When I started learning Spanish at university in Germany at about 20, I still didn't know that I'd be living later on in Spain, being married to a Spaniard, speaking the language day in day out. The thrill and fascination of the language fades away when it turns into a common tool but it sometimes happens when I'm travelling in Spain , France or Germany and people hear me speaking Spanish that I notice reactions of people being amazed. Then I notice again that it is an achievement having reached this level.
I've been learning Spanish for 3 months and I've completely fallen in love with the language, it gives so many new opportunities and I don't think I could have picked a better language to learn
@@jjb._0686 There are plenty of ways to make the learning process more enjoyable you just have to find and consume content that interests you, and there is a ton of content in Spanish to be found
@@jjb._0686 Same for me, I am just learning some words but I can understand everything written and spoken (if slowly and clearly) since I am fluent in Italian (lived 4 years in Italy and spoke for 10 years online about literally every subject since my native language, Romanian, isn't very popular)
@@jjb._0686 I agree but if you want to learn Spanish let me suggest Columbia soaps. While learning a language you can feast on some very beautiful woman. A bonus, you will find very well produced television with excellent acting and as a bonus the country speaks one of the best versions of Spanish.
I’m from California and I’ve studied Spanish since I was 10 (I’m 28). Learning Spanish has changed my life in so many ways especially as it has opened so many opportunities for me and has given me the honor of getting to better understand and connect with so many different communities. I still believe that I wouldn’t have had my current job as easily if I never learned Spanish. I’ll be a nurse soon and the fact I know Spanish puts me ahead of the competition.
I am an upper intermediate Spanish learner who understands reasonably well already. And I can only say I fully agree! Spanish has truly enriched my life!
Spanish is a beautiful language. Fortunately,I didn't even struggle to learn it due to the fact that this language is pretty similar with Portuguese,my mother tongue. But it doesn't mean I didn't have to study to get fluent in Spanish
Portuguese is my first language, and I consider English as being my second language. I'm trying to learn French right now, but people here in Brazil will probably advise you to learn Spanish instead. I really love Spanish, but I find French more challenging to learn, and that's what motivates me in part. But I really want to learn Spanish some day 🙏🏻
My native language is Croatian but I can speak Spanish and Portuguese among languages that I can speak or understand. Spanish helped me in learning Portuguese when I'd started with it and today my Portuguese is better than my Spanish since I use it daily with my Brazilian wife. In my channel I have several videos speaking in Portuguese. I'd say that when it comes to pronunciation, Spanish is easier than Portuguese. Greetings to all!
Spanish is one of those languages for me that's more fun the more I study, learn, and use it. I wasn't hyped/super passionate about it when I started learning it, but I live in a place in the US where Spanish is everywhere. Now it's genuinely interesting discovering all of the things in my city and online I didn't understand before
Spanish is a very useful tool. I recently went to Mexico for the first time and many of the experiences I had there wouldn't have been possible without being able to connect directly with the people through their language. Gracias por el video y tu dedicación a la enseñanza del idiomas.
I started taking Spanish classes at age 14 in high school. I ended up with a BA in Spanish.i can speak spanish fluently when i am using it everyday. My accent is decent. I am not mistaken for a natice speaker generally . However i have had multiple occaisons whenr spanish soeakers thoughr my parents were feom Latin America, Because i grew up in New.jersey with a mother feom the Deep South, i heard 2 different dialects of English everyday. It helped me to pick up on subtle difference in pronounciation, different vocabulay etc. I can mimic many dialects of English. I was able to apply this to Spanish . Knowing Spanish has been very helpful at getting jobs. 2 candidates with similar skills nd education, being bilingual gives me and edge over others . And i can read and write Spanish as well. Many people who speak spanish athome never formally learn Spanish. So they can not fully comprehend written Spanish. Nor can they write a formal letter wirh proper grammar. Which can lead to misunderstandings. I had a professor from Uruguay. She showed us several articles about how even if you are not a native speaker you can still have an edge over the muriad of Spanish/English bilingual people. You have a broader perspective on many things by being bilingual. Being rhe the US having spanish media acailable gice opportunity to hear Spanish everyday. In high scool i would listen spanish language radio, watch Spanish language TV. The availbilty of Spanish media along with a giod education in various cultures in the spanush speakig world is invaluable.
My girlfriend is from Uruguay, i am from Italy, i already have a very good knowledge of the Enghlish language, but now learning also Spanish is really challenging!!
Just wanted to say thank you soooo much for your books!!!! First time picked up at Barnes and nobles and couldn’t have picked up a better book to learn Spanish. My grandmother and I read one of your chapters every day and have moved on to the second book after tremendously increasing my Spanish speaking capabilities! Thank you for your masterpieces!!!
@@elxxurii9470 se le entiende de sobra, ha dicho que lo está aprendiendo y está contento por ello, que ha cambiado su vida a mejor y que ha hecho amigos gracias a ello, esa actitud que tenéis algunos con la gente es lo que hace que la gente tenga miedo de aprender cosas nuevas, además tú has escrito "por que" separado, cuando en esa oración va junto
I started learning Spanish before the internet was a thing. I went for immersion and also reading (story learning avant la lettre). I now live happily in Spain and read a lot of books in Spanish as well as happily chatting with people in shops - and that in Sevilla which has its own accent. Only today somebody said to me "No hablo castellano, hablo andalú"
I have your Spanish book and I must say it is absolutely incredible! I can't remember ever spending money on a book before, but I spent my own savings on this Spanish book. I can tell you I never regretted it for a second! I have a Spanish exam tomorrow, so reading this book before going to bed is the best way to practice 😎
However I don't speak spanish as native language,this video makes me feel so proud of speaking spanish spoken by almost 500 million people as native language
Great video!!! Spanish is my native language. I enjoy practicing My English through audiobooks, podcasts and ebooks. I mostly practice my English through stories. Learning a new language is absolutely a joy. Thanks for your videos.
I'm 27 y'o right now and speak 4 languages in a different levels. Till my 37th birthday I have plans to learn eight more including Spanish. Wish me luck guys.
@@hyperion3135 1. Japanese(for soul purposes, desire: JLPT3 would be enough), 2. Polish(for business opportunities, desire: B2-C1), 3. French(to go there, B1), 4. German (for business opportunities, B2), 5. Spanish(for fun and going abroad, B1), 6. Italian(To make order in Italian restaurant, A2), 7. Egyptian Arabic(Just for fun but business possible, B2), 8. Hebrew(Don't ask, B1)
Best of luck to you, брат! You already speak more languages than most people do, so you’re doing great. I speak English (native) & Spanish (nearly native-Latino family). And I’m currently learning Brazilian Portuguese & Indonesian daily, while I also study Haitian Creole (3 times a week), & (admittedly) BARELY learning any Ukrainian, Russian, & Swahili. But I did memorize the Cyrillic letters in both Slavic languages, so I can read in Ukrainian & Russian (even though I don’t understand 95% of the words unless it sounds similar to English or Spanish like мотор😂) I do like how Ukrainian sounds way more phonetic than Russian, especially with the «о» not sometimes sounding like “ah” like in Russian’s «мОтор» & «мОлОко». My grandpa was Ukrainian, so it’d be cool to learn a little regardless.
