I'm a native Spanish speaker and I'm so impressed with your accent! I saw a comment on another video, someone said your accent sounds weird or something...man, your accent is very good! It's almost perfect! You sound like a native speaker to me. Seriously, keep it up! Btw, I watch your videos because I help my American friends with their Spanish and I find your videos very useful :) Saludos desde México!
There are a few components to learning Spanish online . One place I discovered that succeeds in merging these is the Fergs spanish blueprint (look for it on google) definately the best remedy that I've found. Look at all the incredible info .
I'm a French native in the US trying to finally get fluent in Spanish. I'm listening to your conversations and soliloquies while I do chores around the house. I understand most everything, I love Cynthia's voice! and both your accents are easy to follow. I've chuckled today during the green juice anecdote (I thought it was going to come out the other way but it was good enough to learn useful vocabulary). I don't know if you two just wing it but I must say the way you tell your anecdotes is very enticing and make me feel like I'm there with you. Awesome relationship you two have! I'm so glad I came across your channel
I finally bought your book : Victors adventures in spain I'm watching your free videos for a long time now, and decided you deserve my support and I need a little bit ejercicio you are so funny. Good Luck Eddie
just a thought..it might be super helpful if you guys could put subtitles in Spanish. I couldn't pick up on a couple words from Cynthia. Muchas gracias
This is wonderful! Soy una estandounidense que intenta aprender EspañoI Europeo depués de aprender Español Latinamericano hace muchos años in universidad. No es fácil a encontrar aquí. ¡Veré muchos más de sus videos! ¡Muchas gracias!
Me encantan estos videos. Ustedes son muy interesante y ustedes explican todo claramente y de una manera divertida. Me han ayudado aprender español tanto como mi profesora privada. ¡Muchas gracias!
Gracias por un entrevista excelente y muy divertida. Los cuentos sobre la maestra de ejercicio, el maratón y el vómito son muy, muy cómicos. Esta es mejor que una clase normal (¡y mejor que televisión!). Y ustedes dos son muy encantador. ¡Más como este, por favor! ;)
Como dicen Ustedes, Hola Cynthia. Hola Gordon. Me encanta los vídeos de ustedes, Muchos saludos de el Gran Estado Texas. Siguen haciendo sus vídeos por favor. Me han dicho que el Español de España era difícil comprender para vos Americano/Mexicanos pero no es verdad. Me da gustó oír Español de España
Me encanta este video. Aunque no entendí todo, pienso que entender mucho. Even though I got lost at times, I was glad that I stuck through and didn't give in. Gracias por todos sus videos :D
¡Hola Gordon y Cynthia! Me encantan vuestros vídeos, me han ayudado mejorar el español mucho. Soy un entrenador personal de Inglaterra y acabo de muderme a España, tengo muchas ganas a trabajar aquí. Con el vocabulario, creo que se usa 'sentadillas' para significar squats en España y Lationo América. También he oído otra palabra 'flexiones' para significar pushups. La gente se usa 'mecánica de' para todo en el gimnasio, si no puedes recordar las palabras specificas. Por ejemplo mecánica de correr, mecánica de remar... etc. Muchísimas gracias por todo vuestro trabajo. Espero que consigas hacer P90X, si te hace falta un entrenador me avisas ;-) Oli
Hola. Mi nombre es Ana. Yo vivo en Nueva Orleans, USA pero soy mexicana. Mi carrera escolar fue aqui, en los "yunaitedestates", asi que se me dificulta mucho escribir en español, aunque si lo puedo leer bien. A lo que voy es lo siguiente; estoy tratando de aprender el acento español y como no se donde van las "C" en siertas palabras, no se cuando usar el sonido "th". El acento es muy paresido al de algunos paises en america del sur asi que ahi no hay problema. Me gustaria ver "subtitles" en español para poder reconocer en donde se usa y con cual otras letras. Se que ha de ser un "pain in the ass" añadir "subtitles" pero creeo que es "worth a try" preguntar. By the way, Cynthia, you crack me up! I love how you call Gordon out. Keeping it honest. .. ;)
ahiwatt Ana. Pronto vamos a poder ofrecer la transcripción y la traducción de cada vídeo que hacemos en español. Suscríbete y te informaremos en cuanto estén listas.:) Gracias por el comentario.
