For me, watching videos and listening tremendously improved my Spanish because it helped me get used to the speed and sound of the words. When I was focusing on reading, I can understand it but when I was talking to my patients I couldn’t understand them at all!

Is it only for Chrome? I think everybody is looking for a similar extension for Firefox... 🤣

does pausing after a sentence I don't fully understand and looking up words count as intensive immersion rather than pausing a line and seeing if I understood it? my listening is by far my strongest skill and reading alone makes me have to process the language a bit and sometimes a lot harder can I do that instead to improve my listening skills as well?

To me it seems unnecessarily tedious and like it would take the fun out of immersing. I’ve never done the whole pausing thing, or really many lookups, maybe 15-20 over the course of ~800 hours yet I’ve gone from knowing almost nothing except for some random vocabulary words from HS to watching over 2 hours of native Minecraft last night with between 95 - 100% comprehension depending on the part of the video. If something is too fast or has a lot of unknown words I just watch something easier and then come back to it later. Last night I came back to an Argentinian true crime channel, dinosaur vlogs, that I had tried a few months ago and found too difficult. Now she’s very comfortable for me and all I did in between was watch content regularly just like I would in English.

I miss Matt

I recommend not to listen to this video, it will bore you.

Yes, transcription is amazing. about 6 months ago I decided to really work on listening and transcribing using sentences I already had in Anki, specifically, the Refold deck I bought of 1000 most common words a couple years ago. I created a new card type for the note that just plays the audio of the the sentence on the front, and I have to transcribe it on the back. For kicks, I used hyperTTS add on to add two more random voices (I used 12 mexican Spanish voices from Amazon neural voices, 6 male, 6 female), so the sentence audio is played 3 times using 3 different voices on the front side. Obviously, I can repeat it as many times as I want while transcribing. And wow, what an incredible jump in my listening ability it has made. Not only am I reviewing vocabulary, I am listeing to it in chunks and holding in memory chunks while transcribing. This as radically improved my listening. I then went on to do another 3000 card deck I had with 500 most common verb that has about six sentences each. It really works. Transcription, I think, is the magical key to listening. It forces hearing in context and remembering the words. It also makes you realize that words are smooshed to gether, that vowel sounds are dropped, and sometimes you just have to infer the word, especially in Spanish, he hecho, ha ido, etc.

So, what is the recommended way to practice these situations? Just watch random interviews or talk radio for natives?

3:26 If I read a kid's book in Dutch people would ask questions. But then again, I am Dutch.

Russian has the easiest new script any English speaker could learn lmao

I feel like the person in question might have been asking about how to get comfortable with reading in a different language and seeing different letters and such, not with sounds. For example, I'm a native English speaker and I've been learning Ancient Greek and Korean. Both languages have their own alphabets which I 100% understand and can match onto different sounds according how they are pronounced, but, as I read, I still take a lot of time to comprehend the words, sound out the letters, etc. In other words, it still feels a bit like a "puzzle" to read. It's very similar to when I was learning to write in English and I got my d's and b's confused quite often, or q's and p's. My only advice to the person who asked this question is repeated exposure and learning a lot of vocabulary, especially watching subtitles as people are saying the words aloud. I now realize that when I read in English, I mostly don't have to "read" each word individually; my brain has no choice to understand. In Korean and Ancient Greek, on the other hand, my brain can consciously not read certain words, as if I can't read the alphabet at all. Going slow, forcing yourself to listen to the words, or pronounce them yourself is the best way to go forward!

By the way, it's Russian BABUSHKA. You said babochka, which means butterfly in Russian.

I'm learning Japanese. Definitely not easy to learn reading it. I love kanji though, I'm thinking of learning Chinese sometime in the future.

6:34 from here on you totally lost me, i don't have the same options as you. im lost as what to choose and on what to base my decision...

Got it working after installing pysrt, homebrew, and ffmpeg. Thanks for creating and sharing this!

What if I want to track more than one language?

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