The big 1000! Very happy to have finally hit one thousand hours of immersion, after about 2-years of using the refold method in Spanish. I haven’t made as fast as progress as I would have liked, but I’m very happy with my level of Spanish right now. I can essential consume any book I would like, although I hope that reading continues to get easier and more pleasurable. Same with podcasts and YouTube. I have more trouble with movies (soundtracks make it hard to hear) and casual conversation, but I could get by. Essential all I need to survive in a Spanish-speaking country is output practice, which I don’t care to do right now.
Refold Approach to Language Learning: Spanish ~900-Hour Update
Reached 900 total hours of immersion. Continued to immerse in chosen focus areas (history and historical fantasy). Recovered from a long hiatus away from…