Dreaming Spanish is a web based Spanish learning site where Spanish is used as the teaching language. This immersion approach is the key feature. It also avoids imposing a teaching language.
The very first 'super beginner' level is using a lot of hand gestures, objects and drawings. The next level is still very didactic oriented: 'Beginner Spanish'. It leaves out most of the drawings and hand gestures but speaking is at a much reduced speed. Next, 'Intermediate Spanish' is what a confirmed learner may expect. This is also the level where short stories are introduced. Finally on the advanced level, Spanish speakers with different accents (Argentinian, Mexican, European Castilian ...) only reduce their talking speed as compared to what they would do in colloquial conversation.
On this level you start being functionally fluent: you can speak Spanish about nearly any subject with native speakers. You understand radio and TV and you can read a newspaper. You may still struggle with literature, though a novel seems to get easier once you finished the first chapter ...
Teachers working for Dreaming Spanish originate frrom different Spanish speaking countries. Pablo is Spanish (he also speaks Catalan). Augustina, whom you see in the above video is Argentinian. There are teachers from Mexico and Colombia as well. In this way you have exposure to various native accents which will better prepare you for visiting Spain or any country in Latin America.
Subscriber experiences and reviews
Subscribing to Dreaming Spanish is affordable. Monthly subscriptions are less expensive than for example DuoLingo, which does not even come close to the didactic efficiency of Dreaming Spanish.
You may find many subscriber reviews on YouTube. Though they are independent of Dreaming Spanish, you evidently watch a panorama of different levels of language acquisition and various outcomes after a few hundreds or a thousand hours of practicing.
Successful users are showing off their Spanish skills, though some may have been using other learning methods in parallel. A few are living in a Spanish speaking country, with Dreaming Spanish being a gently way to venture outside of their expat bubble. But with full immersion in parallel, their Spanish level may improve more than what can reasonably be expected of Dreaming Spanish.
Evildea has earned himself a reputation of checking polyglot language claims: some are discovered while others are found out. He also published a series of Spanish level self-evaluations at different stages of his Dreaming Spanish acquisition process. It is spaced at 50 hours intervals, which is tiny. You may not notice any real improvement or it may be just random and context dependent.
We all have our perks starting to learn Spanish: some may be native French or Italian speakers and have an obvious advantage over native speakers of a non-european language. Evildea is fluent in Esperanto, which also provides an edge over monolingual English speakers.
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