I did Duolingo for 2000 days. Can I speak Spanish? — Transcript

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1. 0:00after 2,000 days on dualingo can I speak
2. 0:02Spanish short answer yes with some
3. 0:05caveats let me show you this is my
4. 0:07current streak on dualingo that's over
5. 0:093,000 days but the first 1,000 days of
6. 0:12that were actually learning German which
7. 0:13I've made many videos about on my
8. 0:15YouTube channel over the years including
9. 0:16one full video in German and hopefully a
10. 0:18second one coming next week in German of
11. 0:20course with English subtitles but every
12. 0:22day for the past 2,000 days I've spent
13. 0:24slowly but surely learning Spanish using
14. 0:26only dualingo with German I had gotten
15. 0:29to the point where I was using a lot of
16. 0:30other resources I was reading German
17. 0:32books watching TV shows listening to
18. 0:34music but this time around for Spanish I
19. 0:36have not done that in fact for the past
20. 0:38four to five years I've been learning
21. 0:40exclusively on Duolingo mostly to test
22. 0:42out naysayer claims that say you can't
23. 0:44do that well sorry guys I have will my
24. 0:47Spanish be perfect absolutely not but it
25. 0:49will be very interesting to see where
26. 0:51exactly my shortfalls are to see how far
27. 0:53dualingo alone has taken me I want to
28. 0:55show you what my lessons look like at
29. 0:56the moment and I'm really excited to
30. 0:58tell you about a 20-minute ation I had
31. 1:00this past week in Spanish in Berlin of
32. 1:02all places all coming up in this video
33. 1:04so let's go my name is Evan Ediger and
34. 1:06this is part one of a two part series on
35. 1:08du lingo the second video coming out in
36. 1:10a few weeks goes into detail about my uh
37. 1:12current tips and tricks for how to get
38. 1:14the most out of the app in 2025 but for
39. 1:16now though I just want to show you how
40. 1:17far I've come this right here is where
41. 1:19I'm currently at in my du lingo path
42. 1:21near the tail end of section six
43. 1:23according to do a lingo I should just
44. 1:25about be able to start learning at a B2
45. 1:28Level under the common European
46. 1:30framework of reference for languages or
47. 1:32CFR now if I were fully at a B2 level
48. 1:35Spanish I'd be able to communicate in
49. 1:37sentences like this in 1755 Lisbon was
50. 1:40destroyed by an earthquake and a fire
51. 1:42but later it was reconstructed or
52. 1:44rebuilt with a modern architectural
53. 1:46style in Spanish this reads
54. 2:00can I understand this sentence 100%
55. 2:02could I communicate this way well I mean
56. 2:05I've got the building blocks it's all
57. 2:06about putting them together at this
58. 2:08level I can have practical conversations
59. 2:10but I'm still far from native level
60. 2:12fluency found in the sea levels of the
61. 2:14framework it's a point where you can
62. 2:16feel confident speaking but there's
63. 2:18still a lot to learn as in life for
64. 2:21context if I were at an A2 level of
65. 2:23Spanish which is a bit more Elementary
66. 2:25I'd communicate like this I was born in
67. 2:27New Zealand but now I live in Osaka I
68. 2:29have lived in Saka for 5 years so the
69. 2:31sentences and the grammar are less
70. 2:33complex more basic but still
71. 2:35understandable since starting the
72. 2:36Spanish module on dualingo I have
73. 2:38personally witnessed my Spanish progress
74. 2:40from the early statements in the A1
75. 2:42section to the more advanced ones later
76. 2:44in B1 through constant repetition and
77. 2:46practice within the app I acquired the
78. 2:48building blocks for advanced sentences
79. 2:50and developed a sense where I can just
80. 2:52sort of feel what words I meant to use
81. 2:55not always but a lot of the time for
82. 2:57example if English was your first
83. 2:59language it's probably the case where no
84. 3:00one had to tell you that an apple is
85. 3:02correct and a Apple is wrong same with
86. 3:05an hour or an excuse to subscribe to my
87. 3:08YouTube channel you've just heard it
88. 3:09enough times that you can just sort of
89. 3:10hear ah apple is wrong now a popular
90. 3:13comment made online is that dualingo is
