Wow Meredith! Great video documenting your language learning journey. You're doing excellent! ¡Sigue así! Y gracias por compartir nuestro podcast en tu video. Nos alegra mucho que te guste.

I’m about 4 months into learning Spanish and it’s great to see a realistic timeline for language learning.

Omg your Spanish got so good, your accent is great as well, amazing job. You impressed me, if you keep going you’ll be almost native soon. Saludos desde Ecuador, me alegra mucho que te hayas esforzado tanto para aprender nuestro idioma y cultura. I hope that you keep going :)

I'm a native Spanish speaker myself (from Colombia) and I've been living in this for 23 years and never left the country and coming across this video has filled me with joy and a lot of respect. Your progress that you've made in Spanish in a single year is beyond amazing, I would go as far as saying that you're quite close (if not already) to an advanced level of Spanish. Just as a curious fact. It took me nearly 4 years to go from B1 to B2 level in English. Of course I wasn't studying or immersing myself in the language every single day but I still used some English. But it took me less than a year to go from B2 level to C1 by forcing myself to listen to native speakers (podcasts, tv shows) and reading some books (literature) and it was tough but now I'm around the C1-C2 in English , it all pays off in the end. I'm certain that you will become advanced in less than a year if you keep doing what you've been doing. Probably you'll be able to reach the C2 level in a few years. By the way , you're already fluent in Spanish in my opinion and you're well spoken. Greetings!

Great definition of what "fluent" is. It is true, your voice is very smooth!

If you can pass a B2 level exam in reading, writing, speaking and hearing, you are fluent. If you get to C2, you are speaking almost like a native and more properly than most. For common languages like Spanish there are already well defined metrics.

My goal in learning Spanish is really just to get to the conversational stage right now. And just enjoy improving as much as I can after that. I don’t really know or care what fluency means.

Excelente vídeo Meredith!

This is such a great time lapse to see. I love that you added the translation in both languages and noted your mistakes. Thanks for sharing your tools too - I found Dreaming Spanish because of you and I like it.

Wow! This is so transparent. I love how honest you are with your improvements and learning journey! Gracias por este video 💕

Hi Meredith, huge thanks for such a great video! I've _just_ started language learning after having traveled to Costa Rica and fallen in love with the people and culture. The time lapse video is such an encouragement - it's nice to see your progress as you move from month to month. Huge kudos on making such great milestones. It's really helpful to see what tools you used and when along the course of learning you found them most helpful. Most of the resources you mentioned I've discovered and/or am using. A few I'm not aware of and will check out. ¡Bendiciones! J

Been on the verge of giving up on learning German for a while, this is the motivation I need to carry on, well done!

This is so helpful. Thanks for posting. Restarting my language journey now and this is great motivation!

What a great video. Well done. Keep going. I love language learning too. You made so much progress in such a short time.

Nice job! I love seeing people determined to accomplish something and learn a new skill and and actually pull through. Keep it up!

What a great video! It's always nice to see a realistic timespan for learning a new language instead of setting people up for failure, by telling them fluency could be achieved in 3 Months. I also really enjoyed the way you structured the video and showed your progress!

Wow that was awesome to watch your progress, I feel more encouraged to get started.

The progress you have made is incredible. I believe that I learn similarly to how you do and I appreciate this video.

Wow! que genial es ver tu progreso desde el día uno hasta ahora, felicidades hablas super bien!!!

Thank you very much for turning us on to so many valuable resources.

Well done Meredith - I am very impressed with your progress! I've been at it 2½ years or so _but I am much older than you (and like most older people, I am suffering from a waning memory)._ Keep it up - and do others too; Knowing how to say hello to other people from around the world is a fantastic achievement. Thank you for sharing your journey

I'm surprised and really glad that you've picked up spanish as a new learning language, I am from México and I've living and working in USA for 2 years and I've seen that American people usually prefer learning other languages like french or german rather than spanish, that's why I am surprised seeing other people talking my mother tongue, I've followed your same strategy for english and after two years I am able to work in the tech industry 😀, watching movies mainly at first w/subtitles Then without subtitles, now I can enjoy Hallmark movies and A&E without subtitles 🎬 Keep going you are doing such an excelent job with spanish

ESTOY FELIZ POR TI! 🎉🙌🏿💯

Love this video! I’m just starting my Spanish learning journey and I think I’ll vlog it now to look back at progress!

Great job in keeping motivated and continuing to improve. I love seeing content like this as it's an inspiration to me. Saludos de Wisconsin!

Super cool! I just started learning French and this video has strengthened my resolved and I can’t wait to see how far I advance in a year’s time. Merci beaucoup!

this is so motivational as i go into my second college level spanish class, i was so nervous before watching this and now i am not :) gracias a ti

Thanks Meredith, You have made a very encouraging video for anyone learning Spanish. I started learning Spanish about 8 years ago and gave up in frustration, as I expected results too quickly. However, I have started again but this time I have not made my expectations too high, that I get disillusioned. Your video makes a lot of good sense. Thanks for putting it out there - It has certainly given me some encouragement. John

Great idea.. a good way to mark the progress!

