Thx, appears to have sped up the site a lot.

I didn’t watch that video, but I can say it’s working for me. I’ve tried to do classroom learning (grammar exercises, vocab memorization), and flash card method, and it’s not as fast or enjoyabe as this. I can actually stand in a group of spanish speakers and understand most of what’s being said, which wasn’t something I could do for years of study in other ways.

Also if some random youtuber is blanket demonizing CI, that’s entirely anecdotal, because there have been many studies comparing its performance to other learning methods.

I’m also learning mandarin (and spanish). The comprehensible input method I’ve found is really the best and simplest way. You can read about it and why it works from the ppl over at dreamingspanish.

For Mandarin I highly recommend https://www.vidioma.com/ . Videos are categorized by difficulty, and it keeps track of what ones you’ve already watched.

For Spanish, dreamingspanish.com . They do a phenomenal job and have hundreds of entertaining videos on so many topics and difficulties.