This is nice because it is allowing us to hear how they pronounce the words. I like this, too. I also like very much that you guys are speaking slowly. Thank you.
Thanks a lot for this beginners' package. The 300 minutes or so were really fantastic. Now, it's time for early intermediate.... ¡Muchas gracias por todo! And keep the good stuffs coming.
I've been searching for listening material and this is exactly what I've been trying to get, I'm just about to finish National 4 at college and after the summer I will be moving up to Higher Spanish by advise from my tutor, thank you so much for this and keep up the good work.
yea sure. there are tons of websites that help people learn spanish grammar etc. however, there aren't many sites and resources for auditory comprehension, especially dialogues that are tailored for different learning levels -beginner, intermediate, advanced. maybe that could be an angle you could explore for your spanish business. it seems to be an under-served area. one problem with learning from the textbooks is that much of it is language that nobody would ever use. i read spanish textbooks and i say to myself, there's no way that anybody speaks like that. so hearing the spanish conversations in dialogues is very helpful because it lets me know that these are words that are actually used and useful. in a previous video cynthia asked gordon how he was and he responded: de puta madre. that was interesting and i remembered it because it is something i would say in english. i don't even remember the lesson. just videos of spanish speakers having normal conversations would be very useful for learning. nobody does it.
Now that we have completed the 30 video range which was our target, the next range will be pure talking, pulling together everything that we have done across all the videos. I think that will probably be more your style.
Just started learning Spanish and found this goldmine! The first thing I've noticed is that Cynthia has picked up Gordon's northern accent proving that if you're going to have any English accent, make sure it's a northern one!
This is amazing that this video came out when I was 11, and now I'm watching it and I'm learning Spanish. Who thought that in 7 year I would be learning Spanish and watching you guys. You guys are really amazing. Your videos have an enormous value, even now. You help me a lot! :) love you guys
I understood everything you guys said and it has been almost two years since I took my last Spanish course. I'm definitely subscribing. This channel is just what I need to improve my listening skills.
estupendo... this is exactly what i've been looking for. Muchas muy gracias. i love this guys muchas gracias. i love how you guys are speaking slowly, it allows me to hear all the words being pronounced properly and as a beginner in learning spanish it gives me time to translate. keep up the good works guys
Les agradezco mucho por sus clases en forma de podcast. Soy estudiante de español. Vivo en Brasil y me gusto mucho oyrles. ¡Ademas del español, aún puedo oyrles (un poquito) en ingles! ¡Gracias! aLx
Fantastico! When I understood strings of words and some basic ideas of a sentence it was like magic was happening in my mind! Makes me laugh watching you both interact and have fun! Love the dialogue. Muchos Gracias!
Mucho gracias per esto video. I am very tankful to have these so I can train my ears to hear the spanish and develop the auditory parts of my linguistic skills.
Six months of intense learning and practice surely paid off.....This was so easy that I wasn't translating to english in my mind. The only word i didn't know was 'chime'....chamerera or sth like dat....If I understood this video without stress, what level does it mean I'm in? cos I don't wanna get ahead of myself. I understand spanish radio up to 50-60% on average depending on the topic and accent. Me alegro mucho. Gracias por hacer estos videos
Thanks a lot for this video. This was actually the first LightSpeed Spanish video I've seen so far, but I was surprised by how much I understood :-) I will be sure to catch up with the rest of them. By the way, I am intrigued by the (superficial) similarity between certain words in Spanish and my native Russian -- Spanish words like sueño, cada, temprano, viejo/nuevo, noche/día and many others have very similarly sounding Russian/Ukrainian counterparts that would make a direct translation.
¡Hola a todos! it may also help some of you to turn-on the subtitles during this converstion. If you go to the settings 'wheel' at the bottom of the video picture you can turn-on spanish subtitles and can help to understand what is being said. Buena suerte!
Todo depende de la persona, Max. Para nuestros vídeos, nos controlamos bastante para no hablar demasiado rápido. Hay gente que habla el doble o el triple de rápido.
Gracias por la información. Por lo menos sé cuando voy a España voy a esperar para ser lanzado en 2 o 3 veces más rápido que su velocidad. Gracias por tus vídeos, y sigan con el buen trabajo!