Loved the video! I am studying Spanish, too. I would love to chat with you about this more!

Your video is so inpiring! Thank you! I just started my journey a month ago and uploaded my first gibberish in Spanish and your timelapse is really giving me a lot of hope haha, ¡Gracias!

Gracias y felicidades!

Sinceramente, te súper felicito! Muchísima dedicación y perseverancia!

Great video. Great content. Thank you!

Increíble el progreso que muestras en el vídeo. Ojalá yo pueda experimentar una mejora tan significativa como la tuya con mi inglés. Un saludo desde España

Increíble eres un ejemplo a seguir, great job 👌

Excelente trabajo... Te felicito por tu progreso. Tu español es fluido y agradable de escuchar.

This is really inspiring, thank you

Impresionante. Enhorabuena. Has hecho un trabajazo.

Gran progreso , felicidades.

Wow! I felt inspired and proud [of you] watching this. I've studied Spanish for several years formally and don't feel this kind of confidence speaking [yet]. I also haven't used my Spanish since the pandemic began, so I have lost quite a bit of my vocabulary and fluency. This motivated me to get back on track with my pursuit of improving my speaking/listening ability in Spanish. Thanks!

Just subscribed, wish to hear you speak more and more Spanish. It's really incredible what you have managed to accomplish.

Your video is great, and very motivational. Unlike many videos, I really appreciate you actually showing your speaking ability, both where you were and where you are after one year. And thank you for sharing the tools and resources you used. Do you mind if I ask how much you studied and how often?

Nice -- thank you -- that was authentic, different -- thanks!

oooh i love the idea of this video!!!!

wow this is great! well done!

I agree with Italki being very useful. I'm also learning spanish as my 4th language so good luck to both of us.

This was helpful, thank you.

I've been learning Spanish for years and still not even close to fluency. Wow your amazing great job!!!!

Que gusto ver tu evolución en el tiempo como aprendiste español, mis respetos! yo tarde años para aprender ingles y tu en ese poco tiempo tienes un control del lenguaje muy bueno, I reaally love yout pronunciation and the courage to be different in this manner, congrats!

this was so helpful thank you!!

Woww me encantó tu video... Tu progreso es increíble.. Eso demuestra que la constancia y la persistencia dejan magníficos resultados... Un abrazo desde Colombia 🇨🇴

Congratulations on your progress. As always the prepositions are the hardest and biggest source of errors while learning a new language, this has been my experience as well.

The best guidance video I've ever seen

Just started learning Spanish this month and this popped up on my recommended 🙏🏻

You give me hope. Thank you. 🙏🏾 I’m only a month in.

I was shocked to see that this was the only video available on your channel! I love how realistic it is. You went from basically understandable and able to have simple conversations to comfy conversations with errors every now and then. Not 0 to giving a description of the renaissance. Thank you so much for posting this. I really believe what you documented here is a really great way to acquire a language that is also (relatively) accessible! It's got all of the elements. - 1. Frequency lists to help understand material immediately 2. Material that is comprehensible 3. Hand-picked flashcards to boost what you want to know 3. SPEAKING and/or writing AS YOU GO (once you have a solid understanding and have learned the phonetics n whatnot) Reading, Writing, Listening, and Speaking are all independent skills that need their own practice. They happen to be linked by vocabulary, so working on one area will reduce the amount of time you will need to put into any of the others, but you can't remove the need to speak entirely. - I was trying to use the Refold method worked on by Matt vs Japan, but I was consistently disappointed at how little I could say or comfortably say despite how much content I could fully comprehend. When I look back, the most comfortable things I could say were the things that I had lots of speaking practice with in my 4 years of German in school (not a fast approach, but it was essentially my only speaking and writing practice.) I had to explicitly search this video out to find a realistic video of someone progressing their speaking skills, separated from the whole culture of immersion that is growing quickly. I love immersion, but it's not what's going to give you conversational skills. Theoretical knowledge and practical skill are two different things just like how understanding input and and being able to output are two different things. Spending your time on reading/listening and speaking/writing respectively, may not be the most blazing fast path to understanding, but it's the most rewarding in my opinion because you are actually applying what you know to grow your ability to communicate *and* understanding of the language and culture.

Thanks for this video! I enjoyed seeing your progress. I've used all the methods that you used except one. And I'm going to check it out because you speak much better than I do and I think right now that is my weakness. Thanks! Keep it going

Tu español es genial, definitivamente tenés una clara facilidad para los idiomas. Saludos desde Argentina ;)

that was dope good job! .keep up the good work

I just started A1 recently. Soo encouraging to see your journey

Que increíble video, me encanto

Thank you for sharing Meredith. I just started learning last week and this is super inspiring!