TV is huge for me. I think TV is to me what stories are to Olly. I grew up in the West Indies, an are not populous enough for US cable to care about specifically, so we got lumped in with Latin America. So I grew up always seeing ads in Spanish and often watching movies as well. School wise, I dropped Spanish after year 2 on 7-years of secondary school, but kept French all the way through. Yet still ended up taking French and Spanish at uni. I was able to test into the Spanish program because of TV. Now, I rarely watch TV in my native language - English - or my daily use language -Japanese. I find TV an easy way to keep other languages active in my brain. Plus, it really does widen your options and your world. I also think, languages and regions have certain themes that pop up a lot. For example, nobody does revolution themes like Latin America. If you like dystopian, you can find some really good shows in Spanish and Portuguese..
The good thing about living in Latin America and knowing Spanish is that you can travel to many countries and besides the accent, you don't have to learn another language to communicate with people. You can even be understood in Brazil but it's much better to learn Portuguese to go there.
I read an article years ago about the rise of Spanish in China, and the other day a woman from China I work with in a Spanish speaking environment told me that there's lots of Chinese speaking Spanish as a third language now
I'm from Spain close to the Portuguese border, so I speak Spanish and good Portuñol. I got fluent English in Canada. Almost the entire America is in my hands.
You're right about Spanish. I hear Spanish more than any language besides English. I've noticed that it's even in more media without a translation. Very family-oriented culture. They'll take care of you if you marry into the family. Lol
I look forward to starting my Spanish language journey in July. I'm hoping that the experience of having already learnt a second language to B2/C1 fluency will make the journey easier for me.
As a guatemalan (with spanish as my main language obviously) I´ve know english for like, more than a decade by now. I actually taught some spanish for the online classes Duolingo offered, since the service it's down, I kinda made this channel with the intention of keep teaching spanish with heavy focus on grammar. like pronouncing the Ñ and some other details, a lot of it will be the core of spanish, details that I´ve seen not many people teach, one day I´ll post the first video. This is inpsiring to get back to work on the videos.
I speak 3 languages , ( Native Spanish ) for me , listening , practicing with people is the key, leave grammar for last , ask people things like how do you say this & that, situations etc..
I'm a native Spanish speaker. I'm proud to speak this beautiful language, and I will never abandon this language of my heart. I wanted to speak English only, but it's ridiculous. Spanish pronunciation is easier than English or French pronunciation. Greetings from Colombia!
1.El español es muy fácil pero es no la misma que el inglés, el inglés es más hablado 2. En efecto español es fácil especialmente cuando yo hablo francés 3. La R en español es muy difícil, pero es más fácil de aprender el castellano excepto la gramática 4.Los películas son mejores en inglés que en español obviamente,la casa de papel me gusta pero soy perezoso 5. Verdad 6.verdad pero los bebes son mejores 😂 7.en efecto,me gusta los experimentó,pero necesito tiempo para eso 😅 8.Preferido aprender a propósito de España 🇪🇸 que Argentina 🇦🇷 9.Hablo fluido español,y tienes razón pero sólo en algunos países 10.me gusta viajar también Gracias para la vídeo amigo !
There's a very good reason why the Hawaiian language is endangered - after the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom in 1893, teaching and learning through the medium of Hawaiian was banned in 1896. Many Hawaiian elders have told of being punished for speaking Hawaiian at school. Hawaiian language would not be heard in schools for the next four generations. So much for freedom and self-determination, right?
And spanish is language that if you go to a mexico, venezuela , cuba, argentina etc atleast 99% of people in those countries speak spanish as their home language. So you not talking to a few people, you can talk to the whole country
Portuguese is fun (learning it rn) but it's basically the same syntax as spanish with way more difficulty on pronunciation, way more vowels for example, and not that universal if that's what you're aiming at
Olly I wanted to ask. You talk a lot about the short stories of yours in different languages. But I've been wondering, do you write them yourself personally or you have a native speaker write them for you?
Ive been learninf spanish on and off for about 2 years and i always veiwed it as a very hars language to learn. There is so many things tou have to just know oe memorize becausw you cant use a pattern
I go where Duolingo tells me to go. For example, it has Castilian Spanish so I learn that and Metropolitian/Parisian French so, I learn that as well lol.
@@marcocisneros8643 Yo he estado aprendiendo Inglés por 7 años, todavía mi nivel intermedio. Pero creo que el Español es más difícil que el Inglés, especialmente la gramática, porque hay tanto tiempos y yo aún no se acostumbrado a user el, la, Los, del... 😿
@@mirae9163 Reglas gramaticales de género. Los sustantivos son femeninos cuando terminan en: -ción/sión: la pronunciación, la atención, la situación, la extorsión... -a: la chica, la risa... (excepciones pequeñas: el rosa...) -dad: la ciudad, la cantidad, la felicidad, la navidad, la maldad... -lud: la salud... -tud: la juventud, la actitud... -tad: la libertad, la lealtad, amistad... Los sustantivos son masculinos cuando terminan en: -o: el chico, el abrigo, el rojo... (pequeñas excepciones: la moto, la foto...) -or: el comedor, el roedor, el motor... -ote: el pegote, el lote, el mote... -án: el huracán... Los sustantivos que empiezan por "a" son masculinos en singular y femeninos en plural: -El agua -> las aguas -El ave -> Las aves
4 out of the 9 countries listed aren’t even Spanish speaking countries: Cayman Islands, Belize, & the country of Antigua & Barbuda speak Caribbean English. And obviously you already mentioned Brazil.
Both my father and I are trying to learn Spanish at the same time and I'm having an easier time because I grew up with my mother in Canada speaking french since kindergarten and he has no foreign language experience whatsoever. He gets mad every time the sentence structure changes and has mostly given up. I, on the other hand, know more Spanish now than my boyfriend who is half Dominican half Puerto Rican who grew up not speaking Spanish in New York.
I think you've missed one more reason to learn or at least to become familiar of spanish: Music. (Or is it included among the 11 reasons and I've just missed it?) Just think about Julio Iglesias, Las Ketchup, Sebastien Abaldonato, among many others...
Not to mention reading Don Quixote or Cervantes in general. Always kinda shocks me that the guy who wrote what's considered the first ever modern novel is barely mentioned on english media.
@@belstar1128 For instance, Los Brincos made many real good music in 1960's. The first spanish music I've ever heard was Ivan - Fotonovela (1984) It's the one which made me interested in Spanish language at the first place.
@@maximipe Didn't know them really. Meanwhile, I'm a Turk living in Turkey. Don Quixote is reported to be a novel which is considered one of the greatest works of literature ever written. Gonna take a look at it more later. By the way, one more reason for learning Spanish could be their counter culture, I mean the Spanish people's not always abiding by the capitalism, speaking against the tyranny, etc. Of course, there are many respectable people in English or other language cultures doing the same but the Spanish do it in a particular brave manner which makes you wanna learn Spanish.
