“I’ve spent decade trying to become more or less fluent in Spanish. I can read books fairly well. I can usually make myself understood, although I am sure, I mangle the grammar. but when people talk to me, my eyes glaze over. It sounds like one mile long word. If I ask them to repeat one word at a time, I can usually get what they’re saying.
This conversation podcast is going to make a huge difference. Just listened to my first one, and I can get the cadence of the language and pick out words, which is impossible when someone is talking to me and I am stressing about trying to understand. Or watching movies and not wanting to miss something important in the plot.
This approach feels much more organic: listening to people speak normally, getting what I can and not worry about it. I listened to it twice and got more the second time.
So happy to have found this! It might be what puts me over the edge, finally, being truly conversational.”
dimiessler via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
05/13/24