Bex wrote:Another mini-challenge completed yesterday.
Notes in Spanish: Inspired Beginners - 30 podcasts all now listened to.
I have been randomly listening to the Intermediate podcasts every now and then as well, I prefer the intermediate podcasts because they are purely in Spanish and I seem to be able to follow and understand them relatively well. The beginners ones were a little too easy and although it was nice to go over some of the basics again, I did make sure that I went through them as quickly as possible. I will have to spend more time with the intermediate podcasts I think.
Hi @Bex,
I also used Notes in Spanish. I started directly from the intermediate without any previous study of Spanish (I know, I'm a cheater, I'm Italian and already had English and French under my belt, so too easy). I then immediately moved to the advanced, where I didn't feel the difference. There is also a gold with the dialogues spoken in Spanish first and in English after. It really helped me to bootstrap the language. When I was done with it, I had an Italki conversation where I was able to speak Spanish quite fluently, with the teacher pretty shocked haha.
I advice you to skip the beginner, since you already find it too easy. There are tons of resources for Spanish, and many are aimed for learners but spoken entirely or partially in Spanish. My advice is to go rapidly through them and challenge yourself. There is a time to learn intensively and a time to learn extensively. In which ratio, it is entirely based on your personality. Personally I'm 5% intensive, 95% extensive (and indeed my grammar mistakes prove the point entirely hahaha).
Good luck
EDIT: you already finished the beginner series. I should read the posts a bit better