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“Finally! An Easy Way to Get By in Spanish – And You Only Need 138 Words“ Click Here 👈
hi guys welcome back to my channel so today we're gonna be talking about spanish basically on my channel i really like talking about languages i don't have that many videos about languages but i have a few amount and a lot of people always ask specifically how i study spanish and i feel like i have so many tips for this language because i've just been studying it for a long time and this is the language that i speak the most fluently that i learned from scratch without like naturally having to learn it you're gonna see sections at the bottom of the video that kind of like divides the video up a little bit i have so many resources i'm gonna tell you different podcasts you can listen to shows to watch singers to listen to youtubers to watch i'll tell you different tips and specific mindsets that you need to have in order to succeed in spanish yeah i'm gonna get into it because honestly i'm afraid this could be 20 minutes long so the first thing you need to do if you have not done yet is choose a dialect and an accent that you're going to be learning with spanish i swear to god most people will think i don't need to choose one like spanish is all the same it's not there are so many different variations of spanish and you're gonna have to choose one but let me explain to you real quick why it's so important to choose an accent and a dialect let's take the word bus for example depending on which spanish-speaking country you're in this word will change so much it's like it's not even related so if you're in spain you're gonna say el autobus if you're in mexico you're gonna say el camion if you're in argentina you're gonna say a colectivo and if you're in gran canaria or puerto rico you're going to say la wa so as we can see those words are not connected at all it just fully depends on the dialect you learn i fully only said wawa for my whole time of learning spanish because i live in the canary islands and if you said out the woods to them they'll understand you but they're gonna be like okay it's not the end of the world if you speak the wrong dialect in the wrong country they'll still understand you but if you wanna be more of a natural speaker you gotta accept the dialect also let me touch on the accents for a second let's take argentinian spanish for example most spanish-speaking countries will pronounce double l as ye so you would say yo me llamo but if you're in argentina you're going to say show me ana i know i know and there's a lot of little things like that that just differ from each spanish from different countries so make sure you know about the accent and the dialect that you're learning i'm sorry that was like a long intro but it's so important like it's just you need to know this so the next little reminder in language learning is to remember to prioritize speaking skill over any other skill at the end of the day you learn a language to speak it you know a lot of us we learn languages in school and we focus on reading writing and listening in school like that's what we focus on and that's why most of us cannot speak any of the language we learn in school speak as much as you possibly can there's just a little reminder that you know if you're like oh i want to buy 20 grammar books yes grammar is important grammar is very important but it'd probably be better if you focus a little bit more on speaking because at the end of the day you can learn all the grammar and still not be able to use it in real conversation so at the end of the day is it really helpful okay so now we're gonna get into the actual methods of learning spanish and before we get into the different things you need to do i want you to remember that there's four aspects of learning language there is reading listening speaking and writing and when i say writing i basically mean like getting new vocab and practicing grammar you need to try to incorporate all of these four aspects into every method you use obviously with some methods you're just not going to be able to do all of the four things but with a lot of the common methods that you hear all the time on youtube you never realize but you can really practice all four aspects just with that one little simple tip so for example first tip watch a tv show while writing down vocabulary that's a super simple tip and most people have probably already heard it and that one you're practicing you're listening because you're listening to the speaker and you're also practicing your writing because you're writing down new vocabulary you're seeing new grammar structures and you're just seeing a person speak naturally but how can you practice your speaking and reading so for speaking you can just fully repeat after everything you hear it doesn't have to be everything but maybe like every like second sentence just fully repeated after them and that's already incorporating another aspect of language learning into that method which will just in general make your progress go a lot quicker and then for reading you can just follow along subtitles and try to read as fast as possible without pausing so yeah that's like a simple tip that you've heard before but now we have all four aspects of language learning in this little tip and it doesn't even feel like you're studying almost like it's just like you're just watching a show but you know what i mean i don't know next tip is reading news articles which already practices your reading and your writing but you also need to practice your listening and your speaking so for your speaking you're just going to read the news article out loud a lot of people might think this isn't fully correct because you might be saying something wrong and there's no one there to correct you but you're still getting more comfortable with speaking because a lot of the times say for example spanish has some sounds that just don't occur in the english language it might not help your pronunciation because there's no one there to correct you but it'll improve your flow of speaking and then for listening you obviously can't listen to a piece of text but you can always get like news on youtube or news on the radio or news on the tv and just listen to them if you find some news on youtube that also have subtitles that's your listening reading and learning new vocab and it's just everything at once the next tip is practice speaking to a camera in this one i tried my best to think of four aspects for this but honestly in this all i could think about is speaking just turn on the camera speak about how your day went speak about the book you're reading about right now speak about what you had for lunch i don't know talk about anything nobody will see it you can just look back at it you can just see like what words maybe were missing from your vocabulary or you can see which words you were using too much and in general that's just like a quick way for you to improve the next tip is to send voice messages on hellotalk hello talk is very like a lot of people love using it i just don't click so quickly with strangers but you need to remember that you don't need to have like a full-on friendship with these people at the end of the day you're there for a language exchange so honestly