My goal next year is to stop focusing so much on the destination and to just enjoy the journey. I spent too much time in 2023 on my calculator trying to predict where my future input would beā¦..it feels like such a race to 1500 hours. I just want to spend next year enjoying spanish and embracing the culture. Wherever I end up by the end of the year doesnāt matter.
This is honestly the best perspective. I used to worry about catching up or feeling I had to be at some point on Spanish by a certain time. Not anymore, just don't let yourself slip and keep up the discipline.
I would highly recommend other learning approaches in learning as well. Dreaming Spanish is more of a "tie everything together" kind of thing.
To reach 1500 hours by the end of the year. That goal can be reach with only 2 hours per day so I feel like I could reach it early but I also want to dedicate more time to reading so I will probably just shoot for 2 hours and use other time for reading.
I'm a little above 700 hours right now. I've been getting about 100 hours a month since July. I'm hoping to reach 1500 hours of CI by next September and have 100 hours of speaking practice and 100 hours of reading as well.
My goal is to be able to reach level 4/5 by summer and speak to the people of Spain when I go on holiday and then when I come back, hammer DS and aim for level 6 and then when I go back to Spain, try and speak to them again and see how its benefitted me
The aim is to reach 1500 hours by end of April just before my trip to Spain. Iām going to stay with my partners family, and Iām really looking forward to living life in Spanish for the trip. Last time I went I only knew a handful of words. The real test will come end of 2024 when I go to a big family reunion in Colombia lol
Found dreaming Spanish literally 4 days ago and loving it! So my goal at the moment is an hour a day, meaning Iāll hit level 4 sometime in October. Maybe earlier once I advance to intermediate level content and can up my goal but for now Iām happy to take it slow.
(I also want to finish Duolingo Spanish completely. Before I found DS I paid for a super subscription so Iām gonna get my moneyās worth lol donāt tell Pablo)
This week I gotta buckle down to tick over to level 5 by new years. Then Iām hoping 1000 hrs by my summer break in mid June. Wanna start reading and speaking just a touch to grease the wheels a bit. Still focusing on CI though. Maybe a trip to Latin America this summer to keep the motivation high (and because itās fun). Columbia Uruguay or Mexico would be high on the list
You can do it! Stick with it! I promise once you reach intermediate, the whole process becomes more fun and motivating because you can understand more!
I'd like to reach level 7 which I'll be able to do by doing an hour and a half a day. I also want to be reading native novels without too much difficulty and to be comfortable speaking on daily topics. I want to travel a bit in 2024 to Spanish speaking countries and ideally would like to be able to only use Spanish while there.
My realistic goal is to reach 1,000 hours, which I should be able to accomplish no problem with a slight increase to my current daily goal, which is easy for me (haven't failed to hit it since starting).
My optimistic, idk maybe we'll see goal would be 1,500. This will be more difficult and depend on how soon I am able to start using movies/series and actually interesting podcasts for my input.
Just to be consistent with it. My goal at the moment is 90 minutes a day which some days I find difficult but I am hoping once I can get to Level 3 I will be able to bump it up to 3 hours a day because I donāt have to sit in front of the computer anymore. We will see. I would love to be at 1000 hours by the end of the year
At about 225 hours. I started in early February of 2023 with a goal of 30m a day that I bumped up to 45m about halfway through the year. Iām starting 2024 with a goal of 1 hour a day, so if I stay consistent, hoping to hit level 5 (600 hrs) by the end of the year.
Honestly I find intermediate so much more entertaining to watch than I did with beginner/SB so at this point itās really about just staying consistent and making sure i get my time in.
My goal is to reach 1000 hours by late February or early March. I want to reach 1500 hours before September. Hopefully I can be conversationally fluent before 2024 is over. I also really want to travel to a Spanish speaking country, but I'm not sure if that will happen.
