Learning Spanish - 1,200 hours with Comprehensible Input

I started acquiring Spanish in January 2022 using a method called Comprehensible Input. The idea is that you listen and watch simple videos in Spanish. The videos should be basic enough so that you understand most of what is happening even though you don't understand the words. Over time, the brain makes sense of the words and grammar. I plan to make a video every 100 hours to show my progress.
I am watching videos on Dreaming Spanish. There are playlists for beginner, intermediate and advanced.
/ dreamingspanish
Dreaming Spanish Language Learning Roadmap:
dreaming-spanish-emails.s3.us...
This is a link to a summary of scholarly research on Compressible Input. I would suggest those who make comments that I need to start speaking Spanish, first review the research. -
www.brycehedstrom.com/wp-cont...
Spanish Short Stories For Beginners - Claudia Orea and Abel Franco
Link to the Commonlit site with graded short stories:
www.commonlit.org/
Parallel text Bible - www.bible.com/bible/53/LUK.4....
CNN in Spanish - cnnespanol.cnn.com/
News from Spain - www.elespanol.com/
Wikipedia Spanish version - es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia
Cuéntame podcasts:
www.listennotes.com/podcasts/...
Español con Juan:
/ 1001reasonstolearnspan...
Juan's books:
1001reasonstolearnspanish.com...
Ideas for using ChatGPT to learn Spanish:
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[@MikeBen]

Que sigas aprendiendo!!!

[@howelenespanol]

I think the Juan Fernandez graded readers are excellent. I've now read all of them. They continue to get better as the level increases. Enjoy!

[@KalangooVoador]

Great! I'm from Brazil and I study English with method input. Make videos in English , I follow you for learning english .Let's go!

[@EdenEspanol]

Good job! Good luck on the rest of your journey. 🙏

[@JEFF_IN_OHIO]

You are doing well Dave!!

[@tinynhhouse5467]

Thanks man! It has been real busy here with our daughter getting married and our son's wife having a baby boy. I'm now a grandpa! Hope you had a good 4th of July.

[@strong60s]

Having been where you are (ie. un anglohablante quien esta aprendiendo espanol), I would highly recommend you spend a considerable amount of time on the sounds of the letters/letter combinations in Spanish. That upfront work will payoff hugely if your goal is to sound close to a competent speaker.

[@tinynhhouse5467]

Thanks. I plan to do exactly that before I start speaking.

[@lroc6272]

@@tinynhhouse5467don’t wait . Start it now. Small steps

[@dxrklive8097]

Great vid man, how many hours do you usually spend a day getting input?

[@tinynhhouse5467]

Thanks, I have been averaging 90 minutes each day.

[@dxrklive8097]

@@tinynhhouse5467 That's great, looking forward to your future updates! Also, do you have a certain amount of input you'd like to get to before you are going to stop tracking your hours? If so, what amount would that be?

[@tinynhhouse5467]

@@dxrklive8097 Thanks! I will probably still keep of my hours of CI until I reach 2,500 hours or until I achieve fluency, whichever comes first.

[@dxrklive8097]

@@tinynhhouse5467 Sounds like a good plan man, I wish you lots of luck and fun on your journey!

[@ccsvenezuela2006]

Si vas a estudiar dos horas al día, en 50 harás las 100, es decir, casi dos meses. Nos vemos en dos meses.

[@Cardrider]

Sorry mate but you have spent 1200 hours and you can't speak basically. I spent just 350 hours of input in total and passed the DELE B2

[@tinynhhouse5467]

Would you care to share your secrets, since you apparently are progressing so much quicker than the rest of us?

[@zacsheep]

@@tinynhhouse5467 I can't speak for the original commenter, but I think you'd benefit greatly from going through the FSI spanish basic course for a while. It'll force you to really hit proper pronunciation while beginning to speak at a more 'native pace' while also giving you native-speed comprehensible input as you work through the course. I'd say I'm around 400ish hours of comprehensible input and humbly a lot better at producing spanish and listening as well compared to what you've displayed at least in this short video. But at the end of the day, as long as you never quit, you'll get there. So you do as you wish.