Michi and Abuela are just at different ends of the bilingual spectrum: Michi is English-dominant and Abuela is Spanish-dominant, but both have a passive understanding of the ‘other’ language. One of the things that I love about the ‘Abuela universe‘ is that all of the different characters are in different places in the bilingual spectrum. That takes a lot of time and effort in terms of ‘character development’. Bravo to the writers. 👏👏👏
It also makes Mirta and Abuela's conversations so interesting, as well. It kind of shows their background and upbringing, without actually saying it. :)
Wait that's actually just, a thing?? All my spanish-speaking family can easily speak either or both and switch to whichever whoever they're talking to speaks, I've spent *years* thinking I'm just shit at spanish...
I always loved the fact that Abuela understands English perfectly, without being able to speak it that well. It is like her superpower. She can listen to even more gossip than ever! XD Michi is going to be just like her Abuela! :)
For anyone wondering, that's because it's always much easier for the language learner to understand a language receptively than to create it yourself. Instead of having to assemble a sentence from all the different words you may have learned or encountered, you're only having to interpret the limited number that are in what you're listening to or reading. My mom could read the passages from the intermediate-Spanish textbook I used in teaching college Spanish, far better than my actual students, but it takes great effort for her to utter the simplest sentences.
Bro, i do this with my mom. She speaks Spanish and i respond in English. We both know and understand what we’re saying and, yes, I can speak Spanish and she can speak English, but sometimes we just default to our most used language. It’s never bothered us or hindered us.
I died laughing when Michi started saying the, "Yo quiero ser su abogado." And then when she started trying to sing Dos Oruguitas but got the lyrics wrong. Love it so much!!
This was literally my last conversation with my dad: Millennial Me- “So how are are your plants?” 60-something Latino dad- “Ay mis plantitas de ajis son bueno pero no como las plantas de la casa de mami, ella tenia una mata de mango, y toronja, y el major mata de limón del mundo- todavia tengo los semillas!..” Mellenial Me- “Wow thats really cool I didn’t know you had seeds from Abuela’s lemon tree in Puerto Rico, you could like, sprout them into an heirloom tree” I am deadass right now I could not make this up. Also, my Tio Paco also used the exact same “two wings of the same bird” line anytime anyone said anything about Cuba/Puerto Rico. In the exact same philosophical tone of voice. I literally laughed so hard at this. Thanks Jenny y Primo Kevin from West Palm Beach!!!!!!! 💙❤️🇵🇷🇨🇺
My dad used to tell me that when he was growing up, in a household of Ashkenazic emigrés from Russia-occupied countries (🇺🇦 🇵🇱 🇧🇾), anytime the old folks wanted to gossip, they would switch languages. He learned bits and pieces of about nine different languages, because right about the time he'd grasp enough of Yiddish or Spanish or German to follow the thread, the old folks would notice him listening closely and switch languages again. 😝
You can't leave us mid chisme it's not humane...you know what will end up happening the rumors will start and get out of control like A handsome Alien neighbor will be after one of them to break them up. We need a follow up episode asap. Love your work.❤👽❤
"Yes, that's _French_ you're speaking. But this abuela is _not_ French." Although I _do_ find the idea of an old Spanish-speaking Cuban lady and her young English-speaking American granddaughter going looking for a way to communicate with each other and finally settling on _FRENCH_ to be extremely amusing. Also, why am I not surprised that _Tetris_ seems to speak to Flor's jangled brain in the best way?
Not you almost making me cry by thinking of my abuelita! Flor acting like my own mother that used to tell me every time I spoke "Ahora en Español." lol. I hated it it as a kid, but I am so grateful for it now! Thanks for another great video!
Reminds me of the extended family get togethers we used to have. The aunties would prompt the cousins to speak Mandarin to one another "for practice" though we never made it past introductory Q&A's 🤣🤣 It was really a segment for the aunties to see and listen. But once we reached the end of the Q & A session, we would revert back to speaking in English with genuine conversations formed organically 🤭🤭
I was so with Michi on this one. Just as the tea is getting good, no spill. I was just as eager to know the chisme as Michi. The wait is going to be excruciating.
She's a good actress. Playing characters across a spectrum of different ages isn't easy. The writers did a good job of creating a normal, wholesome family exchange. Nice.
Jenny herself is nearly always the writer, at times in tandem with her creative partner, Kevin. Sometimes Kevin writes the script on his own, but it's usually either a collaboration or Jenny.
