1 Year and 11 Months Spanish Speaking Progress - Progreso en español durante 1 año y 11 meses

I've been learning Spanish now for a year and 11 months. I will continue to document my Spanish progress for the next year or so to see where my Spanish level ends. As always, any corrections are greatly appreciated.

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He estado aprendiendo español desde hace un año y 11
meses. Continuaré documentando mi progreso en español durante el próximo año para ver dónde termina mi nivel de español. Como siempre, se agradece enormemente cualquier corrección.

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1 Year and 11 Months Spanish Speaking Progress - Progreso en español durante 1 año y 11 meses

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[militantjah]

Here from Jamaica 🇯🇲 studying Spanish, you really inspire me bro, your like my YouTube brother😂🙏🏾🙏🏾

[ellarae]

You sound good to me! Good on you for learning so much so very fast.

[angelt]

Some things I do when I'm starting to feel a little stagnant in my Spanish journey is: expand the topics I listen to...to include random stuff that I wouldn't normally watch (like basic math explanations for example). I also will find and focus on new accents that might be a little harder for me to understand. I think it's normal to feel the way you do. At some point it becomes less about "studying" and more about just letting Spanish (or whatever language you are learning) become a daily part of your life. Good luck with everything.

[tatyanamukhomedzhanova]

Dear Mike, can’t help to leave the comment for you.
I’m a linguist and never thought of learning particularly Spanish and never had guts to make myself finding a motivation in another one except for English, which is my beloved language ever since I was a kid.
But it happened so that I met a guy and he lives in Spain. Being in another country and not being able to understand people, pushed me to get the craving for Spanish and start learning it from scratch. Now it’s been three months of everyday Spanish:-)
Long story short, my job is English Russian interpreter. I’ve been into it for twenty years. And there were times with English language that I didn’t have practice or projects to have ongoing language load, especially with this pandemic situation when all trips stopped. And I even thought that I should suspend my activity with the language because I merely tent to forget it. But with all the tube opportunities, videos or simply ordinary interviews or simple subject discussions that were interesting for me, I gradually realized that my vocabulary is working as well as skills of comprehension, maybe not on my particular job subject but in the language itself. The work is gradually returning with online sessions. And no longer have I this feeling of empty mind or disappearing language, or quitting.
The same will be with Spanish, where I take a lot of your tips, as well as Spanish practice:-)
You are a great inspiration to me in the learning process, as well as how amazingly you dedicate yourself in whatever you do.
All the best, saludos desde Ucrania!

[quicktempa]

I read a really good article not too long ago about the intermediate plateau and why only time can fix it. Essentially what I got from it was that once you get to understanding the majority convos/pages in a book then there isn’t much gap to close. You can get to understanding ~90% in a short time but that last 10% or so is just random infrequent words that you will only learn by exposure. Almost any native English speaker will understand the words antique, bamboozle, finagle, gizmo, hooligan, lollygag etc but we really never use those words. Definitely not on a daily basis. So if told you I was lollygagging because I didn’t want to catch up to a crowd of hooligans that might finagle me for my money, you would understand it even though it’s weird. Someone who learned English second probably won’t unless they’ve been here for a long ass time. Basically just gotta accept where you’re at and keep learning just like we’ve been doing in English the last few decades 🤷🏾‍♂️

[paulbradford]

Mike, you're progress is amazing. Consider me envious. Compared to me, you're light years ahead.
I'm well into my second year of studying Spanish. I study every day, but it's going. I'm nowhere near being fluent yet. I recognize every word you're saying, but can't yet understand what you're talking about except maybe in little snippets here and there. I've enrolled myself in an Olly Richards course to kind of jump start my studies. His emphasis is on reading and listening more so than studying the mechanics of the language. It'll come to me eventually I'm sure. I push on.

[jimmychafins]

I feel the same way…you’re doing good though man…we are always harder on ourselves but you sound great..keep at it…

[Duragon]

This is exactly why this is such a great channel. You're 100% authentic in your journey, Mike. While I imagine there are diminishing returns, the more likely thing is your progress is simply less obvious now. The difference between a well written book and a poorly written one can be very subtle sometimes. The same may be true for spoken language.