Gracias for this great video! I'm learning Spanish in my college. I'm malayo from malasia and most of my classmates speak better Spanish as our pronunciation is about the same! Thanks once again!
Respondon I say, "Hago P90X" Cynthia was joking beforehand saying, "How long will it take for you to mention that you do P90X?" Then, she was the one who brought it up.
Gordon, please tell me what you think about the following. I cut and paste chapters of an English Bible version onto a word document and then I edit them so that they are very easy for me to understand. I do this by changing the sentence structure and some words to fit the way I speak. Then I use Google to translate this into Spanish. Then I verbally correct mistakes as I read it to a native speaker on Skype and he corrects any errors that I do not catch. We also discuss some of the things I read because we are both very interested in the Bible. As a matter of fact, he is my student. I really enjoy doing this because it gives both him and me a clear understanding of the Bible. I also enjoy it because I love Spanish. Do you think that this helps improve my Spanish? My level is at the border of intermediate and high intermediate. Thank you in advance.
James:I'm sure that it will help to improve your Spanish. What i would suggest, if you aren't already doing it, is to cover a passage and then have a discussion, in Spanish about what that passage means to you, how it might affect your life, how you could say the same thing with different words. That will then really expand your vocabulary and speaking skills. I hope that helps.
New classes? Podcast, Muriel? We are currently working for our VIP members on Ser Socio in www.lightspeedspanish.co.uk You are more than welcome to join us!! Cxx
Hola! Awesome stuff. Thanks for speaking slow. My girlfriend is from Spain and as a surprise to her I am studying Spanish for a big unveil in a few months. Any suggestions on improving quickly would be appreciated! I can understand most, I was fluent in Portuguese, but now its hidden somewhere in my mind haha, but my ability to speak spanish is lacking (and roll my grrrrr's) Thanks for the videos!
+Johnny Saye Hey, Johnny. Thanks for the message. Our tip to you would be to aim for total immersion. Read, write, listen and speak Spanish every day. Read out loud. Only listen to Spanish music. Only read Spanish books. Watch Spanish films with Spanish audio and subtitles in Spanish. Book yourself on a two week immersion course in a local Spanish speaking country. Throw yourself into it. It's the only way top do it quickly.:)
Great vids and lessons ..however I still panic and find understanding really difficult when I'm spoken to . I've gone as far as intermediate level at the local college over 18mths ...its so frustrating as I know how to speak and have been told my accent is great . Even watching tv , I probably know most words I hear but understanding and making sense of whats being said seems almost impossible., any tips would be much appreciated.
Mike Jones Hopefully you're still around, I know you made this comment 5 months ago. Instead of trying to decipher a full sentence in your head, split it into the induvidual phrases. If I write like this for the rest of my reply to you and don't include any commas and you read all of this like a robot that is what your brain processes when you try to translate a full sentence it's hard right? Add commas to that sentence above. Easier to read, right? I would say so. When you translate something you need to split the sentence up into its parts, and when you do this and listen to each individual part, you fill find words/phrases that you understand. It's like looking at an incomplete puzzle - you have some pieces of the sentence you will absolutely understand, and others you don't. You now have to guess at the full picture. You will get better with time but begin with slow passages so that you can get used to how to break up sentences.
I love these conversations you provide for us! Gordon does a very good job at pronouncing vocabulary slowly and thoroughly, however Cynthia speaks way too fast that an beginning/intermediate speaker like me can get confused. Haha good job though.
NonyaBusiness! Exactly right! There seems to be a trend where learners almost blame the native speaker for their lack of understanding. It's bizarre! I've seen it with people learning English too, they act as if the speaker is deliberately making it hard, when in fact that couldn't be further from the truth. Cynthia actually does a very good job of not speaking at full speed. It's not easy to do that if you're a native speaker. That said, I think even beginners need to be listening to natural speed conversations, at least some of the time.
Just embrace your accent. Not going anywhere. Besides nothing wrong with being an English speaker. Everyone else in the world has an accent speaking English.. why the fuck are English speakers so worried about sounding native whatever they want to learn. Enjoy the language.
Como legumbres (lenteja verde) con arroz y veo este video sobre el vomito verde de una chica en un maraton en Espana. Es un poco dificil comer, pero creo que vencere. Creo que lo que hago es un tipo te ejercicio mental. :-) !Viva el vomito verde! !Lo que no te mata, te hace mas fuerte!
