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On comprehensible input, immersion hours, and counting them honestly.
Tracking Dreaming Spanish outside hours without the guesswork
Dreaming Spanish counts what you watch on its own site. Here is how to count the YouTube, Netflix and Twitch you watch everywhere else, automatically.
Language Reactor and an hours tracker: using both on Netflix and YouTube
Language Reactor shows dual subtitles; it does not count your listening hours. How to add an automatic hours count on Netflix and YouTube alongside it.
Can you learn a language while you sleep? What sleep really does
Playing a podcast overnight won't teach you a language, but sleep does real work on what you heard that day. What the studies show, and how to use it.
Why track your language learning hours? When it helps, and when it doesn't
Listening progress is too slow to feel, which is why people quit. What counting your hours changes, who it suits, and when it isn't worth doing.
Immersion trackers compared: what each one actually counts
Spreadsheets, Toggl, LinguaTrackr, TrackMyLang, LangTrack, Track your Input and Serval, compared by the only thing that matters: how the number is made.
How many hours of comprehensible input do you need?
The hour counts people quote for reaching each level, where they come from, and why the count is only useful if it's honest.
A Japanese immersion tracker that needs no spreadsheet
How to track Japanese immersion hours on YouTube automatically, with a free tracker that keeps counting when you don't feel like logging.
Why 'minutes watched' is the wrong number for learners
Every tracker reports minutes a video was open. For a learner that number hides the three things that actually decide progress.
How to track your immersion hours on YouTube, automatically
Spreadsheets fail because they depend on you. Here's what a tracker has to get right, and how to set one up in two minutes.