![]() ![]() I quit Duolingo a month ago after having completed 4 chapters and I switched my focus almost entirely to listening and reading, although lately I've been using Kwiziq for more advanced grammar. Realistically, advanced Dreaming Spanish videos are intermediate compared to actual native content.ĭuring month 2 I slowly started branching out to all kinds of different content such as Netflix series mostly with Spanish subtitles along with a very useful Chrome extension called Language Reactor, other youtube channels such as Español con Juan, Luisito Comunica and Auronplay just to name a few and reading easy short stories using Lingq and Readlang. Now, after 500 hours of input I understand 99% of the advanced videos and other videos from channels targeted to learners. It didn't take me long to start being comfortable with beginner Dreaming Spanish videos and by the end of the first month I could understand most of the intermediate videos quite well. I started out with Duolingo, a grammar book and Dreaming Spanish on youtube. How I started learning Spanish, methods, resources: Admittedly, Spanish pronunciation is not particularly difficult for most native Slavic speakers, although it took me a while to get used to the rolled r sound which doesn't exist in Croatian. My Spanish teacher on italki tells me my accent is great for someone who's only been studying Spanish for less than 6 months and I ascribe that to a lot of input and avoiding speaking too early. I wouldn't consider myself "fluent", not even close, although my definition of fluent is not having to think about grammar or your native language at all when speaking. Most of these mistakes happen when I'm trying to speak too fast. I also catch myself making silly mistakes or using the wrong gender with words I'm not 100% familiar with, but I'm almost always aware of when I make a mistake and I quickly correct myself. I can talk about many different topics without having to constantly translate from English/Croatian to Spanish, although I often have to actively think about certain uses of the subjunctive and less common verb conjugations so forming coherent and grammatically correct sentences requires a lot of focus. ![]() I can speak surprisingly well considering I've barely been practicing speaking. News channels and articles are definitely my weak point and something I have to work on because the vocabulary is very different from your average novel, tv show or youtube video. It depends a lot on the type of content and how much slang/colloquialism is involved. My reading comprehension (fiction, novels) is at around 95 - 98% and listening comprehension (spanish netflix series with Spanish subtitles, native youtube content without subtitles) is at around 95%, a bit less without Spanish subtitles. One placed me at B2 and the other one at C1 (this one was mostly focused on reading and listening.) Obviously neither of them tested my speaking abilities so I'll leave it at B1, not that it really matters, but it's the easiest way for me to attempt to describe the level I'm at currently. Out of curiosity I took two different online CEFR tests. I'd say I'm at a fairly solid B1 level overall, maybe B2 in reading and listening. I've been putting in around 4 - 5 hours a day on average since early February and all of the numbers above are approximations.Ĭurrent level, difficulties and speaking after a lot of input: Speaking: very little, around 3 hours on iTalki, sometimes I speak to myself and read out loud ![]()
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