@@Teri_Berk Is that a book? Never heard of it, and sure there are many good english authors but imo Cervantes in particular often gets overshadowed by Shakespeare when talking to english speakers.
I speak Native Estonian, fluent german (people tell me it is damn near perfect accent), english and learning japanese, i might learn spanish if it was useful.
@@watermelon3679 Well when i was 3-4 years old i started watching german cartoons and later german tv shows and i naturally picked it up. I never learned german in school, i learned a bit of writing when talking in text to other germans in online games. I learned german similar to how many people learn english via using the internet.
Los angloparlantes aprenden español y los hispanos aprendemos ingles y asi podemos hablar con tres cuartas partes del mundo. El resto tienen que estudiar dos idiomas.
Do you have a video on how to learn unknown languages or languages that are dying. Such as Native American tribes. I’m trying to learn my language and I am finding it hard cause we don’t the resources that well known languages have.
Para el presente en inglés, se utilizan 2 conjugaciones diferentes en español: -Presente de indicativo -Presente de subjuntivo PAra el pretérito (past perfect) en inglés, se utilizan 2 conjugaciones diferentes en español: -Pretérito perfecto simple de indicativo -Pretérito perfecto simple de subjuntivo PAra el presente perfecto (present perfect) en inglés, se utilizan 2 conjugaciones diferentes en español: -Presente perfecto compuesto de Indicativo -Pretérito perfecto compuesto de Subjuntivo Para el pluperfect de inglés (también conocido como past perfect simple/past perfect continous), se utilizan 2 conjugaciones diferentes en español: -Pretérito pluscuamperfecto de indicativo -Pretérito pluscuamperfecto de subjuntivo -Pretérito imperfecto de indicativo: equivale al "...used to" -> Yo estudiaba/Yo solía estudiar: I used to study (puede también traducirse como "I studied") -Pretérito imperfecto de subjuntivo: equivale al "...were to"-> Yo estudiara/Yo fuera a estudiar: I were to study (puede también traducirse como "I studied") HOW DO YOU KNOW IF IT'S INDICATIVE OR SUBJUNTIVE: -Indicative: para expresar acciones que se consideran reales o concretas -Subjuntive: para expresar acciones que no son reales o concretas, sino que se refieren a deseos, emociones, posibilidades, hipótesis, dudas, incertidumbres, etc. So for example, in the sentence: "I hope I sing tomorrow" -> "Ojalá cantE mañana" ✅(NO, "Ojalá cantO mañana" ❌because you wish to be that way)
@@jay-on5nd Para situaciones futuras utilizamos el presente, el futuro simple, el futuro compuesto... Presente: para acciones futuras extremadamente recientes. Ej: Espera, cierro la ventana. (en inglés aquí diríais más "Wait, I will close the window) Si la acción no la consideras inmediata, podrías decir, "Voy a cerrar la ventana" También "En 10 minutos como" (In 10 minutes I will eat" PAra un futuro cercano, pero no inmediato utilizamos el "Ir a (infinitivo)". En la oración "En 10 minutos como", podemos decir "En 10 minutos voy a comer" si consideramos que la acción pertenece a un futuro y no tanto al momento actual (depende del hablante) Para futuros más lejanos, pero no tan lejanos utilizamos el "Ir a (infinitivo)". Ej: "Mañana va a llover" (Tomorrow is going to rain). Si el hablante considera que el día de Mañana es un futuro lejano, entonces también se acepta "Mañana lloverá" (Tomorrow it will rain). PAra futuros más lejanos, utilizamos el futuro simple también, como el inglés. Ej: "En 10 años estaré en Europa" (In 10 years, I will be in Europe) Al igual que el inglés, utilizaremos el futuro compuesto (will infinitive) o futuro simple (will have + participle), dependiendo de si queremos decir que esa acción se habrá finalizado o finalizará. Básicamente, LA ÚNICA DIFERENCIA en el futuro es que para acciones extremadamente recientes utilizamos el presente o la estructura "Ir a + infinitivo". También utilizamos las mismas estructuras de "will be ...", etc que el inglés. PEro no me molesto en explicarlo porque es exactamente igual. Ej: Mañana estáre estudiando, así que no me molestes (I'll be studying tomorrow, so don't bother me)
@@jay-on5nd EN EL PASADO. PAra el pretérito (past perfect simple) en inglés, se utiliza el: -Pretérito perfecto simple de indicativo -Pretérito imperfecto de indicativo -Pretérito imperfecto de subjuntivo PAra el presente perfecto (present perfect) en inglés, se utilizan 2 conjugaciones diferentes en español: -Presente perfecto compuesto de Indicativo -Pretérito perfecto compuesto de Subjuntivo Para el pluperfect de inglés (también conocido como past perfect simple/past perfect continous), se utilizan 2 conjugaciones diferentes en español: -Pretérito pluscuamperfecto de indicativo -Pretérito pluscuamperfecto de subjuntivo -Pretérito imperfecto de indicativo: equivale al "...used to" -> Yo estudiaba/Yo solía estudiar: I used to study (puede también traducirse como "I studied") -Pretérito imperfecto de subjuntivo: equivale al "...were to"-> Yo estudiara/Yo fuera a estudiar: I were to study (puede también traducirse como "I studied") HOW DO YOU KNOW IF IT'S INDICATIVE OR SUBJUNTIVE: -Indicativo: para expresar acciones que se consideran reales o concretas -Subjuntivo: para expresar acciones que no son reales o concretas, sino que se refieren a deseos, emociones, posibilidades, hipótesis, dudas, incertidumbres, etc.
@@jay-on5nd Ejemplos: I wish I could live without haste. Ojalá pudiera vivir sin prisas ✅(Pretérito imperfecto de Subjuntivo) Ojalá podía vivir sin prisas ❌(Pretérito imperfecto de Indicativo) "Ojalá" denota algo que no es real, sino que desearías que fuera real, por eso se utiliza el Subjuntivo I used to sing when I was young: Solía cantar cuando ERA pequeño ✅(Era = pretérito imperfecto de indicativo) Solía cantar cuando FUI pequeño ❌(Fui = pretérito perfecto simple de Indicativo) Solía cantar cuando FUERA pequeño ❌(Fuera = pretérito imperfecto de Subjuntivo) Yo CANTABA cuando era pequeño ✅ Yo CANTÉ cuando fui pequeño ✅ Yo CANTARA cuando fuera pequeño ❌ Yo solía cantar cuando SOLÍA SER pequeño ❌ "Fuera" y "cantara" son verbos conjugados en subjuntivo. El subjuntivo no puede utilizarse para contar acciones que han tenido lugar, que tuvieron lugar, que tendrán lugar. Por lo tanto, descartamos el Subjuntivo. "Solía ser pequeño" (I used to be young) no es una acción correcta. "SOLÍA CANTAR cuando FUI pequeño" no son conjugaciones que deban ir juntas, ya que "Solía cantar" o "Cantaba" indican una acción del pasado que se iba repitiendo, una acción habitual (I used to), mientras que "Fui" es pretérito perfecto simple, es decir, indica una acción que sucedió en un momento concreto del pasado.