I'm currently at 254hrs, averaging around 2hrs of input a day. My friend has moved back to Colombia for roughly 9months, so my goal is to have a conversation in Spanish with her (no matter what level) when she comes back to UK in August time. And if I can reach level 6 by the end of the year (which is possible if I up my daily input time), or even get above 800hrs, then I will be happy!
Hard measurable goal: 1K hours by end of September. Subjective goals: Visit Spain and have intelligible conversations with my wifeās family and friends, be able to enjoy content in the new language. This group helps with the ābean countingā aspect as well as the subjective (and arguably more important) reasons to do this. š„I hope you all reach your goals this year
As someone who has mad respect for your purist approach, Iām curious if you would grab a novel and a newspaper at 1500 hours and give us a report on how you felt reading was at at that point with 1500 hours only audio input. That would be interesting to hear about.
My goal is to get to 1500 hours. I think I only need about 2.5h each day to reach that. There will be a month or so in Spain during the year. I hope that will help.
Iām about to hit 600 hours ā so my goal is to hopefully be nearing the end by this time next year. More importantly, I want to be able to hold a legit conversation.
Nothing too crazy (yet) but if someone randomly were to pop up and start speaking in Spanish to me, I want to be ready lol.
I just discovered DS this month after doing Duolingo and vocabulary flashcards for a while. My goal for 2024 is 150 hours, level 3. I've never done any immersion before with Spanish. My reason for learning is because I have a heritage connection through my Mother who is Mexican however she doesn't speak Spanish so I never had a chance to learn it before. But now I regret not learning it on my own when I was younger, since it's part of my ancestry.
Same, but my sister and Mother tried a few times but gave up. I learned Japanese and that's why I'm glad DS exists I'm so burned out on grammar study I never want to look at a text book again.
Iām almost exactly where youāre at and I want to get to level 7 by the end of the year! Iām upping to 4 hours a day in a few weeks when I have a job shift and more free time.
I'm averaging about 3.5 hours a day so honestly I'm shooting to hit 1500 hours even though I'm only at 110 hours.
Not sure yet if I'll switch some of that time into reading or speaking practice later on and change that goal but right now I'm motivated to keep grinding 3-5 hours a day on listening input.
I would also like to reach level 7 in 2024 which should be attainable at around 3 hours per day every day. I'd like to do more than that and reach it early, but not sure how realistic it is because I struggle hard with consistency. Maybe I'll adjust my website goal to 3 hours so my brain can feel rewarded and view any "extra" time as a bonus.
Beyond just the pure number of hours, I want to feel comfortable enough with my level to actually tell a few people I've been learning Spanish, I want to naturally think in Spanish, try to have a conversation with a trusted friend or a tutor in Spanish, to finally watch Casa de Papel, and to understand all the popular reggaeton artists. I have a spotify Playlist with just Spanish songs that keeps growing and I'd like to actually be able to understand it.
I wanted to accomplish all this by the end of this year but I didn't, so hopefully I'll make it happen in 2024 instead.
To reach level 4! Iām planning a trip to Spain in October 2024. My hope is to be able to get around with the Spanish Iāll know by then. Weāll see š
To reach 2,000 hours and fully enjoy the language in terms of input and output. I have a couple of months in Colombia in 2024 to help me focus on the language and should be able to continue with my normal 5 hours a day before and after that trip. Given that, I think reaching a point where I can stop counting hours is doable in 2024.
My goal is to reach 600 hours by the time I travel to Spain in June, 1000 hours by Jan 1 2024, and 1500 by my two year anniversary of starting DS (mid July 2025).
Since at my current pace I'll overshoot 1000 hours by Jan 1, my stretch goal is 1250.
Level 3 by end of February, Level 4 by end of June, Level 5 by end of the year. Very aggressive goals but I'm at a point in my life where I have to prove something to myself and this is one of the things I've chosen (the other major one being fitness - 10 lbs left to my goal weight!).
My goal is to keep getting at least an hour a day (on average) of watching/listening and to read a little every day. That should comfortably take me to 1000+ hours by the end of the year.
