How are you?
It’s the holiday season, and still I keep on immersing in Spanish because it’s fun.
That said, I did set some goals from the previous month. We’ll see if I accomplished them all in December.
How much have I progressed with my Spanish? And what sort of activities did I do along the way?
December Update
I want to get straight to the point since I’ve been busy with life especially this holiday season.
Starting with the DS tracker, I managed to watch a lot of input in Spanish using Dreaming Spanish and many other external resources, which I summed up in the screenshot below:
My total immersion time for December is 90 hours and 14 minutes, which averages to almost 3 hours per day.
Visualized in a bar chart, here’s how my numbers look like:
By the end of December, which marks the end of the year 2024, I reached 500 hours in total Spanish input.
I’m very much contented that I finished in a rounded number like 500, though originally the goal was to rush towards 600 hours, which is Level 5 in the Dreaming Spanish roadmap. And it’s the minimum hours to be considered intermediate in the FSI scale (600 to 750).
My other goal, reading, was put to a halt. I’m not really sure if I’m interested in any reading material in Spanish although if I chose to, I could pick up an article online and read it in Spanish pretty well. What I currently do is turn on subtitles on a video to do some minimum reading and to see the spellings, then when I get bored I turn them off.
I also mindlessly scroll YouTube for video and channel ideas in Spanish, then sometimes I would pass by Shorts since they’re quick. At one point I even changed my old phone’s language to Spanish, but decided to return it back because my other phone and gadgets had become Spanish as well (thanks Google).
Goals for January
At the start of the year 2025, it can be tempting to set lofty goals. After all, we’re going for a fresh start in the year ahead.
For me when it comes to my Spanish progress, my goals at the moment are simple:
- Reach 600 Hours – It would be nice to already hit this magic number where things start to become easier. The FSI establishes that at around 600 to 750 hours one could already get to an intermediate level in Spanish, which is another reason to go for it.
- Browse More Variety in Content – I know I’ve come a long way in search for rich and interesting content in Spanish, but who knows what else is out there?
- Read While Listening – Like what I’ve been doing with videos with subtitles, I want to start reading in the simplest way possible that’s not boring.
Do you have language goals too? Whether it’s immersion or studying or something else, I hope you’re making progress in it.