Una pregunta, por favor.... in the help sheets for this lesson when you say "en mi mente, antes de ir, yo imagino visitar el pueblo y ver, "... "In my mind, before going, I imagine visiting the village and seeing "..... I thought when you had the gerund... the ing ending of a word you would add ndo to the infinitive. So I would think that "ir" would be 'to go' or 'go' not "before going" and then the "ver" verb would be not "seeing" but "to see"........ can you please correct me or explain this to me? Porque ¡en mi mente es mucha confusión! Gracias Gordon Y Cynthia!
+Cat Woman Great question. The reason we say Antes de ir and NOT antes de yendo is because when a verb follows a Preposition, it is always in the Infinitive form. Antes de comer = before eating. Después de llegar. = After arriving. No salgas sin decírmelo. = Don't leave without telling me it. This rule, once you get it logged in will vastly improve your Spanish and make everything easier.
No sé cómo encontré este vídeo pero son increíbles para los que quieren mejorar su español! Puedo oír un poquito de un acento en el de la derecha pero hablan muy bien
6 months later... Understand it all. I'm advancing. Would love it if you could do some intermediate conversation with subtitles. I know you don't use subtitles but it would help me. Thanks for your help.
At 2:30, what is the word Gorden uses when he says "Que sueles hacer"? At least I think that is what I heard. I put "sueles" through google translate and it will translate from Italian.
Estes lecciones son muy bien y esto me ayuda a invertir no mi espanol aun mas de lo que es ahora. Y solo es una pergunta rapida, hablan los espanoles en su tasa de velocidad o mas rapido?
En este vídeo hablamos más lentamenre porque es para los principiantes. Mira los vídeos en la sección para estudiantes avanzados o en los Playlists o en nuestra página de www.lightspeedspanish.co.uk
I'd like to see Cynthia and Gordon have a blazing row in very slow, precise Spanish....I think it'd help us all no end, would be hilarious and I dunno, might even work as a enacted role-pay type scenario if not a real row?!
m4a17878 What we do is to offer our Helpsheets that have the transcriptions as a way of earning our wage. That's why we don't subtitle them. However, I understand what you are saying perfectly.
Grácias por video. Yo he comprendido casi todos los palabras. Pero es más fácil escuchar que hablar y escribir :) Yo voy a las vacaciones en Espana :) Yo veré si la gente me comprenderán.
+LightSpeed Spanish thanks, I kept listening and listening and I couldnt pick it up, I obviously understand llegamos but I listen fo a y sound as in yellow for ll I thought the j sound was latín?
+Naghi Astnei The word Vale originally comes from Latin and it was the last word for people departing (dead ) like a farewell or to mean "I'm in a greement" at the end of a discussion. Vale, literally means "keep well" but now it just means Okay.
usualmente, es dificil para mi a entiendo cuando personas habla espanol. ellos habla muy rapido pero ustedes no. Gracias. P.S please feel free to correct any mistakes I made here ;-)
Gracias a ti........usualmente, es dificil para mi (a entiendo) ENTENDER cuando personas hablaN espanol. ellos hablaN muy rapido pero ustedes no. Gracias.
There's no half beginner :) It's difficult to really measure someone's level because we all have our skills, so some people get different concepts at different speeds. Just watch this video again in a couple of weeks and check the differnce from the first time ;)
I've been searching for listening material and this is exactly what I've been trying to get, I'm just about to finish National 4 at college and after the summer I will be moving up to Higher Spanish by advise from my tutor, thank you so much for this and keep up the good work.
This is nice because it is allowing us to hear how they pronounce the words. I like this, too. I also like very much that you guys are speaking slowly. Thank you.
+Teresita Augustine Gracias, Teresita:)
Thanks a lot for this beginners' package. The 300 minutes or so were really fantastic. Now, it's time for early intermediate....
¡Muchas gracias por todo! And keep the good stuffs coming.
¡Muchas gracias por tu comentario, Mark! :)
I've been searching for listening material and this is exactly what I've been trying to get, I'm just about to finish National 4 at college and after the summer I will be moving up to Higher Spanish by advise from my tutor, thank you so much for this and keep up the good work.
you should do a series with videos like this. i find that auditory comprehension is the main problem for most language learners. thanks for the video.