I am getting to the point where I can translate more than 80% of the Spanish I hear. But when it comes to me holding up my end of a conversation I have not progressed very much...
I'm a native Spanish speaker and I'm so impressed with your accent! I saw a comment on another video, someone said your accent sounds weird or something...man, your accent is very good! It's almost perfect! You sound like a native speaker to me. Seriously, keep it up!
Btw, I watch your videos because I help my American friends with their Spanish and I find your videos very useful :) Saludos desde México!
Victor Hernández Thank you for that! I really appreciate your comment. Gordon :)
There are a few components to learning Spanish online . One place I discovered that succeeds in merging these is the Fergs spanish blueprint (look for it on google) definately the best remedy that I've found. Look at all the incredible info .
I'm a French native in the US trying to finally get fluent in Spanish. I'm listening to your conversations and soliloquies while I do chores around the house. I understand most everything, I love Cynthia's voice! and both your accents are easy to follow.
I've chuckled today during the green juice anecdote (I thought it was going to come out the other way but it was good enough to learn useful vocabulary). I don't know if you two just wing it but I must say the way you tell your anecdotes is very enticing and make me feel like I'm there with you.
Awesome relationship you two have!
I'm so glad I came across your channel
Qué amable
I finally bought your book : Victors adventures in spain
I'm watching your free videos for a long time now, and decided you deserve my support and I need a little bit ejercicio
you are so funny. Good Luck
Eddie
Thank you so much for doing these videos! This is great practice just listening to your conversation. And the humor is enjoyable too. Thanks!
Rer111390 De nada:) We are really happy that they help others:)
Muchas gracias me encanta escuchar vosotros!!!
¡Muchas gracias! :)
Your videos have helped me revise for my mock exams and my GCSE exams, thank you :)
¡Genial! :) Cx
just a thought..it might be super helpful if you guys could put subtitles in Spanish. I couldn't pick up on a couple words from Cynthia. Muchas gracias
What minute?
Muchas gracias como siempre. 😊
¡A ti, Marie! :)
This is wonderful! Soy una estandounidense que intenta aprender EspañoI Europeo depués de aprender Español Latinamericano hace muchos años in universidad. No es fácil a encontrar aquí. ¡Veré muchos más de sus videos! ¡Muchas gracias!
¡A ti, Lisa! :)
Me encantan estos videos. Ustedes son muy interesante y ustedes explican todo claramente y de una manera divertida. Me han ayudado aprender español tanto como mi profesora privada. ¡Muchas gracias!
Muchas gracias, Alistair :) Cx
me encanta este estilo de videos. Espero que ustedes puedan hacer más videos como así!
¿En plan relajado?
quiero decir me gusta el estilo cuando ustedes hablan de un tema al azar para que podamos practicar nuestras habilidades de escucha
Just found your videos and I am so glad I did!
Toria Me alegro:) Gracias:)
In Crossfit we would say "sentadillas" for squats and the Spanish speakers understood me (me being an English speaker)
+Daniel Orozco Gracias, Daniel:)
Gracias por un entrevista excelente y muy divertida. Los cuentos sobre la maestra de ejercicio, el maratón y el vómito son muy, muy cómicos. Esta es mejor que una clase normal (¡y mejor que televisión!). Y ustedes dos son muy encantador. ¡Más como este, por favor! ;)
Adrian Duyzer Muchísimas gracias, Adrian. Habrá más, sin duda.
excelente. me gusta mucho escuchar a conversacion entre ustedes.
Michael McGee Gracias, Michael. :)
these vids are great guys. thanks a lot.
¡Gracias! :)
I love these two.
Nerve Gracias :)
What is the word Cynthia says at 3:42? Sounds like "lobo"..?
+Joseph Shir Luego.
Como dicen Ustedes, Hola Cynthia. Hola Gordon. Me encanta los vídeos de ustedes, Muchos saludos de el Gran Estado Texas. Siguen haciendo sus vídeos por favor. Me han dicho que el Español de España era difícil comprender para vos Americano/Mexicanos pero no es verdad. Me da gustó oír Español de España
Gracias, Myrta :) Cxxx
Como siempre gracias a ti... me cuesta mas escuchar cuando la gente habla pero mi español ha mejorado por fin :)
TJ Network Nos alegramos por ti.