I did Duolingo Spanish for over a year. I don't remember any of it. In the app it seemed like I was learning, but outside of that I couldn't recall a damn thing, so I just gave up.
Me being a native spanish looking for americans to see if my language is difficult or not😅 In fact, I'm learning English now and I think I'm going quite well, jeje good luck everyone^^❤🎉
As a Filipino, I feel obligated to relearn the language that is part of my culture. The language that our forefathers once used. That is enough reason for me.
Why does Olly look so young? He has learnt so many languages, he certainly must be in his 40's to have had the time to lern them, yet he looks no older than 25. Can anyone tell me how old he actually is?
how to know what language to learn in 2024... Italian, French and German were the common languages to learn when I grew up in Sweden... Spanish was on the way out... I later learned Mandarin due to my interest in Buddhism and working as a journalist and moved to Taiwan.. but now 20 years later I do not feel I got any use of Chinese at all... I loved the time back then. But it feels very distant to me and I hate communism and the rude behaviour or mainland Chinese people... So am thinking I should learn a language where the culture and people are very open and caring and interested in making friends with you... I like to move to a new country where it is clearly warmer than Sweden... both warmer people and climate...there is clearly no climate crisis here is minus 20 degrees Celsius in Stockholm... but what countries will have the most open and easygoing way to make friends and a stable community where you feel welcome and can develop a life as a foreigner without having to live around other expats or drunk Englishmen? I want to be more part of the local community and really immerse myself into a country, a city, the culture and the discussions... which countries to avoid and which ones to reflect upon moving to then? thanks to anyone getting back and sharing their own experiences of what they think might be the best in 2024!
Please don't play that music in the background. It is the great typical topic of Spanish culture that represents only a part of the country. It's like saying that English culture (for example) is reduced to 5 o'clock tea.
Tienes razon campeon, que ponga mejor una sardana que esa es mas representativa del pais... O a lo mejor una de los Rolling Stones?... Pero bueno, para asegurarnos... podria poner el himno de España, que asi no protestaria nadie.... ahh no espera... 🤔🤔 Le vas a decir tu a la gente el tipo de musica que tiene que poner en SUS videos.... faltaria mas.
In context, it sounds like what he meant was these are the countries in the area that currently offer a digital nomad visa, and you get people who speak Spanish there - not necessarily that Spanish is an official language of these countries, just that it would be somewhat useful. It definitely seems to be more about the digital nomad visa than anything else.
Hey Olly, I really enjoy your videos! But you mention orphanage volunteering. Did you know that there has been a huge problem with trafficking children into these orphanages, because the volunteers pay large fees that encourage unscrupulous institutions to hire "child finders"? I know you wouldn't have included orphanage voluntourism if you had known. The British government put out a travel advisory in 2020 but TH-cam is weird about links so I won't add it.
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When I started learning Spanish at university in Germany at about 20, I still didn't know that I'd be living later on in Spain, being married to a Spaniard, speaking the language day in day out. The thrill and fascination of the language fades away when it turns into a common tool but it sometimes happens when I'm travelling in Spain , France or Germany and people hear me speaking Spanish that I notice reactions of people being amazed. Then I notice again that it is an achievement having reached this level.
I've been learning Spanish for 3 months and I've completely fallen in love with the language, it gives so many new opportunities and I don't think I could have picked a better language to learn
My experience has been the complete opposite, I honestly find it so boring to learn , and this is coming from someone who loves learning languages.
@@jjb._0686 There are plenty of ways to make the learning process more enjoyable you just have to find and consume content that interests you, and there is a ton of content in Spanish to be found
@@jjb._0686 Same for me, I am just learning some words but I can understand everything written and spoken (if slowly and clearly) since I am fluent in Italian (lived 4 years in Italy and spoke for 10 years online about literally every subject since my native language, Romanian, isn't very popular)
@@jjb._0686 pues no te gusta dilo, aprendes un idioma es si te interesa.
@@jjb._0686 I agree but if you want to learn Spanish let me suggest Columbia soaps. While learning a language you can feast on some very beautiful woman. A bonus, you will find very well produced television with excellent acting and as a bonus the country speaks one of the best versions of Spanish.
I’m from California and I’ve studied Spanish since I was 10 (I’m 28). Learning Spanish has changed my life in so many ways especially as it has opened so many opportunities for me and has given me the honor of getting to better understand and connect with so many different communities. I still believe that I wouldn’t have had my current job as easily if I never learned Spanish. I’ll be a nurse soon and the fact I know Spanish puts me ahead of the competition.
I am an upper intermediate Spanish learner who understands reasonably well already. And I can only say I fully agree! Spanish has truly enriched my life!
Learning spanish has been one of the best decisions Ive made in my life
how'd it help you
Spanish is a beautiful language. Fortunately,I didn't even struggle to learn it due to the fact that this language is pretty similar with Portuguese,my mother tongue. But it doesn't mean I didn't have to study to get fluent in Spanish
Funny
Same for me but backwards lol
A lingua portuguesa é uma das melhores kkkkkkk
Portuguese is my first language, and I consider English as being my second language. I'm trying to learn French right now, but people here in Brazil will probably advise you to learn Spanish instead. I really love Spanish, but I find French more challenging to learn, and that's what motivates me in part. But I really want to learn Spanish some day 🙏🏻
I love Portuguese, it’s awesome.
@Владимир Белый That is how I feel about Italian sort of. French words pronounced in Spanish. Lol.
I am learning French, Spanish and Portuguse. I really all of them
@Deutsch mit Purple what is your native language
Spanish is my native language and I’m learning Portuguese at the moment and I love it!!
My native language is Croatian but I can speak Spanish and Portuguese among languages that I can speak or understand. Spanish helped me in learning Portuguese when I'd started with it and today my Portuguese is better than my Spanish since I use it daily with my Brazilian wife. In my channel I have several videos speaking in Portuguese. I'd say that when it comes to pronunciation, Spanish is easier than Portuguese. Greetings to all!
Spanish is one of those languages for me that's more fun the more I study, learn, and use it. I wasn't hyped/super passionate about it when I started learning it, but I live in a place in the US where Spanish is everywhere. Now it's genuinely interesting discovering all of the things in my city and online I didn't understand before
Spanish is a very useful tool. I recently went to Mexico for the first time and many of the experiences I had there wouldn't have been possible without being able to connect directly with the people through their language. Gracias por el video y tu dedicación a la enseñanza del idiomas.
I started taking Spanish classes at age 14 in high school. I ended up with a BA in Spanish.i can speak spanish fluently when i am using it everyday. My accent is decent. I am not mistaken for a natice speaker generally . However i have had multiple occaisons whenr spanish soeakers thoughr my parents were feom Latin America, Because i grew up in New.jersey with a mother feom the Deep South, i heard 2 different dialects of English everyday. It helped me to pick up on subtle difference in pronounciation, different vocabulay etc. I can mimic many dialects of English. I was able to apply this to Spanish . Knowing Spanish has been very helpful at getting jobs. 2 candidates with similar skills nd education, being bilingual gives me and edge over others .