That's a very good idea, terrycloth! :D
yea sure. there are tons of websites that help people learn spanish grammar etc. however, there aren't many sites and resources for auditory comprehension, especially dialogues that are tailored for different learning levels -beginner, intermediate, advanced. maybe that could be an angle you could explore for your spanish business. it seems to be an under-served area.
one problem with learning from the textbooks is that much of it is language that nobody would ever use. i read spanish textbooks and i say to myself, there's no way that anybody speaks like that. so hearing the spanish conversations in dialogues is very helpful because it lets me know that these are words that are actually used and useful.
in a previous video cynthia asked gordon how he was and he responded: de puta madre. that was interesting and i remembered it because it is something i would say in english. i don't even remember the lesson. just videos of spanish speakers having normal conversations would be very useful for learning. nobody does it.
Now that we have completed the 30 video range which was our target, the next range will be pure talking, pulling together everything that we have done across all the videos. I think that will probably be more your style.
LightSpeed Spanish cool, i look forward to it. cheers!
LightSpeed Spanish
I look forward to this too, I can imagine myself listening to each video like this quite a few times. :-)
OMG I have been looking for something like this - simple language spoken clearly! You are helping me take my Spanish to a new level. Mucho gracias.
Just started learning Spanish and found this goldmine! The first thing I've noticed is that Cynthia has picked up Gordon's northern accent proving that if you're going to have any English accent, make sure it's a northern one!
Absolutely! haha. I'm glad you like our podcasts, Lee. :)
this is exactly what i have been looking for, something easy to listen, thanks!
This is amazing that this video came out when I was 11, and now I'm watching it and I'm learning Spanish. Who thought that in 7 year I would be learning Spanish and watching you guys. You guys are really amazing. Your videos have an enormous value, even now. You help me a lot! :) love you guys
¡Muchísimas gracias! Deseamos que lo disfrutes mucho :) Cx
I understood everything you guys said and it has been almost two years since I took my last Spanish course. I'm definitely subscribing. This channel is just what I need to improve my listening skills.
This is a great video! Very encouraging to be able to understand the gist of what's being said having viewed most of your beginner's pod casts.
¡Gracias!
It's awesome. I was excited while listening to your conversation.I understood mostly! Thanks!
Gracias para todo. Ustedes tener un podcast incredible. Yo he sido siguiente un tiempo largo y estoy siempre aprendizaje mas. Tengas un buen dia!!
¡Muchas gracias! :)
estupendo... this is exactly what i've been looking for. Muchas muy gracias. i love this guys muchas gracias. i love how you guys are speaking slowly, it allows me to hear all the words being pronounced properly and as a beginner in learning spanish it gives me time to translate. keep up the good works guys
¡Gracias! :)
Les agradezco mucho por sus clases en forma de podcast. Soy estudiante de español. Vivo en Brasil y me gusto mucho oyrles.
¡Ademas del español, aún puedo oyrles (un poquito) en ingles!
¡Gracias!
aLx
Claro, puedes aprender el inglés a la vez.
Fantastico! When I understood strings of words and some basic ideas of a sentence it was like magic was happening in my mind! Makes me laugh watching you both interact and have fun! Love the dialogue. Muchos Gracias!
Andrew Byrnes Gracias, Andrew. Muy amable:)
Thank you for the video!!!! I just started Spanish and I'm amazed by the words I'm picking up.
***** Well done!
I love you guys- thank you for all your content- me ayudas aprender tan mucho 😄😄😄
Gracias, Jude:)
I understood all of that and I am So happy!!!
I'm going to watch some more asap as I find listening the hardest part of learning Spanish.
¡Enhorabuena! :) Cxx
Mucho gracias per esto video. I am very tankful to have these so I can train my ears to hear the spanish and develop the auditory parts of my linguistic skills.
Rhea Stone De nada. Nuestro placer. :)
Very helpful when struggling to understand another language and informative, thanks.
Gracias, Brian :)
What video is next? This is helping my listening comprehension , Great videos. Thanks
Flat-PickFan Go to our playlists and you'll see all the videos for all the levels. You can choose the next from there. There are many.