91. 3:16too basic it only teaches you vocabulary
92. 3:18and one can't really learn a language
93. 3:20simply matching words with your finger
94. 3:22on your phone and you know what I
95. 3:24actually would agree with that final
96. 3:25point but that point is assuming that
97. 3:27advanced dual lingo lessons are the same
98. 3:29as the basic ones the app starts you off
99. 3:31with these very basic challenges to help
100. 3:33build confidence and realistically as is
101. 3:35their MO build consistency so you keep
102. 3:38coming back to the app with these little
103. 3:40wins but as you progress so do the
104. 3:42complexity of the exercises so if you're
105. 3:44someone in the early stages on the app
106. 3:45wondering what it's like later how
107. 3:47advanced do the exercises get or if
108. 3:48you're just interested to see how it all
109. 3:50works and or how my Spanish is well let
110. 3:52me show you a lesson or two where I'm at
111. 3:54I'm going to try and show you a standard
112. 3:56lesson meaning they're going to be
113. 3:57teaching me new words and Concepts that
114. 4:00haven't yet been taught in the app as
115. 4:01well as one of the listening only
116. 4:03sections that focuses more on listening
117. 4:05comprehension also a story for good
118. 4:07measure just to see how those stories
119. 4:09have been developing all right so we
120. 4:10have talk about jobs lesson two of
121. 4:15six for the record usually I just skip
122. 4:18the section where I can hear him talking
123. 4:20CU I don't feel like I need
124. 4:24that a lot of times as well it will
125. 4:26actually trigger as if I've gotten it
126. 4:27right just before I finished I'm like
127. 4:29excuse me me don't cut me off thank
128. 4:31you these exercises right here I can't
129. 4:34see anything I have to listen and repeat
130. 4:36these are actually quite new as of this
131. 4:37year and are really exciting I like new
132. 4:39ways of
133. 4:57learning I do repeat all the exercises
134. 5:00out loud just because that's extra
135. 5:01practice why not unless I'm on the tube
136. 5:03because I don't want to be a pariah
137. 5:05hante the interesting thing the
138. 5:06interesting thing is that uh everyone
139. 5:09wants to collaborate with my YouTube
140. 5:11channel send me an email guys everyone
141. 5:12wants to collaborate
142. 5:15dingdong so it's obviously M I'm
143. 5:17speeding
144. 5:20through oh see here we go it's DET
145. 5:24DET supposedly he works as a
146. 5:28detective sorry guys
147. 5:32the most important thing is to ask if
148. 5:34you know something if you don't know
149. 5:35something detectives can earn a good
150. 5:37salary so many fun words like this
151. 5:39detectiv
152. 5:41detectiv
153. 5:49close so this is saying Fernanda read
154. 5:52that in order to be an astronaut you
155. 5:54should study math or engineering she is
156. 5:56looking for universities in order to
157. 5:58study those careers the question is what
158. 6:01does Fernando want to do she wants to be
159. 6:03an astronaut there's a lot of these
160. 6:04variations these ones are like the most
161. 6:06basic but there's a good balance you
162. 6:07don't want it to be all difficult and
163. 6:09all easy you kind of want some wins some
164. 6:11losses you know you learn from
165. 6:15mistakes EST andar don't make sense EST
166. 6:19not bad not bad it's so exciting
167. 6:30G traveling for free uh the work pays
168. 6:33for it okay for example I'm traveling to
169. 6:35Russia and I don't have to spend
170. 6:36anything I think that's roughly correct
171. 6:38yeah when the job pays for it sometimes
172. 6:39I'm like oh I got the
173. 6:42vibe astrona this is a word that I've
174. 6:45just learned from this lesson I really
175. 6:46have to focus on how it's pronounced so
176. 6:49I can figure out how it's spelled
177. 6:50correctly cuz it might be
178. 6:53Aon
179. 6:57ason ason
180. 7:00thank
181. 7:03God in order to be an astronaut you got
182. 7:05to have or you should have a lot of
183. 7:07experience so to be an astronaut you
184. 7:12have or must here we go you must have a
185. 7:16lot of experience at the end of each
186. 7:19lesson you usually get two or three hard
187. 7:21exercises rather than matching rather
