What's up everyone! Hope you're all well
Today I'm back with another video talking about my Spanish progress
and this video marks a year and half of me learning Spanish
which is pretty cool to me, I'm quite proud of myself
for having continued on this journey
but anyway,
as I've already talked in other videos about my goals,
my methods, why I'm learning Spanish and all of that
in this video I wanted to a comparison, so to speak, because
the other day I found a video of one of my first Spanish classes
and I wanted to show a part of it, because
sometimes I think its too easy to think that
the ability to speak well in Spanish or in another language
is just going to appear suddenly, randomly one day
and I don't think it's really like that
so I'm going to show you a bit of that class, I think it was my 3rd class
I've been learning for 2 and a bit months in this video
and after, I'll talk a bit about what I think has been the key
as far as improving my ability to speak
So here's me speaking Spanish after 2 months, my 3rd class, enjoy!
So as you can see, I wasn't so good at speaking in the beginning
bu that leads me to what I wanted to talk about in this video
which is I really think that my Spanish speaking
is a product more of determination/desire than skill
I mean, I dont think I have somekind of knack or skill for speaking Spanish
what I have, more than anything, is patience and consistency
well, and the time to be able to invest in learning, because
to say one year and a half can be a bit vague because
a year and a half is going to be different for each person depending on their lives
for example, if you have more stuff to do on a day to day basis
its going to be more difficult to invest more time in learning
So, yeah
it's important to understand I've invested a lot of time
right now I've done a bit more than 800 hours of Spanish learning
which is to say, listening, reading, talking with friends or on italki
Anything related to Spanish
That's one thing, but the other thing is that I've done something everyday
for a year and a half
sometimes it's 2 or 3 hours, sometimes it's 15 minutes
but I've done something every day
and I think thats the key, it's the consistency, doing something everyday
and as far as speaking skills
if you want to speak better you have to speak
I was pretty terrible at first, as you saw, but every time you speak
you'll get a little better, you'll understand something, you'll say something in a more correct way
And, yeah basically thats what I wanted to share
if you want to improve at something you have to work on it
and that's the case with me and Spanish
If I speak something like "well", it's because I've invested hundreds of hours in it
right now I'm approaching 1000 hours, so it's a lot of time
Obviously like I've said in other videos I'm going to keep working on my Spanish, I want to keep improving
I don't feel like I have "perfect" Spanish or anything like that
I probably won't ever have that
What I mean is I'm still learning, I'm still improving
And yeah, I don't want to go on anymore, so
Thank you so much as always for the support
I love hearing from you guys so drop me a comment below
Thanks for watching the video and I'll see you in the next one