Six months of intense learning and practice surely paid off.....This was so easy that I wasn't translating to english in my mind. The only word i didn't know was 'chime'....chamerera or sth like dat....If I understood this video without stress, what level does it mean I'm in? cos I don't wanna get ahead of myself. I understand spanish radio up to 50-60% on average depending on the topic and accent. Me alegro mucho. Gracias por hacer estos videos
You guys are great!
Thanks a lot for this video. This was actually the first LightSpeed Spanish video I've seen so far, but I was surprised by how much I understood :-) I will be sure to catch up with the rest of them.
By the way, I am intrigued by the (superficial) similarity between certain words in Spanish and my native Russian -- Spanish words like sueño, cada, temprano, viejo/nuevo, noche/día and many others have very similarly sounding Russian/Ukrainian counterparts that would make a direct translation.
Dmitry. I work with many people from the Czech Republic and they too have many words that are similar to Spanish....very interesting, ¿verdad?
I love your videos!
Really easy to follow! Can't wait to watch a normal conversation speed dialog
¡Fantástico! :)
wonderfully clear and slow
Gracias:)
Gracias por pronunciar tan claro!
This is brilliant! Sometimes I think she is calling you fat but then I realise you are called Gordon not gordo :)
+20shourya jajajajaj tan similar :)
Estes videos son perfectos para preperarme para mis examenes, porque en GCSEs, se habla español tan despacio así.
¡Hola a todos! it may also help some of you to turn-on the subtitles during this converstion. If you go to the settings 'wheel' at the bottom of the video picture you can turn-on spanish subtitles and can help to understand what is being said. Buena suerte!
Miro tus clases de español avanzado con frecuencia. Y me preguntaba si la gente en España hablan en esa tasa de velocidad en sus videos avanzados.
Todo depende de la persona, Max. Para nuestros vídeos, nos controlamos bastante para no hablar demasiado rápido. Hay gente que habla el doble o el triple de rápido.
Gracias por la información. Por lo menos sé cuando voy a España voy a esperar para ser lanzado en 2 o 3 veces más rápido que su velocidad. Gracias por tus vídeos, y sigan con el buen trabajo!
Una pregunta, por favor.... in the help sheets for this lesson when you say "en mi mente, antes de ir, yo imagino visitar el pueblo y ver, "... "In my mind, before going, I imagine visiting the village and seeing "..... I thought when you had the gerund... the ing ending of a word you would add ndo to the infinitive. So I would think that "ir" would be 'to go' or 'go' not "before going" and then the "ver" verb would be not "seeing" but "to see"........ can you please correct me or explain this to me? Porque ¡en mi mente es mucha confusión! Gracias Gordon Y Cynthia!
+Cat Woman Great question. The reason we say Antes de ir and NOT antes de yendo is because when a verb follows a Preposition, it is always in the Infinitive form. Antes de comer = before eating. Después de llegar. = After arriving. No salgas sin decírmelo. = Don't leave without telling me it. This rule, once you get it logged in will vastly improve your Spanish and make everything easier.
MUCHAS GRACIAS!
No sé cómo encontré este vídeo pero son increíbles para los que quieren mejorar su español! Puedo oír un poquito de un acento en el de la derecha pero hablan muy bien
Mi marido es inglés, pero habla muy bien. Muchas gracias, Sofía :)
6 months later... Understand it all. I'm advancing. Would love it if you could do some intermediate conversation with subtitles. I know you don't use subtitles but it would help me. Thanks for your help.
At 2:30, what is the word Gorden uses when he says "Que sueles hacer"? At least I think that is what I heard. I put "sueles" through google translate and it will translate from Italian.
soler + verb = usually + verb = what do you usually do? ¿Qué sueles hacer?
Oh thank you! Somehow I have never encountered the word "soler"!
Estes lecciones son muy bien y esto me ayuda a invertir no mi espanol aun mas de lo que es ahora. Y solo es una pergunta rapida, hablan los espanoles en su tasa de velocidad o mas rapido?