[onthefence]

I also reached a point where I felt stagnant... I realized that I had to diversify my circle... meaning, I started speaking to Spanish speakers with different interests.. i noticed that I was having similar conversations, using the same words, and so I wasn't improving my vocabulary..

[clarencehammer]

Hablas muy bien. Yo llevo casi 60 años aprendiendo el español y todavía no domino el español y jamás he viajado a ningún país. Para mí el español es casi un idioma privado porque no lo uso para comunicarme con nadie.

[CondorFlyingHigh]

Tal vez deberías leer más. Leer, leer, leer y leer. Lee sobre deportes, comida, música, viajes, comida, la noche. Lee sobre los temas que más te gusten en español y saldrás de ese plateau.

Al mismo tiempo, trata de escuchar más: programas de televisión de México, España, Colombia. Noticieros, películas, telenovelas, deportes, etc.

Leer y escuchar. Eso es importante. Poco a poco saldrás de esta meseta (plateau). Te lo aseguro. Saludos desde Argentina

[JoseManuel-pxmx]

I recommend you read the book Peak - Secrets from the new science of expertise by Anders Ericsson. He talks about deliberate practice to reach high levels of expertise through feedback and learning from it. You must stay at the edge of your comfort zone and use feedback to keep improving.

If you want to improve your listening, listen to difficult content, either because of the accent, speed of speech, subject matter, etc. and try to guess every word they say. First without subtitles, guessing, and then with subtitles, checking what you have guessed. Your mistakes are the feedback.

If you want to improve your speaking, talk to native speakers and get feedback from them. I guess it's hard to find a native speaker to correct every mistake you make, maybe you should pay for it.

By the way, congratulations on your fluency in such a short time.

[manuelcolli]

Trankilo mi amigo mike ya vas avasando mas hablando español te felisito mi amigo

[badboybootz]

I've been trying to learn for about a week now, watching YouTube and duolingo. Also listening to some Puerto Rican amigos at work. I hope to be at your level soon. 👍

[maritastellium]

Yo considero que no hay que dejar de lado la práctica de la lectura pues ésta también enriquece nuestro vocabulario. En resumen, yo considero 4 grandes aspectos al momento de adquirir un idioma: fonético-fonológico (listening and speaking), semántico (reading), morfosintáctico (speaking and writing) y pragmático (all of them). Saludos.

[donnaparker]

You may be interested to watch a linguist on YouTube -- his channel is "Days of French and Spanish" (he originally studied both, but then dropped French to concentrate on Swedish). In 2022, he plans to dabble in 6 or 7 languages -- in order to bring A-0 curiosity to his C-1 language (Swedish).

[poohgeorge]

Estoy en la misma situación con mi camino en español. Me di cuenta tu eres de Atlanta. Soy de Alto, un pueblecito norte de Gainesville. If you’re ever in the Gwinnett or Hall county area and looking for some good Mexican food hit me up and we could talk shop about our learning process. I’m about a year and a half in and seem to be stuck also.

[KingChameleonsEye]

Yes I think finding subjects in Spanish to talk/read about that you DONT normally speak on can help. It is scary but a good way to broaden your horizons. I’m kinda in the same situation as you but I’m in a Spanish speaking country so I have more opportunities to easily practice.

[oceanebrieze]

You sound good 👍
I’ll keep English though…and Thank God for it😉

[idiomasconsandra]

Hola mi querido, esta super interesante este video porque estas mostrando la parte vulnerable de el aprendizaje de idiomas y es la frustración que sentimos todos en el proceso, solo voy a decirte que eso normal y quiero aconsejarte para evitar aprender cosas que piensas que no se usan, tu podrias concentrarte en series de netflix actuales de habla hispana, ya que asi puedes aprender de contextos y aplicación real de el idioma. Tambien quiro darte una idea para tu canal: podrias tratar de mostrar videos en situaciones reales donde practicas tu español con latinos que viven en estados unidos, preguntando cosas como por ejemplo como es el dia a dia de un latino en norteamerica, o videos de interacion con latinos en actividades cotidianas como en supermercado, gym y cosas asi 😁😁, eres increible en lo que haces y como siempre te lo digo eres un ejemplo y una buena motivacion para muchos. Un abrazo, te veo pronto..