like what i do whenever i do go on hellotalk is i'll literally just like text someone i'll be like hi hi and then i'll just start sending them voice messages like maybe they don't even want to listen to my voice but like 80 of the time they'll reply back with voice messages being like oh my god like your spanish is so good but you could say this better or blah blah blah and i don't know a lot of the time we feel awkward we're like i don't want to send a voice message like this is too weird like this person doesn't know me i swear to god 95 of the time the people are so nice actually with spain it's like 99 of the time spanish people are like the nicest people i've ever met so the next tip is kind of to learn grammar with a book but not really because my tip is what to do with that because i wanted to say like learning grammar out of a book is really helpful like we all need it but it shouldn't be your only source so practicing grammar with a book is only practicing your writing skill so if you want to practice your speaking as well then any time you learn something out of that grammar book straight away like the day you learned it try to use it in speech talk to yourself and use that conjugation or use that expression or i don't know what you're learning in grammar but try to use it straight away try to see how people use that phrase naturally don't be like okay this phrase means that it's cool but if you don't know how to use it what's the point of learning it so make sure you understand how to use it and speak straight away like just use it in speech go to hello talk make a voice message and try to incorporate that grammar point into your speech straight away if you do it wrong the person will correct you and boom like that is so much more valuable than a grammar lesson because yes the grammar book taught you something but you learned from naturally speaking how to actually use it well so and then if you're doing the grammar lesson and you want to practice listening look up youtube videos on that topic there are so many spanish teachers on youtube and if you're doing for example the imperfect tense just look up imperfect on youtube and sometimes there's videos where it's just like a two minute video of a conversation where they just use the imperfect tense a lot so that could be really helpful as well because you're hearing it being used naturally instead of just like written down in the book and then to practice the reading skill i would use the reverso op because reverso is basically like an app where you can kind of understand a word through context so say for example if you learned the phrase amenos que but you don't really know how to use it you just go to reverso look up amenos que and there's gonna be like thousands of sentences using that and then you could just read through the sentences you'll get more vocab you'll get some grammar context because you'll see how it's used naturally and all of that combined yes it will take a little bit more time than just doing one page of grammar but which one do you think is more beneficial to you the next point is to read books or wattpod stories wattpod is very underrated for language learning there are so many books on wattpod and spanish i agree some of them they can be written by someone who's 13 years old maybe their grammar is not the best but at the end of the day it's still coming from a natural speaker so if you don't want to buy books on kindle go to wattpad there's a lot of stories in different languages so so reading books practices your writing skills because vocab and reading skills because you're reading but if you want to practice your speaking skills read your book out loud and if you want to practice your listening skills try to find an audio book of that book if you're reading wattpad you will probably not find an audiobook but if you're reading a kindle book you most likely would find like an audiobook on audible or something by the way you can use my link to get like one book free or something it's not sponsored at all it's just like an affiliate link so so the next method is learning the lyrics to a song this practices your writing speaking and listening because writing you're learning a lot of new vocab through that song grammar i would not relate on grammar in a song because they kind of change it around a little bit to fit the rhyming scheme sometimes so i wouldn't depend on the grammar in a song but vocab for sure speaking it practices your speaking when you sing along to the song so you're practicing your accent and you're practicing how quickly you can sing because in spanish they speak extremely quickly and you're also practicing your listening because you can hear the way they pronounce it also with some songs i would still maybe double check with the word because they still sometimes pronounce it wrong to kind of fit the rhyme but still most of the time everything is pronounced like normally so and then if you want to practice reading go look up the song on google and actually like just read through the whole song as if it's a story so then the next point is to listen to podcasts in spanish uh this is a little bit more like an intermediate advanced level like if you're a beginner maybe this isn't really helpful because you're not really hearing much but i still think it would be helpful because immersion is extremely important when you're learning a language but with podcasts you're mainly only practicing listening but you can also practice speaking by imitating the words that they say so trying to pronounce it the same way and then you can also practice writing by just like writing down any word that they said and you didn't understand reading i honestly don't think there's any way to practice reading in podcasts if you think of one let me know i don't know maybe there's like podcast that's also a blog at the same time that would be i don't know i've never seen that but so the next tip is journal about your day and substitute words in that you don't know do not worry just write as much as you can and i don't mean like make your sentences shorter i mean literally just write a sentence in spanish and if you don't know one word just write that word in english and circle it and then at the end of the day when you finish your journal entry you could just look back at all the words that you circled that you didn't know this could be 50 words this could be five words it does not matter and just write the vocab in at the bottom and then the next day when you have to talk about the same thing you'll already know how to speak about it because you learned the word yesterday so journaling that practices your writing but you can also practice your speaking by reading out everything you've written and honestly i think journaling is my favorite method out of all these because it's the most natural one and then for reading skills read over it and look up synonyms for words that you use a lot for so for example if i say bien a lot and i'm just like my day was bien my food was being i'm gonna go and try to look for another word because you know bien is a very very very basic word like most people that don't even speak spanish know what bien means so if you really want to grow from like an intermediate to advanced you need to start growing your like synonym lists