And i can read and write Spanish as well. Many people who speak spanish athome never formally learn Spanish. So they can not fully comprehend written Spanish. Nor can they write a formal letter wirh proper grammar. Which can lead to misunderstandings. I had a professor from Uruguay. She showed us several articles about how even if you are not a native speaker you can still have an edge over the muriad of Spanish/English bilingual people.
You have a broader perspective on many things by being bilingual. Being rhe the US having spanish media acailable gice opportunity to hear Spanish everyday. In high scool i would listen spanish language radio, watch Spanish language TV. The availbilty of Spanish media along with a giod education in various cultures in the spanush speakig world is invaluable.
¿Hola, sabes lo que digo?. Saludos.
Me watching this video being a native Spanish speaker lol
Welcome!
Same here 😊
Hahaha me too hahah
Me too
Me encanta no ser el único
Spanish is #1 for english speakers on DueLingo now 35 million studying it
My girlfriend is from Uruguay, i am from Italy, i already have a very good knowledge of the Enghlish language, but now learning also Spanish is really challenging!!
Just wanted to say thank you soooo much for your books!!!! First time picked up at Barnes and nobles and couldn’t have picked up a better book to learn Spanish. My grandmother and I read one of your chapters every day and have moved on to the second book after tremendously increasing my Spanish speaking capabilities! Thank you for your masterpieces!!!
Aprendo español y me alegro que lo aprendo, ha cambiado mi vida por lo mejor, he hecho amigos que sin aprender , nunca conocería .
Intenta aprender mejor el español, por que en la frase que has dicho lo has dicho todo mal 😂😂😂
@@elxxurii9470 se le entiende de sobra, ha dicho que lo está aprendiendo y está contento por ello, que ha cambiado su vida a mejor y que ha hecho amigos gracias a ello, esa actitud que tenéis algunos con la gente es lo que hace que la gente tenga miedo de aprender cosas nuevas, además tú has escrito "por que" separado, cuando en esa oración va junto
I started learning Spanish before the internet was a thing. I went for immersion and also reading (story learning avant la lettre). I now live happily in Spain and read a lot of books in Spanish as well as happily chatting with people in shops - and that in Sevilla which has its own accent. Only today somebody said to me "No hablo castellano, hablo andalú"
I have your Spanish book and I must say it is absolutely incredible! I can't remember ever spending money on a book before, but I spent my own savings on this Spanish book. I can tell you I never regretted it for a second! I have a Spanish exam tomorrow, so reading this book before going to bed is the best way to practice 😎
This video makes me feel so proud of being a native Spanish speaker... Mi Gente Latina stand up!
señor xd
However I don't speak spanish as native language,this video makes me feel so proud of speaking spanish spoken by almost 500 million people as native language
Great video!!! Spanish is my native language. I enjoy practicing My English through audiobooks, podcasts and ebooks. I mostly practice my English through stories. Learning a new language is absolutely a joy. Thanks for your videos.
I'm 27 y'o right now and speak 4 languages in a different levels. Till my 37th birthday I have plans to learn eight more including Spanish. Wish me luck guys.
Which ones do you want to learn?
@@hyperion3135 1. Japanese(for soul purposes, desire: JLPT3 would be enough), 2. Polish(for business opportunities, desire: B2-C1), 3. French(to go there, B1), 4. German (for business opportunities, B2), 5. Spanish(for fun and going abroad, B1), 6. Italian(To make order in Italian restaurant, A2), 7. Egyptian Arabic(Just for fun but business possible, B2), 8. Hebrew(Don't ask, B1)
@@daseinstudioua2609 I like your ambitions. Which languages do you speak already?
@@hyperion3135 Ukrainian and Russian fluent, English is a bit worse than first two. And B1 in Turkish.
Best of luck to you, брат! You already speak more languages than most people do, so you’re doing great. I speak English (native) & Spanish (nearly native-Latino family). And I’m currently learning Brazilian Portuguese & Indonesian daily, while I also study Haitian Creole (3 times a week), & (admittedly) BARELY learning any Ukrainian, Russian, & Swahili.
But I did memorize the Cyrillic letters in both Slavic languages, so I can read in Ukrainian & Russian (even though I don’t understand 95% of the words unless it sounds similar to English or Spanish like мотор😂) I do like how Ukrainian sounds way more phonetic than Russian, especially with the «о» not sometimes sounding like “ah” like in Russian’s «мОтор» & «мОлОко». My grandpa was Ukrainian, so it’d be cool to learn a little regardless.
TV is huge for me. I think TV is to me what stories are to Olly. I grew up in the West Indies, an are not populous enough for US cable to care about specifically, so we got lumped in with Latin America. So I grew up always seeing ads in Spanish and often watching movies as well. School wise, I dropped Spanish after year 2 on 7-years of secondary school, but kept French all the way through. Yet still ended up taking French and Spanish at uni. I was able to test into the Spanish program because of TV.
Now, I rarely watch TV in my native language - English - or my daily use language -Japanese. I find TV an easy way to keep other languages active in my brain. Plus, it really does widen your options and your world. I also think, languages and regions have certain themes that pop up a lot. For example, nobody does revolution themes like Latin America. If you like dystopian, you can find some really good shows in Spanish and Portuguese..
The good thing about living in Latin America and knowing Spanish is that you can travel to many countries and besides the accent, you don't have to learn another language to communicate with people. You can even be understood in Brazil but it's much better to learn Portuguese to go there.
I read an article years ago about the rise of Spanish in China, and the other day a woman from China I work with in a Spanish speaking environment told me that there's lots of Chinese speaking Spanish as a third language now
I just like how the language sounds
I'm from Spain close to the Portuguese border, so I speak Spanish and good Portuñol. I got fluent English in Canada. Almost the entire America is in my hands.
Para mí, casi todos los americanos son en mi manos desde hablo español, francés y ingles. Pero no tengo portugués
You're right about Spanish. I hear Spanish more than any language besides English. I've noticed that it's even in more media without a translation. Very family-oriented culture. They'll take care of you if you marry into the family. Lol
11:51 French is the rebel one among the romance languages. Very accurate. 🤣
Spanish is very melodic I find. I am learning it again with French and three other languages.
Spanish is the perfect combination of useful and pretty, in my opinion. What other languages are you learning?
I look forward to starting my Spanish language journey in July. I'm hoping that the experience of having already learnt a second language to B2/C1 fluency will make the journey easier for me.
Nice video. Chinese (Cantonese and Mandarin) will forever be my most important language to maintain and I'm actively learning German right now.
As a guatemalan (with spanish as my main language obviously) I´ve know english for like, more than a decade by now.
I actually taught some spanish for the online classes Duolingo offered, since the service it's down, I kinda made this channel with the intention of keep teaching spanish with heavy focus on grammar. like pronouncing the Ñ and some other details, a lot of it will be the core of spanish, details that I´ve seen not many people teach, one day I´ll post the first video.