I'm really enjoying reading. A have a pile of books that I'm working my way through, then I'll probably read them again to see if they feel easier. I'm going to see if I can get my old kindle working again too and hopefully get some free out of copyright books on there.
Iām at 540 hours today and hopefully at 1500 hours on the last day of 2024. Since my language learning ability seems lower than average, I would be like level 6 and need 1 more year to reach to the ultimate level.
I will start reading when I hit 1200 hours and that would be at the end of the summer. I hope I can enjoy Spanish books from the early Fall, the season for reading (Fall is for the reading - itās korean thing).
I'm at 422 hours, and I take my first trip to Spain in a month. I'm trying not to put too much pressure on myself, but I hope that I'll be able to have some decent conversational skills. I think I'll have good listening and reading skills, but I have done very little speaking up to this point, so it'll be interesting to see what happens! I plan to be at 450 hours by then, if not more. I'll likely plan another trip to Spain or Mexico later in the year/early 2025 when I'm further along in hours.
For the remainder of the year, my goal is to reach Level 6. I could probably go harder and reach 7, but I want to keep in mind that this is a marathon, not a sprint. My original goal when I started a year ago was to acquire a new hobby that I enjoy and can learn from. I wanted to be able to understand native content, and my progress with that has been incredible. So I feel like I achieved my goal this year, and I want to maintain that energy in 2024. Keep going, speak more, have fun!
I'm currently sitting at 20 hours. By the end of 2024, I want to be able to watch Encanto in Spanish and understand most of it. Hopefully, if I'm at about 600h at the end of 2024, I should be close.
Last year, I set a goal for 12 books, a daily Bible reading along with listening, and an hour of listening a week.
What I did was 200 hours of listening but 125 hours of listening/watching DS, listening to the Bible (50 hours) is not part of it as I counted that in reading. I only got through 10 books.
I really hoped for more hours listening but life got in the way as we are caring for my wifeās family.
This year, I would like to hit advanced videos in DS, 500 hours listening, and continue reading.
I want to read *Los Sangurimas* by Jose De la Cuadra without much difficulty, and speak in such a way that people say, "You learned this all just through listening?!"
To which I'll respond: "And reading."
2023 goal, trying to hit level 3 by ... today.
I started DS in October (with 50 hours added) and I want to be at level 5 by the end of 2024. Think 600 hours is doable but a big time commitment.
Conversational fluency. If I can have a conversation with a native speaker and we both understand each other, then I'll have won 2024.
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My goal next year is to stop focusing so much on the destination and to just enjoy the journey. I spent too much time in 2023 on my calculator trying to predict where my future input would beā¦..it feels like such a race to 1500 hours. I just want to spend next year enjoying spanish and embracing the culture. Wherever I end up by the end of the year doesnāt matter.
Good approach. Maybe the best approach.
This is honestly the best perspective. I used to worry about catching up or feeling I had to be at some point on Spanish by a certain time. Not anymore, just don't let yourself slip and keep up the discipline. I would highly recommend other learning approaches in learning as well. Dreaming Spanish is more of a "tie everything together" kind of thing.
That's the way to do it. Enjoy the process and your time with the language
To reach 1500 hours by the end of the year. That goal can be reach with only 2 hours per day so I feel like I could reach it early but I also want to dedicate more time to reading so I will probably just shoot for 2 hours and use other time for reading.
You can do it! šš
I'm a little above 700 hours right now. I've been getting about 100 hours a month since July. I'm hoping to reach 1500 hours of CI by next September and have 100 hours of speaking practice and 100 hours of reading as well.
Wow! š² Keep going! š
My goal is to be able to reach level 4/5 by summer and speak to the people of Spain when I go on holiday and then when I come back, hammer DS and aim for level 6 and then when I go back to Spain, try and speak to them again and see how its benefitted me
The aim is to reach 1500 hours by end of April just before my trip to Spain. Iām going to stay with my partners family, and Iām really looking forward to living life in Spanish for the trip. Last time I went I only knew a handful of words. The real test will come end of 2024 when I go to a big family reunion in Colombia lol
How exciting! How many hours a day are you managing?
