the trick". Or, "this can't work, because I am not working hard enough." But, it does work. And yes, there is no line in the sand at 1500 hours. We don't stop and declare victory. We just realize that there is an infinite amount of things to learn. So, the answer is always the same, more input. Keep growing.
Yep totally agree Joe. thanks for support
So true is that. So many think that we have to consciously learn a language by books etc. Because that happens in the schools so many think that's the way to go and won't have anything to do with the input method.
Great interview for us following the Dreaming Spanish method. It's reassuring to hear Joe's story and his progress.
Yeah he has a very impressive story in regards to learning Spanish through CI
Cool video, very helpful insights
Glad it was helpful!
Hola Luke, espero que estés bien.
Esto es muy bueno para mi
Muchas gracias, estoy aprendiendo mucho más rápido de lo que esperaba
Gracias estoy tan contenta de escuchar que proporciona un poco de motivación
Im 400 hours in now and man its a grind. Watching vids rated by difficulty and im around 53, comprehension is below50%, its demoralising at times but we'll keep grinding
Yeah it feels like a grind. Just keep pushing.
If you feel your comprehension is below 50%, listen at a lower level for a while then move back up. It should be comprehensible input where you should understand more than 50%. What is your level Timothy? What level do you listen to?
@@Davey441 level 4 with exactly 418 hours. I reckon I'm struggling to make the jump from A2 to B1 so I started reading/listening to graded readers now on LingQ as I'm not a DS purist.
My unsolicited opinion: if it feels like a grind, you're doing something wrong. The point of CI is to find content that you enjoy so that it doesn't feel like a chore.
@@timothymurray1236 Normally going from A1 to A2 happens in a shorter time but there is a longer jump from A2 to B1. Just keep putting the listening hours in and you will progress. It doesn't happen as fast as we would like, we just need to keep with it.
The key is to listen to audio and understand the majority of it, when we get to the point and think ''Wow, I understand so much', and more or less everything, then it's time to move up a level. How many hours do you listen to each day?
The thing I'm contemplating now is: when to switch over to more difficult videos. If I watch a video and I'm understanding 98-99% of what's being said, would you guys recommend watching harder videos? Am I slowing down my progress this way by watching videos that are too easy for me?
Personally, I believe as long as you're enjoying what you're watching/listening/reading it won't matter. If the topic intrigues you, go for it. It's always debatable if It'd be efficient or not but again I strongly believe It all comes down to your level of interest with the content.
I defiantly not expert. But I think having a mixture of hard and easy material is good. Main thing is that your interested in it I think.
Yes, move to harder stuff if you understand that much. You can certainly keep watching videos of that level, but move to harder material, too.
If you understand 98-99% it's time to move up a level. I'd say for someone that understood that much, and stayed with that level, they would be putting their progress on hold. Challenge yourself and listen to a higher level. Just keep pushing.
Why is it almost all the videos about dreaming Spanish are conducted in English? If the method works, after 2,000 fricking hours!?!!
SPEAK IN SPANISH MAYBE?! Or can you?!
I would guess because they want people that are just learning Spanish to be able to understand what they are saying. I for one appreciate it.
@@Dan.50 I would guess they speak English because understanding a language isn’t the same thing as speaking it. I want to speak it, not talk about speaking it. If DS can teach them to speak Spanish, they should fricking show us!
IMO Dreaming Spanish is Pipe Dreaming. It lets people think they’re doing something challenging by doing something easy. You can’t learn how to make movies by watching movies. You learn how to make them by making them. Ergo, you can’t learn how to speak a language just by listening to it.
Input is half the equation. You need output to complete the process. You have to do the hard work of forming your own thoughts and sounding out the words and determining if you can be understood. GIGO is the Occam’s razor here.
@@CassTyson You might be right. How many languages do you speak?
@@Dan.50 it’s not about me. It’s about the Cult of Pablo. I’m sorry but Dreaming Spanish is just that: dreaming
@@CassTysonI honestly think its a bit of a scam. When you realise that dreaming spanish is a paid service, it makes sense that the founder would purposefully do/suggest things that are going to slow down a students progress. Keep that money coming in for as long as possible!