3 ways to use Comprehensible Input to Learn Spanish!

[@EricaRayLanguage]

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[@RichardPagel-d1e]

Are you a professional teacher? Your speech, whether English or Spanish is so clear and accurate. I love listing to you in either language, especially Spanish.

[@EricaRayLanguage]

So nice! Thank you for the compliment!

[@EricaRayLanguage]

How do you use your input? Let us know in the comments! 😊

[@learnENGLISHwithdebi]

Love this video. I remember when I first started with Spanish, I would actually love listening to something, of course 99% was incomprehensible, I would still love to write down just anything that I understood. It was fun for me. 😊

[@EricaRayLanguage]

Love it!! 😁

[@DJJPlus4]

Amazing video. If only I saw this months ago. Great teacher!!

[@EricaRayLanguage]

Thank you! Glad it was helpful!

[@gopalbhatia8835]

Super Erica the way of explaning, its make learners easy. Thanks

[@EricaRayLanguage]

So happy to hear it! ☺️

[@anna7276]

You really are a gem Erica! I loved your tips and I like the way you explain it all slowly and clearly. Thanks!

[@EricaRayLanguage]

Thank you so much!! So glad it was helpful! 🤗

[@dezahallforth]

I just realized I'm a listening while I read type of person. I retain the information better that way. Thanks for pointing that out. I'm going to use that in my studies from now on ☺️

[@EricaRayLanguage]

Awesome. If you ever feel like you are struggling with listening comprehension though, just make sure to keep your listening skills sharp by sometimes just listening before you bring in the text. ☺️

[@DavidMuhammad72]

Brilliant as always. Your methodology is simple, effective, and yields great results. 👍🏽 👍🏽👍🏽 These last couple of months I've really gotten into following along with transcribed podcasts. I'm really enjoying the reading.

[@EricaRayLanguage]

Fantastic to hear!! 😀

[@guardeous]

Which podcasts?

[@DavidMuhammad72]

@@guardeous Learn spanish and go, Españolistos and How to Spanish podcast. These are my favorites. 😁👍🏽

[@euniceperkins7669]

I am glad that I have found you. I am certainly going to give your methods a try.

[@EricaRayLanguage]

I wish you much success!

[@renostubbs8504]

Awesome video madam. You have found one of your life purposes, continue to invest in people. GODS BLESSINGS 🙏 ALWAYS.

[@EricaRayLanguage]

Thank you so much!!

[@JohannaEarthlyRamos]

Erica, fantastic tips! I continue to enjoy these methods and trusting the process 💖

[@EricaRayLanguage]

Thank you, Johanna! Glad to hear it! 👏😀

[@puma1304]

Hi Erica, I do not know if you are into this, but by being African-American you might be especially interested in the Spanish spoken in Equatorial Guinea and West Sahara, as well as in the Afrolatinamerican dialects, in which poetry and oral literature are abundantly represented. There are many studies about "Poesia Negrista" that are worth reading (also written in Portuguese) and there are some scientific studies about oral literature, music, and linguistic traits (like German Granda's about the Colombian Pacific Coast), also some studies about particular variants of Afrolatin-Spanish (like Lipsky's about the Afrobolivian dialect). In the studies about Afrolatin creole languages like Chi Man Kongo, Palenquero and Papiamentu you might also find very interesting details that will help you to have a broader picture. Popular music and Afrolatin religions (Santeria, Regla de Ocha, Candomblé, Macumba, Regla Kimbisa, Regla de Palo, Vodun, Mayombe, Abakua) are also a good source. And if you want a challenge, why not trying Chavacano creole from the Philippines, or Chilean Spanish? I hope you get inspired and find good lectures... achè, saravá

[@EricaRayLanguage]

Thank you so much sharing that information with me!! I'll be looking into it. I appreciate it. 😊

[@susanrichardson390]

Thanks for the tips. A great review once again. Gracias!

[@EricaRayLanguage]

You're so welcome. Thank you!

[@marcyh6772]

Really informative. Never tried note taking

[@EricaRayLanguage]

Let us know how it goes! ☺️

[@mmoimabaso584]

Thank you Erica.

[@EricaRayLanguage]

You're very welcome!

[@novicetech1]

Gracias por este video. Eres un gran profesor! (I so totally cheated to write this comment, but I'll get better.)

[@EricaRayLanguage]

Qué bueno que te gustó! ☺️

[@boxdenfresh]

Very helpful video!