When I was younger this was literally me & my abuelita. I barely knew a lick of Spanish as a kid and she knew even less English but somehow, someway we still managed to understand each other. It also helped that I took Spanish in high school too
Watching this for the first time, i noticed that Michi, Laritza, and Jasleiney do this lean in by the wall shuffle when they walk in to a room to interact with family. Super clever.
I love your abuela moments so much. The character reminds me so much of my abuela, except mine swore, constantly. I lost my abuela a few years ago and the character is just so heartwarming to see and hear. So thanks so much!
The way it took me like several minutes to realize that Michi was talking only in English and Abuela was responding only in Spanish haha. It is like that sometimes! I miss mis abuelas :)
Aaww! This made me smile! Reminds me of myself! There is something so special about growing up living with your grandparents! I have so many wonderful memories of my childhood with them! "Helping" gramama cook while listening (and "ti-ta-ti-tu" dancing) to polka music in the kitchen and then sitting in my grandpa (I called him Bop)'s lap watching and rooting for the Dodgers even tho I had zero clue what was going on! Magical times! 🥰💭
Lol! This made me think of my grandpa Joe. He would speak to me in Spanish and I would speak in English. But we always knew what we were saying. Good memories
Sooooo relatable XD I'm Portuguese but have family and friends in Spain and France so when we're together we each speak our own language, just like this. Also, I died at that "sorry con excuse me" XD
¡Ay Dios mio! Watching the conversation between Michi and her abuela. I got into what they were saying to each other and a cierto punto didn't realize that they were speaking two languages. I understood it all as one language. I grew up speaking Spanglish too with bilingual relatives who understood English, but spoke Spanish. We are Cuban too. This just flowed so naturally I didn't even distinguish between the two. I miss mi tia abuela's jardin. It sounds just like Michi's abuelo's. 👍
Oh man, this takes me back to middle school. Our family was exactly like this when my grandma was still alive, right down to the mother saying "you're wasting your summer playing videogames" and trying to get her mother to practice english. So relatable, and funny! And nostalgic... T_T
This kinda reminds me of me and my grandma except we're Haitian! I feel like the "chisme" part would definitely be accurate if she were still around 😂😂
I am American born. My mother also American. My stepfather Mexican. I am currently learning Spanish. I am only on my first year. I hope to speak Spanish with my step father and his family one day. You post cuban spanish videos, but I have found your videos to be the most entertaining to learn and be engaged.
As a sometime language teacher, I explain it this way: when you speak or write a language, you have to decide which words to use out of the universe of available words. When you listen or read, you only have to identify the words that actually were used.
OMG Unlocked memory from the last clip!! This video was amazing!! I keep forgetting that Michi is also played by you; You do such a great job with creating and playing your characters! I'm getting better at following along with listening to Spanish conversations, but I still can't regurgitate it.
This was actually pretty cute, reminds me of when my grandma would take care of me growing up and the moments when I didn’t know what to talk about with her 😂 This also made me miss and appreciate her more. 🥹
Michi and Abuela are just at different ends of the bilingual spectrum: Michi is English-dominant and Abuela is Spanish-dominant, but both have a passive understanding of the ‘other’ language. One of the things that I love about the ‘Abuela universe‘ is that all of the different characters are in different places in the bilingual spectrum. That takes a lot of time and effort in terms of ‘character development’. Bravo to the writers. 👏👏👏
It also makes Mirta and Abuela's conversations so interesting, as well. It kind of shows their background and upbringing, without actually saying it. :)
Wait that's actually just, a thing??
All my spanish-speaking family can easily speak either or both and switch to whichever whoever they're talking to speaks, I've spent *years* thinking I'm just shit at spanish...
@@aliciacordero8399 it's called being a "receptive bilingual"!!
It is also more difficult to speak another language than it is to understand another language 😊
This is exactly what talking to my Abuela is like! It feels good to see it reflected.
I always loved the fact that Abuela understands English perfectly, without being able to speak it that well. It is like her superpower. She can listen to even more gossip than ever! XD Michi is going to be just like her Abuela! :)
They usually do lol
My grandmother was the same way. She understood English perfectly but never spoke it.
For anyone wondering, that's because it's always much easier for the language learner to understand a language receptively than to create it yourself. Instead of having to assemble a sentence from all the different words you may have learned or encountered, you're only having to interpret the limited number that are in what you're listening to or reading. My mom could read the passages from the intermediate-Spanish textbook I used in teaching college Spanish, far better than my actual students, but it takes great effort for her to utter the simplest sentences.
Lol this is me but opposite 😂
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I figured as much. :) I still think it is amazing!