188. 7:23than just choosing a word you kind of
189. 7:24got to write the whole sentence the most
190. 7:26important thing is to be honest and
191. 7:27efficient now this is difficult they've
192. 7:28just taught me this the sentence
193. 7:31structure and then it says to be
194. 7:36honest no it's the most important thing
195. 7:39I missed the one word
196. 7:41there oh and there's also no K it's one
197. 7:43of those mistakes where it's like take
198. 7:44your time supposedly supposedly
199. 7:47supposedly so I don't know this however
200. 7:49because I'm in one of the first ones
201. 7:50where they're just teaching this I can
202. 7:52just tap on sayone I did not remember
203. 7:55thatone is it
204. 7:57say see I got both of heart was wrong
205. 7:59you got to learn these things oh it was
206. 8:01k sayon k all right Ken there we
207. 8:04go little pling pling PLS so I now want
208. 8:08to show you what a story looks like and
209. 8:09I want to show you what an audio lesson
210. 8:11looks like but that's going to take me
211. 8:13about um about 15 more minutes of
212. 8:15learning so let me grind through those
213. 8:17and then uh come back to you when it's
214. 8:18time for story
215. 8:20[Music]
216. 8:22time all right finally done that
217. 8:24exercise now on to the next story this
218. 8:27one's called the flu shot you have
219. 8:28options to read it or it hides some of
220. 8:31the words and you have to just listen I
221. 8:33usually do that because why not just
222. 8:34makes it a little bit more
223. 8:37difficulty a lot of stories introduce
224. 8:39words you don't know and you have to
225. 8:41kind of pick it up through context uh
226. 8:42the vaccine that is against the flu to
227. 8:45to stop the you know what I mean this is
228. 8:47my knowledge I'm like okay clearly it's
229. 8:48a flu vacine
230. 8:53also so Eddie and his son Junior are uh
231. 8:57waiting for the doctor outside of his
232. 9:02office why do I have to get a vaccine a
233. 9:06flu vaccine I don't want
234. 9:14to but this this vaccin is pretty
235. 9:17necessary all right now I actually have
236. 9:18an option here so but I yeah but I don't
237. 9:20know how to be
238. 9:28brave
239. 9:32[Music]
240. 9:36for what up Junior yeah opens a box and
241. 9:40takes out AUA now AUA is a word I've
242. 9:42never heard before so I have to assume
243. 9:44it might be needle I could tap the word
244. 9:47but sometimes I like to wait a bit to
245. 9:49see if I can pick it up through context
246. 9:50oh and there we go which word means
247. 9:52needle h
248. 9:54a he's like dang you right that needle
249. 9:57is big
250. 10:00so uh junior I have an idea I'll give it
251. 10:01to your dad first and then it'll show
252. 10:03you that it's not dangerous no it's
253. 10:06pigo I don't know what that means I Joe
254. 10:10in order to get Eddie to uh take the
255. 10:12vaccine first then you have some
256. 10:14matching here vaccine is a word we've
257. 10:15learned todaya Brave is Valente next it
258. 10:19basically asks you what happens in the
259. 10:21story and then you're supposed to
260. 10:22explain it however true uh dualingo OG's
261. 10:25we just type no a lot and then when you
262. 10:27type no 10 times it says you're you're
263. 10:29expressing your thoughts in Spanish you
264. 10:31can take your time to write this but
265. 10:32when you realize that it doesn't
266. 10:34actually matter you still get points I I
267. 10:36lose incentives no no no no no no and
268. 10:40that was dingo stories and it gives you
269. 10:42some gems now what do you use gems for
270. 10:45JA they're actually completely useless
271. 10:47your boy has 100,000 gems there's no
272. 10:49reason I would need these now I I really
273. 10:51want to show you this audio section
274. 10:53called carteros dados but I can't do
275. 10:56that until I go to three more so give me
276. 10:57a sec
277. 10:59[Music]
278. 11:01all right finally finished all the other
279. 11:03lessons in between we now have the new
280. 11:05audio lessons it's kind of like you're
281. 11:07listening to a podcast there's not many
282. 11:09questions to answer but they're good for
283. 11:11listening
284. 11:14comprehension
285. 11:20hola all right one of the big projects