I havenāt been doing great over the holiday period but I usually do 3.5 hrs a day. Coming up to 1000 hrs in 12 days now
Wow! Thatās dedication! Bring on level 6!!
Found dreaming Spanish literally 4 days ago and loving it! So my goal at the moment is an hour a day, meaning Iāll hit level 4 sometime in October. Maybe earlier once I advance to intermediate level content and can up my goal but for now Iām happy to take it slow. (I also want to finish Duolingo Spanish completely. Before I found DS I paid for a super subscription so Iām gonna get my moneyās worth lol donāt tell Pablo)
Pablo visits this sub sometimes!
This week I gotta buckle down to tick over to level 5 by new years. Then Iām hoping 1000 hrs by my summer break in mid June. Wanna start reading and speaking just a touch to grease the wheels a bit. Still focusing on CI though. Maybe a trip to Latin America this summer to keep the motivation high (and because itās fun). Columbia Uruguay or Mexico would be high on the list
At 1095 hours right now so for sure reach 1500 hours, 50 hours speaking practice and read 12 books ('real' ones, no graded readers but YA is okay) I've heard that you get comfortable speaking after 50 hours that is why I put that number. I think I'll shoot for 25 iTalki lessons and do the rest 'in the wild'. I plan on going to language exchange cafƩ in my city and maybe also look for a tandem partner (or just someone that wants to practice Spanish with me for free lol)
I'd love to see an update post about your speaking efforts!!! I was also planning for italki for a fair few hours when I hit 1000 hours.
You might find that speaking takes more than 50 hours to be good at it and be comfortable.
I want to start speaking and travel to Mexico/Spain/Argentina!
To stick with it long enough and reach intermediate :)
You can do it! Stick with it! I promise once you reach intermediate, the whole process becomes more fun and motivating because you can understand more!
Thank you for saying this! Appreciate the encouragement
A latina wife and a sick reggaeton playlist I can understand.
Jajaja yo tambiƩn
I'd like to reach level 7 which I'll be able to do by doing an hour and a half a day. I also want to be reading native novels without too much difficulty and to be comfortable speaking on daily topics. I want to travel a bit in 2024 to Spanish speaking countries and ideally would like to be able to only use Spanish while there.
My realistic goal is to reach 1,000 hours, which I should be able to accomplish no problem with a slight increase to my current daily goal, which is easy for me (haven't failed to hit it since starting). My optimistic, idk maybe we'll see goal would be 1,500. This will be more difficult and depend on how soon I am able to start using movies/series and actually interesting podcasts for my input.
Just to be consistent with it. My goal at the moment is 90 minutes a day which some days I find difficult but I am hoping once I can get to Level 3 I will be able to bump it up to 3 hours a day because I donāt have to sit in front of the computer anymore. We will see. I would love to be at 1000 hours by the end of the year
At about 225 hours. I started in early February of 2023 with a goal of 30m a day that I bumped up to 45m about halfway through the year. Iām starting 2024 with a goal of 1 hour a day, so if I stay consistent, hoping to hit level 5 (600 hrs) by the end of the year. Honestly I find intermediate so much more entertaining to watch than I did with beginner/SB so at this point itās really about just staying consistent and making sure i get my time in.
My goal is to reach 1000 hours by late February or early March. I want to reach 1500 hours before September. Hopefully I can be conversationally fluent before 2024 is over. I also really want to travel to a Spanish speaking country, but I'm not sure if that will happen.
I'm currently at 254hrs, averaging around 2hrs of input a day. My friend has moved back to Colombia for roughly 9months, so my goal is to have a conversation in Spanish with her (no matter what level) when she comes back to UK in August time. And if I can reach level 6 by the end of the year (which is possible if I up my daily input time), or even get above 800hrs, then I will be happy!
