Comprehensible Input Part 23

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@GMelillo

For me the most interesting point @asad100101 makes is that he has listened to 4000+ hours and he is starting to get the low effort comprehension of his target language at all registers of the language in his environment. I’m at 535 hours of listening and I do have the vague suspicion that even though I could pass the passive component of a C1 I have still underestimated the quantity of listening required to get to the point where Italian hits my ears as intrinsically meaningful in roughly the same way as my native language. I’ve seen 2000 hours of listening thrown around as a heuristic and I’m curious to see where I am once I get in that zone

In the cases of upper intermediates and advanced, I think it’s very much important to keep in the mind to continously move up in difficulty of listening comprehension, as I was mentioning in the thread.

Barely progressing with listening comprehension

@tparillo After watching the movie Tre Metri Sopra il Cielo, I gotta say that it did not motivate me one bit to want to read the book. I’m sure the book is much better than the movie though. I loved Podcast Italiano as a beginner and lower intermediate. I didn’t mention it in my list as it’s already on LingQ. Just like I didn’t mention the podcast Salvatore racconta, as I already shared it on LingQ (with permission from the author). But maybe you’re right that I should add them. With regard t…

I think it’s very easy to just stay at the same level without noticing and therefore plateau. It’s so common that there’s even a name of it, right? For Italian, maybe if you are truly talking native-like, then perhaps you are looking at such a number. But turning listening into meaning with minimal effort, then I think you can get can there before 4,000 hours, if you focus on increasing the diffulty.