This is inpsiring to get back to work on the videos.
What's the past tense of teach again?
@@laingman0727 Dam, my mistake, thanks.
GRACIAS ! YA ESTOY APRENDIENDO ESPANOL! YOUR REASONS ARE VERY GOOD-THANK YOU!
Gracias Richard por enseñar nuestro idioma al mundo anglo..saludos desde Caracas, Venezuela. Miguel
I've been learning this language for months and I get pretty satisfied when I speak it better.
I speak 3 languages , ( Native Spanish ) for me , listening , practicing with people is the key, leave grammar for last , ask people things like how do you say this & that, situations etc..
Spanish btw is the best language when singing (either the songs is originally Spanish or songs cover from other languages).
Just to correct something in this marvelous video, in the minute 9:43 Brazil is not a Spanish speaking country, its official language is Portuguese
i just finished your spanish story book intermediate
I'm a native Spanish speaker.
I'm proud to speak this beautiful language, and I will never abandon this language of my heart.
I wanted to speak English only, but it's ridiculous.
Spanish pronunciation is easier than English or French pronunciation.
Greetings from Colombia!
I wish to speak Castellano one day to go to Guatamela, Mexico and live my fullest there.
Stoked to see so much content about my TL right now!
1.El español es muy fácil pero es no la misma que el inglés, el inglés es más hablado
2. En efecto español es fácil especialmente cuando yo hablo francés
3. La R en español es muy difícil, pero es más fácil de aprender el castellano excepto la gramática
4.Los películas son mejores en inglés que en español obviamente,la casa de papel me gusta pero soy perezoso
5. Verdad
6.verdad pero los bebes son mejores 😂
7.en efecto,me gusta los experimentó,pero necesito tiempo para eso 😅
8.Preferido aprender a propósito de España 🇪🇸 que Argentina 🇦🇷
9.Hablo fluido español,y tienes razón pero sólo en algunos países
10.me gusta viajar también
Gracias para la vídeo amigo !
I have your Spanish story learning and I really love it. If you had a story learning Arabic, I’d be first in line to buy it 😉
Yes, wouldn't that be awesome! I wish there were resources as cool as Story Learning for Arabic.
There's a very good reason why the Hawaiian language is endangered - after the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom in 1893, teaching and learning through the medium of Hawaiian was banned in 1896. Many Hawaiian elders have told of being punished for speaking Hawaiian at school. Hawaiian language would not be heard in schools for the next four generations. So much for freedom and self-determination, right?
Stand up against language colonialism! Learn Hawaiian, learn Basque, learn Amazigh, learn Lakota, learn Sami, learn Ainu, learn Maori, learn Aimara, learn Zulu, learn Catalan... learn and speak!
@@haitzkarakuelotsoaaspuruko7997 Preach!
Spanish is great ❤
Great video!
If you speak Spanish... you can visit Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Romanian speaking countries.
(Especially the first two!)
And spanish is language that if you go to a mexico, venezuela , cuba, argentina etc atleast 99% of people in those countries speak spanish as their home language. So you not talking to a few people, you can talk to the whole country
I was debating on learning Portuguese as well but might wait a few years.
Do it now, it’s a fantastic language.
Portuguese is fun (learning it rn) but it's basically the same syntax as spanish with way more difficulty on pronunciation, way more vowels for example, and not that universal if that's what you're aiming at
No start now time is running out.
Do Spanish first and then move on to Portuguese. Right move.
Olly I wanted to ask. You talk a lot about the short stories of yours in different languages. But I've been wondering, do you write them yourself personally or you have a native speaker write them for you?
Yo ya hablo español.
Ive been learninf spanish on and off for about 2 years and i always veiwed it as a very hars language to learn. There is so many things tou have to just know oe memorize becausw you cant use a pattern
There are actually a lot of patterns. I recommend language transfer to learn some cognates as well as conjugations.
I go where Duolingo tells me to go. For example, it has Castilian Spanish so I learn that and Metropolitian/Parisian French so, I learn that as well lol.
Agreed, it's a great, beautiful language!
Spanish is beautiful? How so? Just another generic romance language to me
YOUR SPANISH IS EXCELLENT AND WELL PRONOUNCED.
Hola, yo estoy aprendiendo Español por mi cuenta 😺 Soy todavía un principiante. El gramática Española es my difficí de prender para mí😿
Animo, Yo he estado aprendiendo Ingles por 3 años y tambien es dificil para mi
@@marcocisneros8643 Yo he estado aprendiendo Inglés por 7 años, todavía mi nivel intermedio. Pero creo que el Español es más difícil que el Inglés, especialmente la gramática, porque hay tanto tiempos y yo aún no se acostumbrado a user el, la, Los, del... 😿
@@mirae9163 Ánimo. La práctica hace al maestro. Practica y pronto lo lograrás. ¿Cuál es tu idioma materno?
@@mep6302 Estoy de acuerdo :)
Mi idioma materno es Cantonés
@@mirae9163 Reglas gramaticales de género.
Los sustantivos son femeninos cuando terminan en:
-ción/sión: la pronunciación, la atención, la situación, la extorsión...
-a: la chica, la risa... (excepciones pequeñas: el rosa...)
-dad: la ciudad, la cantidad, la felicidad, la navidad, la maldad...
-lud: la salud...
-tud: la juventud, la actitud...
-tad: la libertad, la lealtad, amistad...
Los sustantivos son masculinos cuando terminan en:
-o: el chico, el abrigo, el rojo... (pequeñas excepciones: la moto, la foto...)
-or: el comedor, el roedor, el motor...
-ote: el pegote, el lote, el mote...
-án: el huracán...
Los sustantivos que empiezan por "a" son masculinos en singular y femeninos en plural:
-El agua -> las aguas
-El ave -> Las aves
Sennilega ætti ég að vera að læra spænsku en í staðinn er ég að læra íslensku! Ég tala nú þegar ensku og frönsku.
Yo.
Icelandic is dope.
Iceland is quite a nice place!
Wish you luck with Icelandic!
9:43 i think Brazil isn't a Spanish speaking country
I was gonna comment on that too
That's true, and 'Brazil' was probably an editing error. Mind you, about 4% of Brazilians do speak Spanish, which is quite a lot of people. 🙂
4 out of the 9 countries listed aren’t even Spanish speaking countries: Cayman Islands, Belize, & the country of Antigua & Barbuda speak Caribbean English. And obviously you already mentioned Brazil.
Both my father and I are trying to learn Spanish at the same time and I'm having an easier time because I grew up with my mother in Canada speaking french since kindergarten and he has no foreign language experience whatsoever. He gets mad every time the sentence structure changes and has mostly given up. I, on the other hand, know more Spanish now than my boyfriend who is half Dominican half Puerto Rican who grew up not speaking Spanish in New York.
Me gusta aprender espanol
Amazing video, Spanish FTW
No hay una idioma de orígen Europa mejor que español.