Lol michi literally became full-blown Cuban when she asked Abuela to tell her more chisme 🤣🤣🤣
Bro, i do this with my mom. She speaks Spanish and i respond in English. We both know and understand what we’re saying and, yes, I can speak Spanish and she can speak English, but sometimes we just default to our most used language. It’s never bothered us or hindered us.
Chisme is a universal language 😆😄
My bro and my mom were the same when he was a kid. My other brother and I would always speak in Spanish to my mom. But she understood all of us.
I died laughing when Michi started saying the, "Yo quiero ser su abogado." And then when she started trying to sing Dos Oruguitas but got the lyrics wrong. Love it so much!!
Two caterpillars in an abogado.
Same!
encantooo~~~
This was literally my last conversation with my dad:
Millennial Me- “So how are are your plants?”
60-something Latino dad- “Ay mis plantitas de ajis son bueno pero no como las plantas de la casa de mami, ella tenia una mata de mango, y toronja, y el major mata de limón del mundo- todavia tengo los semillas!..”
Mellenial Me- “Wow thats really cool I didn’t know you had seeds from Abuela’s lemon tree in Puerto Rico, you could like, sprout them into an heirloom tree”
I am deadass right now I could not make this up.
Also, my Tio Paco also used the exact same “two wings of the same bird” line anytime anyone said anything about Cuba/Puerto Rico.
In the exact same philosophical tone of voice.
I literally laughed so hard at this.
Thanks Jenny y Primo Kevin from West Palm Beach!!!!!!!
💙❤️🇵🇷🇨🇺
I died. "I'm sorry CON eh-cuse me" Abuella, nunca cambies
Not gonna lie, I almost did a spit take!
Same. I'm sure like most of us, we relate to this family. It helps with my homesickness and glad it exists.
Made me tear up remembering all the half English/Spanish conversations with my Mami, but of course the chisme is universal!!😂
spanish and english. two languages. chisme... universally spoken! 😂
so many great one liners in this one, too. Thanks Jenny and Kevin
Quien carajo es Kevin?
My dad used to tell me that when he was growing up, in a household of Ashkenazic emigrés from Russia-occupied countries (🇺🇦 🇵🇱 🇧🇾), anytime the old folks wanted to gossip, they would switch languages. He learned bits and pieces of about nine different languages, because right about the time he'd grasp enough of Yiddish or Spanish or German to follow the thread, the old folks would notice him listening closely and switch languages again. 😝
My grandmother and her sister would switch from English to Polish when they didn’t want us to understand
Omg - mine too!! They spoke Yiddish whenever they wanted their conversations to be private! How I miss them.
My parents did this. 🤣 It made me want to learn as many languages as possible.
You can't leave us mid chisme it's not humane...you know what will end up happening the rumors will start and get out of control like A handsome Alien neighbor will be after one of them to break them up. We need a follow up episode asap. Love your work.❤👽❤
y así se va regando la bola 😅
Ah, but for all we know, that's exactly what Jenny and Kevin are setting up!
This skit teaches us to be grateful for our elders and to spend all the time we can with them!!!! Thank you, Jenny!!!!!
Omg Abuela with the rolling pin!! Lol! 😆🤍and Michi singing that caterpillar song from Encanto 🥺! Loved it.
"Yes, that's _French_ you're speaking. But this abuela is _not_ French."
Although I _do_ find the idea of an old Spanish-speaking Cuban lady and her young English-speaking American granddaughter going looking for a way to communicate with each other and finally settling on _FRENCH_ to be extremely amusing.
Also, why am I not surprised that _Tetris_ seems to speak to Flor's jangled brain in the best way?
Not you almost making me cry by thinking of my abuelita!
Flor acting like my own mother that used to tell me every time I spoke "Ahora en Español." lol. I hated it it as a kid, but I am so grateful for it now! Thanks for another great video!
I LOVED this skit so much. It reminded me of my mother telling me to spend more time with my abuelita.
Reminds me of the extended family get togethers we used to have. The aunties would prompt the cousins to speak Mandarin to one another "for practice" though we never made it past introductory Q&A's 🤣🤣 It was really a segment for the aunties to see and listen. But once we reached the end of the Q & A session, we would revert back to speaking in English with genuine conversations formed organically 🤭🤭
OK I totally lost it when you referenced the old Muzzy language commercials - eso es para nosotros viejitos 😂
Pero Muzzy fue divertida. My parents couldn’t afford it so I would always go to my friend’s house to watch it.
Omg lol it’s such a deep cut. I was looking for this comment!!!!