and then the last tip is to literally imitate spanish people speaking and i don't mean in real life that would probably be a little rude in real life but i would really recommend watching those like live street interviews that you know like when people go out on the streets and they just like come up to people and they ask them about something watch them and like analyze them because in those videos there's so much slang which is extremely important also just like natural pronunciation because sometimes if you're watching like a youtuber who teaches spanish they'll give you the extreme clear perfect pronunciation which is important to learn but it might not be as natural if you want to like try fool people that you're really a spanish native speaker you gotta analyze your accent to death like you just need to know it inside out okay now we're gonna quickly talk about how you can incorporate more spanish into your everyday life because immersion is extremely extremely extremely important so these are gonna be really quick little things that like you probably know but you know first of all is follow spanish influencers and youtubers if they post on their instagram story you're seeing natural spoken spanish you're hearing natural spanish next thing is set your phone to spanish next thing is listen to more spanish music music is really important to spanish people and i fully understand it like i love their music and you can learn a lot just by listening to their music so next thing is speak to yourself as you do daily tasks like literally if you're like i'm gonna go eat food now like just say that to yourself in your head like just speak to yourself daily you'll see a lot of the words that you're missing and you'll also like practice speaking quicker next thing is search things up on google in spanish instead of looking up something in english just look it up in spanish and you're immersing yourself more and yeah those are the little tips they're just like quick little things that you could do daily okay now we're gonna quickly talk about resources so we're gonna talk about apps podcasts youtube channels spanish singers and tv shows i'm just listing my favorite ones so please recommend your favorite ones in the comments down below because you're gonna be helping everybody out so number one is apps first up we have a spanish dick i think this is the best spanish dictionary you will find that's down for a debate but from personal use it is just the best one reverso is the app that i mentioned earlier anytime you look up a word it will give you context for that word and you can kind of see it being used then duolingo memorize and bobble they're very common everybody knows them everybody laughs at them but to be honest if you use it consistently it can help you like it should never be your only resource ever but i cannot explain to you how much memorize has helped me with my spanish like memrise is the app that started my spanish journey and that's the op that like single-handedly on its own like got me halfway to where i am now like now where i'm at memrise didn't get me here but memrise definitely like helped me across half the way next up is hello talk that's just like the language exchange app that i mentioned earlier next app is fluentu i think they basically have like videos and quizzes and just like a lot of different little activities the only thing is it's not always free but i've heard amazing reviews about it so i mean and then we have anki and quizlet which are both flashcard apps i mainly only use anki but quizlet is amazing it is 100 amazing anki's amazing both of them are amazing yeah that is all the apps so for podcasts i only know three podcasts so those are the ones i'm going to recommend so please if you know some good spanish speaking podcasts let me know because i'd like to listen to more but the first one is con amor carrajo the next one is entiende tumente e que esta los mionarios they motivate me a lot and they make me feel productive so i really like them for the youtube channels three or four of these i actually like watch on a regular basis but three or four of these i only discovered recently when i was actually just doing research for this video because i wanted to recommend more channels but i really like it when i subscribe to all of them so the first channel is beyond words and her channel is kind of based on like personal development and health and productivity you're gonna see a lot of these channels are based on productivity it's just like the topic i like the next channel is rui i'm still i don't know how to pronounce the names i'm so sorry but she basically has videos about self-care habits productivity finance like everything i love her i think on this list she has to be my favorite the next one is viola franco i think her name is violet violeta but she basically has like a comedy channel kind of she just makes random videos but i really love her and she also has an argentinian accent which i just love the argentinian accent like i'm not learning the argentinian accent but i love it and she has it and i just i love listening to her the next guy i don't know how to say his name i'm so sorry it like huge in english you'd say huge but it's just not huge love is channel it's about like entrepreneurship business finance productivity do we see a pattern yes we do next person is isa veda and she has a lot of productivity vlogs which i love next is 8th avenue she also has a lot of productivity vlogs and planning videos and it's just like right down my alley i write down my avenue i'm sorry and then the last person is christina acai and she has a lot of videos on lifestyle fitness and organization i would highly recommend all those youtubers also once again if you have any recommendations let us know because i would like to follow more honestly i would love to get to the point where i follow more spanish people than i do english people because my spanish would just grow like crazy this is the thing with youtube the more spanish people you watch the more spanish people youtube algorithm will recommend to you so even if you find a bunch of spanish people that you don't really like go on their videos like their video like comment something like just comment heart and the youtube algorithm will bring you the spanish youtubers they will come to you then the next thing is spanish singers i don't really think i need to recommend spanish singers but i'm just going to let you know i have a very basic taste with spanish music but you know first number one bad bunny i love bad bunny so much any song by bod bunny i'm like dana paola osuna pekiji rosalia michael de la calle those are some of my favorite spanish singers very random and then for tv shows i'm going to say elite la casa de papel vis-a-vis la chicas del cable valeria control so yeah that was it for my video my camera is about to die so i really want to make this really quick but i hope you guys enjoyed uh let us know more tips more recommendations more resources because this could just be like a video where we all help each other with spanish thank you for watching i hope you got some value out of this video i love you all guys so much that didn't make sense anyway i love you um peace out much love you ...
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