Been wanting to learn! I suck at rolling my Rs. Lol forget trills
I think you've missed one more reason to learn or at least to become familiar of spanish: Music. (Or is it included among the 11 reasons and I've just missed it?) Just think about Julio Iglesias, Las Ketchup, Sebastien Abaldonato, among many others...
Not to mention reading Don Quixote or Cervantes in general. Always kinda shocks me that the guy who wrote what's considered the first ever modern novel is barely mentioned on english media.
Some pretty bad examples but there is a lot of good old Spanish music from back in the day that is great.
@@belstar1128 For instance, Los Brincos made many real good music in 1960's. The first spanish music I've ever heard was Ivan - Fotonovela (1984) It's the one which made me interested in Spanish language at the first place.
@@maximipe Didn't know them really. Meanwhile, I'm a Turk living in Turkey. Don Quixote is reported to be a novel which is considered one of the greatest works of literature ever written. Gonna take a look at it more later. By the way, one more reason for learning Spanish could be their counter culture, I mean the Spanish people's not always abiding by the capitalism, speaking against the tyranny, etc. Of course, there are many respectable people in English or other language cultures doing the same but the Spanish do it in a particular brave manner which makes you wanna learn Spanish.
@@Teri_Berk Is that a book? Never heard of it, and sure there are many good english authors but imo Cervantes in particular often gets overshadowed by Shakespeare when talking to english speakers.
I speak Native Estonian, fluent german (people tell me it is damn near perfect accent), english and learning japanese, i might learn spanish if it was useful.
I admired people who learned German because it s really hard how did you learn
@@watermelon3679 Well when i was 3-4 years old i started watching german cartoons and later german tv shows and i naturally picked it up. I never learned german in school, i learned a bit of writing when talking in text to other germans in online games. I learned german similar to how many people learn english via using the internet.
More useful than German for sure
@@koiue.g8709 and 10 times easier than german
@ñ暴ώλйöওঁşלאع전گស្卐 of course, but Germany is dying anyway
Los angloparlantes aprenden español y los hispanos aprendemos ingles y asi podemos hablar con tres cuartas partes del mundo. El resto tienen que estudiar dos idiomas.
Buenos días, una pregunta... playas de Buenos Aires?
Buenos Aires, no esta frente al mar, saludos!
Además tenes la gran influencia de la musica en español, literatura, internet...
11:51 French, the odd one out lol
Love your books buddy; however, you can't drive from Costa Rica to Colombia...
Olly was clearly being humorous.
Do you have a video on how to learn unknown languages or languages that are dying. Such as Native American tribes. I’m trying to learn my language and I am finding it hard cause we don’t the resources that well known languages have.
wikitongues might have something.
The Spanish subjunctive is tough going....
Para el presente en inglés, se utilizan 2 conjugaciones diferentes en español:
-Presente de indicativo
-Presente de subjuntivo
PAra el pretérito (past perfect) en inglés, se utilizan 2 conjugaciones diferentes en español:
-Pretérito perfecto simple de indicativo
-Pretérito perfecto simple de subjuntivo
PAra el presente perfecto (present perfect) en inglés, se utilizan 2 conjugaciones diferentes en español:
-Presente perfecto compuesto de Indicativo
-Pretérito perfecto compuesto de Subjuntivo
Para el pluperfect de inglés (también conocido como past perfect simple/past perfect continous), se utilizan 2 conjugaciones diferentes en español:
-Pretérito pluscuamperfecto de indicativo
-Pretérito pluscuamperfecto de subjuntivo
-Pretérito imperfecto de indicativo: equivale al "...used to" -> Yo estudiaba/Yo solía estudiar: I used to study (puede también traducirse como "I studied")
-Pretérito imperfecto de subjuntivo: equivale al "...were to"-> Yo estudiara/Yo fuera a estudiar: I were to study (puede también traducirse como "I studied")
HOW DO YOU KNOW IF IT'S INDICATIVE OR SUBJUNTIVE:
-Indicative: para expresar acciones que se consideran reales o concretas
-Subjuntive: para expresar acciones que no son reales o concretas, sino que se refieren a deseos, emociones, posibilidades, hipótesis, dudas, incertidumbres, etc.
So for example, in the sentence:
"I hope I sing tomorrow" -> "Ojalá cantE mañana" ✅(NO, "Ojalá cantO mañana" ❌because you wish to be that way)
Ich lerne Deutsch
uczę się polskiego
I love this content
Bravooooo!!!
Que importante saber habla porque dever ser un conocimiento no?
And me, not speaking a wordof spanish, but would love to learn it. Except that i am very old!
It is interesting to hear people talk about your mothertongue!!!
Mexicano Beverly Hills Downey California. We have a large black Cuban community and Latino Asians Frank Martinez Downey California ❤❤❤❤
Great video
As a Thai and Chinese speaker, Spanish is impossibly difficult for me.
Es más fácil que el inglés. ¿Qué parte te parece difícil?, yo te lo explico
@@ivanovichdelfin8797 how do u talk in the past and future tense? That part is difficult for me
@@jay-on5nd Para situaciones futuras utilizamos el presente, el futuro simple, el futuro compuesto...
Presente: para acciones futuras extremadamente recientes. Ej: Espera, cierro la ventana. (en inglés aquí diríais más "Wait, I will close the window) Si la acción no la consideras inmediata, podrías decir, "Voy a cerrar la ventana"
También "En 10 minutos como" (In 10 minutes I will eat"
PAra un futuro cercano, pero no inmediato utilizamos el "Ir a (infinitivo)". En la oración "En 10 minutos como", podemos decir "En 10 minutos voy a comer" si consideramos que la acción pertenece a un futuro y no tanto al momento actual (depende del hablante)
Para futuros más lejanos, pero no tan lejanos utilizamos el "Ir a (infinitivo)". Ej: "Mañana va a llover" (Tomorrow is going to rain). Si el hablante considera que el día de Mañana es un futuro lejano, entonces también se acepta "Mañana lloverá" (Tomorrow it will rain).
PAra futuros más lejanos, utilizamos el futuro simple también, como el inglés. Ej: "En 10 años estaré en Europa" (In 10 years, I will be in Europe)
Al igual que el inglés, utilizaremos el futuro compuesto (will infinitive) o futuro simple (will have + participle), dependiendo de si queremos decir que esa acción se habrá finalizado o finalizará.
Básicamente, LA ÚNICA DIFERENCIA en el futuro es que para acciones extremadamente recientes utilizamos el presente o la estructura "Ir a + infinitivo".
También utilizamos las mismas estructuras de "will be ...", etc que el inglés. PEro no me molesto en explicarlo porque es exactamente igual. Ej: Mañana estáre estudiando, así que no me molestes (I'll be studying tomorrow, so don't bother me)
@@jay-on5nd EN EL PASADO.
