Methodology

Phase 1: Classroom study

Building a foundation for immersion study. Understand the theory and grammar of the language. Build a basic vocabulary to jumpstart your immersion. Your time is best spent studying the language but adding immersion to your study time here is still very helpful.

Phase 2: Immersion-heavy learning

This phase is to build up your comprehension in Spanish. A solid understanding of Spanish without translation is a foundation to outputting fluently down the line. Your goal here is to spend as much time in a Spanish environment as possible. This means reading and listening to Spanish, whether that's books or tv or youtube or Tiktok's.

There are only two major rules in this phase and covers 80% of what you need to do in this phase. Everything else is either a minor optimization or personal preference.

1. Have fun
2. Aim for 85-98% of comprehension

You can move onto the next phase in one of two conditions:

1. You need to start outputting (speaking or writing) within the next 2 months. The earlier you start outputting, the more likely you'll develop bad habits in language like unnatural sentences and non-native pronunciation. These bad habits will take more work to undo if you end up deciding to work on it.
2. You can understand almost 100% of real-native people conversations. If you sat in on a convo with natives, you could understand with minimal effort and great clarity of what's going on.

Phase 3: Learning how to output

TODO