It's so weird hearing Pablo speak English when he taught me a big part of the Spanish I know today. I truly and highly recommend Dreaming Spanish to any beginner and I wish more languages had something like this. 2 legends in 1 video, amazing work!
Was just about to write this haha. I feel like i've listened to Pablo speaker for close to 30 hours totally in spanish, so to hear him in English is odd! And i would agree with the sentiment -- Dreaming Spanish rocks and two legends here indeed!
I'm new to Spanish, and know very little. Started at Superbeginner. WHEN I put in the time with Just Him as a source, will I acquire the language to comfortable "conversational" fluency?
Pablo's channel is great and he helped me a lot when I just started. When I decided to make comprehensible input based content for Russian learning I started thinking over how exactly I would do this technically. Then I found Pablo's Dreaming Spanish and I thought he was doing the best job across all the youtube teachers when it came to implementing comprehensible input and ALG for online learning content. He was kind enough to look at my first videos and gave advices for improving them. Thanks a lot!
I've been using Dreaming Spanish for a while now. Once I'm advanced enough in Spanish that I don't have much difficulty understanding native material, I'm going to start learning Russian. And I'll be heading to your channel to do it. I went to your "Zero Beginner" playlist and watched the first five videos and it felt so good to understand everything despite never having learned any Russian
Dreaming Spanish is an absolutely fantastic resource teaching from superbeginner up to native speaker. Highly recommended subscribe to it you won't regret it. Thanks Pablo for all you efforts in teaching us Spanish for free
Pablo Román and Dreaming Spanish have been extremely helpful with my understanding of the Spanish language. I highly recommend subbing to him if you're new to the language and need a foothold hearing and understanding how it works.
I am new to learning Spanish. I am really connecting with Dreaming Spanish and progressing. I appreciate that there are no subtitles to "lean on" and that prevents bringing English into the picture. I'm just taking the words Pablo speaks as they are and what I don't understand, I get from the illustrations and context. It clear that verbs are changing based on which character we're focusing on. It's Maybe it was me but, Steve seemed bent on believing that somehow our English way of doing things as far as pronouns, etc would creep in. It doesn't. I guess you have to try it as a true beginner to fully understand that. Keep up the good work Pablo and Steve.
Dreaming Spanish has been of greatest use for me in my journey of learning spanish and it's so great to see Pablo here! I wish this approach would be more widely use in other languages as well! Its the most fun way to learn a language and it works without you even realising it! Thank you!
Pablo sounds like a fascinating teacher. Like you, Steve, his approach is more creative, natural, building a personalized "cognitive stickiness" to language comfort and growth. I'm definitely adding him to my Spanish guru list. Thanks for the talk!
As a non-native English speaker, I'm lucky enough to be able to understand English through grammar lessons at school. Unlike the rest of my classmates that were struggling. I grasp English grammar so easily. Now I'm no longer learning grammars and actually forget most of it. I decided to learn Spanish through Dreaming Spanish even though maybe I'll never use it just to compare my language learning process. I wanna know if I'm gonna be fluent in a language faster if I study grammar or not. But maybe I would be biased though, because the pronunciation in Spanish and my native language (Indonesian) is similar, only the accent is different. I'm still struggling to pronounce some sounds in English, while I don't have any struggle pronouncing any sound in Spanish, even the letter r. I have to learn the accent though.
love dreaming Spanish the new state your mind goes into when you are hearing and understanding is so strong. as soon as I read or lookup word you feel yourself slip into slow learning
I think if you wanted to, you could farm vocabulary words from Dreaming Spanish. Once you understand the sound of a word, but not the definition, you could translate it, throw it in Anki, and now Dreaming Spanish is even more comprehensible
I'm looking forward to learning Spanish as my third language in a few years' time. I've decided that when / if I retire from work in about 20 years time, I want to be like Steve Kaufmann and spend more time learning new languages.
Haha, I am glad I find dreaming Spanish and right now it becomes my main language staple. Thanks to dreaming Spanish, I can see my path in Spanish forward more clearly. However I have problem with my Thai learning. I have to say I am right now at the gap this video is talking about between beginner and really able to read Thai. And right now there is very little material for me to work on. I often resort to google translation but I know that's not really reliable. Otherwise there's no material really suitable for my level. Wish there's a Thai Pablo somewhere to help people like me.
How about doing an interview with Adam Bradshaw? He's an English teacher famous in Thailand who speaks native-level Thai according to natives speakers. You never know if anyone here is trying to learn Thai and could benefit from the advice, maybe even you...that is if you consider learning it yourself. Who knows, maybe the interaction will be instant motivation. Just saying the motivation to learn a language can come from anything. Never imagined I'd be learning Lithuanian until I found a reason. Don't care about the number of speakers unlike some polyglots.