286. 11:22people are going to be sharing with her
287. 11:23today
288. 11:29all
289. 11:33right Pro
290. 11:36projects is fun PES Petes packages and
291. 11:39this one's going to bees or
292. 11:42something yeah or
293. 11:52something that's a weird
294. 11:57idea so she wants to give postmen
295. 12:00disguises
296. 12:02costumes yeah
297. 12:09why it'll make people
298. 12:13smile yeah how do you plan
299. 12:22work didn't work it was a bit of a
300. 12:25idea that last bit m i could I could use
301. 12:28to go over it again it was bit fast my
302. 12:30my brain like stopped listening for a
303. 12:31second and then oop I lost
304. 12:33it it's pretty
305. 12:40simple and there you go a very quick uh
306. 12:43listening
307. 12:44exercise look at that three times
308. 12:46multiplier bing bang bomb no I am not
309. 12:49doing any more dualingo today that's
310. 12:52enough and that's roughly what the tail
311. 12:53end of the B1 section of the dualingo
312. 12:56path for Spanish looks like
313. 12:59not bad right well I hope so I'll be
314. 13:01going over this section in more detail
315. 13:03in the next video in this series with
316. 13:04more actionable tips for those using the
317. 13:06app but I'd say from my experience
318. 13:08progression in the language and overall
319. 13:10comprehension has a sort of multiplier
320. 13:13effect based on the amount of time you
321. 13:15spend learning in my case within
322. 13:17dualingo what I mean is some days you
323. 13:20just don't have a lot of energy that's
324. 13:21normal you might find it's 11:30 p.m.
325. 13:23and you begrudgingly open the app just
326. 13:25to maintain your streak and you do one 2
327. 13:27to 5 minute lesson or maybe you just do
328. 13:29a speaking exercise that requires the
329. 13:30least amount of brain power and can be
330. 13:32done in under minute obviously that's
331. 13:34not going to help you progress that much
332. 13:36I've had many of those days sometimes a
333. 13:38week sometimes it's two weeks long where
334. 13:39I'm just like ah can't be arsed can
335. 13:42never pronounce that right way my
336. 13:43British brain's like ared arst I can't
337. 13:45be arst she moved to England and she
338. 13:47picked up this fake British accent AR IR
339. 13:50I can't be arst I feel like a perfect AR
340. 13:54and those are the times where
341. 13:56demotivation really kicks in the most
342. 13:58because I'm not progressing that much I
343. 14:00can tell and it's a vicious cycle where
344. 14:02I know I'm not learning much I can feel
345. 14:04that it means it everything is just more
346. 14:06difficult my brain's not thinking in
347. 14:07Spanish as often and I just get way more
348. 14:09frustrated when I'm wrong however days
349. 14:11where I prioritize ensuring I do 15 to
350. 14:1330 minutes of learning a day really
351. 14:15multiplies the effect of that time I
352. 14:17find my mind way more in a Spanish space
353. 14:20where I'm more able to quickly
354. 14:22understand new concepts of grammar and
355. 14:24vocabulary excitedly I go from saying
356. 14:27why did I get that wrong to why did I
357. 14:29get that wrong it's a very tiny tonal
358. 14:31shift but for me a lot of the times it
359. 14:33comes down to just making time for
360. 14:35learning using dualingo in the morning
361. 14:37as opposed to finding time for using in
362. 14:39the evening it brings me back to why I
363. 14:41started using dualingo over 8 years ago
364. 14:44at my full-time job I had an hourlong
365. 14:45lunch break and I wanted to use some of
366. 14:47that time productively to work on myself
367. 14:49as at the time I was just using my lunch
368. 14:51breaks to play Smash Bros with my
369. 14:53co-workers which to be fair is the only
370. 14:55reason I've actually won so many
371. 14:56tournaments but that's only impressive
372. 14:58within a very small niche of of people
373. 14:59the idea of putting in 15 minutes a day
374. 15:02into learning a language and having that
375. 15:03actually work over a long period of time
376. 15:05wasn't a very exciting concept to me
377. 15:07especially because it wasn't just that
378. 15:09lunch break I had I also commuted an
379. 15:10hour to and from work and so what else
