[hintymad]

Thanks! I've been on it for some time. I can understand Beginner level most of time, even with 1.25x or 1.5x for most of the videos, but I find most of Intermediate can be significantly harder to understand. One possibility is that the there are more idiomatic phrases in Intermediate, like the use of reflexive verbs, such as hacerse, levarse, ponerse, irse and etc under different context. They are so different from English and I still need to translate them instead of comprehending them.

[NoInkling]

Keep at it, consistently doing a bit every day, and you'll get there. I went through all the free beginner videos (at the time) before moving onto intermediate, then did the same before moving onto advanced, and only then was I really able to start watching stuff made for native speakers without feeling too lost. I'm not a CI purist though, I looked up words or grammar points occasionally, but I didn't actively try to study or memorize anything.