[freehunter]

I would expect a native to think language learning courses are spoken too slowly for their liking. The most common complaint among language learners is that natives speak too quickly, so of course learning material will be slowed down so students can hear every word being said.

[danneu]

Exactly. I thought it was a great speed, and there really aren't many slow-spanish resources online which makes it hard to transcend intermediate hell.

The English sections work well to give you context for the Spanish sections. Losing track of context is definitely one of the hardest parts of listening to a different language. "Wait, I thought we were still talking about his aunt." The English also makes it more of a leisurely exposure.

Another issue I have with most resources is that there's no way to easily replay chunks of audio. I'd prefer to be able to listen to bite-sized chunks until I understand them. I built https://www.danneu.com/slow-spanish/ (the three lil pigs) to prototype an idea where you listen to a story and can prev/next/replay any sentence.

[davidzweig]

Your page works nicely. I am making the 'hardware' version, a sentence-based multilingual audio player, maybe you find it interesting:

https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipPPzL7dZnJ9CzHblHCLtJJT...

Some more details about the software toolchain for preparing files here, the idea is to turn any native audio/video into bilingual, sentence-based materials for studying.

https://forum.language-learners.org/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=716...

The toolchain will also prepare nice bilingual texts: http://smallworld.press/show_hn.html

There are social media links on http://smallworld.press/ if you want to be updated.