380. 15:12was I going to do with that time wasted
381. 15:13on social media might as well do
382. 15:15something productive and I found good
383. 15:17success with that it kind of works
384. 15:18similarly to the one minute rule for
385. 15:20habit forming like in the book Atomic
386. 15:22habits where James Clear explains the
387. 15:24hardest part of any habit is simply
388. 15:26showing up He suggests committing just
389. 15:27one minute of effort because once you
390. 15:29start it's just so much easier to keep
391. 15:31going it's like kinetic versus static
392. 15:33friction the trick is convincing your
393. 15:35brain that all you need to do is just do
394. 15:37one minute right just open the app just
395. 15:38start one exercise or spend a single
396. 15:40minute doing whatever thing you're
397. 15:41trying to get into a habit of doing
398. 15:43however the thing is after you do spend
399. 15:45that minute you might as well just keep
400. 15:47going right you already got momentum
401. 15:48going you might as well just do another
402. 15:50lesson it's that hard part of starting
403. 15:52so if you can trick your brain into
404. 15:54doing that get your brain out of the way
405. 15:56just just start a little bit you'll find
406. 15:57yourself learning a bit more and that's
407. 15:59kind of been my experience with dualingo
408. 16:01in general obviously not every single
409. 16:03time I log into the app and learn
410. 16:05something is going to be groundbreaking
411. 16:06but it's showing up every single day and
412. 16:08getting those consistent tiny wins that
413. 16:10add up to getting those bigger
414. 16:12breakthroughs not just like I said in
415. 16:14Spanish but in a lot of the other things
416. 16:16that I try and keep up
417. 16:17[Music]
418. 16:20with all right sure I have learned a lot
419. 16:23within the app and I've shown you where
420. 16:25I've been but what about a real
421. 16:26conversation in Spanish outside of
422. 16:29dualingo well somehow I'm in a lucky
423. 16:31position where the large majority of
424. 16:32people that I collect my packages and
425. 16:34mail from speak Spanish so whenever I go
426. 16:37to collect a package I get to practice a
427. 16:39little bit it's not like I'm out here
428. 16:40talking to my Postman about like our
429. 16:42hopes and dreams and using complex
430. 16:44sentences some saying things
431. 16:47like I call this my Postman Spanish
432. 16:50because it's it's all you really need to
433. 16:51use to pick up a package just basic
434. 16:53little sentences in German I have a very
435. 16:55similar thing which I've dubbed my
436. 16:57Baker's German because I can go into a
437. 16:59German Baker have a full conversation
438. 17:01with them about what it is I want I'm
439. 17:03not even using like full sentences all
440. 17:04the time but to me it's just so exciting
441. 17:06to be able to use a language that is not
442. 17:08my native tongue and the other person
443. 17:09doesn't switch to English and that
444. 17:11happens pretty much every time I go into
445. 17:12a German Baker except of course that one
446. 17:14time which I did make a video about but
447. 17:15speaking of being in Germany I was
448. 17:16recently in Berlin with my friend Dodie
449. 17:18shooting a big future video on public
450. 17:20transit very excited for that but at one
451. 17:22point Dodie injured her foot so we
452. 17:24couldn't really spend the day walking
453. 17:25around Berlin we spent it at the spa a
454. 17:28German Spa texti fry texti fry by the
455. 17:30way means uh it's a it's a nude sauna
456. 17:33all right it's a nude Spa it's Germany
457. 17:35I'll tell some embarrassing stories in
458. 17:36German for my video uh next week or so
459. 17:39so stay tuned for that but I say to my
460. 17:40masseuse in German what I'd like out of
461. 17:42my massage and he says to me in English
462. 17:44usually this is an upsetting thing
463. 17:46doesn't want to use German with me but
464. 17:48instead he says oh I'm sorry I I I Don't
465. 17:51Know Much German like my German isn't
466. 17:53great so I just replied with oh well AAS
467. 17:56esbol to my utter Glee he responded
468. 18:00see along with my excitement came you
469. 18:03know the fear I've never actually used
