Cool features and options for customizing your learning experience with Dreaming Spanish.
Several enhancements to the Dreaming Spanish website to make your experience better and give you greater visibility into your personal language learning journey.
* Add YouTube videos to your outside content watched with one click!
* Insights chart on the Progress page so you can see which guides, Spanish dialects, difficulty levels, and types of comprehensible input you consume each month.
* See video difficulty scores all the time, on every page.
* Adds publication dates to videos and when each video was added to your personal playlist.
* Improve the auto-play behavior: play videos with no delay and automatically stop when your daily goal is reach.
You have total control. You can turn on or turn off each of these improvements individually using the extension's menu.
This extension does not gather or store any of your personal data. It does not interact with any website other than dreamingspanish.com and youtube.com. With the exception of adding YouTube videos to your outside content, all of the enhancements it provides happen in your local browser only and don't affect your Dreaming Spanish account.
Some technical details--
There is a limit to what can be shown about your video watching history because of what Dreaming Spanish records and doesn't record about the videos you watch. In particular, if you watch a video more than once, the extension only has information about the most recent time. Also, if you skip forward or backward while watching a video, the extension's best estimate of the amount of time you watched can be incorrect. There's not much the extension can do to fix this; the necessary data simply isn't recorded anywhere.
When in doubt, trust the watch time from Dreaming Spanish. It's totals are correct, even if the details in the Insights chart are sometimes off a little.
For the "Send to Dreaming Spanish" button to work on the YouTube History page, you must also have a Dreaming Spanish tab open somewhere. Currently this feature only works if your YouTube History page is in English.
I hope you enjoy the extra insights, but remember that the important thing is to watch a ton of content and enjoy the process!
Updates--
1.3.4, August 10, 2024:
- Update to track latest changes to YouTube. No new features.
1.3.3, June 14, 2024:
- Update to track latest changes to Dreaming Spanish. No new features.
1.3.2, June 10, 2024:
- Small update to track latest changes to Dreaming Spanish. No new features.
1.3.1, May 26, 2024:
- Support for YouTube website in Spanish.
1.3.0, May 22, 2024:
- Added button on the YouTube history page to add videos to your Dreaming Spanish outside content watched.
1.2.0, March 9, 2024:
- Add support for showing the difficulty score on videos in a series.
- Removed temporary fix for the auto play bug because the bug has been fixed.
1.1.0, February 5, 2024:
- Removed total watch time from browse page -- this is done by Dreaming Spanish now.
- Removed workaround for full screen bug when using auto play -- this is done by Dreaming Spanish now.
- Updated to support the new Library page and sub-pages for difficulty scores and dates that videos were added to My List.
- Added a temporary fix for the auto play bug that plays the last video in the list instead of the next video in the list.
1.0.1, January 15, 2024:
- Fixed the problem when videos that don't exist anymore caused the Level, Dialect, and Guide graphs to fail.
