The feeling when you realise this is working

I'm now at 630 hours and it's been a while since I've felt the jaw-dropping astonishment of how well this is working. But I know that there are lots of new people here, so I've just gone through some old notes I made a few months ago at 80 hours or so and copied them below:

I just watched an intermediate video of Pablo in a park in Bangkok talking about his likes and dislikes there. I was able to understand pretty much all of it without subtitles, and re-watching it with subtitles clarified a few minor points.

This is after 80 hours of watching DS videos. I find that quite astounding because four weeks ago I would have understood absolutely none of it, and he’s speaking reasonably fast.

So it seems this is clearly going to work.

I can’t imagine what I’ll be able to follow at 800 hours (i.e. ten times more input). Will be fun to see.

Keep going everyone. This works :-)