Are you having one of those days where you feel like you normally understand videos at difficulty level 55 (or whatever you’re on) but suddenly today you’re missing a lot? Did you turn on a level 23 video and start wondering if you’re wasting your time because you only seem to understand things when there’s a visual cue?
You should open up Dreaming French and find a video around your target level. Switch back and forth between the DF video and a DS video. Try listening to both with your eyes closed. Assuming you don’t know French, you’ll probably notice that Spanish feels a lot more manageable.
You may be able to pick out a word or two in French from time to time, but it should be rare. In contrast, in your Spanish video, even with your eyes closed, you will likely find yourself able to latch onto entire paragraphs if not entire full minutes of speech before getting lost again.
Now think about it. The way that French just sounded to you is how Spanish used to sound to you.