My children watched Mazi since there isn't many shows in Esperanto. 😂😂
@@francegamble1 +1 for teaching your kids Esperanto!
@@joecab1 Thanks! I was told it was a useless language to learn and give my kids, but now they are learning other languages very well on their own.
I was so with Michi on this one. Just as the tea is getting good, no spill. I was just as eager to know the chisme as Michi. The wait is going to be excruciating.
I like How Abuela spills the Tea of gossip
So cute they actually start to bond. And so cute her mom ask her to spend time with her grandma and even cutter that she obeys
"They spend their nights in... lawyers"💀💀
She's a good actress. Playing characters across a spectrum of different ages isn't easy. The writers did a good job of creating a normal, wholesome family exchange. Nice.
Jenny herself is nearly always the writer, at times in tandem with her creative partner, Kevin. Sometimes Kevin writes the script on his own, but it's usually either a collaboration or Jenny.
@tejaswoman Well, both of them do a great job writing relatable characters. Shes a very fine actress.
I can't with how she had the evidence of the regift in the cabinet lol!!!
Michu saying "hasta la Vista baby!!!" Hilarious
(I need a part 2 please lol)
That cliffhanger tho! 😂
I liked when she said: How are your plants doing ? ☺️
Gossiping about fam was my favorite thing to do w my grandma lol we never ran out of gossip I loved those conversations
5:08 OMG, Jenny threw in a MUZZY COMMERCIAL as an easter egg!!!!!!!!
This perfectly captures speaking to any of of my older hispanic relatives but especially my grandma.
When I was younger this was literally me & my abuelita. I barely knew a lick of Spanish as a kid and she knew even less English but somehow, someway we still managed to understand each other.
It also helped that I took Spanish in high school too
OMG. Muzzie! I remember that advertisement. I never got the videos but I saw the ads. That woman's hair is amazing.
"yo quiero ser su abogado" 😂😂😂😂 flashbacks to those commercials!
The Muffy reference took me out!!!🤣🤣🤣 I STILL use that line when I'm being silly. Then at the end she included it and I died again!
Bruh this is so accurate even la libreta de la abuela donde apunta todas las cosas. Las clases de inglés y las recetas de cocina también.
This is so wholesome I'm gonna cry, also, cause you could have whole conversations about beans and how to cook them with my abuelita.
The Ingles sin Barreras reference I damn near fell out of my chair laughing
Casi una novela al final, me encanta!
That's my grandmother and I, plain and simple
"Dos alas del mismo pájaro" My Puerto Rican heart ❤️ warmed up.
Every time I watch your videos I always have to remind myself there isn't multiple people playing each role!
Watching this for the first time, i noticed that Michi, Laritza, and Jasleiney do this lean in by the wall shuffle when they walk in to a room to interact with family. Super clever.
Hi 👋
This was so beautiful and funny!! 🤩🤣 Chile, and that throw back to Muzzy!! 🤣🤣 Te felicito
I love your abuela moments so much. The character reminds me so much of my abuela, except mine swore, constantly.
I lost my abuela a few years ago and the character is just so heartwarming to see and hear. So thanks so much!
¡Ai Flor calmate! 🤣
Bonding over the chisme!!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️love it!!! 🤣😂😂😂😂
Spanglish, ese momento when you start a pensar en dos idiomas at the same tiempo
The way it took me like several minutes to realize that Michi was talking only in English and Abuela was responding only in Spanish haha. It is like that sometimes!
I miss mis abuelas :)
6:15
I remember that commercial! You threw it back! Way back! Back in time!
I legit watch these to build my Spanish listening skills, so this is kinda funny.
Aaww! This made me smile! Reminds me of myself! There is something so special about growing up living with your grandparents! I have so many wonderful memories of my childhood with them! "Helping" gramama cook while listening (and "ti-ta-ti-tu" dancing) to polka music in the kitchen and then sitting in my grandpa (I called him Bop)'s lap watching and rooting for the Dodgers even tho I had zero clue what was going on! Magical times! 🥰💭
"But this abuelo os not French she's Cuban" I immediately knew that reference lmao. Nostalgia
Lol! This made me think of my grandpa Joe. He would speak to me in Spanish and I would speak in English. But we always knew what we were saying. Good memories
There's nothing like some good old-fashioned chisme to bring the family together... LOL
Chisme bringing the family together!
Abuela, La reina de los chismes 😂😂😂👍👍👍
"She's not going to be around forever" I hear this everyday 😀😭
Sooooo relatable XD I'm Portuguese but have family and friends in Spain and France so when we're together we each speak our own language, just like this. Also, I died at that "sorry con excuse me" XD
"Ingles Sin Barreras" had my DYING!!! Had to look up the old commercials. Thank you for the trip down memory lane!
