I have just reached another mini mileston of reaching 100 hours of listening.
I started really trying to focus on listening to Spanish for minimum of 1 hour per day once I reached 10.000 words
I had about 40 hours when I started.
has my listening improved?
yes my listening has improved but I still do not hear or understand everything but as I have read numerous time of previous posts of mine that listening is probably the hardest skill to acquire.
I have been trying to make a real effort of watching series and YouTube videos in Spanish to really boost up my listening hours, if I had a higher number known words I would probably be able to watch more and more series and content in Spanish with subtitles but there still are a lot of words that I do not know just yet as this makes it as always discouraging.
I feel that if I continue my target of listening for minimum of an hour per day that I will keep improving and as my known words increase this will also make me watching Spanish content more enjoyable.
I will be starting the gym soon and have said to myself that I will be listening to 1 hour of audio while in the gym and perhaps 30 mins while at home.
making a total of 1.5 hours of listening everyday.
I would love to be able to listen more but its hard to keep finding the motivation to something you do not understand.
Muchas gracias como siempre
If you can’t understand most of what you’re listening to (or enough of it for it to be worthwhile), then I think you should do something different. Either listen to easier material, or listen to material at the same level with transcripts that will help you improve your listening (either reading as you listen, or reading after you listen and then listening multiple times). For the latter, you could try Notes in Spanish, which has three levels with free audio and a small fee for the transcripts.