En este vídeo hablamos más lentamenre porque es para los principiantes. Mira los vídeos en la sección para estudiantes avanzados o en los Playlists o en nuestra página de www.lightspeedspanish.co.uk
The first 7 seconds I thought cynthia was a true geordie with the accent. Jajaja
Se fue muy divertido cuando cyntia nos dijo sobre el Gordon en el café y restaurante.. Yo me rei mucho
Gracias Gordon y Cyntia
:D
If only every Spanish speaker spoke this slowly, I'd have it, haha
It's all time and practice :) Cx
Me as well
I'd like to see Cynthia and Gordon have a blazing row in very slow, precise Spanish....I think it'd help us all no end, would be hilarious and I dunno, might even work as a enacted role-pay type scenario if not a real row?!
Even my thick brain understood this thank you
Esto es una lección muy buena para aprender cuando hablan lento
Gracias Gordon i cyntia
I understand it all....just 3 months of studying spanish
¡Genial! :)
it would be perfect if you add subtitles(using youtube function so people can hide it), since i can't really listen to some sentences
m4a17878 What we do is to offer our Helpsheets that have the transcriptions as a way of earning our wage. That's why we don't subtitle them. However, I understand what you are saying perfectly.
hi what word are you saying after porque habia muchas?
minute 4:15
Había muchas nubes :)
Thanks for the lesson. Would be awesome if text at bottom of screen. Thanks
Lark Lindig We´ll let you know when they are done. Just subscribe to our newsletter to be updated. www.lightspeedspanish.co.uk/
Muchas gracias
+Leskia Green De nada:)
Grácias por video. Yo he comprendido casi todos los palabras. Pero es más fácil escuchar que hablar y escribir :) Yo voy a las vacaciones en Espana :) Yo veré si la gente me comprenderán.
¡Que disfrutes de España! :) Cx
De nada senior.
what are you saying after entonces Cuando vamos a un pueblo..
Tell me the minute and I'll let you know.
+LightSpeed Spanish mucho gracias. 3:39 :)
me gusta tu podcasts
llegamos a eso de las 11. Recuerda que en España LL suena como la J en inglés.
+LightSpeed Spanish thanks, I kept listening and listening and I couldnt pick it up, I obviously understand llegamos but I listen fo a y sound as in yellow for ll I thought the j sound was latín?
Is "Vale" a Spanish word of "Arabic" origin? (Like, Rice, Olive Oil...)
Thank you for your help. Peace and Love
+Naghi Astnei The word Vale originally comes from Latin and it was the last word for people departing (dead ) like a farewell or to mean "I'm in a greement" at the end of a discussion. Vale, literally means "keep well" but now it just means Okay.
Sound quality is distracting. Choose a room where there is not so much echo -- a bedroom, for example.
Thanks for the heads up.
Cynthia in this video you look like Jennifer love hewitt in her movie if only ! Muy bonita :)
+Zayna Mahadin ¡Gracias! jejeje ¿Eso crees? Necesito ese corte de pelo otra vez, entonces jeje
Pero a donde ?
¿El qué, Frida?
Bueno
No estoy en -FaceBook, pero yo recomiendo a todos
Nosotros estamos más en Telegram ahora :)
heroes
usualmente, es dificil para mi a entiendo cuando personas habla espanol. ellos habla muy rapido pero ustedes no. Gracias. P.S please feel free to correct any mistakes I made here ;-)
Gracias a ti........usualmente, es dificil para mi (a entiendo) ENTENDER cuando personas hablaN espanol. ellos hablaN muy rapido pero ustedes no. Gracias.
I did pretty good but had to pause a lot so that you didn't get ahead of me.
chandlmg C Pausing is absolutely fine:) Muy bien hecho.
I can't roll my R.
If I can't tell more than half of what you're saying...does that make me half a beginner? I don't know where I belong.
There's no half beginner :) It's difficult to really measure someone's level because we all have our skills, so some people get different concepts at different speeds. Just watch this video again in a couple of weeks and check the differnce from the first time ;)
Like if you're form Mrs. Barie's class
+Andrew Wendel Who is Mrs Barie?
I've been searching for listening material and this is exactly what I've been trying to get, I'm just about to finish National 4 at college and after the summer I will be moving up to Higher Spanish by advise from my tutor, thank you so much for this and keep up the good work.
Muchas gracias :) Cxx