¡Ay Dios mio! Watching the conversation between Michi and her abuela. I got into what they were saying to each other and a cierto punto didn't realize that they were speaking two languages. I understood it all as one language. I grew up speaking Spanglish too with bilingual relatives who understood English, but spoke Spanish. We are Cuban too. This just flowed so naturally I didn't even distinguish between the two. I miss mi tia abuela's jardin. It sounds just like Michi's abuelo's. 👍
I just tune them out,LOL!!!!
This is the most real life thing Ive ever seen, and I feel like I say that at every video xD
You didn't have to cut them off! Let me know the secret! 😂
Flor getting giddy thinking about Tetris 🤣
Michi is curious about the chisme 🤣🤣
Not me getting close to the photo to 👂 el chisme 🤣🤣🤣🤣
This was like being at my nanas house. this brought back alot of memories. Thanks
Oh man, this takes me back to middle school. Our family was exactly like this when my grandma was still alive, right down to the mother saying "you're wasting your summer playing videogames" and trying to get her mother to practice english. So relatable, and funny! And nostalgic... T_T
This kinda reminds me of me and my grandma except we're Haitian! I feel like the "chisme" part would definitely be accurate if she were still around 😂😂
I need a 30 min sitcom 😫, it's just not long enough. Love it so much. I look forward to every min 🥰
Nothing like chisme to join the generations 😂
That's exactly how my abuela and I would communicate. Confused the hell out of people at the supermarket.
Hey Jenny! Te quiero mucho!! Tu es loca!! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
omg I remember that commercial at the end!!..LoL
Not the "Ingles sin barreras" aaaaaaaaaaahhhhh akshsjsbsjnd
Why did you leave us hanging with that juicy chisme? Hope we find out in _el próximo capítulo_ !
I miss my Abuela. She was a sweetheart! Loved the video. It was very funny as usual! It gave me the feels. Sad, but good feels.
michi was giving mad laritza face. they grow up so fast!
I am American born. My mother also American. My stepfather Mexican. I am currently learning Spanish. I am only on my first year. I hope to speak Spanish with my step father and his family one day. You post cuban spanish videos, but I have found your videos to be the most entertaining to learn and be engaged.
Michi pout the exact same way as Laritza ! It's awesome
This was my life with my Nana, thank you for showing this - love, care, and respect transcend languages ♥️
This is the most wholesome thing i have seen all day ! also HOLY COW THAT CALL BACK TO MUZZYS
I laughed out loud with the caterpillar song!!!! Awesome..... Next video , please show us Laritza fighting. I need to know! 😭😭😭
Love this. It’s so much easier to understand another language than to try and speak it. 😅
As a sometime language teacher, I explain it this way: when you speak or write a language, you have to decide which words to use out of the universe of available words. When you listen or read, you only have to identify the words that actually were used.
That was an amazing language practice glad to see they both talk a same language at the end: the beautiful language of chisme 🤭
Tia Flor gives me a panic atrack! Shes always worried and stressed 😂
Haha. Mirta is me at every family gathering of my moms.
Hi 👋
Gracias por enseñarme español de una manera tan amena!
Dos orugitas pasan la noche en abogado jajajajaja I loved it!
Ay Señor 😂
Mi mami usaba el ‘con escuse-me’ ALL THE TIME 🤣
What wonderful memories this brought up! Thanks Jenny!
I died when they showed abuelas house with the bars on the window. That's some Miami ish.
I love these videos but they are too short! I want more of these characters! I want Jenny to have a show on tv!!!
Omg the acting is AMAZING! 😮😮😍😍🌟🌟
I thought abuela was going to say to Michi, that Laritza and Ezekiel are getting married!
Lol reminds me of convos with my parents lol
That was so precious! Way to hit it out of the park again.
Hi 👋
Love you abuela!
Love these. This one was so entertaining when they both were practicing. Also an extra star for Muzzy at the end. Brings me back to my childhood
This is so wholesome! They were vibing until they had to step too far out of their comfort zones and try speaking in other languages lol
OMG Unlocked memory from the last clip!!
This video was amazing!! I keep forgetting that Michi is also played by you; You do such a great job with creating and playing your characters! I'm getting better at following along with listening to Spanish conversations, but I still can't regurgitate it.
This was actually pretty cute, reminds me of when my grandma would take care of me growing up and the moments when I didn’t know what to talk about with her 😂 This also made me miss and appreciate her more. 🥹