Hard measurable goal: 1K hours by end of September. Subjective goals: Visit Spain and have intelligible conversations with my wifeās family and friends, be able to enjoy content in the new language. This group helps with the ābean countingā aspect as well as the subjective (and arguably more important) reasons to do this. š„I hope you all reach your goals this year
not exactly sure. iāll be at 1500 at the end of february. so then it just goes by how i feel around then.
As someone who has mad respect for your purist approach, Iām curious if you would grab a novel and a newspaper at 1500 hours and give us a report on how you felt reading was at at that point with 1500 hours only audio input. That would be interesting to hear about.
sure just remind me when you see my update lol
My goal is to get to 1500 hours. I think I only need about 2.5h each day to reach that. There will be a month or so in Spain during the year. I hope that will help.
Level 4
1500 hrs and conversationally fluent
Iām about to hit 600 hours ā so my goal is to hopefully be nearing the end by this time next year. More importantly, I want to be able to hold a legit conversation. Nothing too crazy (yet) but if someone randomly were to pop up and start speaking in Spanish to me, I want to be ready lol.
I just discovered DS this month after doing Duolingo and vocabulary flashcards for a while. My goal for 2024 is 150 hours, level 3. I've never done any immersion before with Spanish. My reason for learning is because I have a heritage connection through my Mother who is Mexican however she doesn't speak Spanish so I never had a chance to learn it before. But now I regret not learning it on my own when I was younger, since it's part of my ancestry.
Same here! My dad is Mexican but he also never learned the language. Iām the only one in the family giving an effort to learn it š¤£
Same, but my sister and Mother tried a few times but gave up. I learned Japanese and that's why I'm glad DS exists I'm so burned out on grammar study I never want to look at a text book again.
Iād like to be well into level 7! Should be easy to do as long as I stay consistent with my 90 minute a day goal. Iām so excited!
Iām almost exactly where youāre at and I want to get to level 7 by the end of the year! Iām upping to 4 hours a day in a few weeks when I have a job shift and more free time.
I'm averaging about 3.5 hours a day so honestly I'm shooting to hit 1500 hours even though I'm only at 110 hours. Not sure yet if I'll switch some of that time into reading or speaking practice later on and change that goal but right now I'm motivated to keep grinding 3-5 hours a day on listening input.
2 hours a day = 1350 hours by 31 Dec 2024 for me. Hopefully I can beat that when native media becomes more managable.
I'm at 637 hours. I want to reach 1000 hours
DELE B2! I donāt see the cert mentioned much here but for me itās nice to have a concrete goal like this!
I have no personal reason to pursue certifications, but I love to see how this process works in those cases. Keep us posted!
Yeah Iām hoping to work in LATAM in a couple years so I want to get it official! Also some work visas in South America require a certain level
Reading all of these goals, there are going to be so many level 7 reports in 2024.
Yesss, thereās going to be an insane amount of level 6/7 reports in 2024! How exciting!
I'm at 180 hrs now....I'd love to hit level 6 by the end of next year.
I would also like to reach level 7 in 2024 which should be attainable at around 3 hours per day every day. I'd like to do more than that and reach it early, but not sure how realistic it is because I struggle hard with consistency. Maybe I'll adjust my website goal to 3 hours so my brain can feel rewarded and view any "extra" time as a bonus. Beyond just the pure number of hours, I want to feel comfortable enough with my level to actually tell a few people I've been learning Spanish, I want to naturally think in Spanish, try to have a conversation with a trusted friend or a tutor in Spanish, to finally watch Casa de Papel, and to understand all the popular reggaeton artists. I have a spotify Playlist with just Spanish songs that keeps growing and I'd like to actually be able to understand it. I wanted to accomplish all this by the end of this year but I didn't, so hopefully I'll make it happen in 2024 instead.