470. 18:05my Spanish before outside of small
471. 18:07conversations with my Postman like was
472. 18:09my Spanish going to be good enough to
473. 18:10really hold a full conversation for 25
474. 18:13minutes of a massage now those of you
475. 18:14that are uh more sane than I are
476. 18:16probably thinking Evan why would you
477. 18:19need to have a full conversation aren't
478. 18:20you like uh getting a massage where you
479. 18:22know you sit in silence for 25 minutes
480. 18:25maybe you make some grunts you just
481. 18:27relax no not me honestly I could barely
482. 18:31focus on how amazing this massage was
483. 18:33because of how lit up my brain felt
484. 18:35being able to communicate in Spanish
485. 18:37effectively also I might have been off
486. 18:39my tits that day but you know what it's
487. 18:40went in Berlin all right anyway he's
488. 18:42asking me questions about myself I ask
489. 18:44questions about him his name is Paul
490. 18:45he's born and raised in Mexico City he
491. 18:47can speak not only Spanish but also noat
492. 18:49which is the language of the Aztec
493. 18:51empire his daughter got a really good
494. 18:53job in Berlin 8 years ago and he came
495. 18:54with her and has been working here ever
496. 18:56since in Berlin listen it was probably
497. 18:58the most grossed in a conversation I'd
498. 19:00been in for so long and this is not an
499. 19:02experience that I ever would have had
500. 19:04had I not learned Spanish or tried using
501. 19:07my Spanish to speak with him there were
502. 19:09times in which obviously my Spanish
503. 19:11would falter I just wouldn't know the
504. 19:12right word I would slow down but I would
505. 19:14know the right word in German so I just
506. 19:17kept going back and forth between
507. 19:19Spanish and bits of German and every
508. 19:21time you would laugh because the
509. 19:22Whiplash between switching from Spanish
510. 19:24fully to random German words was just
511. 19:26too funny but this also just made me
512. 19:28feel even more great about this whole
513. 19:30experience I'm switching between Spanish
514. 19:32and German neither of which are my
515. 19:33native language and it just felt like a
516. 19:36huge pivotal like moment in my language
517. 19:38learning Journey the same as when I was
518. 19:40in Munich and I managed to get a haircut
519. 19:42using only German I was terrified like
520. 19:44oh God what if I say accidentally cut it
521. 19:46all off or I only you know but I did it
522. 19:49and it was that confidence boost I
523. 19:50needed to make me feel like oh my God I
524. 19:52I can do this I'd be formulating
525. 19:54sentences and for the first time in my
526. 19:56life I felt like I could actually make
527. 19:59use of the more advanced grammar and
528. 20:01sentence structure that I've been
529. 20:02learning in the B1 section rather than
530. 20:04sentences like I'm from America but I
531. 20:06live in London now and I've lived in
532. 20:08London for 12 years I was successfully
533. 20:10throwing in things
534. 20:21like YouTuber and then I'd say something
535. 20:25like eay videos off YouTube well I know
536. 20:27in German whoosh and I knew the he knew
537. 20:29enough German to get that and it it was
538. 20:30a very transformative massage towards
539. 20:32the end when he had moved to my neck
540. 20:34area where I really can't be talking he
541. 20:37had to be
542. 20:38like I was just really excited my
543. 20:40Spanish had passed a really tough test
544. 20:42and honestly the massage was pretty good
545. 20:45my back felt pretty great later on in
546. 20:46the day I also had lost uh my little
547. 20:48wristband which allowed me to get my
548. 20:50clothes back so I just have a robe on
549. 20:52pretty much nude I run into this guy and
550. 20:54I'm like my guy M Amigo and I managed to
551. 20:57ask him for help in Spanish and didn't
552. 20:59use English the whole time and it was
553. 21:01just a really satisfying feeling all
554. 21:03right so where are we at then well for
555. 21:05my definition of fluency conversational
556. 21:07fluency of being able to communicate in
557. 21:09Spanish using little to no English I'd
558. 21:11say I'm there now yes I'm making
