I've heard a lot of praise for it here and elsewhere, and I looked into it myself before. The praise is actually why I had seriously considered the method, their subreddit is full of success stories and people who absolutely believe in the method. Anyway, I was telling a friend about DS the other day and she was shocked when I said DS recommends at least 600 hours of input before you even start to speak. So it made me think yeah maybe DS is not an efficient method, then I found this thread

Is Dreaming Spanish massively inefficient?

I am convinced that a mixed approach to language learning, one that incorporates Comprehensible Input early on, is probably better than pure Comprehensible Input. Of course DS is a great source for graded listening material, no doubt. I wish something even remotely similar to DS existed for Arabic.

  • Prof_mu3allim [comrade/them]
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    3 days ago

    I appreciate you taking the time to write this comment.

    However, by picking up some understanding of grammar and knowledge of vocabulary, I've been able to turn other sources into comprehensible input, sources that I do actually find engaging, which I agree is key.

    Finding engaging material is not easy, especially for beginners, but learning at least some vocabulary lists about a topic you're interested in could turn some of that engaging material into CI.