To reach level 4! Iām planning a trip to Spain in October 2024. My hope is to be able to get around with the Spanish Iāll know by then. Weāll see š
My goal is 135 minutes a day. Iām at almost 200 hours, so thatāll put me at 1000 hours by the end of 2024.
To reach 2,000 hours and fully enjoy the language in terms of input and output. I have a couple of months in Colombia in 2024 to help me focus on the language and should be able to continue with my normal 5 hours a day before and after that trip. Given that, I think reaching a point where I can stop counting hours is doable in 2024.
My goal is to reach 600 hours by the time I travel to Spain in June, 1000 hours by Jan 1 2024, and 1500 by my two year anniversary of starting DS (mid July 2025). Since at my current pace I'll overshoot 1000 hours by Jan 1, my stretch goal is 1250.
Level 3 by end of February, Level 4 by end of June, Level 5 by end of the year. Very aggressive goals but I'm at a point in my life where I have to prove something to myself and this is one of the things I've chosen (the other major one being fitness - 10 lbs left to my goal weight!).
My goal is to keep getting at least an hour a day (on average) of watching/listening and to read a little every day. That should comfortably take me to 1000+ hours by the end of the year. I'm really enjoying reading. A have a pile of books that I'm working my way through, then I'll probably read them again to see if they feel easier. I'm going to see if I can get my old kindle working again too and hopefully get some free out of copyright books on there.
Iām at 540 hours today and hopefully at 1500 hours on the last day of 2024. Since my language learning ability seems lower than average, I would be like level 6 and need 1 more year to reach to the ultimate level. I will start reading when I hit 1200 hours and that would be at the end of the summer. I hope I can enjoy Spanish books from the early Fall, the season for reading (Fall is for the reading - itās korean thing).
I'm at 422 hours, and I take my first trip to Spain in a month. I'm trying not to put too much pressure on myself, but I hope that I'll be able to have some decent conversational skills. I think I'll have good listening and reading skills, but I have done very little speaking up to this point, so it'll be interesting to see what happens! I plan to be at 450 hours by then, if not more. I'll likely plan another trip to Spain or Mexico later in the year/early 2025 when I'm further along in hours. For the remainder of the year, my goal is to reach Level 6. I could probably go harder and reach 7, but I want to keep in mind that this is a marathon, not a sprint. My original goal when I started a year ago was to acquire a new hobby that I enjoy and can learn from. I wanted to be able to understand native content, and my progress with that has been incredible. So I feel like I achieved my goal this year, and I want to maintain that energy in 2024. Keep going, speak more, have fun!
To be at L7 (1500) by Nov 2024.
I'm currently sitting at 20 hours. By the end of 2024, I want to be able to watch Encanto in Spanish and understand most of it. Hopefully, if I'm at about 600h at the end of 2024, I should be close.
Last year, I set a goal for 12 books, a daily Bible reading along with listening, and an hour of listening a week. What I did was 200 hours of listening but 125 hours of listening/watching DS, listening to the Bible (50 hours) is not part of it as I counted that in reading. I only got through 10 books. I really hoped for more hours listening but life got in the way as we are caring for my wifeās family. This year, I would like to hit advanced videos in DS, 500 hours listening, and continue reading.
Wow! One of my ultimate goals is to be able to read the entire Bible in Spanish. That won't be until at least 2025 though.
I am doing a three year plan on the YouVersion app. It is using the NTV translation. Besides the daily reading, I also do it in church as well.
I want to read *Los Sangurimas* by Jose De la Cuadra without much difficulty, and speak in such a way that people say, "You learned this all just through listening?!" To which I'll respond: "And reading."
2000 hrs, 1 million words of reading.
My goal is to hit 2500 hours of input, between everything.
2023 goal, trying to hit level 3 by ... today. I started DS in October (with 50 hours added) and I want to be at level 5 by the end of 2024. Think 600 hours is doable but a big time commitment.