Felicitaciones!! Nuestro idioma no es fácil para extranjeros; pero como en todos, el esfuerzo, voluntad y práctica hacen mejorar mucho..Chevere!! Sigue así. ..

Gracias por el video, estoy estudiar español ahora entonces puedo tener conversaciones con mi novio, mi compañeros de trabajo y entonces jajaja. I’ll have a look into the resources that you’ve used and incorporate them into my own language learning and I hope that I can restart my interest in this beautiful language, thanks again! x

Hey hola te felicito por tu progreso en tu español atravez fe estos años, sigue así y lograras hablar casi como un nativo. Saludos desde CR 🇨🇷

Great job!

I like watching these videos. I also learned English but for several years until I became fluent after 5 years. Although you did it faster cause you took it seriously, you went for calls right away to practice, that's very helpful.

ahhh... My Spanish level was A2 10 years ago, Life happened and I stopped learning, and I forgot most of the A2 grammar, I guess I am A1-A2 now .....I don't know if I ever will be able to get to B1. Thanks for the video, I now feel inspired.

I'm from Venezuela, Spanish is my native language and I'm amazed at your pronunciation! Increíble, sigue así 👏

It's awesome how you're learning Spanish. Thanks for the tips.

its amazing her ability

¡¡ excelente avance !! 😎👍🏽

Felicitaciones!!

Definitely an inspiration, I will use the 2,000 quizlet to study vocab for sure, I've been studying for 6 months (although the first 5 was mostly just duolingo) the last month I've been using baselang, pimsluer, and duolingo with watching some things in Spanish and mostly only Spanish music and it's crazy to see how much in a month of classes I've progressed. This gives me hope for what more is to come! Thanks for sharing these resources and your story!

In the beginner stage, with only Language transfer podcast and some more apps as my resources. Good to learn other key resources from this video. Especially italki Thanks great video!

I'm proud of you, not anybody takes on the journey of language learning seriously.

Awww 💜 qué bonito

Amo tu español!!

Fue un vídeo fantástico. Tienes razón lleva muchos años a aprender un idioma como español. llevó estudiando por cinco años y todavía cometo muchos errores pero como tú quería hablar con los nativos cuando viaje a los países que hablan el idioma.

Te felicito ! Tu español es excelente, con muy buena gramática .La verdad no tienes un acento adjudicable a un país en particular,se entiende perfectamente .Abrazos desde Chile 🇨🇱😘❤️

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 extremely impressive

Damn nice progress!!💯

Wow. Well done! I've been learning Spanish for almost 3 months now, and I would love to be as good as you are !! Damn, well done !

Tu español es muy bueno congrats 👏🏻

Wow, tu español se vuelve más fluido con el pasó del tiempo!!

Esta muy bien esto, literal para un año, ni yo hablo así jajajaj. Bien hecho :)

Your Spanish es amazing!

Literally love your channel. I remember when u post this video. I reWatch it to regain my motivation for learning spanish❤

I just started my first italki today (Spanish!) I'm traveling to Ecuador this summer so I am trying to improve my Spanish as much as possible!

That's great❤️

Felicitaciones por el progreso deberia haber más gente aprendiendo un segundo idioma mínimo

i love how literally her spanish was just like mine when I was getting into learning it. I def am not the most fluent but im getting there.

Hola que tal?, Los mejores y más cordiales Saludos desde puente piedra, lima, Perú, ojalá que puedan venir en algún momento a mi país y que disfruten mucho de todo por aquí, con la familia y los amigos, felicidades por sus vídeos....

You should be very impressed with your Spanish language skill it is very fluente in the accent I am very proud of your accomplishment.

Very motivating. I grew up around Dominicans, Portuguese, Puerto Ricans, etc and have always admired their culture and language. Definitely gonna get started on learning Spanish so I can be included in that culture!

Your Spanish is very good. Keep on. I'm a native Spanish speaker and I'm learning Italian since 2020.

What matter the most is language learning is motivation. It might take you years to learn a new language, but the journey is really exciting if you fall in love with it. I myself spend a consider amount of time at the begging looking for things that are interesting in the culture that are apealing for me, so I criate an emotional kink with the language.

you're literally a legend omg

Me sorprende el buen nivel que tienes para tan solo 1 año aprendiendo español. Si quieres desarrollar un poco más tu habilidad para escuchar (que en mi opinión, diría que es una de las más complicadas), te recomendaría que estudies más a fondo elementos de connected speech (no conozco un equivalente en español para ese término xd), pero es muy importante investigarlo ya que tenemos demasiados dialectos y estoy seguro que te ayudará mucho a lo largo. Ah, y continúa viendo muchas películas y series en español. Muy buen video!