u/hhhhh1998

Hi! I'm 28F from USA. I am not typically available for phone calls or video calls, but my friends and I often communicate over long voice notes and it would be fun to practice language that way.

I love books, pop culture, and learning about different cultures and ways of life. I'm around B2 in Spanish, although my comprehension is much higher than my speaking abilities. I mostly focus on Spanish accents from Mexico (I love the Northern Mexico accent), Colombia, and Ecuador, although I'm open to others. It would be fun to send voice memos back and forth talking about our day-to-day lives and learning about how each other's cultures are.

We could figure out later the logistics of how often we communicate in each language, but I would probably need someone who is already intermediate in English in order for voice memos to work.

I'm going through the What Are You Listening To? spreadsheet (great resource btw), and there are probably over 100 podcasts for Spanish learners on there. Definitely overwhelming.

Besides the basics (host's country of origin, how advanced the podcast is), why does everyone prefer their favorite learner podcasts? What exactly makes it special?? What's the host's vibe/personality? What topics do they talk about?

The reason I ask is because I'm currently binging Espanol Desde El Sur, after someone on this subreddit recommended it to me in a different post. I love it so so much because she talks about literature and sociolinguistics, two topics that are my favorites to learn about. I *never* would've picked it out of that giant list just based on, like "level 4, host from Argentina"

I would love for myself & others to be able to refer back to this post when we're craving a specific vibe or flavor for a new podcast!

I have been using dreaming spanish for just under 2 months and already have about 120 hours on the app. Prior, i already had an intermediate/advanced level of spanish (unsure my # of hours) so i started out watching intermediate/advanced videos.

I'm starting to burnout from DS content. I listen pretty much everything at 1.5x speed and rarely (although occasionally!!) have to rewind to understand something. But whenever I put on a podcast intended for native speakers, I immediately am like "oh shoot I'm NOT ready for this" and go back to DS.

Any recs for longer form content (podcasts, ideally) that are slightly longer and more challenging than the majority of the content on DS, but still not native level? Or maybe series I'm overlooking on DS?

If I could find a podcast in Spanish at my level, that genuinely interests me, that has a huge backlog of like 90-minute episodes, that would be the best thing to have ever happened to me

hi! I'm brand-new to Dreaming Spanish. i already have some proficiency in spanish (i have been studying for several years, done a few immersion programs, and i read full novels in spanish fairly regularly) but have been looking for a way to improve my listening comprehension since i sometimes find myself incredibly frustrated in my inability to make sense of conversational spanish in the moment.

i noticed theres no placement test on dreaming spanish, just a video to self-assess your proficiency level. but some people here say to start at superbeginner no matter your level? what do you guys recommend? THANKS!