I'm just thinking a little more about this learning grammar without studying grammar thing. Rosetta Stone did (does) that too and I've used their software over the years. And they only use the target language along with pictures to provide context without using another language (like English) to explain. It seems to work for some people but I think most people who like Rosetta Stone are also using a dictionary and a grammar book to help out too. Recently, Rosetta stone has caved in and added some translation functions to their app. I suspect anyone using the Dreaming Spanish approach, even if they like the material etc., will be drawing upon other resources like a grammar book to help out when needed.
rosetta stone is more traditional learning if it were more immersive they would just say one word that you could click to repeat. Its more of a vocab/sentence farmer and i felt my reading was much better progressed than my listening by miles. even at that it only got me to a say rough b1 level after finishing the rosetta stone latin american spanish edition. with pablo's dreaming spanish i went from a false beginner to a b2 in 3 months of 10 hours study days. now im on the long road on the 8th month to c1 and im picking up reading forums or articles while twitch is on the side just to keep the spanish voice in my head and help with pronunciation. I'd say his method works but it wont get you to fluency just basic fluency/b2 level then you dive head first into native materials after that and just wait until you reach fluency. Depending on your schedule or time invested into the language you should get there in not to long since its a closely related language. I'd recommend it to anyone and have on discords to people who are moving there soon or are wanting to learn the language. I say give it a try if you havent its nothing but watching vlogs and in no time you'll be surprised that you actually understand the advanced videos.
Yes it's possible. People have done it, myself included. As long as it's a reasonable number like maximum 3, and not like 5 or 6 at the same time. If you have the time, resources and motivation, go for it! Also instead of learning popular languages like everyone else, I recommend at least taking a look into cultures and countries that speak a language not many polyglots go for, and learn that. Why not learn ASL, Norwegian, and Indonesian? Try finding a reason to learn these since not many people try them. You could actually learn them pretty fast and you never know when they may be useful.
Learn grammar without studying any grammar. That's quite a feat. I've seen a few other people around the net advocating that. I truly hate grammar so I am interested but skeptical. I don't know if I would have learned Japanese grammar without a classroom since I found the writing system so difficult I was too lost to read anything. With German maybe I could have. I self learned German through reading and listening but I had a concise grammar book I would take out from time to time to read and I think that was very helpful. But I'm still learning new languages: Korean and Chinese. I don't know if I can learn Korean without specifically studying grammar. It seems too different from English. The beginner grammar book was ok but the intermediate grammar book is not sticking and it's so boring.
mxm magic we’re not kids though. Kids have young impressionable brains. Studies have been done with baby birds also regarding how they learn bird songs. If kept in isolation beyond a certain age they can no longer learn to mimic other bird songs correctly. This matches my own experience studying languages. Look at adults who spend nearly their entire adult lives living in a different country from their native one. Many of them barely speak that language and it just isn’t due to lack of input.
paul walther i hate to burst your bubble, but you’re wrong. input is the key to learning a language. just use a program like lingq, pimsleur, hell even duolingo just to build up some basic vocab. then from there just hit the books and movies and absorb as much of the language as you can. i’ve learned mandarin chinese and spanish to fluency by using this method of mass input, alongside a program named anki just to really engrave any words i hear into my mind.
While it's true babies don't use grammar books, most of us as kids develop our native languages in school to learn more sophisticated words, and by interacting with our peers on a regular basis. Acquiring as much input as possible is why that doesn't happen just with our parents alone. You can't learn words if they don't know what they mean. At the same time, input isn't enough to understand how the language is used if you don't know what things mean. It's like a deaf child learning ASL, what good is learning signs without the meaning? The only way to learn is to make the sign yourself right after seeing it with the meaning. It's not like spoken languages where you can absorb and output whenever you want. Even still, ASL is very easy. Anyone who has trouble or isn't prepared when meeting deaf people (since you never know who) is a moron. Could easily be everyone here. Finnish natives use spoken language (puhekieli) which is quite different from the standard language (kirjakieli) used in newspapers, podcasts and general writing. Read and listen to the latter all you want, but watch a movie or talk with a native and you'll barely understand anything said, only catching a few words, then feel stupid about it. Puhekieli is never written or taught anywhere so the only way to learn it, thereby speaking properly, is interaction. Have a native guide you. When you know what things mean, it's all about exposure and practice. Otherwise you'll forever sound like a stiff robot who can't properly understand or converse with natives.
It’s much better to spend time early on learning the basic grammar concepts. I currently learning Spanish and have been studying the basic grammar alongside getting CI from Dreaming Spanish and I am progressing much quicker than what the website has outlined and faster than others who have done CI only in the DS RU-vid comments. I’ve even seen some people in the DS comments be like they’ve done like 600 hours of DS videos only and proceed to ask really basic grammar questions like how gender or plurals work in Spanish. When Steve asked Pablo about his ideas on grammar his body language showed he seemed sceptical. I would rather follow Steve’s ideas over Pablo’s.
No sequitor the greatest language teachers in the last 500 years are the Jésuites. All of us use their methods to teach and to learn. Please, please, please give them a citation every só often!