559. 21:13mistakes and no I'm absolutely nowhere
560. 21:15near the C1 or C2 level of advanced
561. 21:18native fluency but for me to be able to
562. 21:21understand and be understood in a
563. 21:23foreign language of my choice is my
564. 21:25threshold uh for fluency and I'm just
565. 21:27really excited not only about the fact
566. 21:30that I'm here now but that I have so
567. 21:31much more to learn there's no reason for
568. 21:33me to feel like oh that's it fluency is
569. 21:35a spectrum so many things these days are
570. 21:36spectrum and that's why the whole CFR
571. 21:38framework is cool you can have
572. 21:39conversations with people at A1 A2 B1 B2
573. 21:42obviously it gets more and more advanced
574. 21:44but it's so exciting to be able to to
575. 21:46see the progression and find yourself
576. 21:49being successful in this thing that
577. 21:50you've been putting in little bits of
578. 21:51time for over so many years at some
579. 21:53point I think it'd be a really fun idea
580. 21:56to take an official test to like rank
581. 21:58where my Spanish is seeing where the
582. 21:59weak spots are and I'm almost tempted to
583. 22:02wait until I finish the entire dualingo
584. 22:04path at the end of the B2 section before
585. 22:06doing that especially as I said outside
586. 22:08of the basic Spanish I learned in the
587. 22:10American public school system I've made
588. 22:12an entire video about that there as an
589. 22:14adult I've been 100% just using dualingo
590. 22:17so it'll be really fascinating to see
591. 22:18how I do on that test given my
592. 22:20circumstances so to succinctly answer
593. 22:21the title can I speak Spanish with 2,000
594. 22:24days of dualingo I would say yes but
595. 22:26also important to note I probably would
596. 22:28have said the same thing at a thousand
597. 22:30days I'll be it at a much lower level
598. 22:31I'm not really a gatekeeper I'm a gate
599. 22:33opener okay so no matter where you are
600. 22:35in your language learning Journey the
601. 22:37one thing I hope you can take away from
602. 22:38this video is this learning language is
603. 22:40not a race don't let someone bully you
604. 22:42cuz you're slow and steady you're
605. 22:43learning if you're just using some spare
606. 22:45time you've got in your day to figure
607. 22:47out a language hell yeah I know dualingo
608. 22:50is not the fastest way of learning a
609. 22:51language I know there are more efficient
610. 22:53ways but it's just an easy thing I can
611. 22:55just kind of throw in during my day and
612. 22:57it for me has had huge benefits learning
613. 22:59a language is not a race don't worry
614. 23:01about it taking a long time if you're
615. 23:03only putting small amounts of time in
616. 23:04some days you're going to have a lot of
617. 23:05time some days you're not as long as you
618. 23:07show up you take your time you'll get
619. 23:09there if anything it's more like
620. 23:11planting and tending to a garden as long
621. 23:13as you show up consistently you know not
622. 23:15only are you going to be able to harvest
623. 23:16the fruits of your labor in the future
624. 23:17but you'll find joy in the process of
625. 23:19growing and nurturing everything along
626. 23:20the way even if that does sound a bit
627. 23:23wanky this is also just so similar to my
628. 23:25story on YouTube and how I've uploaded a
629. 23:26video every single Sunday and I started
630. 23:28doing that over 10 years ago but the
631. 23:30consistency is really where most of my
632. 23:32growth has come from I've never really
633. 23:34had a viral video that blew up and I got
634. 23:37lots of subscribers from it's just every
635. 23:40week I've always shown up I've always
636. 23:42uploaded something different and slowly
637. 23:44grew from there and one day I will
638. 23:45hopefully hit that 1 million subscriber
639. 23:47threshold just by being consistent I
640. 23:50suppose so thank you for being
641. 23:51consistent with me and joining me on
642. 23:53this journey hopefully I will see you
643. 23:54here next Sunday or uh here if the video
644. 23:57is already up so I'll see you there
645. 23:59thanks for watching goodbye
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