Me encanta este video. Aunque no entendí todo, pienso que entender mucho. Even though I got lost at times, I was glad that I stuck through and didn't give in. Gracias por todos sus videos :D
Muy bien, Tim ;) Cx
Muchas gracias, es muy interesante mejorar/practicar el español con vosotros dos! ;)
Le Briero Clement Gracias a ti.
Muy gracioso la experiencia con la maratón.
XD
what about cuclillas for squats?
¡Hola Gordon y Cynthia! Me encantan vuestros vídeos, me han ayudado mejorar el español mucho. Soy un entrenador personal de Inglaterra y acabo de muderme a España, tengo muchas ganas a trabajar aquí. Con el vocabulario, creo que se usa 'sentadillas' para significar squats en España y Lationo América. También he oído otra palabra 'flexiones' para significar pushups. La gente se usa 'mecánica de' para todo en el gimnasio, si no puedes recordar las palabras specificas. Por ejemplo mecánica de correr, mecánica de remar... etc. Muchísimas gracias por todo vuestro trabajo. Espero que consigas hacer P90X, si te hace falta un entrenador me avisas ;-) Oli
¡Muchas gracias! :)
So funny! Wait til you get to the marathon stories halfway through, cracked me up!
:D
Hola. Mi nombre es Ana. Yo vivo en Nueva Orleans, USA pero soy mexicana. Mi carrera escolar fue aqui, en los "yunaitedestates", asi que se me dificulta mucho escribir en español, aunque si lo puedo leer bien. A lo que voy es lo siguiente; estoy tratando de aprender el acento español y como no se donde van las "C" en siertas palabras, no se cuando usar el sonido "th". El acento es muy paresido al de algunos paises en america del sur asi que ahi no hay problema. Me gustaria ver "subtitles" en español para poder reconocer en donde se usa y con cual otras letras. Se que ha de ser un "pain in the ass" añadir "subtitles" pero creeo que es "worth a try" preguntar.
By the way, Cynthia, you crack me up! I love how you call Gordon out. Keeping it honest. .. ;)
ahiwatt Ana. Pronto vamos a poder ofrecer la transcripción y la traducción de cada vídeo que hacemos en español. Suscríbete y te informaremos en cuanto estén listas.:) Gracias por el comentario.
Gracias for this great video! I'm learning Spanish in my college. I'm malayo from malasia and most of my classmates speak better Spanish as our pronunciation is about the same! Thanks once again!
Muchas gracias a ti :)
What was said at 1:32 ? All I can hear is P90x :( ???
Respondon I say, "Hago P90X" Cynthia was joking beforehand saying, "How long will it take for you to mention that you do P90X?" Then, she was the one who brought it up.
I love your videos, I wish there was a way I could make requests of a video topic, I'm still studying.
A.Rxb Tukve$ Recordings Just ask us here. We'll do our best to help you out with a future video. :)
Gordon, please tell me what you think about the following. I cut and paste chapters of an English Bible version onto a word document and then I edit them so that they are very easy for me to understand. I do this by changing the sentence structure and some words to fit the way I speak. Then I use Google to translate this into Spanish. Then I verbally correct mistakes as I read it to a native speaker on Skype and he corrects any errors that I do not catch. We also discuss some of the things I read because we are both very interested in the Bible. As a matter of fact, he is my student.
I really enjoy doing this because it gives both him and me a clear understanding of the Bible. I also enjoy it because I love Spanish. Do you think that this helps improve my Spanish? My level is at the border of intermediate and high intermediate. Thank you in advance.
James:I'm sure that it will help to improve your Spanish. What i would suggest, if you aren't already doing it, is to cover a passage and then have a discussion, in Spanish about what that passage means to you, how it might affect your life, how you could say the same thing with different words. That will then really expand your vocabulary and speaking skills. I hope that helps.
Great suggestion! Thank you Gordon.
Are new classes starting for 2017/2018?
New classes? Podcast, Muriel? We are currently working for our VIP members on Ser Socio in www.lightspeedspanish.co.uk You are more than welcome to join us!! Cxx
I joined 😊😊😊😊
muchísimo gracias
¡A ti! :)
I know "the wall" well.. I hit it at my first marathon. Did you bring nutrition with you^? It sure helps...
mi progreso en Español ^^ gracias Light Speed Spanish Yo hablando Español. ¿Qué te parece? (Acento de un filipino)
muy bien , gracias
Oscar Wang Gracias a ti. :)
Hola!
