At the superbeginner level, it’s completely expected to just be able to understand the overall story from the drawings and gestures. At the beginning you may have to adjust your expectations. When starting from zero, it’s expected that you will just be able to start matching some individual words with their meaning here and there. At this point it’s expected to not even get a clear picture of how those words sound. You’ll instead be matching the general feeling you get when hearing each word to their meaning. We recommend not focusing on individual words. Rather, you should focus on the overall meaning of the message being conveyed by the content. If you understand the overall story, you’ll soon start picking up more and more words. After just a handful of hours of input, there will be a couple of easy wins that will make the input feel considerably more understandable:\n\nFiguring out the divisions of words will become easier when you get used to how words are stressed.\nIf you know English or another language with a significant amount of cognates, you’ll very quickly get used to the way those words sound in Spanish and the general patterns of how those words change from one language to the other.\n\nWe also answer this question in our FAQ video (with English subtitles):
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