[@EricaRayLanguage]

I'm so glad! 😀

[@victoriavieira4895]

Thank you, this was helpful. I still feel like I'm missing a step with reading. I'm a beginner and I know or can guess half of the words. Do I summarize/translate what I've read, after I've read and listened to a sentence/paragraph, or do I just keep reading?

[@EricaRayLanguage]

The four steps in method three of this video are really to help you understand the input (which will increase your vocabulary and form the base of your language learning). But if you want more steps including things like translation, then definitely take a look at the blueprint: ericaraylanguage.com/blueprint

[@boxdenfresh]

When you’re past the beginner or even intermediate stage, how much time would you spend on method 3 compared to the first 2?

[@EricaRayLanguage]

What a great question. It would really depend on if your listening skills have matured along with your speaking. Many learners report very poor listening comprehension abilities even though they've reached an intermediate speaking level. It's usually because that active practice with the listening (method #2) and the listening first before bringing in the text (step 1 of method #3) have been lacking. And so they may need to still spend time with those activities. But a more advanced learner who feels like their listening comprehension is on an equal playing field with their speaking has more choice because as more of the words and the grammatical structures become familiar, the breakdown of the text becomes less and less necessary, and eventually disappears completely. They'll simply continue to learn new words as they read and listen. They may find themselves doing lots of reading by itself with no audio. I know I didn't directly answer your question of "how much time", but there are just too many factors involved to give a direct answer. But I hope that helped a bit. ☺️

[@boxdenfresh]

@@EricaRayLanguage thanks for the explanation. I guess even at intermediate we don’t have to feel like we are cheating by reading the text and listening at the same time

[@EricaRayLanguage]

@@boxdenfresh No, absolutely not! :)

[@JuanMoreno-wo5yb]

Donde está el banco jaja, por qué… I think all you have said is something we can take to the bank!! ❤

[@EricaRayLanguage]

😂

[@KontrolledKaoz]

Vine para apoyar el algoritmo. Espero que estes bien.🙏🏿😀

[@EricaRayLanguage]

Jaja, gracias!

[@derrickm2416]

I'm not good at taking notes plus usually I don't know what I need to jot down. Any suggestions on How to take notes?

[@EricaRayLanguage]

You could just write down what you find to be the key points of the presentation/podcast, etc... that you're listening to. If you hear an unknown word you might choose to jot that down too, trying to keep it in context. But as mentioned in the video, that's a more advanced technique. If you don't enjoy taking notes in real time (method 1 that I discussed in the video) then try one of the other two methods explained in the video.

[@cookingwithkf]

Big like 👍

[@EricaRayLanguage]

Thank you!

[@aaudain1]

You are awesome

[@EricaRayLanguage]

Well thanks! ☺️

[@AJ-cd2ox]

I have a B1-B2 level in Spanish. I can understand a lot of spoken Spanish, by natives at this level, which tends to be spoken a little slower and clearer, but not all, I still miss some words. I listen to native / advanced materials quite often, because I enjoy them more, but I have to use text or subtitles when I can, but I listen often without the words. The problem I have with these, is a lot of times I cannot hear proper words, only mumbling and slurred speech, even when I then read the text, the words don't sound like they are spelled. I can understand most of the text / subtitles, even advanced, so it's not that I don't know enough words, I know most of them, but some sound nothing like they are spelled. I have tried transcribing audio, i have to replay parts 5 times and still, I don't get many parts. I have tried slowing down the audio and I still can't hear any words, only slurred mumbling. So, not the speed either. I can't understand Telenovelas either and they are supposed to be easier. How am i ever going to understand slurred speech?

[@musicdefinesyouMDY]

👏👏👏👏👏

[@mlmiller2267]

"..."yo soy la primera "en" lavarlo...". Why did you say "en" instead of "to"? I did look up "en" but I couldn't find the correlation to "to".

[@EricaRayLanguage]

Good question! This does not translate literally, as most sentences in language don't. It's really a "learn and accept it" game. This is one reason why comprehensible input is so important since it helps you learn how to express the same THOUGHT (without necessarily the same words) in the other language. When you are looking things up, often looking up the entire phrase will help you more than looking up an individual word. Try looking up, "I'm the first one to wash it" in SpanishDict.com for example. It will give you, "Soy el primero en lavarlo." Notice that it will say "el primero" instead of "la primera" because it will default to masculine, but in my story, we were talking about a girl. Translation tools such as this don't always work as you want, since they are machines, but it's a place to start to begin to investigate your questions. ☺️