Awesome stuff. Thanks for speaking slow. My girlfriend is from Spain and as a surprise to her I am studying Spanish for a big unveil in a few months. Any suggestions on improving quickly would be appreciated! I can understand most, I was fluent in Portuguese, but now its hidden somewhere in my mind haha, but my ability to speak spanish is lacking (and roll my grrrrr's) Thanks for the videos!
+Johnny Saye Hey, Johnny. Thanks for the message. Our tip to you would be to aim for total immersion. Read, write, listen and speak Spanish every day. Read out loud. Only listen to Spanish music. Only read Spanish books. Watch Spanish films with Spanish audio and subtitles in Spanish. Book yourself on a two week immersion course in a local Spanish speaking country. Throw yourself into it. It's the only way top do it quickly.:)
Great vids and lessons ..however I still panic and find understanding really difficult when I'm spoken to . I've gone as far as intermediate level at the local college over 18mths ...its so frustrating as I know how to speak and have been told my accent is great . Even watching tv , I probably know most words I hear but understanding and making sense of whats being said seems almost impossible., any tips would be much appreciated.
Mike Jones Hopefully you're still around, I know you made this comment 5 months ago. Instead of trying to decipher a full sentence in your head, split it into the induvidual phrases.
If I write like this for the rest of my reply to you and don't include any commas and you read all of this like a robot that is what your brain processes when you try to translate a full sentence it's hard right?
Add commas to that sentence above. Easier to read, right? I would say so. When you translate something you need to split the sentence up into its parts, and when you do this and listen to each individual part, you fill find words/phrases that you understand. It's like looking at an incomplete puzzle - you have some pieces of the sentence you will absolutely understand, and others you don't. You now have to guess at the full picture. You will get better with time but begin with slow passages so that you can get used to how to break up sentences.
I love these conversations you provide for us! Gordon does a very good job at pronouncing vocabulary slowly and thoroughly, however Cynthia speaks way too fast that an beginning/intermediate speaker like me can get confused. Haha good job though.
Sorry. Sometimes I get carried away haha :D
NonyaBusiness! Exactly right! There seems to be a trend where learners almost blame the native speaker for their lack of understanding. It's bizarre! I've seen it with people learning English too, they act as if the speaker is deliberately making it hard, when in fact that couldn't be further from the truth. Cynthia actually does a very good job of not speaking at full speed. It's not easy to do that if you're a native speaker. That said, I think even beginners need to be listening to natural speed conversations, at least some of the time.
Just embrace your accent. Not going anywhere. Besides nothing wrong with being an English speaker. Everyone else in the world has an accent speaking English.. why the fuck are English speakers so worried about sounding native whatever they want to learn. Enjoy the language.
True :)
Como legumbres (lenteja verde) con arroz y veo este video sobre el vomito verde de una chica en un maraton en Espana. Es un poco dificil comer, pero creo que vencere.
Creo que lo que hago es un tipo te ejercicio mental. :-)
!Viva el vomito verde! !Lo que no te mata, te hace mas fuerte!
si de acuerdo con el hombre, un poco más despacio por favor! pero todo en todo, me encanta!
muchas gracias!
Vale :)
I am getting to the point where I can translate more than 80% of the Spanish I hear. But when it comes to me holding up my end of a conversation I have not progressed very much...
Will Hart Work on the 80&20 rule. 80% understanding, 20% ability to say the same thing yourself. This is very normal.
habla despacio por favor. put a subtitle
Gordon, 26 miles is 41.6 kilometres
Gracias:)
Creo que la palabra que buscáis es sentadillas.
zeixx Gracias. Sí esa es la palabra. :)
Eso fue lo que yo pense... Sentadillas
Cuando habla gorson entiendo todo tiene manera spesifica :))
noesta la verdadquando able del exercicio... tu cuerpo va a recuerdar del exercico siempre aunque tu dehar lo...
42 kilometers is marathon distance :D
Gracias :)
que gracioso!! a Gordon le dices gordon y hablando de fisico, sonó tu nombre a "gordo" jajaja
Jajajaja ¿en serio? Cx
poco mas despacio..jajaja.
Lo siento :)
Quiero hacerles una pregunta..
ustedes son novios? xD
Gokuw Sweg Estamos casados, Gokuw. :)
That's awesome man
Spanish from Spain sounds so lispy
Oh, you THink? THanks . :P
girl talks too fast