PAra el pretérito (past perfect simple) en inglés, se utiliza el:
-Pretérito perfecto simple de indicativo
-Pretérito imperfecto de indicativo
-Pretérito imperfecto de subjuntivo
PAra el presente perfecto (present perfect) en inglés, se utilizan 2 conjugaciones diferentes en español:
-Presente perfecto compuesto de Indicativo
-Pretérito perfecto compuesto de Subjuntivo
Para el pluperfect de inglés (también conocido como past perfect simple/past perfect continous), se utilizan 2 conjugaciones diferentes en español:
-Pretérito pluscuamperfecto de indicativo
-Pretérito pluscuamperfecto de subjuntivo
-Pretérito imperfecto de indicativo: equivale al "...used to" -> Yo estudiaba/Yo solía estudiar: I used to study (puede también traducirse como "I studied")
-Pretérito imperfecto de subjuntivo: equivale al "...were to"-> Yo estudiara/Yo fuera a estudiar: I were to study (puede también traducirse como "I studied")
HOW DO YOU KNOW IF IT'S INDICATIVE OR SUBJUNTIVE:
-Indicativo: para expresar acciones que se consideran reales o concretas
-Subjuntivo: para expresar acciones que no son reales o concretas, sino que se refieren a deseos, emociones, posibilidades, hipótesis, dudas, incertidumbres, etc.
@@jay-on5nd
Ejemplos:
I wish I could live without haste.
Ojalá pudiera vivir sin prisas ✅(Pretérito imperfecto de Subjuntivo)
Ojalá podía vivir sin prisas ❌(Pretérito imperfecto de Indicativo)
"Ojalá" denota algo que no es real, sino que desearías que fuera real, por eso se utiliza el Subjuntivo
I used to sing when I was young:
Solía cantar cuando ERA pequeño ✅(Era = pretérito imperfecto de indicativo)
Solía cantar cuando FUI pequeño ❌(Fui = pretérito perfecto simple de Indicativo)
Solía cantar cuando FUERA pequeño ❌(Fuera = pretérito imperfecto de Subjuntivo)
Yo CANTABA cuando era pequeño ✅
Yo CANTÉ cuando fui pequeño ✅
Yo CANTARA cuando fuera pequeño ❌
Yo solía cantar cuando SOLÍA SER pequeño ❌
"Fuera" y "cantara" son verbos conjugados en subjuntivo. El subjuntivo no puede utilizarse para contar acciones que han tenido lugar, que tuvieron lugar, que tendrán lugar. Por lo tanto, descartamos el Subjuntivo.
"Solía ser pequeño" (I used to be young) no es una acción correcta.
"SOLÍA CANTAR cuando FUI pequeño" no son conjugaciones que deban ir juntas, ya que "Solía cantar" o "Cantaba" indican una acción del pasado que se iba repitiendo, una acción habitual (I used to), mientras que "Fui" es pretérito perfecto simple, es decir, indica una acción que sucedió en un momento concreto del pasado.
I did Duolingo Spanish for over a year.
I don't remember any of it.
In the app it seemed like I was learning, but outside of that I couldn't recall a damn thing, so I just gave up.
Honestly, you can sell your book without saying duolingo is rubbish! Duolingo helps me greatly.
Bellissime le ragazze cubane e sudamericane
Me being a native spanish looking for americans to see if my language is difficult or not😅
In fact, I'm learning English now and I think I'm going quite well, jeje good luck everyone^^❤🎉
0:53 you are god damn right my destination is Russia
Go for it!
@@jmwild22 Where are you from?
@@veradokic861 Not Russia.
@@jmwild22 I know lol
if you´re native speaker of the english you're gonna have a lot of native speakers of spanish waiting for you
Spqnish is really easy to learn,event for me,spanish is easiest of indo-europian language family in europe.
As a Filipino, I feel obligated to relearn the language that is part of my culture. The language that our forefathers once used. That is enough reason for me.
How did you cross Darién?
Jungle boots, duh!
9:40 Ahh yes the spanish speaking country of Brazil
Don’t forget the 3 English speaking ones also listed: Cayman Islands, Belize, & Antigua & Barbuda 😂
@@Dhi_Bee lol I did not notice at first
Why does Olly look so young? He has learnt so many languages, he certainly must be in his 40's to have had the time to lern them, yet he looks no older than 25. Can anyone tell me how old he actually is?
I think he said in a video that he was 19 in 2000, so that would make him 42!
Learning languages keeps you young. I am now 61 🙀 but people think I am in my 40s
@@TomJohnson67 👌
Hahaha! He's definitely aging well but I would say 25 is a bit overly generous!
When i speak Spanish i feel 20 years younger. when i speak Japanese i feel 25 years younger. (i am 27 lol)
how to know what language to learn in 2024... Italian, French and German were the common languages to learn when I grew up in Sweden... Spanish was on the way out...
I later learned Mandarin due to my interest in Buddhism and working as a journalist and moved to Taiwan.. but now 20 years later I do not feel I got any use of Chinese at all... I loved the time back then. But it feels very distant to me and I hate communism and the rude behaviour or mainland Chinese people...
So am thinking I should learn a language where the culture and people are very open and caring and interested in making friends with you...
I like to move to a new country where it is clearly warmer than Sweden... both warmer people and climate...there is clearly no climate crisis here is minus 20 degrees Celsius in Stockholm...
but what countries will have the most open and easygoing way to make friends and a stable community where you feel welcome and can develop a life as a foreigner without having to live around other expats or drunk Englishmen?
I want to be more part of the local community and really immerse myself into a country, a city, the culture and the discussions...
which countries to avoid and which ones to reflect upon moving to then?
thanks to anyone getting back and sharing their own experiences of what they think might be the best in 2024!
Please don't play that music in the background. It is the great typical topic of Spanish culture that represents only a part of the country. It's like saying that English culture (for example) is reduced to 5 o'clock tea.
Tienes razon campeon, que ponga mejor una sardana que esa es mas representativa del pais... O a lo mejor una de los Rolling Stones?...
Pero bueno, para asegurarnos... podria poner el himno de España, que asi no protestaria nadie.... ahh no espera... 🤔🤔
Le vas a decir tu a la gente el tipo de musica que tiene que poner en SUS videos.... faltaria mas.
@@Floren_Andro para sentirte tan español empieza a escribirlo bien... CAMPEÓN. Menudas patadas a los acentos... CAMPEÓN.
Me watching this video while trying to learn Spanish lol
Yo viendo esto siendo hispanohablante: 🍷🗿
9:40 Olly, you know that Brazil is not a Spanish-speaking country, right? 😐Nor Cayman Islands, Antigua and Barbuda, Belize...
In context, it sounds like what he meant was these are the countries in the area that currently offer a digital nomad visa, and you get people who speak Spanish there - not necessarily that Spanish is an official language of these countries, just that it would be somewhat useful. It definitely seems to be more about the digital nomad visa than anything else.
@@jmwild22 I think so too :)
Hey Olly, I really enjoy your videos! But you mention orphanage volunteering. Did you know that there has been a huge problem with trafficking children into these orphanages, because the volunteers pay large fees that encourage unscrupulous institutions to hire "child finders"?
I know you wouldn't have included orphanage voluntourism if you had known. The British government put out a travel advisory in 2020 but TH-cam is weird about links so I won't add it.